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Santa Monica, Us

Transform the engineering practices from tightly-coupled, monolithic architectures into operationally robust microservice architectures. Identify foundation for new engineering practices, training staff on new technologies, and address key product challenges impacting execution.• Develop the teams and organizational alignment for improving the telehealth service through implementation of loosely-coupled microservices. Benefits include reduction of operational overhead, embedded failure detection and recovery, and increase of agility integrating new partner systems.• Design and build Rewards Platform to capture and reward specific user actions. Event-driven design allows for independent teams to create new rewarded activities with minimal dependency on the Rewards team. • Transition core functionality out of the legacy monolith implementation into independent services to increase agility for both product development and operational overhead. Develop and execute a plan for service extraction of pharmacies and pharmaceutical functionality without disrupting any existing dependency on the monolith.

New York, Ny, Us

Identify strategic opportunities to develop platforms for product engineering teams for increased development velocity, operational improvements, and cost reductions. Provide leadership with vision and roadmap for platform capabilities addressing operational and financial efficiencies. Establish staffing requirements and build up teams capable of delivering on multiple diverse projects.• Build teams and organizational structure to accommodate 6 major services (k8s, DBaaS, Salesforce, API Management, Mail, and DNS) and lead efforts at developing additional platform services.• Transition over 100 relational database instances onto an internally developed DBaaS (Database as a Service) solution. Deliver proper replication, backups, compliance, and operational oversight by a small team of domain experts. • Build out internal Kubernetes (k8s) clusters as the primary compute resource for DigitalOcean’s management plane. Internally developed k8s management software (DOCC) provides simplicity and best practices for k8s usage to over 2000 different jobs and services. Communal clusters enabled savings of over $130k/month through efficiency gains and operational improvements.

Chicago, Il, Us

Leading three teams instrumental to the transformation of the Groupon technology stack from a disparate set of regional monoliths into a unified, global platform. Enable the successful migration to a service-oriented architecture by demonstrating and upholding the architectural and operational principles required.• Rebuild core platform to deliver a high-performance, unified standard that supported the adoption of a service-oriented architecture. Reduce acquired technology stacks from 9 to 1 and delivered new features and improvements globally in a timely, consistent manner.• Seamlessly migrate over 500 API endpoints from legacy systems without disrupting existing web or mobile clients delivering improved responsiveness by up to 1500% and reduction of hardware footprint by 50%.• Lead development of an in-house mobile push notification system delivering customized messages to over 40 million customers for Apple, Android, or Microsoft devices at a rate of 5000 notifications/s.• Develop request routing system to enable comprehensive and consistent monitoring, regulation, and traffic redirection of all incoming API requests. Insight into traffic patterns and problems enabled a graceful transition from the legacy technology stacks.

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Drive the development of the Digital Supply Pipeline initiative to streamline the origination, processing, and publishing of digital media while ensuring contractual and customer requirements are enforced. Develop the systems that enabled internationalization of Netflix content for Central and South America, the Nordic countries, and the United Kingdom.• Transition digital content ingestion system from a high-cost data center installation into the cloud.• Improve localization support for the content management systems enabling rapid expansion into new markets. • Drive adoption of a search-based solution for data publishing and content analysis providing greater flexibility of rule expressions and 20x performance improvement.• Actively recruit and develop a team of 14 to architect and implement solutions for complex data migration from monolithic Oracle system to a cloud-based solution.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead transformation of TiVo platform and infrastructure to enable new company direction of partnering with cable and satellite providers for co-branded services. Develop “platform in a box” installations for placement in affiliated data centers.• Establish team to rebuild platform infrastructure into a portable, service-oriented architecture enabling partnerships with cable and satellite service providers.• Reduce deployment time by 90% while improving system stability and integrity by modernizing the install and update process for back-end services.• Lead development of a system enabling intelligent service routing and A/B testing providing reduced latency and increased availability for remote access customers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Spearhead company-wide effort to increase development agility by decentralizing monolithic architecture into a service-oriented architecture. Deliver the first service (Fee & Foreign Exchange Calculation Service) for this architecture.• Develop patented fee calculation service providing flexible fee schedule management tools and fully reversible financial applications. Fee adjustments reduced to minutes instead of multiple weeks of development and testing.• Initiate cross-team effort focused on improving service scaling and reliability through engineering and operational efforts.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Design and build Yahoo’s user data store (UDB used by every personalized property at Yahoo for over 1.4 billion user accounts at a typical rate of 350,000 queries/s.• Increase service availability of globally distributed UDB to 99.999% while maintaining flat operational overhead through innovative engineering and operational techniques.• Launch cross-departmental effort for improving scaling and reliability of services for both domestic and international divisions.• Define and implement systems and processes to comply with legal, accounting, and security requirements with minimal burden on development agility.

Cupertino, California, Us