Engineering manager and technical lead, Google Play Games for PC. https://play.google.com/googleplaygames

Responsible for hiring, conducting quarterly performance reviews, coaching and cultivating healthy culture.Technical lead for organization’s initiative in Kubernetes as a service via fleet cluster lifecycle management.CIO Elite Team Winner 2021Technology involvement: Go, Rust, Java, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS

Products:Smalltalk (SMS, Go), Techstars 2017Smalltalk is a conversational commerce platform, allowing brands to engage and sell to customers entirely over SMS or Facebook Messenger. Techstars 2017.● Responsible for system design and core development of a conversational commerce framework for mobile platforms such as SMS and Facebook.● Technology involvement: Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, iOS, React, API.ai, Ansible, Postgres, Nginx.Swig (iOS, Android, Ruby)Swig is a social drink discovery platform for iOS and Android. Featured on the Today Show, CNET.com, ABC News and RT.com and on the Top 100 Food & Drink app in 50 countries. www.swig.co● Designed, architected and developed a social and photo sharing app for iOS, including backend. ● Managed project’s Android development team under a tight 3 month deadline.● Delivered a cutting edge social and taste based Neo4j graph database, supporting location based drink recommendations and fast, on-the-fly social news feeds.● Responsible for managing backend production system using Nginx, Unicorn, Rack, Sinatra.● Technology involvement: Go, Objective-C, Swift, iOS, Ruby, Nginx, Neo4j, Postgres, Aerospike.

Actify is a web and mobile platform that offers innovative "freetime activity" exploration in Germany. Actify fuses social, community based interaction with rich exploration features for finding the perfect local events for you in Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt Germany.- Primarily responsible for management of a 12 member team spanning UX design, Backend and Mobile, QA and Project Management. - Responsible for Actify's technical vision, technical product management and delivery.- Mentored and guided development team in a major overhaul of company’s data collection, categorization and search engine services, switching from PHP to Go.Golang, Elixir, Phoenix, ElasticSearch, PHP, SQL, Puppet, Ansible, AWS.

CityMaps is a New York based startup presenting a product that offers users a highly visual, social map. CityMaps offers its map for the web as well as iOS. Acquired by TripAdvisor in 2017. citymaps.com- Drove all major mobile product decisions, including strategy of the product as well as user experience details.- Lead iOS engineer, developing the product from the ground up.- Responsible for major product rollouts, Quality Assurance planning, and coordination with aggressive business goals.Technology involvement: Objective-C

The North America regional office (arvato systems, a Bertelsmann company) acts as a successful implementation partner for high profile, global eCommerce rollouts using the Hybris technology. Hybris ranks in the industry as a top-tier eCommerce platform.Select Project Experience:Reebok, www.reebok.de Adidas, www.shopadidas.ca Benefit Cosmetics, www.benefitcosmetics.com TaylorMade Golf, shop.taylormadegolf.com - Lead software development teams which specialized in front and backend technologies leveraging the SAP Hybris eCommerce Platform. Facilitated requirements gathering workshops (pre + post sales) for business and technical audiences. - Core member of hiring team. Developed comprehensive interview process for software engineer candidates. - Managed and mentored offshore and near-shore development teams.Ruby on Rails, Java, JRuby, JSP, Spring Web MVC, jQuery and RESTful web services

Key contributor in the development of a multi-million dollar enterprise solution for EMI Music Publishing corporation utilizing conventional as well as Business Process Modeling (BPM) technologies. - Development lead for project’s internal Business Process Modeling (BPM) team for the IBM Teamworks platform.- Managed and delegated weekly deliverables for a four person New York City and London based team for EMI Music.

- Implemented Mobile and Web based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software catered to long term health care facilities. Tech utilized: .NET Compact (mobile) Framework, Palm Mobile Framework, .NET + T-SQL backend development, ground-up JavaScript API development

- Full lifecycle .NET 3.0 web app development for a variety of inter-office business tools and conferences.