Software Development Leader ★ Entrepreneur ★ Solutions Innovator For 20 years I've been Engineering leader for prominent organizations, where I've delivered pioneering solutions and reliable, scalable systems in varied environments from startups to agile teams in largest engineering organizations in the world.Currently leading the Video Publishing Experience engineering groups at Facebook, building our platform and products for professional publishers and content creators.Specialties: Leadership, Building & Growing Teams, Get Things Done, innovation, Technology & Engineering, Product Definition, Product Development, Product strategy and Business savvy. What defines me:✔ TECHNICAL EXPERTISEJAVA, J2EE, JS, C++, Python, OAuth, JQuery, Solr / Lucene, NoSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Rest, Kafka, Zookeeper, AWS, Big Data.✔ PRODUCT INNOVATIONAs head of the Publisher experience at Facebook, I have grown user base from 2M to 8M, have brought millions of video watch time on Facebook, which in turn have translated into 100s of millions in revenue.My team brought Certify's hospital management system to full scalability, allowing it to integrate satellite systems for unified data management. Within a year we captured a contract with one of the largest hospitals in the US, and Certify was later acquired by Humana because of this product.✔ ENTREPRENEURSHIPI co-founded OvalHub, a social media portal that aggregates multiple social web accounts including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and offers personalized deals from merchant sites like GroupOn, eBay, and LivingSocial.✔ TEAM GOVERNANCEOne of my proudest accomplishments was to reshape my engineering team from a reactive "problem fixing" culture to one of product innovation and client needs anticipation. Staff attrition rates dropped to 0 through careful vetting of new hires.
Listed skills include Java, Java Enterprise Edition, Spring, C++, and 36 others.