Mike Ruthruff Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Most recently I have led a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists, providing analytics as a service to multiple game titles in different phases of production. This included designing, developing and operating a cloud-native data ingestion/storage platform, working with teams to take game instrumentation from event schema to data models within the warehouse, developing reporting and embedding data analysts/scientists. In addition, I was responsible for providing observability solutions for logs, metrics and trace data to all teams within the company. As part of this I have worked across a broad range of technologies, directed cross-functional projects/teams/collaboration and supported many different stakeholders (leadership, game designers, marketing, engineering, etc). Part of my journey at ProblablyMonsters has included helping grow the company from a startup of ~25 people. My first couple years were spent wearing many hats and bringing what is now our central technology organization to life. This has given me first hand experience in what it takes to support all aspects of the business (technology infrastructure, build services, managing a shared game engine, etc).**Technologies** - Cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP - Data Warehousing: Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, Athena- Observability: Datadog, Grafana Cloud, Vector- CI/CD: GitHub, Jenkins, Perforce- Languages: SQL, Python, Java, Go. Rust - Visualization: Tableau, Mode

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Member of the Destiny Online Services team, responsible for designing and development of the cloud bursting infrastructure to support dynamic expansion of compute resources from the Bungie data centers into AWS during Destiny 2 launch windows. In addition, I was also responsible for the messaging layer supporting service to service communication. This infrastructure successfully supported product launches with over 1 million concurrent players. My work included collaborating closely with game developers and service engineers to ensure efficient, scalable, and resilient systems, while also contributing to long-term strategies for online service architecture.**Technologies** - Cloud Platform: AWS - Cloud Technologies: EC2, EBS, VPC- Data Technologies: SQL Server, ElasticSearch, Grafana- Languages: SQL, C#, Powershell- Messaging: RabbitMQ

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of the Azure Customer Advisory Team responsible for working with customers to architect and deploy high performance, highly available data systems on premise, in the cloud, and everywhere in between. This included: - Leading design and architectural reviews of existing and new applications built on Azure- Engage with customers to design large scale data systems on-prem and in Azure public cloud- Drive product feature requirements based on customer experience and feedback (be the voice of the customer)- Lead design and architectural reviews of existing and new applications built on Azure- Providing prescriptive guidance in areas such as new Azure data technologies, hardware architectures, cloud storage design, high availability and disaster recovery- Resolve customer/partner escalations with executive level visibility**Technologies** - Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, SQL on Linux, Azure SQL Data Warehouse- Azure Blob Storage, Azure Compute- Azure Resource Manager- HDInsight

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Responsible for all things database in the Server Engineering group and most importantly, keeping your game progression safe.**Responsibilities** - Responsible for all aspects the data tier powering real time game services in Destiny- Working with hardware partners to evaluate, size and architecture physical server, and storage, infrastructure hosting transactional data storage- Ensure data tier is scalable, stable, highly available and performant- Collaborate with service engineers to design data models, optimize database performance and ensure services follow best practices- Operationalize database deployments and ensure they are observable- People management of small data engineering team**Technologies** - .net / C# / Powershell- SQL Server 2012 (R2)- High Availability and Disaster Recovery (via Windows Clustering and SQL AlwaysOn)- PCI flash and SSD storage- Grafana, Kibana- Perforce

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Responsible for all things database in the Server Engineering group.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of the SQL Customer Advisory Team (sqlcat.com) working with customers to build mission critical applications on SQL Server. Our team was responsible for ensure the success of enterprise customers deploying mission critical applications on SQL Server. Our team handled the most critical customer escalations with visibility at the executive level. This experience provided me with a deep understanding of relational database engines (storage engine, query processor, resource management) as well as large scale server architectures (NUMA) and storage area networks (SAN). Regularly spoke at conferences, authored papers and gave presentations to customers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Focusing on scalability and performance of the the SQL Server relational engine.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Solutions Integration Engineering (SIE). Responsible for resolving critical escalations for enterprise customers.

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