- Oversee the progress of the technical team, ensuring timely and successful delivery of projects.- Foster a culture of professional growth by mentoring and guiding team members, resulting in enhanced skill sets and career progression.- Establish effective code review processes, facilitating collaboration, knowledge sharing, and maintaining code quality standards.- Implement CI/CD pipelines across all repositories, enabling automated testing, deployment, and continuous integration.- Architect and implement robust cloud infrastructure, optimizing scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.- Design efficient ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, improving data processing and analysis capabilities.- Contribute to product and UI/UX design discussions, leveraging technical expertise to create user-friendly and impactful solutions.- Lead by example, promoting a collaborative and agile work environment that encourages innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Successfully managed a team of 6 highly skilled engineers, overseeing the delivery of multiple projects on time and within budget.- Spearheaded automation and infrastructure-as-code projects, resulting in significant system maintainability and reliability gains, as well as shorter microservice setup times.- Coordinated efforts with cross-functional teams to develop and implement highly secure setups, ensuring PCI/PII compliance while enabling seamless operations.- Collaborated closely with product and engineering teams to define and implement optimal cloud infrastructure designs, resulting in reduction in infrastructure costs and improved scalability.- Thoroughly reviewed architecture designs, documents, and code submissions, identifying critical issues and proposing solutions that enhanced system performance and maintainability. - Continued to provide ongoing strategic contributions as a dedicated member of the Architecture Council, leveraging expertise to shape and guide key technical decisions.Technology stack: ArgoCD, AWS, Docker, Helm, Jenkins/JCasC, Kubernetes, Puppet, Shell, Terraform.

- Spearheaded and successfully led multiple technical initiatives focused on cloud infrastructure optimization and efficient data ingestion.- Collaborated in designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and microservices, leveraging various programming languages to ensure scalability and reliability.- Developed highly effective internal tools to streamline troubleshooting processes and boost engineering productivity, resulting in significant time savings.- Implemented automation for critical checks and processes, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing human error.- Provided valuable feedback, guidance, and mentorship to empower engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and minimizing technical debt.- Actively participated as a long-standing member of the Architecture Council, contributing insights and expertise to inform strategic decisions.- Played a key role in identifying and recruiting top-tier engineers and managers, contributing to the growth and success of the organization.Technology stack: Athena+S3, AWS, CloudSearch, Cassandra, Dropwizard+JAX-RS, Docker, ECS/EKS/K8s, Helm, Java8+Maven, Kafka, Kinesis, KMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Parquet, Puppet+r10k, Redshift, Ruby on Rails & Grape, Scala+SBT, Spark+EMR, Terraform, Vertx.Continuous Integration & Deployment via CircleCI, Quay.io, ECS, and ArgoCD+Kubernetes. Coveralls.io is employed to measure test coverage.

- Built ETL and nightly precomputation jobs using a combination of a dockerized Pentaho and Spark on Cassandra and S3.- Led the Online Data Collection (ODC) project, which entailed rearchitecting the database structure, revamping and expanding the data collectors, setting up ActiveMQ and its STOMP clients for queuing background jobs, and creating Grape API endpoints to serve the data.- Collaborated with the product and business development teams to meet partner integration requirements, deliver customer-facing features, and build in-house productivity tools.- Architected data models for various web services, including the design of corresponding database tables and API endpoints.- Assisted the DevOps team with automating the construction and expansion of our AWS infrastructures and service-oriented architecture.- Contributed to diverse codebases encompassing various programming languages as part of my full-stack responsibilities in order to expand system functionality and enhance maintainability.Technology stack: ActiveMQ, AngularJS+Gulp, AWS, Cassandra, Coffeescript, CircleCI, Docker, HAML/HTML, Java, MySQL, Pentaho, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, SASS, Scala, Spark, Vertx.

- Spearheaded the implementation of two social media productss—a web app (nyoombl.com) and an iPhone app (Questions)—as part of the company’s vision of democratizing video conversations.- Managed and coached a team of engineers and designers, and helped them deliver innovative solutions and reliable features.- Designed, helped build, and managed the IT infrastructure (i.e. servers, databases, protocols, source control repositories, deployment processes, access privileges, SEO practices, etc).- Designed database tables and developed data models, endpoints, controllers, and views.- Identified, assessed, and provided insight about the then-current resources, technology requirements, and future expansions to promote informative decisions in the context of business strategy.Technology stack: ActionScript/Flash, FFmpeg, HTML/CSS, Javascript, LAMP, NodeJS, Red5

- Analyzed multi-dimensional surveillance problems pertaining to complex terrain and intelligent insurgents.- Developed a framework of algorithms and optimization models to evaluate planetary surfaces and risk factors, and construct time-sensitive surveillance plans. This resulted in a decision-support tool that helps surveillance architects reduce their analysis period from months to minutes.- Conducted extensive research and literature reviews regarding the use of UAVs in surveillance.- Built a software solution that eases data input, analysis, visualization, and results delivery.Technology stack: AMPL/CPLEX, Concert/CPLEX, Java

- Authored the first few versions of a software solution (called LRIM) that allows healthcare organizations to estimate efficiency improvements in their materials management after adopting GS1 data standards. The tool has been used by stakeholders to assess future IT investments. (See http://cihl.uark.edu/lrim-6-5/)- Analyzed and modeled problems and processes using statistical and simulation tools.- Constructed mathematical and heuristic models to solve industrial problems. Technologies used: AMPL/CPLEX, Arena, Java, Mathematica, Minitab, MS-Excel, VBA

- Developed an online learning tool for RFID technology where learners can access lab equipment remotely and perform experiments by moving tagged Lego carts and capturing RFID reads.- Employed the everything-is-alive pervasive computing philosophy to build an environment where agents (GUI, database, Lego carts, electric relays, RFID readers) communicate via standardized XML messages over TCP and UDP protocols.- Wrote my own programming language that enabled controlling motors and Lego carts programmatically.Technology stack: ASP, C#.NET, MySQL, PHP, TCP/UDP, XML

- Assisted with the deployment of RFID technology in Walmart stores and distribution centers.- Developed software applications that helped monitor and improve the retail business.- Improved server applications in terms of response time.- Analyzed RFID-related data and generated reports for executives. Technologies used: C, DB2, MS-Excel, Perl, VB.NET, Teradata