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Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Successfully led LinkedIn's landing page move to GraphQL, migrating 1.5+ million lines of code with 18 full time engineers on Android, API, iOS and Web. This 42 engineer-years effort resulted in significantly improved.
• Automated tasks with python, reducing overall work from 90 engineer weeks to 45 weeks in a single instance.
• Developed tools with and evangelized the use of GenAI (LLMs) to improve developer productivity.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Created strategy and roadmap to improve the test infrastructure for the LinkedIn App, improving the way hundreds of iOS developers write and use tests.
• Led major technology stack migrations for the LinkedIn iOS App, coordinated 25 product and sister infrastructure teams. Improved privacy of the App by working closely with the legal team.
• Architected and prototyped Dependency Injection solution for the LinkedIn App, which is now used by hundreds of developers.
• Grew Feed Frameworks iOS Team from 1 to 5 developers within months.
• Enhanced company wide coding guidelines.

Natick, MA, US

• Created iOS App and macOS application from scratch to fully utilize the potential of Cognex’ mobile barcode readers. Convinced high level executives to fund the project, selected, interviewed, and hired contractors to.
• Led development of a machine vision system in C# which beat out the competition with a proven false failure rate below 0.25%. Coordinated teams in US and China.
• Trained deep neural network to inspect OLED displays. The solution proved superior to the classical machine vision approach on a test set with more than 2000 displays.

Natick, MA, US

• Enhanced Cognex' proprietary Real Time Operating System, implemented drivers for image sensors, accelerometer, SPI-Bus, etc in C programming language.
• Saved 20% of ROM space by integrating more efficient open source compression algorithm into firmware upload procedure and system boot loader of Cognex’ RTOS.

Jena, Thüringen, DE

• Managed team of mathematicians, physicists and software engineers to fully automate 3D microscopes including pattern recognition in 3D images. The team created more than 100,000 lines of code in C++11 with extensive.

Jena, Thüringen, DE

• Created content management system from scratch by using PHP, XHTML, CSS and XML, which led to high customer satisfaction and follow up business.
• Developed custom backup software for GNU/Linux in C++ and Qt.
• Set up and administered heterogeneous company network and GNU/Linux servers.