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Remote First, Us

Remote First, Us

Remote First, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Working on Amazon's next generation computer vision pipelines.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Internally transferred within Amazon and relocated to Nashville Tennessee.- Work in the hiring space which enables Amazon to hire millions of employees for our world-wide operations teams.- Built the technical vision for a 60+ engineering organization, partnering with Senior leadership and product managers to execute our engineering charter.- Created & Ran organizational planning programs like Architecture Runway.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Architected and built new services empowering Amazon sellers. Developed highly available and scalable solutions on-top of publically available AWS services.- Architected & led tech platform direction, driving a multi-billion dollar program.- Designed & built highly scalable/distributed data resolving platform.- Depth and experience implementing AWS products and services.- Key Technologies : Java / NodeJS / AngularJS / AWS.

Successfully launched a startup company from initial concept to market roll-out. This includes building the go-to-market strategy & managing our burn rates. Proven leadership to take a company from initial concept to acquiring customers. • Developed out go-to-market strategy, including helping to build our sales/marketing strategies. • Managed the Burn-Rate and budgeting for the entire company. • Built our SAAS platform with a team of engineers. ▬ Engineering Team► Recruited various high-level engineering positions.► Leveraged and embraced Agile methodologies for the entire engineering organization.► Built development standards, as well as mentored our senior developers.▬ Engineering Work (all hands-on work)► NodeJS – Built the entire application stack and rest API utilizing NodeJS and related technologies.► Cloud Integration – Azure / AWS – Built integrations to the cloud for our engineering work. This included automatic cloud provisioning.► Databases – MongoDB / Redis / Elastic Search... Utilized various technologies to architect our real-time analytics strategy.► Automation – Customer setup full automated in the cloud. Each client receives their own provisioned server and database. We built this automation processes utilizing various open source tools and custom built deployment processes.▬ Sales & Marketing► Worked with various C-Level customers, helping them to integrate onto our platform.► Participated in various presentations and sales calls as a key participant in the sales process.► Helped to build our Brand and Marketing strategy► Worked with various firms to manage our SEO and PPC campaigns.► Led graphic design teams to build our marketing content.

At Smart Card it was my responsibility to lead all aspects the IT department. I developed the vision for the department and grew the organization to meet the goals of the business. Our primary focus was on software development for both internal uses as well as SAAS. I took a sales based organization and integrated cutting-edge software technologies. Software:• Built large enterprise applications using Cloud technologies (AWS/Azure).• Fully automated testing and cloud deployments, End-to-End continuous integration.• Development teams highly engaged using agile development. (Jira / Confluence)• All development focused on building quality software, full end-to-end testing and continuous integration and deployment. Infrastructure• Modernized all IT infrastructure including putting in all new networking equipment in multiple locations.• I was the lead architect in developing our cloud infrastructure in AWS/Azure.Vendor/Client Management• Worked with many external vendors, partnering with them to integrate with our technology platforms.• Manages many aspects of client management for our SAAS platform. I was responsible for meeting with the client’s executive team, and integrating those companies with our platform.

Working with executive leadership and the existing technology teams to maintain and upgrade the Kazzit platform.

Tempe, Az, Us

Worked in the big data space around customer analytics. Was responsible for collecting metrics at high throughput (~20,000/sec) and publishing them to an internal hadoop cluster.Some key accomplishments include: - Architected and built highly scalable systems on Node.js - Developed a new Survey System capable of delivering internationalized content (30+ languages). - Integrated and utilized big data platforms (Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, Kafka) - Helped implement broad framework changes and improvements across our organization. - Led an effort to implement new technologies across the organization, and implemented best practices. Led developer training session for NodeJs. Key Technologies : Node.js/Javascript/Angular/C#

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Worked at PetSmart on the Custom Applications team designing and architecting software solutions. I am well versed in both Web and Windows development.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

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