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Costa Mesa, CA, US

Lead developer for a proprietary fullstack, embedded, internet of things product for a small business startup. Worked directly for the CTO on the end to end product vision, initial R&D, overall system architecture, and developed a working prototype in 6 months

Pleasanton, California, US

• I worked as a senior engineer for Workday’s Performance & Scalability Tools team. My responsibilities included microservices architecture, feature implementation, and performance optimization on a suite of fullstack.
• I simplified our user’s login process by designing a single sign on module that integrated with the corporate stack using Okta SAML2 SSO. I brought this from proof of concept to deployment into our team’s entire suite.
• Saved the company money and several developer years of time by sharing our SSO design to peer teams across the organization thereby reducing duplicated effort.
• Migrated full stack web apps from private cloud to AWS public cloud using EC2 and RDS instances.
• Expanded the functionality of our dashboard web app by overcoming previous design and performance limitations. Improved UI performance 10x by implementing an asynchronous background data loading system.
• Performed root cause analysis for poor UI performance and improved the performance of our Notebook Publisher’s UI by O(10) via Mysql query tuning at the bottleneck

I worked with a team doing product development for a firm in the security camera industry. I was responsible for implementing software features and for performance optimization at the firmware level. I designed and implemented real time h.264 audio video multiplexer system using ffmpeg

Santa Clara, California, US

• I managed a team of 10+ engineers for Intel’s GPU driver team responsible for developing custom 3D graphics drivers for their Apple Products.
• Successfully delivered Ivy Bridge and Haswell drivers for Apple’s 2012 and 2013 Macbook line, for $3 billion/year product revenue for Intel
• I was responsible for direct customer engagement via weekly face to face customer meetings with customer stakeholders to address their requirements.
• I increased our developer productivity by implementing a git-svn version control layer over the customer’s base svn layer, reducing the merge effort close to zero and paving the way to seamless integration with CI/CD

US

• I was an early member of a small startup focused on developing software for the emerging mobile industry. My focus was the consulting side of the business where we contracted our expertise in mobile and embedded.
• I implemented the original PoC port of Google Earth to Apple’s original iPhone for Google.
• I enabled revenue streams for several Independent Software Vendors by porting their video game IP to Apple’s IPod using their pre-public SDKs which preceded the App Store.
• Worked on user interface implementation for Paypal’s iPhone app.
• Ported Hooked’s Flash Player to iPhone and PS3

Austin, TX, US

• I was an individual contributor for a small fabless semiconductor firm, Stream Machine, that designed video recording ASICs. I worked on the drivers for their PC peripheral product which ultimately generated revenue.
• Responsible for architecture of DVD recording software.
• Achieved mass production for multiple generations of DVD recorders for LG, Samsung
• Filed two patent applications for DVD recording.

Interned for 3D graphics architecture group

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry