Directly responsible for foundational architecture, processes, and team building contributions towards Vulnerability Management, Security Incident Response, Supply Chain and Application Security, Cloud Security, and Enterprise Product Security Engineering practices at Confluent.Reported directly with CTO, CPEO, and CISO at different stages of company maturityCrafted initial business justifications for establishing all Security practices at Confluent, and recruiting and hiring over 50 amazing engineers, TPM, and Engineering Leaders across several teams over the course of several years. Foundational Platform Architecture and Leadership for RBAC and Audit Logs flagship product lines responsible for $200M ARR and growing, representing 2 out of the top 3 highest attach rates for all products and features across all Confluent SKUs.  Created proprietary intellectual property compatibly with complex open source kafka ecosystemPrimary engineering driver behind Confluent’s initial OEM partnership: driving alignment between multiple organizational stakeholdersResponsible managing all aspects of Product Security Engineering development such as FIPS, Authentication, Authorization, Auditing, and Secrets Protection which required substantial contributions to Foundational Platform ServicesPrimary engineering stakeholder working with Customer Innovation Labs to facilitate platform Encryption, ABAC, with Data Governance Initial engineering driver of FedRamp and related internal cloud security infrastructure initiativesPrimary engineering liaison for InfoSec, Compliance, and Legal (pre-CISO)Responsible for establishing Confluent@Austin office presence for sales and engineeringPrimary Security Engineering contact for Financial Services, Federal, Health and Legal oriented SE, SA, PM’s and Customers for roadmap planning and unblocking sales with their security teams  Responsible for establishing initial remote engineering organization practices

2017 Cloudera Impact Award Winner for the delivery of Sentry High Availability.Initially responsible for integrating Gazzang’s Key Management technologies into HDFS and integrating all aspects the Austin Engineering Team into Cloudera Engineering at Austin.Over the years managed various security related products such as Navigator Encrypt, Key Trustee, and Sentry. - Acquisition Integration- Day to day planning, strategizing, negotiating and problem solving with various executive stakeholders - Worked closely with Federal CTO to implement various product security objectives- One of primary Austin, TX Site Stakeholders, helped plan and justify growth from 15 to over 100 people- Responsible for Austin Engineering Culture- Responsible for rebuilding and moving Sentry engineering team from California to Austin, and delivering several top priority backlogged company goals - Responsible for attracting, hiring, and retaining talents across multiple functions- Provide technical leadership and mentoring of dev, qe, sustaining engineers- Owned of all aspects of internal Closed and Open Source Engineering Management for Encryption and Authorization- Project & Process Planning, Requirements Gathering, Enterprise + Cloud + Big Data Architecture- Primary contact for security related financial services escalation engineering management support - Worked closely with a wide range of big data open and closed source teams related to HDFS, Solr, Kafka, Sentry, Impala, Hive, Spark - Responsible for working with a multiple of engineering teams and functions, to negotiate and achieve complex business goals - Responsible for facilitating conflict resolution between engineers, teams, and organizational functions - Drove FIPS Validation for Navigator Encrypt and Key Trustee- Worked closely with high level Red Hat security professionals for common federal objectives- Owned Partner integration and approval for Thales and Safenet(now Gemalto) HSMs.

Responsible for establishing overall development practices for Gazzang applications. Provide technical leadership, directly responsible for enterprise and application architecture, feature definition, project management, and release management. • Provided technical leadership and mentoring of other engineers• Matured the software engineering discipline by standardizing product branching strategies, and enhancing existing project and release management processes• Agile Scrum Master • Point of contact for non engineering practices such as marketing, product, and law • Defined REST WebServices APIs to support wider inter application integration • Architected and lead new product development, maintained all products, and defined integrations for legacy products• Enhanced continuous build systems to support releasing, and packing of applications• Responsible for product documentation, documentation maintenance, and release notes• SOA, Rest, SSL, OAUTH2, Python, C, Java, Jboss, Apache, Jenkins, Postgres, EC2 • Acquisition Preparation• Open Source Licensing review and documentation for all products

Offshore and Onshore Team Leadership, Mentoring, and Cross Team FacilitationMulti-Tier Architecture, Feature, and Project PlanningProduction and Release SupportMagento, Amazon S3, and Ecommerce Systems Integration not limited to Paypal, Braintree, PrismPay, CyberSourceSOAP and REST WebServices API specification and developmentVideo and Image processingMongoDB map/reduce for data analytics and reportingElastic Search for content search and storageMysql data migration and schema modellingServer Configuration

Provided technical guidance for teams and clients. High level client meetings and interactions. Architecture and Integration requirements gathering, decision planning and implementation. Rapid Prototyping and Pre Sales Engineering. Significant Liferay Portal portal customization , external systems integration. Enterprise E-Commerce development, not limited to custom payment gateways and tax integration. Drupal mobile site development and ubercart integration. Enterprise CMS, RESTful Webservices API and Workflow design and implementation. Healthcare Industry Experience. Offshore team management. MVC frameworks. Fast pace agile development.

Maintain national internal web portal for AT&T. Utilized XHTML, JS, Facelets, Hibernate, Spring, and MySql to create and maintain components. Wrote Jasper Reports to display queried data. Interacted with high profile clients to deliver ongoing immediate needs such as custom data extracts.

Core development on DataRush, a multi-core data flow Java framework. Design and Implementation updates with JMX MBeans used to display debug data in JConsole for applications. Updated framework to take advantage of java5 and java6 language constructs.

Multi-Tier development using J2EE 5, JUnit, JMS, XML, and XStream. Worked with development team to write JUnit, JMock, and integration tests. Created an Anthill OS build system running on Tomcat 5.5 on a Red Hat Linux Server.

Lead QA for artificial intelligence, programming, and automation components. Developed VB .Net scripts to analyze stock market data and perform automated tasks. Trained Customer Service team on new software for testing and supporting. Administered online Club Forums for private members, and provided technical expertise. Automated and manual testing of new products and wrote corresponding technical documentation. Approved several CD’s for mass duplication and distribution. Co-Hosted and presented at professional seminar series “Nirvana Bash 2006”.