* Stepped into the role of acting Architect to ensure teams received the technical feedback and direction critical to their work.* Acted as the Infrastructure product manager, helping set OKRs that align with Flickr's objectives, and set day-to-day priorities.* Reduced AWS bill considerably by directing efforts toward high impact projects that right-sized infrastructure, deprecated older systems, and improved performance in high volume systems.* Managed the Backend team, as well as additional engineers from technical operations and data engineering.* Drove intiative to improve developer experience, resulting in a 20% increase in surveyed dev enjoyment and 25% increase in ability to self diagnose and fix the environment.* Adopted criteria for pull request submission & review to ensure backend engineering makes progress against its roadmap.* Pushed for AWS training and certification for all of Flickr Engineering.

* Managed the Backend Engineering department, a team of about six Backend Engineers from mid-level to senior staff.* Held regular 1:1s, coached engineers, and assessed quarterly according to Flickr's leveling guide. Promoted several people!* Developed a team roadmap, prioritizing efforts to improve code quality, developer environment, and skill gaps.* Ran backend team meeting with regular staff presentations on internal system operation and new tech.* Developed backend engineer job descriptions, interview rubrics, and a new coding challenge to support hiring.* Partnered with Akita Software on API Observability for Flickr's public legacy API, writing a Go plugin to support the integration.* Made a significant impact fighting spam on Flickr by refactoring a vendor integration to improve bang for buck.

* Responsible for staff of two dozen engineers from interns to principal engineers, and a multimillion dollar budget.* Led Sansar's Technical Operations, Data Engineering, Build Engineering, Client UI, Backend, and Web teams.* Coached managers and team leads on transitioning to agile development using Kanban based project management methods.* Responsible for key vendor relationships, notably AWS. Loads of experience managing AWS costs via reserved and spot instances, lambdas, etc.* Taught Machine Learning techniques to Data Engineering staff: train, test, cross validation, scaling, regularization, regression vs classification, etc.* Modernized C++ development workflow by optimizing for Continuous Integration.* Moved a 2.4 terabyte Perforce repository to Git LFS and GitHub, unifying version control practices across all engineering teams.

* Set technical direction for application development and QA teams supporting Technical and Business Operations.* Managed projects for complexity and interdependency rather than fragile estimation based scheduling.* Built a learning/teaching culture with my teams and accelerated adoption of new technologies and practices.* Encouraged direct reports to blog and contribute to Open Source projects.* Drove the adoption of Continuous Integration, Deployment, and Delivery with extensive test automation.* Transitioned staff from traditional QA tester roles to a Software Development Engineers in Test.* Responsible for several key initiatives related to the secure information management of customer data, including GDPR.

* Managed teams responsible for Payments, Virtual Currency, Internal Tools, and more.* Hired great engineers and built out several wonderful teams.* Modernized our development workflows with Golang, Github, Docker, Drone, Jenkins, and AWS.Architected RESTful web services including an RFC-compliant OAuth 2.0 provider.* Collaborated closely with Compliance, Fraud, Accounting, and Finance teams to ensure we built safe and secure systems.* Intimately acquainted with the business operations impact of the following acronyms: PCI-DSS, FINCEN, PII, KYC, CIP, OFAC.

* Practiced agile methodology and test driven development with a focus on building excellent teams.* Mentored engineers, fostering their growth as skilled technicians and communicators.* Led the integration of several new payment services providers into our payments architecture.* Regularly assigned to successfully complete projects that were behind schedule, improperly scoped, and/or lacked robustness.* Implemented several major projects in just a few months, rapidly expanding skills as needed.* Advocated for standards-compliant engineering, better client and server side performance, and strong security strategies.* Held public office hours to maintain open, positive communication with our users and hear concerns regarding our services.

* Led the development of a secure Intranet with tools for content management using PHP and MySQL.* Led the development of a custom search engine and document categorization system using cosine similarity and k-means clustering.* Directed all non-design aspects of the public websites for the Democratic Caucus, each Democratic Representative, the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, and several issue-based sites, including RSS feeds, podcasts, web video, photo galleries, and email newsletters.* Enforced validation of XHTML and CSS and adherence to web accessibility standards Section 508 and W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines with a WAI-AA rating.

* Developed and maintained employee Intranet featuring a broad suite of data-driven tools for managing news, calendars, and internal file storage using Oracle, MySQL, and PHP.* Developed and maintained a variety of student-facing sites, including the course catalog and schedule for both credit and non-credit courses.* Responsible for maintaining legacy applications written in Perl.* Integrated Microsoft Access applications into a MySQL/PHP framework.* Addressed security concerns using industry-standard practices, such as encrypting traffic with SSL, requiring strong user passwords, form input validation, and sanitization.* Coordinated project needs with ITS department.Created department-wide programming and design standards.

* Integration of hospital patient and financial data with VB, SQL Server, ADO.* Designed, implemented, and maintained data migration tools with Visual FoxPro.* Designed and implemented modular software components for submitting ORYX measurement results to the Joint Commission on HealthCare Accreditation.* Built strong relationships between hospital IS departments and GEMSHS.* Undertook routine systems administration tasks including user administration, file system maintenance, and system backups.* Improved the quality of software products through development of test automation and rigorous bug testing.* Authored technical reference manuals.