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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Honolulu, Hawaii, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Led MLOps platform technology integration after Algorithmia acquisition, adding $51M ARR• Executive committee member of Architecture Guild; prioritized and planned documentation, principles, and technical review improvement efforts across 400-person organization• Introduced and evangelized Kubernetes best-practices, decreasing production incident rate by 25% and increasing overall platform availability for ~90 services• Revamped technical design review function, reducing overall time-to-production and increasing feature robustness

• Overall platform architectural owner, large cross-product project lead• Led cloud platform effort into VMWare and Google Cloud, doubling installed customer base.• Led major feature development of unified logging, insights, and event flow systems, providing major operational features for managing costs, controlling infrastructure usage, and monitoring• Drove engineering excellence through the development of reusable software building blocks and frameworks, critical software engineering, and recruiting and hiring best practices• Engineering Steering Committee member for all technology use and development; provided critical feedback on projects to ensure high-quality, uniform technology standards and re-use

Honolulu, Hi, Us

Tutor primary, middle, and high school students in various subjects (mathematics, reading, etc)

Seattle, Washington, Us

Comprehensive technical interviewing for top-tier engineering companies to ensure that great talent gets noticed, by reducing interview bias and letting candidates show their true ability.

Chicago, Il, Us

Build out of automated, demand-based product pricing systems for revenue optimization; responsible for designing and building scalable data processing and serving platforms for multiple business verticals. Member of company-wide technology review committee, providing critical design feedback to individual teams building new software services. Technical mentor for other junior and senior engineers, leading engineering and design training for software and operations teams.Developed and built natural language aspect, opinion, and sentiment summarization tools for extracting the "essence" of merchants; powering search, discovery, and analytics. Using Scala, Spark, CoreNLP, and various messagebus technologies for both real-time individual text processing and batch updates.Data science researcher, bridging the gap between data science and production-grade engineering efforts. Main research yielded a) patent-pending crowdsource-enhanced entity resolution systems for merchant data, and b) unsupervised and active-learning machine learning models for fixing entity resolution mistakes using crowdsourced oracle data.Designed, built, and supported APIs and services for enterprise-wide data processing platform, serving data from a custom large-scale entity resolution and business data enrichment processing and serving system using Java, Storm, Griddle, Tomcat, message bus technologies.

Engineered an iPhone client, website, and backend processing components of a crowd-sourced public transit information application for the iOS mobile platform, designed to provide real-time transit system arrival information to patrons.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Performed migration of multiple enterprise-wide perimeter security applications for single-sign-on • Analyzed and documented dependency requirements for existing software and upgraded various open-source and internal components, adjusting code to use newer APIs• Rewrote components as necessary to use better object-oriented design and modularity

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Designed and implemented a distributed work queue framework for concurrent backend processing of various data jobs. Wrote a product image engine for high-throughput conversion of raw product images.Created a single-sign-on backed security framework for unified user management for both externally and internally facing web applications. Implemented significant amounts high-visibility areas of those web applications, using modern AJAX techniques to implement an application-like feel.Installed and maintained continuous integration software to promote automatic, repeatable builds, to ensure consistent quality of code and to reduce developer interaction with environment promotion process.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Developed and supported major trading and risk technologies for Global Foreign Exchange, including a algorithmic trading engine for automatic market order execution on 3 exchanges, post-trade engine processing 30,000+ trades daily, and a legal compliance tracking tool to detect illegal market order execution.Managed the development of a Corporate Actions portal for processing of bank-wide corporate actions, with all tiers development including a custom ETL engine for message processing with on-the-fly rule management.Started agile practices corporate research development team, including daily standups, continuous integration for software, and unit testing (which was previous lacking entirely).

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Project manager and software developer for innovative confections marketing software package.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Designed and programmed a computer simulation model to be used by NASA scientists in solar panel research. Used collective talents in mathematical systems modeling and computer programming to bridge knowledge gap among scientists.

Master’S Degree, Computational Data Science, Very Large Information Systems, Computer Science, Bigdata Systems

Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science, Integrated Science