SWArtisan LLC, a distinguished software engineering consultancy, specializing in delivering superior software architecture, product development, and ML/LLM systems development services. At the heart of SWArtisan's approach lies a profound understanding of industry best practices, derived from the experiences of prominent tech giants. This expertise empowers SWArtisan's team of highly skilled experts to create scalable, reliable, and cutting-edge software solutions.

As director, responsible for the architecture and technical strategy for cloud, data, infrastructure and integration. Drove the formalizing and development of standards and reference architecture to support green-field and on prem systems move to the Cloud. Work involves cross organizational collaboration and partnerships with Information Security, Engineering and Operational organizations. Also responsible for establishing the Developer Experience function, drove development of IDP (internal development platform) to support developers across the organization. Responsibility included leading a team of cross functional architect leaders governing Data Architecture, Integration Architecture, Software Engineering, Security and Infrastructure Architecture. Key initiatives included delivering Cloud Reference Architecture, Generative AI Reference Architecture and Developer Experience Products. Work on Generate AI included defining standards for Security, Model training/refinement and embedding (RAG).

As TLM responsible for critical Google Cloud data infrastructure for engineering, business and product teams. This infrastructure includes BI tooling/ETL, Data quality systems, financial/revenue data, systems telemetry, GCP Telemetry APIs, client side analytics for all GCP user facing systems. Beyond critical data sources also responsible for GCP experiments framework, Signals API infrastructure for low latency consumption of data warehouse data to GCP customers, CUJ (critical user journey) infrastructure for GCP products (including computed user sessions for all user events across FE and customer facing API surfaces). For tooling, lead the design and development of BI tooling for data hygiene, including: data prep/cleansing, data profiling, data quality assertions/scoring and automated insights and anomaly detection.

Plx is Google's internal BI infrastructure. I was an acting TL who designed and built Datasites API/BE (data asset information architecture), Plx Versioned Data Asset Metadata Storage System (PlxDb), and Plx Integration with Datahub (externally known as Cloud Data Catalog). This platform is employed by all Alphabet engineering and product business teams internally. This includes API and services which support Google's primary big data technology, ETL, Workflow, Pipeline, Data Prep, Machine Learning and data vIsualization systems. This work included development of supporting security infrastructure: data security (GDPR compliance), new data asset ACL models, ACL delegation and user/system impersonation to support automation.

Technical Lead Manager and primary designer of Google's content serving and KMS/CMS infrastructure. Large serving infrastructure supporting dynamic content delivery for the majority of Google consumer products on all surfaces (web/mobile/in-product/APIs). This is a global Google scale system which touches every Google customer daily. The authoring, publishing and delivery infrastructure is a fully automated self service system employed by Google teams worldwide. Beyond core Information Architecture systems, I was also responsible for other critical Google wide systems: CIH (Customer interaction history), Google Feedback BE, In-Product help (web/mobile), Atlas (low latency serve time customer signals) and automated dynamic escalation flows (intelligent customer contact flows for all surfaces). In development of the FE/BE serving infrastructure partnered with Secops (Security Team) to integrate sophisticated predictive DDOS protections and security focused content scrubbing (vulnerability scanning) into the content authoring/publishing pipelines.

Technical lead and developer of Adsense for Audio systems and public APIs which managed radio advertising spot inventory. This included tight integration to Adwords FE/BE for buy/auctions. Designed and built APIs used by Clear Channel and other radio networks to manage spot inventory and spot delivery/serving. Drove technical initiatives which simplified and improved the quality of targeted audio content to consumers while improving ROI for content providers. Focused on improving available inventory and play rates for Adsense for Audio publishers. Developed Audio for Adsense APIs and back end services for AFA publishers supporting Audio Ads system. On the publisher side, AdSense for Audio was integrated with top radio networks like Clear Channel and the top three radio automation systems.

As Chief Architect, provided technical leadership across project initiatives, standardized critical software engineering practices/tooling, and helped balance technology application with current and future business vision. With some focus in driving the application of technology in targeted content delivery for radio, and digital audio across different channels and media. Responsible for technical knowledge transfer as part of Google acquisition.

