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Portland, Or, Us

Belmont, California, United States

San Mateo, Ca, Us

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, my day-to-day involves owning the reliability and resiliency of Upstart’s production systems. Some of the challenges that I face on a daily basis are: • Building tooling and automation to monitor the health of our infrastructure, creating a fast, reliable, and productive environment for other engineers, and a enabling a world-class experience for our customers. • Having wide latitude in defining our strategy for technology operations risk mitigation, which includes disaster planning and on-call procedures. • Driving all of these initiatives using a data-driven approach, and providing reports to the business to improve visibility into both the system and customer experience.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

As an SRE on Box's Data Platform team, I was part of a team that lead the effort in building and scaling the technical foundations that allowed Box to empower business critical services. I brought to the role expertise with provisioning hybrid cloud environments with enterprise grade features like resilience, scalability, durability, observability and cost optimization. • Worked with cutting-edge data and analytics technologies while having great visibility and impact across all of Engineering. • Provisioned scalable and resilient services both in the public and private clouds, as well as on-premise. • Worked cross-functionally with a variety of engineering teams, and proposed/POC'd technical solutions for their unique challenges.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Building on my experiences as a NOC Engineer, as a NOC SRE I helped maintain total site awareness, detecting metric and service deviations, monitoring changes, and proactively identifying potential issues and resolving them before they escalate to customer-impacting levels.Some of the challenges faced on a daily basis have been:• Building tools and developing processes to improve manageability, observability, resiliency and time-to-restore-service for critical incidents.• Provide technical leadership and key insights to improve Box's Reliability Engineering capabilities.• Troubleshooting critical problems through applications, systems, and networks -- operating across interpersonal and team boundaries to protect our customers, their data, and the availability of Box services.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

As a NOC Engineer, it was my responsibility to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues that affect the availability and quality of the Box platform. The NOC is Box's frontline of defense in making sure customers like GE, Pandora, Apple and Nike have a seamless experience when accessing their content on Box.Overall, the NOC Team's mission is to "Protect the Customer Experience -- Always." Some of the challenges faced on a daily basis have been:• Supporting key production-facing services and maintaining a world-class customer experience.• Understanding the key components of Box products and how common user transactions flow.• Understanding the nature of any problems affecting the customer experience in order to identify and advocate for the "best" solution.

Santa Clara, California, Us

2+ years hands-on Elasticsearch ELK stack experience (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and full ETL pipeline development.• Built, maintained, and leveraged two Elasticsearch clusters (Production & Integration environments) and supported ETL solutions to provide Big Data analytics capabilities to IT teams.• Architected storage performance monitoring and analytics solution to identify trends of IT’s global fileservers. Leveraged >2 years Elasticsearch cluster ownership experience to design and deliver a custom-tailored solution to the organization and radically improve day-to-day global storage ops work and analytics.• Routinely delivered multi-hour comprehensive Elasticsearch trainings, both internally to IT and externally to customers of IT. These trainings led to new engagements and opportunities, enabling new and novel dataset onboarding and analytics/automation opportunities.Day-to-day operations service administration and ServiceNow support fulfillment for Engineering Computing (EC) team.• Batch and Interactive-computing admin, with side projects in back-end automation and root-cause analysis.• Daily customer engagement, coordination, planning and execution to meet the evolving needs of the business.• Day-to-day programming projects, to increase core IT service operational efficiency/effectiveness.

Santa Clara, California, Us

QA automation developer and app tester for Digital Radio group.• Worked primarily in Java for Android QA automation, creating nightly regression testing script apps.• Built a feature-rich, user-friendly testing automation SDK, developed regression tests with that SDK, and delivered SDK testing automation training sessions to his team.Transitioned from DRG to Bluetooth Core Product group, to enable Bluetooth team with unit testing integration methodologies.• Evaluated possible mocking frameworks for codebase integration based on requirements from the team.• Delivered hands-on framework training to West Coast teams, successfully enabled test-driven development practices.

• Developed Kinect-powered skeleton-tracking interface for a “rotating display” research project.• Explored alternative form of virtual reality interface implementation using off-the-shelf prototyping components and Unity Game Engine, in the form-factor of a rotating display platform.• Co-authored and presented "Off-the-Shelf Electronics Prototyping for Virtual Reality" at the workshop on Off-The-Shelf Virtual Reality at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 conference in Orange County, CA. http://vel.engr.uga.edu

Bachelor Of Science And Computer Systems Engineering (Bscse), Computer Systems Engineering

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