Rudi Wirth Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

As a member of the NG team, implemented micro-service foundational blocks in Scala, deployed into Kubernetes, integrating with many AWS services (S3, SQS, Dynamo). Adopted Twitter finagle/finatra.- Tech stack: Scala, Twitter finagle/finatra, Guice, Kubernetes/Helm, AWS services, some Akka.Single-handedly stabilized the cube query tier which is the service that supports all interactive report, our Rest API, and many internal data services. Improved cube to parquet conversation by 10x. Improved query response time for our biggest customers by 10x. Reduced fail-rate to almost 0. Improved observability and disaster recovery. Received multiple awards. - Tech stack: JRuby, Scala, Kubernetes/Helm, Spark/HadoopAs a member of the new Data House, I am currently working on a new data pipeline which runs our novel orchestration service in Kubernetes and all data jobs in Spark/EMR. Single-handedly rebuilt CloudHealth's "digest" job which improved data-recency improved by 8x. Designed an implemented various orchestration foundations such as retry, expiration, notification, scheduling.- Tech stack: Scala/Java, AWS EMR/S3/RDS/EKS, Kubernetes/HelmServing 10,000s of customers is a gift, and I am obsessed with quality, correctness, stability/scalability, and exceeding SLA.Promoted to Staff Engineer in May 2021.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Team lead for the administration tier which manages the distributed database nodes of the NuoDB scale-out database. The management tier is is a distributed, peer-to-peer framework written in Java with various client bindings. The management layer ensures safety and resiliency in the face of failures. We are building out revolutionary automation tools for managing complex database deployments within and across datacenters and the cloud. Lead the designed and implementation of a new version of the admin tier from scratch. This implementation uses Raft for all mutating actions. Inverted the start-database/process API in order to integrate with external resource managers such as kubernetes, OpenShift, Nomad.- tech stack: java, guice, thrift, dropwizard, rest, some python, maven, raft

San Francisco, California, Us

Member of an initial small team that developed Demandware's next-gen e-commerce services platform. My main focus was the new data-tier using document storage and custom, asynchronous replication. Services are all java based. Scrum-master for cloud services infra-structure component and deployment teams. I learned A LOT about deploying and managing the software life-cycle in a SaaS environment that runs $4B in customer gross transactions over N data-centers - working with the dev-ops team was eye-opening.

Responsible for scalability, overall architecture, messaging patterns, integration/consolidation projects.As part of a small team, developed a Message Bus architecture enabling service redundancy/availability, platform resiliency, horizontal scaling. Feature development including CRM gateway, delivery receipts, “Bill-Ability” Service, WAP Billing.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Responsible for Affinium Plan, Unica's MRM offeringSignificantly improved cross-functional development process by introducing Agile practice, leading to multiple on-time releases, incl. early drops for $MM prospect. Implemented transparent project planning process using rigorous weekly reviews/revisions with stake-holders.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Engineering lead and manager of Sonic Business Process Manager (BPM), Orchestration Server and Collaboration Server product lines

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Engineering manager and co-architect of eXcelon's BPM, which abstracts user, system, and B2B-interactions using a services-based methodology, merging UML activity-graphs with web-service and collaboration concepts into a unified, declarative process model, entirely based on XML, XSL, XPath, Java

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Various engineering and management positions:• Managed the Database Server, PSE/C++ and C++ collections groups• designed and implemented ObjectStore/PSE C++, a light-weight, single-user persistence engine for C++• Project Leader for the ObjectStore Performance Expert developed jointly with IBM Germany Software Lab (GSDL)

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Presales, Consulting, Education, Support role in the newly founded subsidiary of Object Design in Germany, introducing ObjectStore ODBMS.

• Co-designed and implemented next generation process control system, incl. university dissertation