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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

- Implemented and standardized Datadog observability tagging system across projects, enabling comprehensive system visibility and reducing incident response time- Streamlined the new service creation process by leveraging cookiecutter templates, leading to a reduction in errors and improving overall service quality- Led the initiative to introduce JSON.

Santa Monica, US

- Streamlined and standardized observability tagging across microservices, ensuring accurate monitoring and analysis of system performance metrics, leading to a reduction in incident response time.- Enhanced the Playwright test framework by creating a Typescript plugin for Datadog APM integration; streamlined performance monitoring, resulting in a.

Orange County, CA, US

- Engineered a cutting-edge developer platform using GitOps methodologies, enabling seamless collaboration and version control for a cross-functional team of 50+ developers, resulting in a increase in overall development efficiency.- Architected and orchestrated the successful migration of workload from Rancher Cattle to Kubernetes, resulting in an.

Orange County, CA, US

- Implemented robust CI/CD pipelines utilizing CircleCI, automating build, test, and deployment processes, which led to a reduction in release cycle times and ensured consistent, error-free software delivery.- Integrated Datadog APM libraries into our application stack, enabling real-time monitoring and in-depth performance analysis, resulting in a.

Orange County, CA, US

- Revamped and optimized Terraform mono repository structure, implementing best practices and modularization techniques, resulting in a reduction in plan and apply times, streamlining development workflows, and significantly increasing team productivity.

San Diego, CA, US

- Optimized development workflow by leveraging Vagrant, Chef, and Packer to automate provisioning of dev environments, resulting in a reduction in environment setup time and increased productivity of the development team.- Engineered the automation of AWS environment infrastructure, incorporating Terraform, Packer, and Chef, leading to increased deployment.

Dallas, Texas, US

• As Director of Engineering, I provided architecture guidance and direction to the engineering team. The team included full stack engineers, mobile developers, and test automation engineers. I am also a hands on.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Deployment system, to facilitate quicker releases. The team was initially doing a release every 2-3 weeks. After CI/CD we were doing multiple releases in a day.
• Leveraged Chef heavily to automate and document the entire infrastructure. We were also able to create a CI/CD environment around the infrastructure code. This workflow leveraged Chef, Berkshelf, Test Kitchen, and.
• Developed and released Angular/Elasticsearch based content filtering tool, that allowed coach's to do keyword searches on content.

• Architected and implemented realtime datapipeline feed for analytics. The system was built on PHP, RabbitMQ, and MySQL. Pentaho Community Edition was used as the frontend reporting tool. Dashboard and daily reports.
• Built Mondrian OLAP cubes to provide multi-dimensional analysis using Saiku as a frontend.
• Developed Chef Cookbooks to configure and deploy entire analytics system. The cookbooks were written using Berkshelf, Test Kitchen, and Vagrant. They also heavily levereged community cookbooks.
• Developed Chef Cookbooks to configure and deploye ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack for the centralized logging infrastructure. Statsd and graphite were later added to provide application level metrics.

• Lead the existing distributed applications engineering team. Provide day-to-day feedback and guidance concerning development and design techniques. Guide and mentor employees and offer guidance about tactical decision.
• Evaluated new technologies, specifications, and trends. Considered their applicability in relation to Napster's strategic goals.
• Served as a consultant/expert for all backend development. Specifically, application architecture and design best practices.
• Participated in IT due diligence phase during Best Buy acquisition of Napster.
• Served as Scrum Facilitator for Content & Programming Tools team. Facilitated product planning, sprint planning, and daily standup meetings.
• Architected and developed an artist recommendation system. The system leveraged Hadoop’s Map/Reduce framework as well as Amazon’s AWS infrastructure. Logs were uploaded on a daily basis to S3, and mapreduce jobs were.

Software developer for web applications group.

US

• Administered and maintained Informatica Power Analyzer reporting tool.
• Developed Informatica Power Center mappings for Production Data Mart to extract data from the Loan Origination System.
• Maintained Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP cubes, and ProClarity briefing books for loan warehouse line inventory management.

US

• Maintained and Developed Perl ETL processes for Oracle Data Warehouse
• Developed scripts to help manage and maintain the Data Warehouse.
• Developed Perl extract and load scripts for external client datamart on MS SQL Server.
• Developed OLAP Cubes, to analyze customer behavior and demographics
• Developed SQL Server DTS packages to load datamart, and build OLAP cubes.
• Published MS OLAP cubes through Cognos Upfront web reporting tool.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Worked with property producers to develop reports to measure effectiveness of different properties on GeoCities and Yahoo! Inc.
• Created reports using Informix and Microstrategy DSS OLAP tool.
• Developed skills in Perl and shell scripting to create automated reports.
• Worked with large data files to determine user behavior across the site.
• Created Web based reports using ASP as the front end and an Oracle Database as the backend.
• Worked extensively in a Unix environment.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

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