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Los Altos, CA, US

Palm Beach, Florida, US

• Led and mentored global data engineering/science teams for the extraction of diagnostic codes and claims from health records with strong focus on data quality and traceability.
• Built a problem-solving oriented and customer-centric culture with KPIs, clearly defined goals, ownership, and risk management (test-driven development).
• Applied large language models to automated code and documentation generation.
• Spearheaded MLOps roadmap implementation.--- Data engineering ---
• Reduced models deployment time from 7 to 1 day by implementing dynamic routing, auto-replay, snapshots/data quality control, declarative configuration, latent documentation, data observability, data contracts, and.
• Scaled processing throughput from 2.5 to 46 medical records/sec using scalable architecture: Kafka, Spark, batching vs. streaming, Airflow, NoSQL/MongoDB, lambda architecture, Databases, Kubernetes.

San Francisco, California, US

• Mobile game discovery and monetization platform
• Designed and deployed ad targeting models, processing 25,000 ad campaign requests/sec.
• Implemented Feature hashing, class balancing, and online exploration using Spark/NoSQLCourse: Functional program design in Scala

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Dell big data analytics enable business users to rapidly transform structured and unstructured data into analytic insights.
• Led unstructured data transformation for Dell big data analytics platform using databases and emerging distributed computing technologies.
• Implemented Feature hashing, class balancing, and online exploration.

• Cloudweaver's Application Defined Network solution allows developers and operation engineers to monitor, manage and optimize cloud networking resources
• Led agile development, testing, deployment of a SaaS platform for resource optimization.
• Applied machine learning for bottleneck remediation on AWS. (Company acquired by F5 Network)

• 24x7 Content solutions helps enterprises and public institutions to search and navigate large amount of documents.
• Designed semantic search platform, patented semantic topology extraction design.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Zvents, the leading producer of entertainment guides online, helps more than 10 million monthly users find local events, and helps thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their venues.
• Reduced production issues by 40% and enhanced traffic conversion through data mining.(Company acquired by StumbleUpon as part of eBay)

• OnMeta provides interactive advertising solutions for reaching targeted audiences in digital media
• Built web analytics solution, focusing on web demographics targeting.

Derby, GB

• Resonate’s traffic management solutions maximize application delivery and availability.uilt web analytics solution, focusing on web demographics targeting.
• Restructured product development, QA, support, and IT operations with enhanced SLA.
• Drove customer retention rate to 94% through test-driven, agile development.
• Directed offshore engineering groups, reducing costs by 40%.(company acquired by private investors)

Built up the engineering department from 5 to 40 engineers to develop and maintain a hosted B2B procurement SaaS on the market. Responsbile for $1M quarterly budget.(company acquired by VerticalNet)

Alameda, CA, US

Led the development of management console, pRISM for debugging and profiling embedded systems (C/C++, pSOS embedded OS, Windows SDK)

Developed process and emission control software for power utilities. Applied linear programming and Neural Network to predict emission of pollutants (EPRI contract).=> acquired by General Electric - Energy division

Created and supported a C++ library for scientific computation: Statistics, Calculus, Numerical Analysis, Simulation and Optimization.