Creating amazing experiences around live and recorded matches through sport association partnerships with APIs, solution engineering and architectural improvements.

I'm currently dedicating my time to my family, reconnecting with colleagues, learning German, retrospecting my accomplishments and improving my skills on formal methods, continuous delivery, team topologies and engineering leadership.I'm ready for what comes next, making another amazing platform for humans to thrive.

During this time at SoundCloud I focused on large internal transformation projects, team leadership and mentoring. My accomplishments include:- Transformed the data pipelines and technology for musical royalties calculation and reporting, delivering reports earlier than competitors and supporting the fairer payment model of Fan Powered Royalties.- Re-architected the "Likes" service, improving scaling and availability by migrating to Vitess for automatic horizontal sharding and multi-data center replication.- Modernized the end-to-end product and business analytics pipeline, improving the confidence, privacy, and availability of usage analytics.- Improved the internal developer experience platform by adopting managed services.- Led technical due diligence for successful acquisitions.

As the technical lead at SoundCloud during the company's expansion phase, I was responsible for ensuring technical excellence across product and engineering departments.Organizational Accomplishments:- Led the technical lead forum to address cross-cutting technical challenges across departments.- Initiated and led an open engineering forum to promote technical accomplishments and awareness between teams.- Developed a skill and behavior expectation matrix to guide hiring and promotions for leaders and contributors.- Reviewed and provided feedback for engineering promotions.- Conducted interviews as a "Bar Keeper" to maintain technical excellence.- Developed key technical strategies.Technical Accomplishments:- Designed and deployed a Global Server Load Balancer to support multi-data center operation and mitigate denial of service attacks, significantly improving product availability.- Built a continuously tested and deployed zero-downtime Kubernetes multi-cluster management system.- Migrated the in-house runtime platform to Kubernetes.- Built a real-time log aggregation system for all software, handling millions of log lines per second.- Built a real-time, multi-terabyte per day, cloud native CDN log aggregation system supporting complex queries.Business Accomplishments:- Served as the technical spokesperson for M&A due diligence.- Led the team in attaining GDPR compliance.- Conducted legal risk assessment and reporting from technical forensics.

As employee #3, I was responsible for SoundCloud's initial world class product and distributed system designs, filled with technical tradeoffs and rapid user acquisition.When SoundCloud was created, there weren't many companies offering pre-built software services. In order to release a successful product, I built many of SoundCloud's software systems from scratch.Organizational accomplishments:- Worked closely with technical leaders from other companies like Dropbox, Facebook, and Etsy to shape SoundCloud's architecture.- Instilled DevOps and continuous improvement principles throughout the organization by promoting knowledge sharing and conducting blameless postmortems.Product accomplishments:- A payment and invoice processing system that handled recurring payments for multiple plans, available right from the launch.- The ability to upload, transcode, store and deliver media in real-time, supporting huge amounts of user-generated content.- A personalized feed that shows real-time updates on new uploads, likes, and reposts from people a user follows.- Full-text search that updates in real-time.- Image thumbnail management that optimizes page load times.- Real-time engagement statistics dashboards that are customized for each customer.Technical accomplishments:- Automated infrastructure as code with Chef.- Moved from a managed to on-premises data center with minimal downtime for reduced costs.- Scaled the Ruby on Rails application by using advanced queue theory for asynchronous processing and load balancing with HAProxy and RabbitMQ.Business accomplishments:- Early adopter of AWS in 2008, recognizing the cost benefits of using variable cloud based storage and compute for media processing and delivery.- Made strategic decisions about whether to build or buy technology, particularly when it came to primary costs like networking.- Introduced processes for site availability, including observability and incident response.

O'Reilly Media ran Velocity, a conference bringing Web Developers, Operators and the Culture together. As a committee member for Velocity Conference EU, I reviewed and recommended talks for the Operations and Culture tracks using experience from Europe and SoundCloud to highlight technologies and reinforce best practices in order to achieve a high performing, collaborative culture in web companies.

Superchannel was a contemporary art piece and business built together with the artist collective Superflex. Superchannel.org revealed how global streaming media can be accessible to local communities across the globe. This work and local productions were exhibited at major museums worldwide.* Responsible for visual and technical design.* Trained operators in streaming media fundamentals in multiple countries.* Managed FreeBSD on-prem servers.* Built and deployed using Zope (Python) and later migrated to Ruby on Rails.

Plazes innovated as a social platform for connecting with others over your location, later made popular with Four Square. As a software engineer, I was responsible for many key technology choices.Spatial indexing in PostgreSQLPHP to Ruby on Rails application server migrationMySQL to PostgreSQL database migrationNatural language SMS and short text interface to location and status updatesFlash based global location visualization

Oncotype is a Danish design prize winning company for innovative media production. I provided technical skills to deliver unique media experiences.Application developer for interactive PHP and Flash products. Interactive web base implementations.Achievements include the following:- Internet Explorer toolbar plugin for searching medical databases.- Custom written CMS for multinational medical firm written in PHP, XML and XSLT. - Collaborative shared desktop tool for artists written in Flash.- ActionScript 2 XMPP library to support realtime web applications.

Freelance consulting, training and contractual software development in the areas of streaming media, web development and application design.

Software engineer for data synchronization services for administrative websites.

Software developer on core streaming media framework. Developer of streaming media proxy server integration for PNA (proprietary) and RTSP (standard) streaming protocols. RTP (standard) streaming media integration with 3rd party clients.

Implementation of testing tools for both automated and interactive quality assurance of LDAP integration into Exchange Server 5.0 and Exchange Server 5.5.