Patrick D'Souza Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

New York, New York, Us

As an Expert, I provide strategic advice and guidance to the investment team and founders within the Primary portfolio and broader network. Experts enjoy access to early-stage businesses, emerging trends and technology, and an expanded network of exceptional leaders and resources through a top-tier seed-stage firm.Primary is New York City’s premier early-stage venture firm working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Alma, Chief, Dandy Electric, Latch, K Health, Stellar Health, Slice, and many more.

San Francisco, California, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

Year 1 accomplishments* Laid out the mission, vision, strategy and roadmap for the Data Platform team* Built out the Data Platform team from 0 to 14 through hiring, sourcing and acquisition which includes engineers at various levels of seniority along with a PM and a TPM.* Enabling data teams to build data products on top of Golden Path tools and frameworks across 2 teams - Producer & Consumer Journey teams focused on Data Transport, Data Capture & Processing, Data Workflows, Data Lakes, Data Discovery, Data Privacy & Quality and Experimentation. * Introduced Platform as a Product thinking by launching 8 Data Infrastructure Products in a year through an iterative process from MVP to a Plan-Build-Ship-Adopt rollout based on customer feedback and supported business use cases.* Brought transparency and objectivity to selection of tools, frameworks and infrastructure across engineering by introducing Tech Radar and ADRs in collaboration with other engineering leaders and Principal engineers.* Improved collaboration with vendors like AWS by introducing a SIG model* Partnered with AI/ML, analytics and product services teams in adoption of data infra tooling through regular syncs and introduction of dedicated data advocates.

New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Managed a team of 6 engineers - responsible for their career development and performance management.- Set the vision, strategy and roadmap for the Data Platform team with the Director of Infrastructure- Drove stakeholder alignment through regular weekly meetings with product teams along with the product manager. - Drove key 2019 OKRs around migration to AWS and 2020 company level KRs around cost reduction of offline workloads on EMR and storage optimizations resulting in annual cost savings of $1 million. - Drove initiatives to improve observability and visibility of pipeline reliability with Prometheus and Grafana- Managed vendor relationships with AWS and Databricks teams with monthly cadence calls and product feedback.- Initiated and drove a cost transparent cultural change by introducing standardized tags and cost reporting via AWS Cost Explorer. Trained up the engineering and finance teams to set per team budgets.

New York, Ny, Us

- Shortened the delivery cycle of projects by 50% from 3 months to 6 weeks by introducing scrum and 2 week sprints. - Architected and drove one of the largest project in Foursquare’s engineering history - migration of 20PB of data, 2000+ Luigi tasks and 100+ pipelines across 6 product teams from a 500 node on-prem Hadoop cluster to AWS over an aggressive 15 month timeline. - Modernized the stack by architecting and rolling out next-gen cloud native Data Platform 2.0 consisting of EMR, Databricks, Spark, Redshift and a centralized data catalog backed by an external Hive metastore. - Introduced Databricks as the Analytics platform for the company with the primary focus on ad hoc analytics.

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

- Architected the new data lake architecture with S3, Spark, Hive and Presto- Performed comparative analysis and benchmarking of different query engines viz. Postgres, Hive, Spark SQL and Presto and recommended Presto in terms of performance, concurrency and reduced costs- Contributed to budgeting, OKR setup and quarterly planning and attended tech staff meetings. - Increased test coverage in the existing Scala application and introduced Scala code style best practices - Introduced Airflow as a job workflow engine and contributed three important plugins - S3Sensor, SQSSensor and LivyOperator. At the same time, serve as the in-house expert and evangelist of Airflow and point of contact with the Airflow Meetup group and community.- Interfaced with Devops and a member of the “Ring of Champions” Devops group championing the devops culture across teams.- Serve as the lead in introducing schema registry and schema evolution across the engineering teams and proposing Avro as the de-facto standard for all data delivery.- Built out a big data analytics framework using Spark and EMR- Took up ownership of setting up the tech blog and encouraging engineers to write blog posts. - Mentored and coached junior engineers on big data patterns and best practices- Implemented new scoring algorithms by re architecting the current legacy system to handle A/B testing of models using Akka

New York, Ny, Us

Flashpoint delivers Business Risk Intelligence (BRI) to empower business units and functions across organizations to make better decisions and mitigate risk. The company's unique Deep & Dark Web data, expertise, and technology enable our customers to glean intelligence that informs risk and protects their ability to operate. Fortune 500 and government customers utilize Flashpoint's intelligence across the enterprise, including bolstering cybersecurity, confronting fraud, detecting insider threats, enhancing physical security, assessing M&A opportunities, and addressing vendor risk and supply chain integrity. For corporations with limited experience availing themselves of Deep & Dark Web intelligence, Flashpoint has tailored offerings that deliver comprehensive reporting and monitoring on their behalf. Flashpoint is backed by Greycroft Partners, TechOperators, K2 Intelligence, Jump Capital, Leaders Fund, Bloomberg Beta, and Cisco Investments.

