I am a part-time instructor, occasionally teaching programming to beginners who have no background in programming (CS49 - Foundations of Computer Programming) and promoting Open Source to students (CS80A - Open Source Contribution)

Business and Technical Leadership: I lead multiple teams within the VMware Platform Services, focusing on distributed systems supporting multi-cloud and multi-seller commerce experiences. This includes both SaaS and on-premise solutions, enabling new revenue streams. Since my tenure, transaction volume increased 100x to $xB. Team Oversight and Mentorship: I provide technical oversight to a globally distributed engineering team, influencing over 40 directly and more than 200 indirectly. I successfully established four new productive teams at VMware sites worldwide. I conduct regular one-on-one meetings with team leads globally and am always available to advise and mentor any engineer who reaches out.End-to-End Software Delivery: I create new technical designs and work with other parts of the organization on technology strategy. I contribute code, review technical design, conduct code reviews. I am involved in planning and end-to-end software delivery processes including timelines. I am also part of the on-call pager duty rotation. Tech stack is Java, Postgres, Kubernetes and some AWS services. Deployments in AWS and VMware private cloudExecutive and Cross-functional Collaboration: I regularly engage in technical communications and discussions with executive leadership team/VPs regarding platform initiatives and monthly service reviews. I collaborate with architects from various teams and business units to drive new initiatives, set technology directions, and improve service level objectives (SLOs).Partnerships and External Collaborations: I work closely with VMware partner companies on integrations and ongoing collaborative product development. Industry Contributions: I serve as a committee member, panelist, and judge for various internal cross-company technical forums, initiatives, and conferences, contributing to the broader engineering community within VMware.

I am a part-time instructor, occasionally teaching a class on creating full-stack enterprise Java applications. Teaching Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Microservices, AngularJS.

I was the Kohl’s Pay leader and also managed the backend ecommerce services and payments for the consumer and enterprise mobile applications for Kohl's. One important accomplishment was the successful launch of Kohl’s Pay giving millions of Kohl’s consumers a new way to pay. I lead the overall design/architecture, end to end integration, delivery and production support. As part microservices transformation, I wrote the first Spring Boot Microservice and took it from prototype to production on the Google Cloud Platform (Kubernetes/Java).

I led the Development and QA organizations on overall design and architecture of online payment systems and worked with Product Management and Ops on the roadmap and delivery. I was hired after a partial sale of the prior company. I brought the engineering team together and delivered a new version of the Pay+ product. I managed 15+ onsite, off-shore (Shanghai) and remote engineers on two scrum teams. Recruiting and talent management were a big part of my responsibilities and it also included vendor management, managing RFPs and proposals and contractors. I was also part of 24x7 escalations for Production support. Using Java, Spring, MySQL, Hibernate, test automation, REST.

As a backend server engineer for Intuit Online Payroll the main project I completed was integrating the payroll systems with QuickBooks Online (using REST, Java, MS-SQL and JMS).

In the Maxis studio I worked on the Sims 4 game as a server engineer for payment systems integration and in-game commerce (C# and C++). In the Bioware studio I worked on an unannounced game enabling e-commerce for a cross platform mobile game (iOS, Android, Facebook). Using Java, Spring, JAX-RS, Tomcat, Couchbase NoSQL server application stack. Amazon S3 API integration.

As the team lead/scrum master, I lead 20+ engineers on two scrum teams (onsite, offsite and offshore contractors) to consistently deliver timely and high quality releases. In additional to technical oversight I managed multiple incoming requests and constantly changing priorities while setting expectations and providing estimates to various stakeholders. Vendor management, SOWs and managing contractors also took some time. PCI and other compliance for payment systems and working with finance/audit teams. I also worked on college recruiting efforts, mentoring interns and hiring talented engineers to build effective teams by encouraging feedback and iterative process refinement. Using Hansoft and JIRA for project management. Java, Spring, OSGi, Oracle stack. Production support and escalations for 24x7 Live service.

I was hired through the college recruiting program at EA and started at Pogo working on backend Java services and integrated PayPal payments and the Vertex tax engine. Later I was part of a new online group called Nucleus providing the central identity and e-commerce services for all EA titles. I designed and built REST web-services for cross platform/device integration (Xbox, Playstation, PC, Mobile, Web etc). Scalabilty, performance and reliability for over 200million EA accounts was a core goal. I worked on various payments, pre-paid cards, finance systems, BI, micro-transactions, subscriptions and tax integrations. Using Java, OSGi, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, XML, JSON, Message bus integration (Tibco JMS). On call production support (24x7 live service) and continuous integration on Hudson/Jenkins.

As a part-time student employee at the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning, I did research, design and implementation of an online course evaluation system used by VT students. I also did an experimental implementation using Mobile Devices (see publications). Deployed on Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) application stack.

During Spring and Summer I worked on applications development and testing under the E-Business Group and created queries/reports for internal tools for sales and marketing teams. Using MS SQL Server, Access, VB Script.