Consultancy providing IT services to organizations.Clients:Tickets.com - Software architecture and development consulting for current and next generation ticketing systems. This included work on legacy C/C++ and Java based online systems. Responsible for design and development of next generation ticketing platform with development of prototype and bootstrap of next generation system development using open source products. Technology: Java 5.0, Hibernate 3.x, AJAX, Web Services (Sun's JWSDP) and REST, Spring Framework, Maven, UML with Andro MDA, Postgresql, Linux Fedora 1-3.Primal - Provided architecture consulting for next generation VoIP products. Technology: Java 5.0, JSF 1.x, Hibernate3 and Spring Framework.Wavesys - Provided consulting expertise in conversion of multiple configuration management environments to Subversion 1.x.

Data Trace (formerly part of Experian) is a leading supplier of real estate data to the Title Insurance industry. Data Trace's product and services include national real estate, legal, tax and property related information. My primary responsibility is driving application design and development initiatives including next generation product offerings for title insurance and real estate market. My responsibility also includes the hiring and management of technical engineering staff in Anaheim California and Bangalore India. This includes overall responsibility of SDLC for DataTrace client and open systems server projects in United States and India. My role also includes design and implementation responsibilities (hands on). Technology employed: C# .NET 1.1/Windows Forms, Server side Java 1.4SE, Web services

Day Software develops the leading CMS (Java based) product in Europe. Serve as one of four ARB (Architecture Board) members which includes CTO and Chief Scientist. Participated in product architecture and design and development. Key resource to produce JSR170 for Java Community Process (http://www.jcp.org). Nominated to JSR committees and track several. Actively designing/developing significant feature sets for CMS product including scriptable Webdav support. Primarily developing in a J2EE environment using Java 1.3. Demoed product at JavaONE.

As a co-founder of eBuilt, responsible for growing company to over 300 people. Primarily served in an engineering capacity, initially building staff and project development infrastructure including: automated build environment, release environment, software development standards (coding and process), multi-platform configuration management environment, standardized architecture/design deliverables, etc. In a customer facing capacity, served role of Architect on client engagements. Consultant on large enterprise accounts and bootstraped project system architecture. Participated in design/development of systems for: AltaVista, Amazon, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Capital Group, GMAC/Ditech, Buzzsaw.com (Autodesk), Hitachi Data Systems, Visa (Innovant), Ingram-Micro, KB-Toys, Toshiba, Zee Medical, etc. Primary technologies included: J2EE, Weblogic, Websphere, IBM Portal server, JetSpeed/Portlets, Apache, etc.

CodigoSolutions(tm) was a eBuilt, Inc. spin out from eBuilt Inc., eLabs. eBuilt eLabs charter was to productize employee concepts/technology. CodigoSolutions developed CodigoXpress(tm) a technology which captures software design patterns in a meta-object language for purposes of high quality code automation (early OMG MDA implementation). Primarily served in a lead technical capacity driving product technical architecture and supporting customer facing technical sessions. Hands on role, setup booths, demoed technology at: JavaOne, Borland's Conference, and IBM Solutions conferences.

Lead the data collection/system management team consisting of four senior engineers. Responsible for scheduling, design and development of reporting, statistics gathering and system management subsystems in a 500M request/day system environment. Designed and built C/C++ NSAPI (iPlanet Webserver) and Java servlet technology for large scale internet ad delivery. Responsible for development of new translator design for AdForce JavaScript Wizard (automates web page tags).

Leading design and implementation of next generation Mortgage and Video Conferencing systems. Built H.323 (IP telephony)/T.120 Kiosk based system using MS NetMeeting SDK 2.0 with Java/C++/COM/DCOM. This is built using InternetExplorer AcitveX/COM interfaces and NM SDK 2.0 COM interfaces. Signature capture and 3D animation technologies are also exploited. Responsible for scheduling, technology and development. Lead research and development of next generation Mortgage systems for E-commerce and back-office settings. The project is staffed with three engineers including myself.