New York, Ny, Us

- Designed, developed and optimized low latency high volume querying using Impala and Parquet file format with snappy compression- Lead Developer on architecting and building a new ETL pipeline system for real time analysis using Spark.- Recommended and executed best practices around storing, optimizing and querying terabytes of daily complex internal datasets comprising of access logs and clickstream data and third party datasets viz Google Analytics, Adsense, DFP, Adex and Programmatic Sales Data..- Designed and implemented operational metrics and alerting using Spark and Graphite and Grafana- Performance optimization and alerting metrics using Boomerang and Grafana- Contributed towards POCs involving Luigi and Airflow- Took the lead initiative in migrating from Radmind configured Freebsd systems to a more organized role based Ansible configured CentOS systems- Architected and implemented a clustered micro-service architecture for delivering REST apis using HAProxy, nodejs and flask supplemented with Swagger documentation, thus enabling data scientists and business analysts to build models and reports.- Responsible for hiring and mentoring new Data Engineers

New York, Ny, Us

- Responsible for the overarching architecture and implementation of a Lamba architecture using Kafka and Camus by interfacing with sysops and network operations teams.- Faciliated in upgrading from MR1 to MR2 and YARN and CDH administration and cluster tuning.- Implemented custom UDFs and UDAFs for Hive and Impala usage- Lead initiative in building ETL processes for consuming data in Parquet and Avro with Hive and Impala- Successfully performed legacy code maintenance and migration from Perl and Ruby to Python.

New York, Ny, Us

- Build the frontend framework for eluminary.org using LESS and grunt.- Customize wordpress to integrate with the Single Signon System- Customize wordpress to integrate with the Single Signon System- Implement web performance best practices

New York, Ny, Us

- Revamped the current reporting system with Piwik and jQuery.- Performed log analysis using Hadoop and ETL into Hive tables- Improved the MySQL reporting structure and upgraded it to the latest MySQL installation.- Tracked and generated social media metrics by pulling metrics using Facebook & Twitter APIs- Interfaced with the Google team and seamlessly integrated the Google Publisher API for pulling Adsense reports- Introduced best practices in terms of industry standard metrics.- Created custom Map Reduce tasks for extracting data from logs.- Created batch processing and ETL tasks using Perl and Java.- Created REST API for the metrics team using node.js

New York, Ny, Us

- Consistently meet all project objectives for front-end development both in fixing legacy code issues and building new code for stock agencies.- Significantly enhanced Javascript library by revamping into OO Javascript.- Developed a highly used and effective metadata editing system for photographers and editors using Prototype and YUI.- Successfully performed existing Mod Perl legacy code maintenance and code refactoring towards a MVC architecture with object-oriented Perl using DBIx and a custom templating engine. - Improved sales reporting, developing a system for importing 100+ distributor reports that normalizes reports to one standard.- Proficiently automated photographer payouts, improving accuracy and timeliness of payments.- Improved systems security by implementing standard security practices in the current legacy code.- Proficiently effectuate MySQl master-slave setup (FreeBSD-FreeBSD, Windows–FreeBSD and Amazon EC2-FreeBSD) and MySQL data migration from MS-SQL server to MySQL.Improve and ensure system security by diligently setting up appropriate access permissions for different users and actions.- Productively performed MyISAM table optimization and slow query optimization, and tweaked, compiled and set up the open source Java & Lua code in MySQL Migration Toolkit for data migration.- Setup master-master MySQL replication and auto disaster recovery between the corporate internal infrastructure and the Amazon Clloud.- Achieved all project timelines and quality goals setting up Amazon Load Balancing, Auto Scaling and Amazon EC2 instances for website hosting, MySQL instances with EC2 and EBS, and Amazon S3 for image data storage and image serving.- Setting up load balancer proxies using Apache and HAProxy.

Syracuse, New York, Us

Biological Research Lab (Welch Lab), Syracuse University Aug ’07-PresentNLP Programmer• Natural Language Processing and data extraction of biological information from research papers.• Data migration from commercial database(Oracle) to open source (MySQL).Department of Psychology, Syracuse University May ‘07-PresentWebmaster/ Programmer• Redesigned the website psychweb.syr.edu and assisted in Active Directory migration.• Analyze and gather user requirements from department faculty for creation of the website.

Syracuse, New York, Us

Princeton, Nj, Us

- Carefully performed research to aid development of automated web crawling of organization’s careers section. - Improved data aggregation capability from simple to complex ERP systems like PeopleSoft and SAP.- Demonstrated exceptional leadership and project management skills in managing a cross functional team of content developers, software and QA engineers in the development of this highly specialized aggregator.- Demonstrated project planning skills, developing detailed plan in partnership with the project leader, and effectively coordinated with the Monster Technical Team for implementation.- Effectively used mod_perl for caching the web service requests/ responses and for high scalability performance catering to 20000+ job postings per day.- Competently accomplished the migration from the existing ftp process to instantaneous real time posting through SOAP and WSDL using OO Perl and CPAN modules.- Substantially improved search engine performance by developing a new revolutionary search results interface.- Successfully implemented the patented search technique to develop a new job search engine.- Highly scalable, high performance job search engine prototype platform developed using Perl and Mod_Perl hosted on an Apache server with MySQL cluster as the database.Awarded Certificate of Appreciation for Proactiveness and Innovation in July ‘05, March ’06 and Sept. ’06.Selected as Employee of the Month in Nov. ‘05, Feb. ’06, July ’06, Aug. ’06, and Nov. ’06 (for AutoCrawl, Job Search Engine, AutoParse & Monster Migration).

Product Strategy

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Management

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Engineering