Data for Voice, Data for Podcasts, Data for embedding infra

- Built a gRPC service and REST gateway in Go to expose analytics to customers and decouple the analytics team from our PHP API. Automated all parts of the build and deploy lifecycle using Packer, Puppet, Terraform & Jenkins with docker-compose for local development. Additionally designed and served analytics endpoints using data from Elasticsearch.- Championed moving all local development for backend services to use docker and docker-compose vastly improving developer productivity for new hires and members that worked across the stack.- Introduced and implemented a new ORM (Doctrine) into our PHP application to replace Active Record, giving our team more flexibility and control over our data.- Provided initial POCs of example services and networking in Kubernetes using Istio. Created examples of application monitoring using Prometheus along with tooling for local development.- Coached on and evangelized new technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, gRPC, Protobuf, Prometheus and Kubernetes.

- Wrote, shipped and maintained code within a small team to help scale Answers, #1 iOS and #3 Android mobile app analytics solution, from 0 to more than 5 Billion daily sessions.- Leveraged Java and Cascading to write map-reduce jobs to compute key metrics to orchestrate and load the results into a Cassandra.- Wrote streaming topologies to compute real time metrics that wrote to Cassandra mimicking the computations done by the map-reduce jobs.- Contributed to map reduce deploy and debugging environment to increase ease of use and security. -Added a regression testing framework. Consulted on pitfalls of working with big data.- Wrote API endpoints in Ruby On Rails to tie systems together and make Answers data available on https://fabric.io. Used d3 and React to visualize the data to tell customers Answers about their data.- Re-wrote the HTTP wrapper client between our Ruby on Rails and Dropwizard APIs by adding retrying logic into client. Rigorously tested the client with 100% test coverage.- Was the liaison for the Beta by Crashlytics team for an integration with Answers providing them with the knowledge and support needed to build analytic features into their product.- Mentored and onboarded new hires and Twitter colleagues on the Answers stack.

- Helped build technical components www.answers.io from when it was in an alpha/beta stage to the GA of the product.- Built and maintained batch-layer hadoop jobs written in Cascading and Cascalog for Answers.- Worked with developer relations and the team to address customer feedback to create delightful experiences for our beta customers at the time.

•- Helped move a product toward a Service Oriented Architecture by designing and implementing JSON APIs and associated functional tests.•- Worked on maintenance and resolving bugs for a large scale task processing system (30+ compute workers).- •Performed significant code refactoring and regular code reviews.- Worked on large scale data importer and parser system processing +26 million articles.

- Created and implemented a major feature for the Pubget PaperStats Product- Assisted with maintenance and bug fixing for the PaperStats Product- Developed a program to dynamically overlay text over an advertisement for major pharmaceutical companies- Aggregated industry-wide client usage statistics data to perform analytics for publishers

•Created a VBA plugin to streamline HFSS Simulation Requesting by auto-populating relevant information from a file into the request form.•Prepared all Excel 2003 tools to upgrade to Excel 2007 and later versions

- Built an Excel Visual Basic for Applications module that used SQL statements to query an Access database - Customized existing Amphenol tools written in Excel with a Visual Basic for Applications background with added functionality- Communicated with all sales managers to ensure Amphenol presented its customers with relevant content on the Amphenol Website- Upgraded a VBA plugin for a Polar Calculation Engine to use a new set of Dynamic-Link Libraries