Robert Brazier Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

• Improved the interview process as well as Interviewed and reviewed candidates• Reviewed costs including saving the company 3 million dollars annually• Managed most of the engineering teams at Earnest remotely 25+ FTE engineers with 4 leads• Helped prioritize distressed projects and help guide teams through work • Reviewed our data and data engineering tools and pipelines. Did research in the marketplace to identify solutions and then worked with leads to enact those solutions. If solutions didn't exist in the marketplace, we would work through solutions internally like redesigning tables or creating performance tuned alternates of tables. A few major changes from the reviews are leaving Redshift for Snowflake and leaving AWS/Spark for GCP/Dataflow,DBT,Bigquery• Detailed and brought forth an architecture council as well as supported our operational improvement process.

2 Park West

• Planned high level priorities for multiple teams and delegated work to leads. Managed 40+ FTE engineers and 5 leads with a mix of remote.• Reviewed candidates and performed technical interviews and placement.• Built cost projections with leadership and regularly reviewed aws costs to realize savings • Performed investigations and implemented fixes for less well-known systems along with the teams• Helped design and review designs for system implementations• Completed the integration with Walmart.com to sell Lord and Taylor inventory. As well as completing the integration to sell Saks Off Fifth inventory on Gilt.com

2 Park West

• Designed and implemented systems including inventory hold and 3rd party selling integrations• Managed employees and built out teams

2 Park West

• Designed and built a marketplace system to simplify sell first workflows.• Planned work and set priorities

2 Park West

• Responsible for the main database including schema migrations and performance optimization of queries• Created tooling to bootstrap services for our monolith to micro services migration• Integrated our system with retail partners in china• Ensured high quality code across systems including our monolith with regular code reviews.

2 Park West

• Built POC for tools and implemented them for our internal teams using jquery/css/rails• Built new features and fixed bugs