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Orlando, FL, US

Austin, Texas, US

I lead the global Data Platform Engineering and Generative AI teams at Tesla.

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Leading the Colossus User-Entity Behavioral Analytics team at Tesla, a blue sky machine learning platform analyzing trillions of events for infrastructure security and operations.

Waterloo, ON, CA

Led the core architecture team, focused on the 5G transition for the Sandvine platform from COTS hardware to cloud native microservices on Kubernetes. Machine Learning projects include:- ORCA: A geo-distributed rate limiting algorithm for multi-terabit traffic shaping based on an online solution to the non-linear fractional equality knapsack problem

Cambridge, MA, US

Led system & product architecture for the Akamai Edge Cloud. Edge Cloud is a globally distributed cloud service platform operating in 2500 edge data centers in 141 countries targeting IoT manufacturers. Responsible for designing:- Edge Connect, global MQTT messaging SaaS platform- Edge Stream Buffer, global datastream SaaS platform- Edge Functions, global.

Cambridge, MA, US

Led the Akamai Machine Learning Center of Excellence, focused on advancing machine learning research and applying data science to exascale products. Achievements include:- 3rd place, 2017 Akamai Wizards Innovation Competition: "Delphi: Time Series ML PaaS"- Finalist, 2015 Akamai Wizards Innovation Competition: "Using Deep Learning to attack the 4 Grand.

Cambridge, MA, US

Led internal product architecture for the exascale Platform Data Services team for Akamai's global platform. PDE collects, processes, and stores over 10 PB/day of logs and real-time signals regarding ~1/3 of the world's web traffic. Achievements include:- Winner, 2017 Akamai Wizards Innovation Competition: "Banzai: Akamai in Real Time"- Designed Jetstream.

Responsible for the development of Corvana's core data science algorithms targeting Salesforce data. Developed time series forecasting and anomaly detection systems based on Approximately Bayesian Generalized Additive Models in Python.

• Led engineering, product management, and innovation.
• 12 patents in distributed computing, stream storage, distributed databases, and anomaly detection
• Co-inventor of the first distributed stream processor, MetaGrid.
• Co-inventor of Neural Foam family of streaming, active machine learning algorithms used for anomaly detection, clustering, and prediction.
• Machine learning experience spans structured and unstructured data, natural language processing, search, recommendation, and prediction. Particular focus on ultra high rate (1M eps+) streams and billion+ dimensional.

Gainesville, Florida, US

• Primary architect and network engineer of the first collegiate residential network in the US, hosting 10,000 users spanning 150 buildings, 40,000 wired ports and 100 WAPs; extensive Cisco network engineering experience.
• Gave expert testimony to US Congress on stopping child pornography distribution on the Internet.
• Awarded the State of Florida Davis Award for saving over $1M in one year by inventing the first distributed network operations automation platform, cGRID.
• Founded and led the University of Florida's first Computer Security Emergency Response Team in 1998.
• Extensive experience leading policy creation, best practices, and audits, including Security, Acceptable Use, and Disaster Recovery.
• Led two $6.5M network life cycles from design to replacement; led engineering and support team of 15 people.

Gainesville, Florida, US

Tasked by Vice Provost to establish and lead the University's first Computer Security Emergency Response Team.Key details:- Worked with nearly a hundred departments to improve security practices and create incident response plans- Led live fire table top exercises and training events, and created an extensive blue team training curriculum- Worked with.

Gainesville, Florida, US

Primarily responsible for network security, audits and best practices for the state-wide agricultural research network.

Testified as an expert witness regarding the elimination of child pornography on P2P networks.

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