Robert Berger

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Software / Cloud Architect || DevOps || AWS Community Builder @ Informed.IQ
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Saratoga, California, United States, United States
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About Robert Berger

Founder / CTO / System Architect for Several Start-ups______________________________________________________________· Knowledge and experiences span all layers of the "Full Stack", from hardware, firmware, networking, software, systems, devops, marketing, management, starting and running companies· Architect and hands-on experience with Cloud/AWS, ML, DevOps, Video Streaming/WebRTC, GraphQL, Serverless, Webapps, Clojure[script], E-commerce, Payments· Founded multiple startups in the SaaS, Internet infrastructure and equipment industriesIntegrates working knowledge of business issues, market needs and technological trends to create business opportunities, innovative products and services· Created and Managed several engineering organizations. Lead several design and development projects with focuses on Live Video Streaming/WebRTC, E-Commerce, Payments, Serverless Cloud backends, DevOps, Functional Programming, UI/UX Frontend, networking, machine learning and system / network / hardware integration· Well known as an innovative expert in Devops, Clojure[script], Internet infrastructure, Wireless and Open Source Software· Organizer / Instructor / Speaker at many International Internet / Computer conferences, seminars, tutorials and workshops· Author of articles for various industry magazines and journals· Extensive customer relations experience, product evangelism, market feedback and customer success

