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Building the future of application integration with AI.

San Francisco, California, Us

Building the engineering org at Tatari. We build the infrastructure to power TV advertising in the digital era. Tatari uses big data, advanced analytics and machine learning to automate linear and CTV campaign execution and optimization for hundreds of innovative companies.Currently managing an org of 100, I oversee all product engineering, platform engineering, ML+AI, data engineering, dev ops and support eng. I also work closely with our CEO and heads of Product, Sales, and Marketing to define and deliver on our engineering and product strategy.Most recently I have overseen a complex migration from our data warehouse to a data lake stack using Spark/Databricks. This transformation will allow Tatari to solve current and future scaling challenges, while creating an unified platform for our data engineering, data science, and ML+AI development teams.We are always looking for exceptional engineering talent. Please reach out if you see any roles that look like a fit.https://www.tatari.tv/careers

South San Francisco, California, Us

Built a new team at Stripe to extend pay-in services beyond credit cards to all other global payment methods (“alternative” payment methods including ACH, CA ETF, BECS debits, SEPA payments, Alipay and WeChat Pay plus many others). * Held both EM and PM responsibilities for most of my tenure. * Hired new ICs in SF and Seattle (plus Seattle manager) plus international APM engineering teams in Dublin and Singapore. * Developed the APM product roadmap with input from stakeholders on the Billing team, plus EMEA, APAC and Large User sales teams. * Collaborated with Product UX, Risk, Merchant Intelligence, and Treasury teams to integrate new payment method flows into their respective areas. * Worked closely with our internal architecture group to improve Stripe’s internal payments architecture.* Defined program to measure and surface business and operational metrics across the APM portfolio.

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior Director - Platform ServicesDirector for the platform services group at Heroku, covering all user facing Heroku components (Dashboard and CLI), ecosystem services, Heroku CI, Heroku Metrics, the Heroku API, and the core Heroku control plane.Manager - Core ServicesOwners of the Heroku platform API, internal API gateway, and event bus streaming service. This team focuses on improving the operational characteristics of the Heroku platform while collaborating extensively with numerous project teams looking to advance innovation on the platform. I doubled the team size and invested heavily in more support for microservice architectures.Manager - Connect TeamHired and managed the Connect team at Heroku, developers of the Heroku Connect product which provides bi-directional data-synchronization between Salesforce and apps on Heroku. The Heroku Connect product was originated at Cloudconnect before it's acquisition by Salesforce.* Managed multiple teams covering both new product development, infrastructure and operations.* Helped grow the Heroku Connect business line from 0 to >$10m ARR.* Helped grow Heroku business in size and revenue by more than 5x during my tenure.* Collaborated with PM, Exec, and Sales to define product and engineering investment priorities.* Drove engineering investment in our microservices architecture* Led development of integrations with Salesforce External Objects and Salesforce Wave Analytics* Led development of the Heroku Mobile Reference Architecture(https://github.com/heroku/mobile-template1)* Contributed to development of the Nibs reference customer engagement application(http://heroku.com/cx)

SAAS platform for customer data synchronization and marketing automation. Architect and development lead for the Cloudconnect product.Cloudconnect was in the inaugural class at the Heavybit incubator started by James Lindenbaum. The company was acquired by Salesforce.com (Heroku subsidiary) in November, 2013. The Cloudconnect product was relaunched as Heroku Connect.

Lead the development team for the innovative Showyou social video app for the iOS platform. Featured best app for iPad by Apple in 2011 and 2012. Positive reviews from Gizmodo, Robert Scoble, Xconomy, Fast Company, Daring Fireball, LA Times, ReadWriteWeb and AllThingsD. Engineering manager and application architect. iOS client, Ruby/Riak server architecture. Showyou (employees and assets) was acquired by Vevo in 2015.Lead team which conceived and built vodpod.com. Scaled service up to 10m visitors per month. Involved in every aspect of design, development, and operation. Implemented highly successful widget strategy which powered video widgets on time.inc, talkingpointsmemo.com, and the New York Times blogs plus many others. Built vodspot.tv - a user customizable platform for video galleries which leveraged the Lua language for server-side logic. Primarily ROR stack with MySQL backend. Implemented Apache Solr for video search plus customized MoreLikeThis algorithm to power related videos display which increased site engagement by 15%.Worked with CEO to secure venture funding from True Ventures.The Vodpod.com service was acquired in 2011 by Lockerz.com.

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed engineering and network operations. Involved in all aspects of product design, development, and operations.* Helping to define both product and corporate strategy.* Hired and built engineering and operations teams from the ground up.* Integrated multiple large partners into the Gofish network.* Drove rapid production innovation leading to tremendous customer and traffic growth at gofish.com

Darmstadt, Hessen, De

Architect and team lead for the webMethods BPM solution. webMethods was acquired by Software A.G. where the BPM product remains a profitable business line.