Design/implemented HTTP Ad server technology, which served 100's of millions requests daily on the Internet. Employed large scale server design with excellent performance and uptime metrics. The server was C++ based using a thread pool design with transient thread capability to handle pool exhaustion. The system was implemented on SGI Challenge S boxes on the Irix 6.2 operating system. Design and implemented system wide application monitoring and management tools using multi-cast for site wide monitoring. Built application monitoring console/agent with hooks into paging/SNMP systems. Design/implemented statistics gathering servers. Implemented on Solaris 2.5 E4000 platform. Built Java Applets used in the online advertising administration application. Ported Marimba Bongo/tuner to Irix 6.x platform. Design and implemented Sybase 11 and IQ (CT-LIB based) database extraction process for online Web reports. Brought key engineering talent to bootstrap engineering department.

Developed multi-tier client/server systems. Staff expert on network and distributed systems programming (TCP/IP, CORBA, RPC, SNMP). Designed/implemented all TCP/IP based sub-systems for HomeAccess (ClearTCP, SMTP, POP3). Design/implemented HomeAccess simple accounting framework (derived from work done by Dr. Ralph Johnson of UIUC). Designed/developed a WWW robot, which visited sites for statistical purposes. I designed/developed a prototype Tcl based rating/underwriting engine for the Allstate project. QDS staff expert on Workflow technology during the Allstate project (attended Workflow 95 conference in Boston). Built CORBA test server. Used Java and CORBA (OrbixWEB)/DCOM to support an internal effort for Java based back-office applications. Technical representative for QDS at Microsoft during technical meetings for Allstate project. Technical representative for Allstate at IBM meetings. Awarded QDS employee of the year award for two consecutive years.

Built large scale WAN based document imaging systems. Worked in a three-man team that designed and developed DITO (Digital Image Take-Off) in less than six months using C++. DITO was one of the largest imaging systems in the world and in 1994 it was awarded the TRW Chairman's award. Developed HPI (High Performance Index) which was part of a 1996 Chairman's Award for image management. Designed/implemented all the TCP/IP sub-systems for DITO. Built a C++ Middleware layer that wrapped C++ objects for streaming on the wire. Designed/built four threaded servers and two threaded clients. Design supported high volume LAN/WAN document imaging. I was also responsible for application development for the Smart Title System. STS is a multi-threaded client application that accesses TRW-REDI 's real estate data on a mainframe host (CICS based).

Computax sells commercial tax processing service/systems. I started at Computax as a Cornell Computer Corp. (Power Group) consultant to port their "RJE Command" product to the LAN environment. After completing my contract, Computax purchased my contract from Cornell Computer Corp to become CCH Computax employee. I redesigned and implemented several key products. During my tenure at Computax I was awarded the 1992 CCH Oakliegh Thorne award for the development of a product called "Tax Research Command." This technology was early hypertext search technology using Qsearch technology to index numerous volumes of tax law information.Ported the Computax "RJE Command" product to the Multiuser/LAN environment.

TV Guide magazine is a publisher of over 100 regional weekly magazines. As a member of the new editorial project, I was responsible for the R&D of TV Guide's next generation editorial systems. The project was directed by (and I reported to) Dr. David Ness of the University of Pa. I spent some time coding in Lisp (TI Scheme) building a prototype expert system to automate the layout of TV Guide's editorial material (the channel listings + advertisements). At the time an aging FORTRAN program (on an old Unisys mainframe) used the "Least-squares" algorithm to attempt the editorial layout. Unfortunately, fifty people made a living cutting and pasting the printouts from the FORTRAN program. I also spent some time developing tools in C to support the generation of TeX for the layout of the national portion of the TV Guide magazine (the shiny outside cover pages). I built a UNIX based system to process the editorial data for BMI (BMI based royalty payments on TV Guide's editorial data).

I started at C-A as a technical support engineer for the Amiga computer. Responsible for supporting Amiga developers (e.g., Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Absoft, NASA, Sandia Labs, Lawrence Livermore, etc). Also responsible for creating and administering all the original Amiga BIX (Byte Information eXchange) conferences. Developed example applications for the development community and wrote articles for the Amiga developer newsletter. Worked with Dr. Timothy King of Cambridge Univ. via his port of Tripos (AmigaOS included a port of BCPL based Tripos). Built the first C based AmigaOS device drivers (handlers). Contributed to the development of SCSI/Memory products and to an early UNIX port to the Amiga platform.