Robert Berger's Current Company Details
Informed.IQ

Informed.Iq

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Software / Cloud Architect || DevOps || AWS Community Builder
Robert Berger Work Experience Details
  • Informed.Iq
    Chief Architect & Head Of Platform Team
    Informed.Iq Feb 2022 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Informed.IQ is a Machine Learning B2B2C SaaS that automates verifications of consumer credit applications in real-time for an ecosystem of Lenders and their clients - "Turns Documents and Data into Decisions".- Facilitate the evolution of the next generation MLOps Serverless architecture
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  • Internet Bandwidth Development, Llc
    Owner / Principal
    Internet Bandwidth Development, Llc Oct 1996 - Present
    Consulting firm to assist start-ups, venture capital firms and enterprises, to understand, develop and utilize Internet technology / infrastructure and Open Source. Previous onsulting and advisory positions have include Informed.IQ, ExperienceFLow, Intel, Visa, Ascend, Cisco, IDG World Expo, NEA, Athena Tech Ventures, iAsiaWorks, Ipsilon, Firstpoint Communications, Stardust Forums, iPass, Conxion, Sentient, OKI, Kiwi Networks, and AsiaQuest, PepLink (Muni-wireless CPE), Wavion (smart antennas), Camp Ventures, Covad, LinuxWorld , CTO Forum, Interop, Class Data Systems, Alteon, AboveNet, Privada (Confidential Net Access), Xspeed (DSL CPE), Cosine Communications, Qala Communications (Singapore DSL CLEC), Reactive Networks (Anti-DDOS equipment), Vpacket (VoIP IAD), COM21, BizFinity (Web based accounting service), Proxinet (Enable Cell Phones and PDA to better access web content), Jetstream (VoIP DSL), Rainmaker Tech (Wavelet PHY layer), Pulsent (Video delivery), Sandpiper / Digital Island and others.
  • Netenrich, Inc.
    Advisor
    Netenrich, Inc. Nov 2004 - Present
    San Jose, California, Us
    Netenrich offers IT infrastructure management and optimization services including end-to-end NOC based management framework that enables complete remote visibility and management of a multi site infrastructure from core network components to desktops. They have developed a set of hardware, software and remote services that enable afordable and secure access & compliance for IT infrastructure monitoring and management.These services include:* IT Infrastructure Remote Monitoring Management and Alerting* Remote DBA* Desktops & Laptops Management* IT Infrastructure Optimization* Application Maintenance, Application Tone, IT Production Support and Sustenance Engineering* Outsourcing of Technical Support Partnering Services for Mission-Critical IT Productshttp://www.netenrich.com/Contributions include product architecture, experience with ISP infrastructure, Devops, and remote management as well as supporting their sales and funding efforts.
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  • Omnyway, Inc.
    Cto / Svp Engineering / Co-Founder
    Omnyway, Inc. Feb 2016 - Feb 2022
    San Mateo, California, Us
    Omnyway offers a Live Streaming Commerce platform (https://www.visx.live) that allows retailers to create one to many sales events and one to one live VIP sales consultations. The big difference is that VISX enables the shopper to buy the products being shown without leaving the live video stream. It also enables the retailer to fulfill from their physical stores or e-commerce sites. Oversaw all aspects of OmnyPay's engineering effort. Architect the long term system design and implementation. Build and manage the engineering team both in the US and off-shore. Architected various software and cloud deployments. Directed AWS Cloud, Serverless infrastructure, Continuous Integration, a variety of payment systems, e-commerce fulfillment, analytics, etc. Hands on experience with the implementation of Live Streaming using webRTC, AWS IVS, AWS Chime and other technologies. UX/UI design and implementation with Clojurscript, Reagent, Re-Frame and React.
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  • Mist Systems
    Cloud Architect
    Mist Systems Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
    Cupertino, Ca, Us
    Investigated, defined, designed the overall cloud infrastructure for real time acquisition, machine learning and monitoring of network devices and services. Created and implemented the DevOps process centered around Continuous Integration and automated deployment. The Kafka and Storm Microservices stack was deployed and maintained using Chef Provisioning on AWS. Defined and implemented a 2nd generation deployment scheme based on CircleCI, Mesos, Docker, Storm and custom stream processing services written in Clojure, Python and Go.
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  • Opscale, Llc
    Principal
    Opscale, Llc Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
    Consulting / Training Service in the realms of DevOps, Big Data / Cloud / Internet Infrastructure.Focus includes:* DevOps Process Development and Integration* Continuous Delivery Pipelines* Cloud / On Premise Migrations* Monitoring / Metrics / Alerting* Hadoop Ecosystem* Configuration Management and Orchestration
  • Athena Tech Academy
    Principal Instructor / Cto / Co-Founder
    Athena Tech Academy Feb 2014 - Aug 2014
    Co-founder and CTO of Stealth Startup to train sysadmins, ops and devs in the realms of Big Data and Hadoop.
  • Runa Inc
    Cto / Co-Founder
    Runa Inc Dec 2007 - Sep 2013
    Mountain View, Ca, Us
    SaaS for online merchants that increases conversion of Website shoppers to buyers and dramatically increasing profit for the merchants. Runa delivers personalized Dynamic Promotions for each product to each shopper on the merchant’s site to close the sale and thus increase online revenues. The Promotion is optimized based on the consumer’s behavior and context, along with real-time analytics and business rules set by the merchants.Built and led the initial engineering team. Architected the horizontaly scalable Runa stack of Hadoop/HBase, RabbitMQ, Clojure Runtime, Redis, and other components on the AWS Cloud. Oversees the infrastructure and automated deployment, monitoring and management using Opscode Chef, Ironfan, Graphite, and Sensu. Implemented the Runa Merchant Integration for PHP, Mivascript, Magento and several custom deployments.
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  • Panorama Capital
    Technical Advisory Board Member
    Panorama Capital Feb 2005 - Dec 2011
    Panorama Capital invests in early and mid-stage Internet, Networking, Biotech startups. http://www.panoramacapital.com/As a member of their Technical Advisory Board I introduce opportunities, offer due diligence services and help to refine key investment themes, assess technical, product and market risks in new deals, and provide post-investment input.
  • Support Intelligence, Llc
    Advisor
    Support Intelligence, Llc Apr 2005 - Dec 2010
    Support-Intelligence "data mines" Internet Infrastructure and huge volumes of SPAM from various sources to discover compromised hosts and other normally anonymous threats on the Internet.The company was founded on the premise that malicious network activity can best be controlled by applying modern machine learning algorithms to large volumes of aggregated traffic data.http://www.support-intelligence.com/I am helping them with funding, market focus, partnering and technology.
  • Cloudscaling
    Advisor & Developer
    Cloudscaling Dec 2006 - 2010
    Cloudscaling is the leading provider of open cloud infrastructure solutions for cloud-ready applications. The Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) is the first infrastructure-as-a-service solution designed to deliver the cost, performance and scalability benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for public and private clouds. Based on the industry-supported OpenStack open source project, the Cloudscaling OCS delivers a production-grade solution for open cloud infrastructure. Cloudscaling has more production OpenStack software experience than any other company, including successful deployments with customers such as KT (formerly Korea Telecom) and Internap. The Cloudscaling team are industry veterans who have designed and deployed large-scale cloud infrastructure for industry pioneers such as AWS, GoGrid, RightScale and eBay. Founded in 2006, Cloudscaling is headquartered in San Francisco.My work included helping with fund raising, architecture and early development with Ruby, AWS and Chef
  • Wefi
    Advisor
    Wefi Sep 2005 - 2010
    Los Angeles, Ca, Us
    Member of the Board of Advisors for WeFi which is a Startup in the WiFi / Social Networking space.I help them with market positioning and technical issues. Also have done some technical prototyping (using RubyCocoa) and testing with their Macintosh client.
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  • Grid Networks
    Advisor
    Grid Networks Aug 2005 - 2009
    "The GridNetworks GridCast™ Platform enables content owners to securely stream full-screen, DVD-quality video across the Internet to millions of broadband connected viewers worldwide...The GridCast Platform is a complete video delivery solution that combines centralized command-and-control with automated video encoding, sophisticated video syndication capabilities, extensive analysis and reporting capabilities and the industry’s toughest security architecture. The result is an end-to-end video publishing system that provides precise control over every aspect of the preparation, management, delivery and presentation of premium movies and videos."http://www.gridnetworks.comAs an advisor, I help with funding introductions, technology and partners.
  • Zipdx
    Consultant
    Zipdx Mar 2007 - Apr 2008
    Startup in early beta mode developing innovative teleconferencing service.My work includes software design and development using both standalone Ruby and Ruby on Rails for email, calendar processing with RESTful interfaces. Main work now is on a real-time Ruby on Rails / Ext.js AJAX / Javascript dashboard for the conference calls.Also includes consulting on infrastructure design and deployment using Linux, virtual machines, VoIP, networking, Sun servers among other things.
  • Boorah.Com
    Advisor
    Boorah.Com Nov 2005 - Nov 2007
    Boorah had developed "a patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology to generate quantitative scores for domain specific attributes from plain English text, automatic summary from most relevant user sentiments and enables a highly customizable search based on personal preferences."For their initial domain that exploits their technology, they have chosen Restaurant Reviews. They have a revenue producing website, http://www.boorah.com.As an advisor I help with deployment technology issues, funding and partners.
  • Skypilot Networks, Inc.
    Consultant
    Skypilot Networks, Inc. 2005 - Feb 2007
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Initially researched the market for Muni-wireless size and requirements. Defined, architected and project managed the creation of the product (using the core products that Skypilot already made) that allowed SkyPilot to move from a pure WISP vendor to a leading Muni-Wireless equipment vendor.Worked with internal engineering / manufacturing and China based outsource software development / component manufacturing, and early SkyPilot customers to produce, test and release the product. Based on the results of the product acceptance, SkyPilot shifted its business plan to be primarily muni-wireless oriented.Developed a muni-wireless coverage and performance test tool prototype using Linux, Ruby, QtRuby and Google Earth.
