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Arlington, Ma, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leading a scrum team of 14 engineers (with seven direct reports) responsible for microservices and UI for VMware Aria Automation to solve our customers’ cloud infrastructure automation challenges. Collaborated with product managers and tech leads to define the product roadmap, requirements, priorities, milestones, and deliverables while creating a psychologically safe culture where we reliably achieve organizational outcomes efficiently and effectively.Initiated and guided process improvements for team standups, systems design reviews, and code reviews, which clarified expectations for engineers and reduced friction for consistent delivery.Reduced peak CPU consumption from 95% to 16% by coaching my team on performance tuning and thread dump analysis, improving SaaS performance and reliability for our customers.Conducted weekly reviews of support tickets with engineers to identify process and product improvements, resulting in knowledge transfer and team learning.Guided career conversations, individual development plans, and goal setting with direct reports leading to two promotions and increased team engagement.Engaged in organizational citizenship by mentoring two software engineers; one engineer was appointed to a leadership council, and the other received a promotion.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led a team of four software engineers responsible for connecting VMware Cloud Director to VMware Cloud on AWS and GCP, enabling customers an easier path to public cloud migration.Rescued a struggling project by quickly ramping up on Netty and Websocket, solving blocking defects, and reporting project status to stakeholders, leading to my promotion to tech lead after two months.Increased the team's delivery velocity by fully automating builds, allowing customers and stakeholders prompt access to product improvements.Improved quality by spearheading improvements in test infrastructure and performance monitoring, leading to increased confidence from customers and stakeholders.Introduced configuration caching, which reduced configuration database queries by 99%.Initiated and led team conversations on values, increasing engagement and belonging.Collaborated across teams on integration and troubleshooting to improve customer experience.Engaged in organizational citizenship by mentoring three senior software engineers to gain clarity in their career trajectory and improve their leadership skills; one accepted an offer at a FAANG company.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Led a team of three software engineers in developing an API using gRPC and Protocol Buffers to retrieve data across multiple servers simultaneously to improve the performance and scalability of user reports.Designed and implemented components of the Workday data fabric with Apache Ignite to increase the data storage capacity, scalability, and reliability of the Workday back end.Enhanced Workday's internal developer framework through specialized contributions, including ZooKeeper integration, finite state machine enhancements, and improvements to a dependency injection framework, leading to developer efficiency through standardization and code reuse.Delivered presentations on distributed testing and Git at Workday Spelunking, an internal Workday developer conference, to promote learning and growth for software engineers using these vital tools.Mentored two software development interns who accepted full-time offers at Workday upon graduation.

San Francisco, California, Us

Implemented a message broker binding for Spring Cloud Stream based on Pivotal Gemfire; this is a low latency distributed in-memory option for Spring Cloud Stream messaging to compliment its support for RabbitMQ and Apache KafkaCo-designed the API for the Spring Cloud Dataflow application deployer; Spring Cloud Dataflow is the orchestration layer for Spring Cloud Stream; implementations of this API exist for various platforms including Cloud Foundry, Apache YARN, Apache Mesos and KubernetesDesigned the Spring Cloud Cluster distributed leadership election API, developed the ZooKeeper and Hazelcast implementations, and reviewed/merged a community submitted etcd implementationIntroduced Apache ZooKeeper to Spring XD, a distributed stream and batch processing system; ZooKeeper was integrated into Spring XD to handle configuration coordination, work distribution, and JVM death detectionLead the creation and publication of the paper "Spring XD: a modular distributed stream and batch processing system" which was published in "DEBS '15: Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems"

Austin, Texas, Us

Lead developer for Federated Caching (multi-cluster replication) functionality for Oracle Coherence. Design and implementation includes non-blocking concurrent data structures, continuation based asynchronous processing, and a custom messaging protocol over MessageBus, a low level networking library.Reviewed designs and code for new functionality and bug fixes for other Coherenceprojects, including integrations with Spring framework and Hibernate.

Austin, Texas, Us

Technical lead on team of six developers. Responsible for technical direction and project planning for Coherence configuration, management/monitoring, and application server integration. Author of chapter 8 for Oracle Coherence 3.5 (Packt Publishing)Presented at Coherence SIGs, JavaOne, Oracle Open World, QCon Tokyo.

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Tangosol was acquired by Oracle June 2007Global Technical Lead for Oracle Coherence support. Achieved a personal average customer satisfaction rating of 9 out of 10 per customer surveys. Provided remote and on-site support for critical customer accounts in banking and retail by analyzing logs, thread dumps, heap dumps, and vmstat/sar logs. Authored and reviewed technical articles for Oracle Support knowledge base.Implemented improvements/bug fixes in multiple Coherence features including Java Servlet integration, database integration, configuration, management and monitoring.Presented at several user groups/conferences, including Coherence SIG and Spring One.

San Jose, California, Us

Designed and implemented J2EE based middle tier for call center case tracking applicationDeveloped website (http://my.support.veritas.com) for customers to track technical support casesTrained team members on various technologies, including J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate Participated in Open Source community by contributing patches to Spring and HibernatePresented case study at The Spring Experience 2005