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Austin, Texas, United States

Principal consultant specializing in data-driven products, cloud deployments, and agile leadership. Led consulting teams across multiple projects:• Rearchitected a critical event tracking pipeline for client. Advised client through alternative architectures and solutions. Previous pipeline had significant delays in producing actionable data. Replaced with a low latency, high throughput, and highly available system built on managed AWS components (Cloudfront, Kinesis, DynamoDb, Lambda… Show more Principal consultant specializing in data-driven products, cloud deployments, and agile leadership. Led consulting teams across multiple projects:• Rearchitected a critical event tracking pipeline for client. Advised client through alternative architectures and solutions. Previous pipeline had significant delays in producing actionable data. Replaced with a low latency, high throughput, and highly available system built on managed AWS components (Cloudfront, Kinesis, DynamoDb, Lambda, etc). Reduced time to market by 2-3 months through engagement thus bringing an at-risk project back on time.• Built MVP to test the efficacy of using Facebook as an ad platform for client. Automatically generated creatives and audiences at scale using account information known by client. Analyzed AB test data from Facebook and internal reporting in order to determine lift in cost per action (CPA) and other key metrics. Used managed AWS services (Fargate, Cloudmap, Lambda, etc), Python, Kotlin, etc. Show less

Austin, Texas, United States

Led engineering team through company’s successful pivot from advertising into 1:1 level, cross-channel content personalization for large brands. Responsible for all engineering processes, quality, monitoring, security, cost management, and hiring practices. Reported to CEO.• Led team through defect-free launch of email personalization product. Went from idea to active customers within 3 months.• Re-platformed data analytics product from Redshift & Elasticsearch to Snowflake &… Show more Led engineering team through company’s successful pivot from advertising into 1:1 level, cross-channel content personalization for large brands. Responsible for all engineering processes, quality, monitoring, security, cost management, and hiring practices. Reported to CEO.• Led team through defect-free launch of email personalization product. Went from idea to active customers within 3 months.• Re-platformed data analytics product from Redshift & Elasticsearch to Snowflake & Druid. This migration ended up being cost-neutral and allowed us to query and retain 4x more data. Allowed our CSMs to provide customers with increased insights.• Implemented engineering processes (pair programming rotations, post-mortems, architectural decision records, feature flagging, etc) that transformed a highly siloed culture into a highly collaborative, pragmatic, blame-free, and innovative engineering culture.• Team achieved 99.99% annual uptime serving 152MM page views per month with 200ms E2E latency.• Worked with product lead to address and achieve GDPR readiness.• Managed 6-8 direct reports, and happy to say that the team was about 30% female. Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Helped build out OneSpot's real-time bidding (RTB) engine and predictive analytics pipeline in support of their content sequencing and personalization platform. • Technical lead for the campaign pacing and accounting systems. Systems were able to meet the desired goals of evenly distributing spend over time with a target margin.• Technical lead for adding Facebook as an ad distribution channel.• Built Apache Spark collaborative-filtering pipeline to analyze on-site and… Show more Helped build out OneSpot's real-time bidding (RTB) engine and predictive analytics pipeline in support of their content sequencing and personalization platform. • Technical lead for the campaign pacing and accounting systems. Systems were able to meet the desired goals of evenly distributing spend over time with a target margin.• Technical lead for adding Facebook as an ad distribution channel.• Built Apache Spark collaborative-filtering pipeline to analyze on-site and off-site user history in order to personalize content delivered on the ad channels.Technical Skills: Java, Groovy, Apache Spark, AWS, Amazon EC2, Aerospike, Ratpack, RxJava, Google Guice, Guava, Spock, Gradle, Ansible, MySQL, Git, TeamCity Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Enhanced, supported, and optimized our product (a web application supporting capacity planning and current state reporting of heterogenous virtual machine clusters) through eight releases.• Designed, implemented, and optimized the application's domain model (entities and repositories).• Initiated and advised effort to create an automated end-to-end testing infrastructure.• Promoted adoption of Groovy for testing, Gradle, Guava, and Guice.• Championed the team's continuous… Show more Enhanced, supported, and optimized our product (a web application supporting capacity planning and current state reporting of heterogenous virtual machine clusters) through eight releases.• Designed, implemented, and optimized the application's domain model (entities and repositories).• Initiated and advised effort to create an automated end-to-end testing infrastructure.• Promoted adoption of Groovy for testing, Gradle, Guava, and Guice.• Championed the team's continuous delivery efforts.Technical Skills: Java, Groovy, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Guava, Google Guice, Spring, Jersey/REST, OData, MyBatis, Oracle, JUnit, Selenium, Mockito, Spock, Geb, Gradle, Ant, Ivy, Jenkins, Puppet, Vagrant, Mercurial, Rally, YourKit, Sonar, VMWare, Agile, Scrum Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Startup's first employee.• Built a social media analytics platform that collected, analyzed, and reported KPIs from social media data streams using HBase and Hadoop map/reduce.• Developed a document revisioning platform for structured documentsTechnical Skills: Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, H2, Tapestry, Hadoop, HBase, Cascading, Map/Reduce, Terracotta, JavaScript, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, JMS, Apache Camel, Maven, TestNG, EasyMock, Selenium

Austin, Texas Area

• Took lead role in developing a new web administration console for the CUAE platform using Tapestry and Etch.• Designed Apache Etch based distributed RPC services for logging alarms and events.• Developed an internal Rails application in support of our team's Agile/SCRUM workflowTechnical Skills: Java, C#, Ruby, JDBC, Tapestry, OSGi, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Derby, Apache Etch, JavaScript, YUI, Prototype, Maven, TestNG, EasyMock, Selenium, Agile, Scrum

Asheville, North Carolina Area

• Designed and migrated key commercial desktop applications into Java servlets.• Developed an analytics dashboard for reporting key queueing and wait time metrics.• Developed an XML/XSLT template driven website generator in C# for deploying localized websites.• Developed a windows service for generation of dynamic reports and charts.Technical Skills: Java, C#, JDBC, Tapestry, JSF, Facelets, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, JUnit, Delphi

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bse, Digital Media Design

Activities and Societies: ACM Siggraph, Dining Philosophers

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