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York, Sc, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Leading teams use LaunchDarkly’s feature management platform to reduce risk and launch new ideas faster. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can safely test in production, get valuable feedback, and release without fear.

New York, Ny, Us

Oversee the advancement of the engineering platform driving Olo's services and applications:o Infrastructure: Modernize the Amazon EC2 landscape on which we run our stack, moving towards an automated environment in which IaC is not only leveraged within the platform group but can be democratized as part of a governed PR process. Enable applications and services to either run directly on VMs or within orchestration frameworks such as ECS/EKS.o Operations: Monitor and maintain the health of our system, supporting engineering teams by ensuring a stable/operational platform on which to deploy their releases.o Core Services: Create and operationalize a set of shared services to be leveraged across all engineering teams - Kafka, Amazon SQS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Privacy & Compliance services, and much more.o Site Reliability Engineering: Build and mature an SRE team to shape the engineering culture towards one of observability, ownership and continual incident feedback and growth. Coach, mentor and instill the "production mindset" within development teams.o Data Infrastructure: Champion the future of Olo's data vision by building the underlying modern data platform on which current and future products will live. From CDC-based data lake hydration to ELT pipelines, data warehousing, BI and data science applications, we have 15+ years of rich, industry-leading data and are thinking BIG!I am hiring multiple roles in all of these areas (and I welcome remote talent, too!) Come join me on this journey of growth, and help Olo build its next generation platform!

Troy, Mi, Us

Troy, Mi, Us

Waterloo, On, Ca

o Principal architect and designer of IoT platform technologies.o Oversaw evaluation and installation of key infrastructure –Kafka, Storm, Spark, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, MariaDB, and more. Analysis against leading competitors, comparing products on performance, scalability model, operational cost and cross-datacenter support.o Designer of foundational framework on which all microservices were developed.o Instituted software standards, practices and policies to govern all development projects. Appointed key team members to ensure adherence to these standards was met on every release.o Pushed software engineering team closer to the CI/CD ‘nirvana’ by hooking code quality metrics into the build and release process.o Hired a PhD graduate in software security to drive our next-gen authorization services. Within a few months, demonstrated a beta of our XACML-inspired centralized authz service. The service is now fronting every API call, allowing fine grained control in a generic manner.o Led a large, distributed, mixed-talent development team through many milestones and hurdles, ultimately arriving at v1 of the new IoT platform ahead of schedule and with solid quality metrics.o Aid project management in scoping and defining project charters, deliverables, timelines, etc. Acted as a product owner, owning and defining the IoT roadmap, grooming the backlog and prioritizing stories into release cycles.o Provide global perspective to regional architects and leaders, on topics such as ReSTful API service standards, CI/CD adoption, PaaS and IaaS implementation techniques, and more.

Waterloo, On, Ca

o Played central role in re-engineering legacy monoliths into a series of well thought-out microservices. Worked alongside product management to redefine next-gen products. Consulted directly with VP and CTO on technology decisions, employing outside-the-box thinking to push the status quo.o Led distributed team of engineers (onshore, Shanghai, Mumbai) using Atlassian tools to manage each sprint.o Strengthened development team by carving out weekly time for their personal growth – examples include pet projects, webinars, discovery and hands-on with new/emerging frameworks and open source projects.o Consulted with product stakeholders to discuss progress, deadlines, roadblocks and future vision.o Instituted peer code reviews. Created and enforced developer-centric aids such as “Definition of Done” checklists, Java coding standards, IDE setup guidelines, and similar artifacts.o Responsible for implementing DevOps operational model and shifting team responsibilities to accommodate. Assigned key personnel to coach and mentor along the way.

Waterloo, On, Ca

o Independently operate and lead through ambiguous direction in a fast-paced environment.o Experience presenting complex technical information in a clear, simplified manner to a variety of non-technical audiences.o Track record of developing engineers through various career stages, building high-performance teams. Promoted individual growth and motivated employees to drive for personal success.o Successfully directed teams in building complex, high-performance, and highly available systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.o Demonstrated focus on continuous improvement of systems, software and processes through data analysis and metrics.o Interviewed and hand-selected new team members. Helped grow a customer-centric organization. Direct reports doubled in size, due to high organizational success and new project demand.o Used proven techniques to estimate software projects of varying size, with increasingly precise windows of confidence.o Helped champion enterprise adoption of CMMI level 3; from planning through appraisal.

Waterloo, On, Ca

o Lead a team of architects, senior and junior developers, technical analysts, and QA engineers through the definition and construct phases of large B2B and B2C projects.o Provided technical thought leadership to senior management, business owners, project management, and partnering architects across a varied collection of project vendors. o Experience mitigating project risks and dependencies on external factors (vendors, systems, tools). o Managed a large team of distributed resources in Montreal & Shanghai. Held offshore teams to the same strict cadence and standards of local staff members, while also ensuring that these remote resources felt as though they belonged to the team. o Technical R&D role – discovered and designed unique ways to solve common problems, while also having to persuasively sell the architectural direction to a very “traditional” group of product owners, senior management and architects.o Provided overall architectural direction for the product, while also participating in low-level tasks such as peer code reviews, key framework development, and day-to-day code-base health and monitoring. o Participated in several architectural review committees, both as a reviewer as well as the one reviewed. Provided guidance to peers and other architects on the team. Also hosted a weekly round-table for managers and directors of other teams to learn about the project architecture, ask questions, voice concerns, and raise issues that needed to be answered in the design and architecture.

New York, Ny, Us

o Successfully designed GM’s next generation “Build Your Own Vehicle” software from the ground up. Challenged with unrealistically aggressive timelines, worked with an understaffed team and faced many road-blocks that required parallel workarounds and resolutions to keep within the time constraints.o Created re-usable Java libraries for core business functions to be leveraged by other teams.o On-boarded and mentored junior developers who participated in the project and set them up to be able to most effectively contribute towards the application (removed obstacles and unimportant nuances from their field of vision).o Result of testing process was a low Defect Density Ratio of ~ 12% (a key QA reporting metric), which could be attributed to an expansive unit test library.

Commerce Township, Mi, Us

o Designed and implemented a flexible and configurable benefits administration website using Struts 2 framework with an Oracle back-end. Gained experience with many design patterns.o Experienced single-handedly building an application from scratch, with full control of all design decisions.o Helped upgrade the technology stack to the most recent version, including Eclipse, Tomcat, Single Sign-On framework, and more.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

o Designed and implemented a complex, scalable, highly available transactional data-processing system using SOA.o Created design documents, object models, database logical model and UML diagrams.o Experience designing systems to support hot-deployment – no down time was acceptable for deployment of new release, new client on-boarding, etc.o Delivered software components ahead of schedule with low defect density ratio.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

o Created Test Cases and Test Scripts from client requirements to ensure product fulfillment.o Formed a series of tests homing in on defects’ most common hiding spots regardless of the application. Tests covered the four areas of all software – Input, Output, Data and Computations – and ensured a baseline for guaranteed quality releases.o Possess deep experience as Test Lead for numerous, often simultaneous, large-scale system testing projects with aggressive delivery dates.o Tested the company’s database upgrade process involving hash algorithms to improve database load performance. Gained rigorous data validation experience and a working knowledge of databases and data operations.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

o Reviewed system requirements, business and design documents to establish test cases, test scripts and test grids. Modified testing documents as required. o Developed core technical knowledge in various software – relational database DB2, flat files, COBOL, system testing software and methodology, mainframe infrastructure, and healthcare claims business procedures (HIPAA). o Gained solid team skills by working in cross-functional technical and business groups. o Delivered quality work under limited instruction and supervision.