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I work for Salesforce in the Site Reliability group. I am on one of the many teams that help to keep the Salesforce platform available and performing at its best.

At Shazam, I filled one of the key roles in helping to re-tool and scale the infrastructure and application stack(s) that power the mobile application. When I first started at Shazam, I walked into an environment that had grown for years by throwing hardware at the problem. Our data center was almost full, hardware took months to provision. The application stack was failing and software problems were difficult to isolate and debug. Managing scale was a huge issue, and in a lot of cases, scaling was too.I quickly directed the company towards the use of AWS to combat data center constraints. The solution was not to just plug into AWS, but create flexibility in our infrastructure to avoid vendor lock issues and scale immediately. I pushed for RHEL as our standard distribution, implemented configuration management using puppet and providing more visibility with nagios and graphite.I helped architect, build, debug, deploy and manage a lot of the critical software that powers Shazam today. Software that was designed to take large spikes of traffic for major TV events such as the NFL Super Bowl where millions of users are directed to use our service. Opportunities that would not have been possible technically without the R&D work that was done prior by myself and other engineers before scaling was a concern. I utilized Apache, PHP, C/C++, Apache, NGinx, Redis, CUDA, Hadoop, and more…Working with R&D teams in Shazam. The infrastructure we have emerged into is nothing compared to the infrastructure I started with. Today we handle requests in the tens of milliseconds, before it was in the seconds. When I started, Shazam was only doing music. Since then, the music catalog has more than quadrupled. Shazam has expanded beyond just music and into TV, Advertisements, Radio and Live Events. All made possible by the contributions of myself and other colleagues.

On the "My Yahoo!" Team and Frontpage teams: Worked closely with engineering to productionize the new platform, including build and release management, programming, debugging, application configuration and more. All in all, played a vital role in ensuring the success of the upcoming launch, surpassing expectations.Cloud Serving Team: DevOps with a more architecture focused role.