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  • Teltel
    Consultant
    Teltel 2007 - 2007
    Us
    Introduced the use of Ruby and Rails for their online service
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  • Apricot: Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference On Operational Technologies
    Program Chair
    Apricot: Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference On Operational Technologies Mar 1998 - Mar 2006
    Program Chair facilitating the organization of the Technical Program for the APRICOT conferences throughout the Asia Pacific Region.In the early days this included writing the conference registration system. Later managing the outsourcing and design of the conference registration and speaker management.The main work was finding appropriate speakers and tutorial instructors. Assembling the program and making sure everyone showed up.
  • Metrofi, Inc.
    Vice President Of Network Engineering
    Metrofi, Inc. May 2003 - Aug 2004
    Us
    Last Mile wireless service provider that leverages "mesh" 802.11 technology.Developed the network architecture (metro, regional and Internet) which integrated the wireless mesh network into the MetroFi Backbone and interconnects with ISP partners and Internet upstream / peers. Defined, selected equipment, deployed and managed the pilot network. Defined, led the deployment and managed the tech trial network infrastructure which formed the basis of the production network architecture. Evaluated and help select wireless mesh, end-user wireless CPE and backbone network products and services. Developed and deployed acceptance and test procedures for wireless mesh equipment. Domain Expert for the Software Engineering Group to define requirements and review implementations of provisioning, network management and other OSS systems. Worked with Operations Group to define and deploy Network Operations Center and Network Management System.
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  • Center For Global Communication (Glocom) Tokyo, Japan
    Visiting Research Fellow
    Center For Global Communication (Glocom) Tokyo, Japan Nov 2002 - Apr 2003
    Led a research project on Open Spectrum wireless public networking. Included reports to Glocom’s clients such as NTT Communications and Tokyo Electric Power Company. Research areas included the technological and policy issues of Ultra-wideband, Wideband Spread Spectrum, Cognitive Software Defined Radios. Responsibilities included researching and reporting on changes in FCC spectrum policy, explaining the technology issues and communicating this to a variety of audiences on paper, in person and in public symposiums. Worked with GLOCOM clients and others to develop strategies to promote Open Spectrum technologies and policies.
  • Ultradevices
    Ceo / Co-Founder
    Ultradevices Aug 1999 - Jul 2002
    Early stage start-up for carrier class broadband wireless networking equipment and gateways for next generation broadband wireless carriers/ISPs. Included the matching residential/SOHO gateway devices all leveraging 802.11 technology. The focus was on innovative software making 802.11 suitable for mesh networking and ease of deployment for service providers. The gateway and infrastructure devices were built leveraging Open Standards and Open Software to allow for high functionality and low cost. We were able to develop working prototypes of the mesh nodes, but had to shutdown due to lack of funding to move into production (2001 - 2002 was not a good time for startups). Personal Contributions: •Strategic business, product and technical planning and development •Fund raising and business development (presented to scores of VCs) •Team building and technical leadership •Open source software development for embedded systems
  • Covad Communications
    Advisor
    Covad Communications 1998 - 2000
    Us
    Member of the Board of Advisors
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  • Abovenet
    Member Of Board Of Advisors
    Abovenet 1997 - 2000
    White Plains, Ny, Us
    Used my experience building InterNex to help AboveNet expand into different services
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  • Alteon Websystems
    Advisor
    Alteon Websystems 1996 - 1999
    Helped them understand the Internet Service Provider's requirements for delivering scalable Hosting services.
  • Ascend Communications
    Consultant
    Ascend Communications 1996 - 1999
    Was the first ISP to use Ascend products for delivering High Speed Internet via ISDN to businesses and consumers.Later toured the world giving presentations and lectures on deploying state of the art High Speed Internet Services.
  • Internex Information Services, Inc
    Founder, Board Member, Ceo, Cto Vp Of Engineering
    Internex Information Services, Inc Aug 1993 - Mar 1998
