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Pacifica, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Called to Lead Eng teams through departure of VPE/Engineer #1, Reductions in Force, and rebuilding of new team.* Designed and kicked off multi-quarter architectural shifts to align tech stack with low-risk-tolerance customer needs.* Built Engineering back to greater than prior strength and productivity with nearshore LatAm teams, while lowering net headcount spend.* Built strong people management and tech lead teams with bench depth to continue after contract conclusion.* Handed role to Eng leader with domain expertise in clinical trials

San Francisco, California, Us

* From start to end of Quizlet journey, scaled request volume 15x, team 10x, and kept cost sublinear.* Handle the nitty-gritty for Quizlet’s Engineering teams, ensuring the important and unseen work of delivering an awesome product actually happens.* Help technical leaders chart a technical vision, and people leaders focus on building awesome teams with minimal distraction.* Responsible for entire engineering budget (technical + headcount), stewarding Quizlet’s engineering resources through Covid uncertainty.* Partner across entire exec team to drive efficiency and collaboration across Quizlet’s entire technical footprint … plus what I was doing before.

San Francisco, California, Us

* Established “TI” as new team covering Production, Infra, Platform, Corporate, Security, and Data, powering all of Quizlet’s Technical Infrastructure needs.* In the process, introduced the concept of ‘Product Engineering’ as a peer team.* Rebuilt Data Engineering team, lost to attrition. Rebuilt roadmap, and aligned with company-wide data needs … plus what I was doing before.

San Francisco, California, Us

* Joined team delivering quizlet.com at 99% availability, grew team to delivering 99.99% (2 orders of magnitude availability increase).* Led through multiple ‘BTS’ (Back To School) seasons, each one more stable than the prior, introducing blameless postmortem culture.* Introduced Security Engineering as function partnering across Eng, Trust/Safety, and People Ops to strengthen core security stance company-wide.* Built Corp Eng (IT) as function overseeing multiple office build outs and transition to remote remote, introducing Beyond Corp to drive removal of VPNs.* Owned entire technical budget encompassing every hosted service, cloud vendor, software or service, computer, or bit that powers Quizlet.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Led transition from prior Infrastructure Leadership; triaged, rebuilt, and re-engaged the Production team; maintained production availability throughout transition.* Served as HIPAA Security Officer and built Information Security (InfoSec) function. Led enterprise-wide rewrite of InfoSec Policy, aligned Health Care challenges.* Managed all incoming customer security requests and successfully defended company in front of customer Compliance teams.* Given responsibility for Corporate Engineering (IT); triaged and rebuilt that team, too. Pivoted team from a "no" to "yes, how?".* Introduced blameless postmortem culture; "Not if, but when".* Partnered with Audit and Compliance to pass! SOC2 Type II Audit. Introduced controls throughout Engineering org to ensure continued passage.* Partnered with leaders (Legal, HR, Product, Finance, Sales) to maintain Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of information assets company-wide.

San Bruno, Ca, Us

* Pre-acquisition, directed the Infrastructure Operations team, receiving handoff from a set of Infrastructure staff that have moved onto other teams.* Drove infrastructure entropy to near-zero.* Established culture of 'prod first' by holding product engineering accountable for reliability of production systems. * Held final responsibility for all uptime, performance, reliability, and costs of all compute/storage resources. * Post-acquisition, lead BandPage through exhaustive security, privacy, financial, and product integration throughout the Google machine.

San Mateo, California, Us

* Serving over 1 Billion API requests daily on highly efficient EC2 infrastructure.* Scaled Life360’s infrastructure through explosive growth (5x year over year) while maintaining product availability.* Pivoted Infrastructure Engineering team from independent cowboys to cohesive DevOps engineers.* Built company corporate IT function from ground up while company headcount doubled; technical / network build out of new office.

* Discovered, documented, automated, and scaled a running production stack after a complete turnover of classic operational staff.* Completely redesigned and redeployed production application network architecture to allow migration of front-end and back-end services out of monolithic rails application into load balanced and autoscaled environments.* Created frameworks for application deployment and visibility within arbitrary environments. Guided new applications in easy framework-based deployments; gently coerced existing application into the framework as well.* Created basic frameworks for reliable execution of cron, dependency builds, credential management, and load balancer management.* Trained multiple people (QE) in the usage of DevOps frameworks, who have then been enabled to join the production on-call team.* Application level work as necessary to lower friction around scaling and resource management.

* Turned around the operational engineering team within one of the most innovative and contrarian companies in Silicon Valley.* Took control of aging internal software systems during a period of explosive growth, leading efforts to rebuild, scale as internal SaaS.* Established industry standard operational procedures for the growth and maintenance of production services.* Most recent big accomplishment: moved 7-year-old code base and associated systems from subversion to git without any downtime.

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Take the largest paid blog hosting solution in the world, make it fast, make it scale.* led design, development, and rollout of Search Engine across all TypePad content, navigating years worth of others' prior data decisions, on time and on budget;* championed and managed innovation on all Six Apart open source components, navigating the shark infested waters of the open source world;* managed design, development, and rollout of Application Event transport infrastructure for collecting, analyzing, and feeding back arbitrary application events to a variety of application and business consumers;* managed design, development, and roll out of Performance Tracking system, capable of exposing minute changes in system performance before they become issues;* unblocked the software build, test, and deploy process;* introduced automation at multiple levels;* introduced needed engineering and operational process.

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