Hands-on engineering manager of two teams, ~20 total engineers, focused on the LinkedIn Ads front-end that drives $800m/year revenue.Led one team directly, rewrote the legacy Ads reporting infrastructure, achieving a more consistent, enjoyable user experience, and a foundation for innovation. Team was responsible for full-stack: Hadoop jobs (LinkedIn Kafka/Samza), database (LinkedIn Pinot OLAP database), mid-tier (LinkedIn Rest.li Java APIs), and front-end (JavaScript/Backbone).Led another team indirectly, focused on core architectural ownership of the growing Ads front-end codebase, moving from single team-ownership of the Ads UI to federated/feature-team ownership, to scale engineering throughput.Within the wider org, exemplified a culture of compassionate craftsmanship, via code reviews, design docs, mentoring, etc.

Managed a team of ~8-10 engineers, geo-distributed between Omaha and San Francisco, focused on the Bizo Marketing Automation Platform/Ads front-end and partner integrations (AppNexus and LinkedIn).Consistent history of delivery and mentorship, acknowledged as a key member establishing and teaching Bizo's technical culture of quality-first, testing, and simplicity.Bizo was acquired by LinkedIn in August 2014 for $175m.

Early engineer, designed and implemented solutions to support Bizo's B2B advertising platform. Lots of Java, Scala, AWS/devops, and JavaScript/GWT.

Started a small (2-person) independent consulting firm. Shared responsibilities for finding clients, writing proposals, estimates, invoicing, etc.For client projects, generally acted as tech lead/architect, responsible for all technical aspects such as requirements, architecture, development, testing, etc.

Architect for rewrite of legacy/off-the-shelf claims system that ran PayFlex's core business.Delivered features and capacity to support a 3x growth in business, directly contributing to (in 2011) Aetna's purchase of PayFlex for $200m.Led a team of ~10-15 mixed consultants/full-time employees that produced ~100,000 LOC/year without slowing down as the codebase/complexity grew.Technologies: Java, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, Click, JUnit, Selenium, Hudson, Groovy, Mina, Quartz, Subversion, Eclipse.

Developed internal applications (a breaking-change tracker for the then-unreleased .NET core framework) in ASP.NET.Worked on a distributed, SOAP-based sample application to ship with Beta 1 of the .NET SDK.