* Primary responsibility for deploying and maintaining four GKE kubernetes clusters across production and staging environments* Designed, deployed and maintained metrics collection and observability using prometheus and grafana.* Designed, deployed and maintained logs collection and aggregation using fluentd, elasticsearch and kibana.* Designed, deployed and maintained build tooling using gitlab, docker, kubectl, kustomize and bash.* Migrated DNS from Rackspace and AWS Route 53 to Google Cloud DNS using Terraform for provisioning.* Migrated redis and memcached instances from VMs provisioned using Terraform and Salt stack to Google Cloud Memorystore.* Migrated numerous production SQL databases (postgres and mysql) from VMs provisioned using Terraform and Puppet to Google Cloud SQL. * Write documentation, troubleshoot issues across production and staging services, member of security working group, member of core chat working group.* Key contributor to core systems migration from VMs hosted on Rackspace and provisioned with Puppet to Google Cloud, including containerization of microservices and migration to GKE/kubernetes over a period of three years.

Hired as part of a team responsible for evolving our civic engagement platform toward a stable and scalable deployment model. * Converted existing services and infrastructure components to run as Docker containers on Google Container Enginer (GKE/kubernetes). * Deployed centralized logging and event management using ELK stack. * Wrote bash scripts, makefiles and python services to automate deployment and lifecycle management of running services. * Integrated in-house build tooling with CircleCI for continuous automated deployment.* Implemented and deployed multi-level request routing and SSL termination using haproxy. * Implemented and deployed proof-of-concept services on Google App Engine.* Conducted scalability and load testing using loader.io. Analysed and debugged locking issues with mongo databases.

Responsible for all aspects of the design, implementation, and deployment of the company’s flagship application, a high performance searchable index of continuing legal education opportunities from more than one hundred individual educators across the U.S. and selected countries.* Developed the target system architecture based on containerized services implementing data aggregation, indexing, search, logging and front-end components.* Selected and integrated best-of-breed open source components including elasticsearch, haproxy, redis, celery, logstash, supervisord, django and nginx.* Worked on a team of two developers to implement the data aggregation services in python 2.7.5 using the scrapy and scrapyd frameworks, selenium webdriver, phantomjs, and redis.* Designed and implemented the indexing service in python 2.7.5 using the requests, redis, and elasticsearch python libraries.* Designed and implemented the logging service using redis as an event queue, logstash for indexing, and kibana for visualization (ELK).* Designed and implemented a coarse geolocation service using the Foursquare twofishes geocoder, Google places, and geonames.org.* Led the design and development of a responsive GUI built on angularjs.* Pioneered the use of Docker containers for service description, build, and deployment. Wrote dockerfiles, init scripts, configuration scripts, and startup scripts to automate the build and deployment of services.* Designed the cloud based deployment strategy and led the deployment and management of the application on Amazon Web Services.

As a Project Manager, responsible for requirements, architecture, UX, and team coordination on web and desktop applications for major clients. Projects included:* An iconic online actor's community: initial project lead for a relaunch of this very popular site. Managed analysis of requirements. Reviewed and refined user interface designs. Managed integration of billing pipeline. Managed team of four python/django developers. * A publisher of mobile social networking software: project lead on an iPhone application that allowed users to share multiple types of media. Managed requirements and client expectations. Coordinated user interface designs and assets. Tracked implementation and testing effort. As a Developer, responsible for design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support on web and desktop application projects for major clients. Projects included:* A global music retailer: Member of team implementing client’s second-generation web e-commerce platform. Implemented GUI components in C# using the APS.NET MVC4 framework and MongoDB. Wrote jquery implementations of client-side features. Integrated with Limelight for video hosting and media management.* A major retailer of pet supplies: Member of team that implemented client’s second-generation e-commerce site using MVC4 over Commerce Server 2009 and SQL Server. Implemented controllers and views in C# to support site features. Implemented client-side functionality using jquery. Integrated with Limelight for media management. Integrated with Lithium for community support. Implemented server-side content management tasks in C#.* An OEM of digital storage media: Member of team that implemented a bundled media management application. Implemented client-side controls and views in C# using XAML/WPF. Implemented server-side data and integration tasks in C#. Wrote localized installer using WIX. Prototyped LAN device integration via UDP broadcast in C++ using XMPP protocol for data transfer.

As a developer and technical lead with Quoin, responsible for system architecture, team leadership, system analysis, design, and implementation. Clients and projects included:* A major manufacturer of cosmetic products: Technical lead and developer on a project to create a marketing funds management intranet application built on ASP.NET 2.0 with Oracle as the database. Implemented ASP.NET webforms and user controls. Implemented data access layer in nHibernate.* A health care media provider: Designed and implemented a MySQL database and ETL processes in Java to load a complex series of daily data feeds, and produce management reports.* A major home improvement retailer: Worked with a team of three senior engineers to develop and execute performance profiling and code-improvement strategies for a large point-of-sale system implemented in a combination of C and C++ on AIX and Debian.

Reporting to the CEO. Responsible for software technology strategy, architecture standards, and management of development and support team consisting of 6 direct reports and two consultants. Approximately $5m budgetary authority. Participant on executive committee of CEO direct reports. Participant on Corporate Policy commitee.

As co-founder responsible for all aspects of software architecture, development, and testing. Implemented the company’s first generation CardSite platform, a distributed multi-tiered architecture for web financial services delivery utilizing classic ASP/ISAPI and SQL Server. System integrated multiple major backoffice processing platforms using IBM MQ, and served more than 2.5 million registered users. Implemented SDLC improvements and project management processes and standards. Built initial management team. Led company to $6 million revenue, through two rounds of angel capital, and two rounds of venture capital investment.

Lead architect and server developer for Conductor banking platform. Developed a CORBA-based plug-in architecture for a distributed system that was able to serve account information to customers of multiple banking institutions. Work was the basis for United States Patents 5,706,442, and 6,131,115

Worked with major organizations such as H&R Block, Hartford Insurance, PictureTel, and Bellcore. Mentored project teams in object-oriented analysis and design techniques, taught C++ and OOAD courses, delivered strategic technology assessments to senior executives, developed courseware. Author of 1994 article "Interoperable Objects" in Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Independent software developer and author. Developer, along with Dr. Justin Boyan and Marc Ringuette, of MVP Backgammon, a neural network-driven backgammon program for Windows that became one of the best-selling shareware backgammon games. Also worked in 3D graphics, sound processing, pathing, modelling, and simulation.