Randy Simon Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

I've played many roles during my time at Fitbit. I joined as an individual contributor but that quickly turned into a technical lead role. In fact, I am currently managing two teams, providing technical leadership across software engineering and still making the occasional individual contributions.- Designed and implemented the Fitbit Microservice framework on top of Finagle. This is the basis for splitting out services from the monolith or for creating new services- Manage and helped build up the App Platform team responsible for core components like the Microservice framework, Kafka, Elasticsearch, User service and Cohort service.- Established and manage a Data Platform team responsible for extracting data from production sources and making it available for processing using tools like Spark and Hive.- Helped build and lead an Architecture Review Group responsible for aiding teams in designs of new features and components.- Scaling and Resilience Group technical advisor responsible for analyzing the overall system to ensure it is resilient to failures and will scale to meet our needs. This group is especially instrumental leading up to the holidays to ensure we are ready for large usage increases.- General technical and people lead working with engineers, product and leadership across the company. This includes contributions from advising engineers on technical and career development matters to company-wide roadmap planning.

Mountain View, California

Most of my career at Google was spent as the Technical Lead for the TV Search and Discovery backend. We provide search and recommendation services for products like Google Now, Chromecast, Google TV, Android TV, Google Fiber and others. We also extract and provide data to power some of the TV and Movie related google.com features. In July 2014, my role was extended to take on management responsibilities for the team in addition to technical leadership.

Score Out is a company my friend and I started that I work on in my spare time. The original idea was to provide a real-time golf yardage guide for your cell phone using GPS called the Score Out Caddie. The initial application was written in J2ME and required the user to use a bluetooth GPS device that the Caddie could poll for location data. This all predated smartphones with GPS and "app stores" so we were never really able to gain much traction.However, once GPS and mobile applications became common place we decided to port the Caddie to the Android platform. We are currently working on an iPhone version. In addition, we released our open source library (http://www.j4me.org/). There is a lot more I would love to do with this project if I could find the time.Technologies include Java (J2EE and J2ME), Spring, MySQL, Hibernate, Objective C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, PHP, Joomla.

Designed and implemented various developer tools to allow customers to manage and react to changes to their content. This includes a remote REST style API to the Episodic Platform for performing basic CRUD operations. In addition there is callback infrastructure that allows the customer to keep data in sync with their system without having to poll Episodic. Also, a player API for working with the player through ActionScript or JavaScript. Developed an ad management system that allows users to associate ads with their content. This includes the data model, the web UI as well as the player integration with the third party SWFs. Users can apply ads served from our ad server as well as ads served from a third party ad network all through the web UI.Led the initial implementation of the current web UI. This includes complex JavaScript/HTML/CSS for editing episode timelines, campaign management and many other parts of the current UI.Developed a system for syndicating content using TubeMogul APIs. The system allows users to schedule when content is sent to TubeMogul, apply custom clips and get data about their syndicated content. Participated in a wide variety of other projects, including iPhone applications, publishing reconciliation, integration with the Solr enterprise search platform, corporate website, customer demo sites and customer deployments.Technologies include Ruby (and Rails), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Objective C, EC2/SQS and ActionScript.

Technical leader of a team working on a new product for building situational applications through reusable and customizable templates and components. This is a web based Java application that helps participants create simple Web pages, blogs, and wikis, as well as more powerful data-driven Web applications. Technologies include Java, Spring, JSP, JSF, Facelets, EJB 3.0 JPA, AspectJ, Lucene/Compass, Jackrabbit, AJAX/JavaScript, MSSQL Server, Oracle, Derby.

Designed and implemented major new features for the Java-based Content Management System and Publishing application as well as maintained existing features. Designed and implemented, as the lead developer, initial version of a Web Application using JSF built on top of the Fuego Process Engine and exposed through Plumtree’s portal product.Technologies include Java, Spring, JSF, JSP, JavaScript, MSSQL Server, Oracle DB, HTML/CSS.

Participated in the analysis, design, development, and support for Anuvio’s Online Storage Application.Developed Win32 client applications using COM and C++ that interacted with the Storage Application over HTTP.Technologies include Java, C++, JavaScript, HTML/CSS.