• Reported directly to the CEO, as the highest-level technology executive in the organization responsible for an ~$8 million/year IT budget.• Founding member of the technology team, responsible for starting and scaling. Focused on Scala/Haskell FP software development.• Launched company-wide data warehouse initiative, replacing legacy siloed set of databases and file stores. Leveraging Apache Kafka, Flink, Hive, and other OSS tools, it aggregates data from external and internal sources into a secure, scalable, and readable medium by the Business Analysis and Data Science teams using their client of choice to power all AI and ML decisions• Spearheaded the rewrite of all legacy software that powered a $200 million line of business; replacing expensive and brittle services with low-maintenance and scalable distributed microservices using an Event-Sourcing pattern.• Introduced and guided a new approach to mentoring and professional growth plans for all members of the technology organization. • Established InfoSec organization: introducing security risk assessment audits, penetration tests, internal phishing tests and other recurring security measures.• Worked with legal and compliance in defining policies and procedures for the secure handling of data and compliance with Federal lending regulations.

Open Source Elasticsearch Management and Monitoring with over 17 million downloads.

• Reduced AWS cloud hosting costs by 30% through the implementation of alternative technologies.• Guided re-architecture of infrastructure and code to increase performance and dynamic scaling.• Hired and trained the company's first Product Manager to help steer the direction of the product roadmap.• Implemented Agile Scrum processes, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and story tasking/pointing that led to measurable increases in productivity and story completion.

• Acquired by UTC/Raytheon in 2018• Founding and Senior-most technology executive, responsible for all technology and personnel growth strategy behind the Predikto Enterprise Platform, a big data IoT predictive analytics SaaS hosted on AWS, leveraging advanced AI/ML models.• Introduced Agile, Continuous Integration, semantic versioning and other development and QA best practices for increasing deployment speed and code quality. The microservice based architecture coupled with automated build/test/deploy cycles allowed for small teams of individuals to independently update software without slowing down the entire team.• Implemented configuration-driven onboarding of customers. This allowed the services and data science teams to independently onboard customers with minimal engineering involvement, thus reducing friction and cost and increasing the number of concurrent customer on-boarding.• Converted the pre-existing ETL process, running on licensed software, to leverage in-memory parallelized distributed Apache Spark and Elasticsearch for vastly improved speed, scalability, and reduced cost.• Introduced containerization via Docker and Kubernetes (managed by AWS EKS), which enabled the dynamic scaling of running jobs and termination of resources in idle state, thereby reducing ongoing AWS costs dramatically and increasing platform resiliency.• Introduced a rigorous engineer interview process that led to the hiring and scaling of engineering and quality assurance candidates, while leveraging personal Atlanta network for top-tier talent.• Led software and security audits during acquisition due diligence.• Led technology and personnel integration efforts post-acquisition while scaling the teams across two locations.

• Responsible for technology strategy and architecture for REALTrans®, a SaaS-based vendor and order management system.• Built and led engineering and quality assurance teams in iterative agile development process.• Led the transition of ideas from the Product Management and Business Analyst teams to Product Development teams.• Successfully managed distributed domestic and international technology organization.• Responsible for REALFoundation® Services architecture decisions; REALFoundation® Services serves as the shared SOA platform leveraged across all next-generation Altisource technology products, and provides common services exposed via REST endpoints, made available through client runtime libraries that leverage its microservices architecture.• Created the REALFoundation® UI Framework; The REALFoundation® UI Framework enables product developers to leverage reusable components and entire modules at build time. It standardizes the way client-side interfaces are built and how they communicate to RESTful services.• Member of the Altisource Technology Governance Board - responsible for technology selection decisions across all technology products.• Regularly briefed management and business unit leaders on product development progress.

Elasticsearch in Action teaches you how to build scalable search applications using Elasticsearch. You'll ramp up fast, with an informative overview and an engaging introductory example. Within the first few chapters, you'll pick up the core concepts you need to implement basic searches and efficient indexing. With the fundamentals well in hand, you'll gain an organized view of how to optimize your design. The book focuses on Elasticsearch's REST API via HTTP. Code snippets are written mostly in bash using curl, which makes them easily translatable to other languages.

• Co-Founded an On-Demand (SaaS) Marketing Automation company employing an innovative and disruptive business model. • Responsible for sales to first 12 customers, generating $360,000 within the first year of business.• Raised $1.4 million Series A funding round from San Francisco-based True Ventures.• Spearheaded the launch of the first Freemium offering in the Marketing Automation space.• Regularly met with industry analysts from Gartner and Forrester to discuss competitive advantage and industry market position. • Built and led team of engineers in launching frequent releases in iterative development process.• Responsible for creating multi-tenant fault-tolerant database schema deployed over 800 MySQL instances which processed over 14 billion transactions per month.• Responsible for creation and maintenance of multi-tenant software architecture, based on SOA design principles.• Designed and developed intuitive user-interface, using Sencha Ext-JS, JSON, and Java Servlets.• Responsible for software and system compliance with SalesForce.com security audits.• Regularly presented at industry conferences and groups, such as the Open Source Business Conference and SalesForce.com User Groups.

• Co-Founded, designed, and developed the JBoss Portal project, a JSR-168 and JSR-286 specification compliant portlet container and CMS system, using JBoss Application Server and JBoss Hibernate.• Led and inspired a team of engineers to produce five new releases that competed successfully with incumbent vendors in features and analyst rankings.• Briefed industry analysts from Gartner and Forrester on product market position, and competitive advantage. • Represented JBoss as a member of the Sun Java Community Process (JCP) for the Content Repository for Java (JCR) Technology API Specification (JSR-170).• Architected and developed a JCR-compliant JBoss Hibernate-based, database-agnostic Content-Management System for JBoss Portal using Apache JackRabbit as a foundation.• Developed various specification-compliant portlets that interfaced with 3rd-party systems, such as SalesForce.com, Alfresco DMS, and WordPress.• Delivered training and consulting services to JBoss Middleware customers and partners, covering JBoss and Apache Tomcat tuning, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Portal and most products within the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Systems (JEMS) offering.• Regular speaker at industry conferences and user groups, such as Java One, JBoss World, Red Hat Summit, and the Atlanta Java User's Group

• Used knowledge of the MVC Model II Architecture to define and create the browser-based front-end of the product with Jakarta Struts. • Developed a multithreaded data import mechanism that allows clients to enter large CSV and XML files of end-user demographics data in to the system. This system ran as a windows service and used its own internal timer to pass “jobs” to waiting worker threads in a thread pool.• Designed and developed a lightweight CRM implementation that served dynamic web forms and triggered user-defined processes upon completion.• Designed and developed custom logging classes, exception handlers, and session managers.• Introduced and applied commonly accepted technologies such as Ant, Tomcat, Struts, Log4j, and XML in to the development and deployment process.

• Designed and developed, in Java, the User Management functions for a Dynamic Messaging System. This required the creation and manipulation of Oracle database tables, coding to JDBC, using DOM as a data transfer method, and employing design patterns. • Used a command pattern design to build Servlets, factories, and interfaces that worked with the Visual Basic client application. This layer of the product manipulated XML data and passed it between tiers, also using session tracking, exception handling, and error logging.• Developed Servlets and JSPs for browser-based system administration portion of the product. • Created JUnit test classes and data that were later handed to the Quality Assurance Department for modification and further testing.• Used Optimize-It to pinpoint CPU and Memory usage problems for portions of the product, and then implemented optimization techniques to increase performance.• Configured Jakarta Tomcat and Allaire JRun servlet engines for use on Linux (Apache) and Microsoft Windows (IIS).