    Founded company to offer innovative business-to-business information services on the Internet. Originally One-Stop-Shopping for Internet access via ISDN (first to offer commercial Internet access via ISDN in the US). Supplied seed funding. Created business plan. Assembled and led start-up management team, fund raising and mergers. Company was sold to Concentric Networks early 1998. Original President / CEO and then VP of Engineering / CTO after merger, Member of the Board througout. Built and managed the Engineering, Tech Support, Network Operations teams. Set strategic and technical course for the company. Researched and initiated partnerships and potential merger candidates to enlarge business from regional to international. Designed next generation distributed ServerFarms suitable for broadcasting audio & video as well as super high volume “fat” content, including the first International collocation hosting service that included clients such as Real Networks and Adobe.
  • Uranix Multimedia Productions
    Consulting & Biz Dev
    Uranix Multimedia Productions Nov 1992 - Aug 1993
    • Investigated technological issues and market outlook for starting an Internet business. Created business plans and financial models. Worked with Pacific Bell ISDN Lab to test and demonstrate Internet access via ISDN. Consulted with various hardware manufactures to help them insure that their ISDN hardware was compatible with Internet access.• Produced video report on the capabilities of integrated Macintosh/Adobe Premier Video editing system for Sony Professional Video Group.
  • Sony Advanced Video Technology
    Architect & Software Manager
    Sony Advanced Video Technology Jun 1990 - Dec 1992
    Tokyo, Jp
    Developed the Software Architecture for a next generation professional video production environment that integrated video editing, special effects and production materials management. •Instituted and managed the software development effort (6+ team members) of a prototype and initial productization of the integrated video production environment. •Led the User Interface Design effort for the productization phase. •Evaluated and selected workstation platforms, OO development environments, OO GUI tools, real-time OS and embedded systems for use in developing the video production environment. (NeXTStep) •Defined requirements and oversaw the administration of the internal Unix / Macintosh / PC network at AVTC. •Established standards for object oriented system development at AVTC and worked with Sony world wide engineering to establish new software development practices.
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  • Digital F/X
    Software Engineering Manager
    Digital F/X Aug 1989 - Jun 1990
    Managed the Composium Family software team. The Composium product integrates real-time Digital Compositing of 4 layers using alpha or luma keying, real-time Digital Video Effects, 32 bit color paint, machine control of up to 6 VTRs and video typography in one video workstation with 4:4:4:4 digital video processing throughout. •Facilitated the transition from engineering development into shipping the product. •Brought a higher level of stability and predictability to the software process including the introduction of project planning, scheduling and software release procedures. •Met extensively with existing and potential customers in the video post production industry (owners, artists and editors) to gain insight into customer needs and to clarify short and long term product direction.
  • Datacube, Inc.
    Director Of Software Engineering
    Datacube, Inc. Feb 1981 - Jul 1989
    Was the intial Software person at Datacube and built the Software Engineering group there. Defined the architecture of several generations of Datacube's software and system level products. Built the software group from myself to a team of 20 people.Pioneered many techniques of integrating real-time image processing into early Sun Workstations and embedded systems.
  • Utopia Video Studio
    Computer Graphics Consultant
    Utopia Video Studio Apr 1980 - Nov 1981
    Designed and implemented (software in C under RT-11 and hardware integration of DEC LSI-11/23 and IKONAS Framebuffer) broadcast quality interactive electronic paint system for the rock music producer Todd Rundgren’s video production environment. Used for early Music Video Productions.
  • Deanza Systems (Gould Imaging)
    Engineering Assistant
    Deanza Systems (Gould Imaging) Sep 1978 - Nov 1979
    Supported the design and implementation of an LSI-11 based image processing workstation. Trouble shooting of Q-Bus and image processing hardware.
  • New England Clamshel Alliance
    Fund Raiser / Concert Promoter
    New England Clamshel Alliance Apr 1978 - Aug 1978
    Full time fund raising for environmental group. Conceived, coordinated and organized very large (20,000+ people) concert / demonstration events with performers including Jackson Brown, Pete Seeger, John Hall and Arlo Guthrie. These demonstrations were the inspiration for the even larger political concerts of the 80’s.
  • Control Data Corp / Microbit
    Engineering Assistant
    Control Data Corp / Microbit Nov 1976 - Apr 1978
    Designed and built mechanical and electrical prototypes as part of an Electron Beam Accessed Memory System (EBAM). A system to act as a “swap memory” for mainframe computers.

Robert Berger Skills

Visionary E Commerce Software Design Distributed Systems Strategic Partnerships Amazon Web Services Rest C Infrastructure Ruby Open Source Web Applications Thought Leadership Networking Start Ups Technical Leadership Telecommunications Agile Methodologies Internet Entrepreneur Devops Strategy Hadoop Java Entrepreneurship Program Management Web Services Big Data Scalability Ruby On Rails Python Saas Software Development Wireless Unix Mobile Devices Cloud Computing Architecture Integration Mysql System Architecture

Robert Berger Education Details

  • Antioch College
    Antioch College
    Mass Communications
  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Lisp And Robotics Iap Program

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