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AI amplified collaboration platform for creators and production teams

San Francisco, California, Us

Led cross-team multi-year initiatives to deliver on strategic objectives in security, reliability, origin infrastructure, and transcoding for the AWS Interactive Video Streaming (IVS) service.

Remote, Global, Us

Upbound is building the open source project Crossplane that extends Kubernetes to provide a unified control plane capable of running, scaling and optimizing services across multiple public and private cloud environments. Early employee responsible for developing corporate infrastructure, agile engineering practices and open source culture. Established a decentralized remote-first culture facilitating rapid scaling with an international team of developers. Managed recent partner development and integration to integrate with Gitlab GitOps and extend Crossplane coverage of public cloud services.

Centennial, Colorado, Us

CTS (formerly thePlatform for Media) provides a complete set of cloud-based services and solutions for the world’s largest media and broadcast companies powering their over-the-top (OTT Internet) subscription streaming businesses. I had the privilege of leading a team of solution architects and program managers whose solutions power many of the international streaming services in operation today. As Principal Architect I led a wide range of complex cross-team initiatives and integrated solutions for:• End-user facing services for registration & data management (RUM)• Identity & authorization services• Dynamic content packaging for adaptive streaming formats• Encryption workflows and digital rights management (DRM) services• Digital commerce & subscription billing services• Entertainment metadata & program guide services

Seattle, Wa, Us

Program manager for new payment processing and seller transaction & reporting system for Amazon's 3rd party marketplace.

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Provider of intelligently tailored search results based on understanding your interests and activity. Powered by a knowledge and trust graph built with Bayesian machine learning against Wikipedia and trusted sources of knowledge.

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Provider of semantic search & discovery for Life Sciences. We used machine learning to build a knowledge graph for medical research. As a cofounder and engineering director, we grew the company from 2 to 26 people. During the seed stage I was involved in angel and VC pitching, IP development, and prototyping. Post seed and Series A, I focused on architecting high performance indexing and compute clusters in our datacenter, while leading the software engineering team on product development.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Program manager in Microsoft's DirectX Multimedia and Gaming group. Worked on introduction of video streaming and multimedia API support in Internet Explorer. Managed introduction of initial MP3 playback & CD ripping support in CD Player Plus and Windows Media Player. Worked on the reactive programming engine (DirectAnimation), and represented Microsoft on animation and web graphics standards board for virtual reality markup language (VRML) and Web3D. Supported gaming companies and Flash player (FutureWave) as we introduced 2D and 3D support into the web browser. Worked on Universal Plug and Play and bluetooth initiatives while in Networking Group.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Cross-platform graphics toolkit