Branch is an AdTech company facilitating deep linking and modeled performance measurement across a breadth of channels.I joined as an individual contributor (IC) at Series A and played a pivotal role in assisting founders to grow the company to >2B valuation.- Successfully grew the engineering division from 5 to >60- Built teams comprising managers/directors, back-end and front-end, DS/ML experts, SDK developers, and quality engineers- Scaled operations and performance across a $30MM yearly AWS budget, achieving $100MM in annual recurring revenue (ARR)- Engaged in sales/support for largest brands and industries- Drove AI initiatives measurably increasing velocity- Led compliance initiatives for SOC II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA

- Built an event pipeline on Spark streaming used to process 20B events daily with low latency.- Built a graph data store on Aerospike, storing users and activity.- Built an analytics data store from scratch on top of Aerospike, using boolean operations on HLLs to support uniques.- Built an edge gateway based on Nginx in Lua which handles routing, authenticating, validating all of our production traffic.- Work with large kafka, kubernetes and mesos clusters on AWS infrastructure.

I worked in several different areas at Spotify in a short time: a stealth mode video delivery frontend/backend platform, Ads team and finally the launch of artist analytics.My favorite piece of work at Spotify was building the concert recommendation backend. This was fairly skunkworks and involved integrating external data sets and large scale data engineering across the Spotify user base to deliver personalized recommendations. I also owned the operationalizing and scaling across data centers.✔ Java micro services, performance, monitoring✔ Docker integration, testing and deployment✔ Elasticsearch tuning and optimization✔ Cassandra schema design and performance✔ Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Apache Crunch, Parquet✔ Stream processing, Apache Storm, Kafka✔ A/B Testing✔ Multi data center architecture and performance

I worked as one of 4 senior technical leads responsible for architecture and oversight in a systems engineering organization of 300+ people. I also did individual contributor work as a technical lead in a scrum team of 8 people.My scrum team was charged with forward looking initiatives within the systems organization. I was most recently focused on a CI/CD pipeline involving Vagrant, Puppet, Jenkins, Docker, OpenStack and Ubuntu, etc.Over the past 3 years I was responsible for the architecture and development of an in-house, cloud based framework which heavily leveraged OSS. The framework was an API driven, distributed services architecture. Core services were built using Java/OSGi and supported feature development done in either Python or NodeJS.Zookeeper for service discovery and configuration │ Thrift for synchronous service communications │RabbitMQ for asynchronous service messaging│Persistence in Postgres and Mongo │Redis for data set caching│OpenAM for access management│Nginx as an API router and edge server │Code is revisioned in Git │Build and test on Jenkins │Artifact repositories are Maven, PyPi and NPM│ Deployment is treated as code│ All code and APIs are semantically versionedThe project began with an iOS native app for demo purposes which I built with another team member in a couple of months. This was followed by the selection and coding of a cross platform thin client javascript UI, leveraging bootstrap and backbone.js.Role Included:♦ Requirements analysis and high level goals♦ Architecture of the full stack framework♦ Vetting, evangelism of tech choices♦ Design of API and framework♦ Coding of cross cutting pieces including communications, config, security, data access and caching♦ Jenkins CI, unit, integration testing♦ Git oversight♦ Puppet module coding♦ Nginx config and Lua script

I was a Software Development Engineer (SDE) in the Digital Media Division of Windows working on player releases from Windows XP to early Windows 7. I worked on cloud based services to support the Windows Media player, before it was called cloud.These web services included media library and media recognition services that were built at Windows client scale. The media recognition services included CD, DVD and audio files, using TOC identifiers, fingerprints and text matching algorithms, many of which were patented. The services also included automated processing of a large amount of user feedback data, which was used to improve the quality of the music metadata- an early attempt at crowd sourcing. Some of the algorithms were built in collaboration with Microsoft Research.  In addition I worked on music, video and podcast metadata catalogs in support of the the Windows Media player, MSN Music and Zune. I worked with data feeds from all 5 major music labels and All Music Guide to create a unified music guide experience for Microsoft. I lead the early creation of a podcast guide at Microsoft including web crawling of RSS feeds, indexing and processing of guide data.

I worked as a Software Analyst and was among a handful of employees to launch Microsoft Licensing in Reno. I did development and technical support for web based applications used to support Microsoft's OEM business around the world.   **Role Included**: • Mircosoft SQL Server troubleshooting, coding and performance tuning. • C# coding of backend data center services.

I worked as a sole proprietor of a programming and networking consultancy shop in Reno, NV. I worked on several contracts with area businesses including the local telco at the time, Nevada Bell (now AT&T).   Role Included: • Business development with area contacts. • Microsoft networking and web coding. • Systems integration with mainframe and midrange systems. • Contract programming based on leads generated thru advertising.

I worked for a small consultancy based in Reno, NV and doing west coast contract work in the Bay Area, Southern California and Denver. I worked on several contracts including an embedded systems contract in the defense industry.   Role Included: - Microsoft networking and C++ coding. - Embedded systems coding in C.