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Los Angeles, CA, US

New York, US

Excited to be expanding access to mental healthcare. Leading and supporting the Privacy Platform team.

San Francisco, California, US

• Embedded in the team working on Segment's Control Plane Service (CPS) and Public API (PAPI).
• Undertook key projects including making Functions API endpoints available in PAPI, deprecating and shutting down outdated services, implementing many new endpoints in CPS, and handling critical security issues.
• Led a project to ensure data deletion in compliance with GDPR and CCPA requirements.
• Rejoined the Integrations team to spearhead the development of the Developer Center, a self-service portal for partners to create and manage integrations.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Took charge of the Functions product, previously the CTO's project, aimed at democratizing the creation of Segment integrations for partners, customers, and our professional services team.
• Successfully launched the Functions product to general availability.
• Directed the Integrations team of 8 full-time engineers, 2 contractors, and 2 high-value embedded engineers to address the critical need for improving the quality of the integrations catalog.
• Initiated Destination Actions, a new framework to improve code quality and maintainability, which became the standard for building new integrations.Acquired by Twilio

New York, NY, US

• Led a rapid scaling initiative for the SRE team, growing it from 6 to 45 members within 18 months to accommodate the organization's growth from 300 to 1200 engineers.
• Transitioned the team from a DevOps to an SRE model, emphasizing proactive infrastructure management and self-service tooling to enhance productivity.
• Directed the migration from Heroku to Kubernetes, involving the creation of Kubernetes clusters on AWS and the transition of every engineering team with self-service deployment tools, live training, and hands-on.
• Led the implementation of a comprehensive role-based access control system, including rapid provisioning and de-provisioning, capable of supporting the onboarding of 900 new engineers.
• Initiated and led a CEO-approved Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative, leveraging Flatiron School and existing WeWork resources to provide non-technical employees with opportunities to transition into.

• Architected and implemented production APIs for real-time 3D rendering applications
• Built and managed company-wide infrastructure, deployments, and automation
• Created command-line client for APIs for developers, administration and automation
• Automated remote deployments to fleet of hardware kiosks

San Francisco, California, US

• Subject matter expert on microservices architecture and container technologies
• Extensive research and exploratory development of mircoservice and container technologies
• Forged strategic partnerships with companies in the microservices and container space
• Worked with sales to tailor highly specialized solutions for clients in finance, government, & healthcare.
• Productized new architectures, including the Fabric Model and Router Mesh
• Collaborated in creation and delivery of microservices training programs, literature, and documentation.

San Francisco, California, US

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Pioneered agile practices at Huge.
• Team lead for multiple teams, including distributed teams.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to design technical architecture that supported both immediate and long-term product goals.
• Created custom service-oriented architecture with Symfony, combining the content of over 270 existing sites into one centralized web presence.
• Created a Solr/Lucene powered faceted search experience for a major NYC health care provider and other clients.

New York, New York, US

• Architected and implemented a complete re-build of StyleCaster.com, migrating the site from Symfony2 to Ruby on Rails, hosted on Heroku.

New York, NY, US

• Technical lead for multiple clients, including RollingStone and Live Nation.
• Managed a team of 10 backend and frontend developers.
• Built multiple custom content management systems.

New York, NY, US

• Troubleshoot and fix basic issues with web applications and server configurations in Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server as well as Linux, PHP, MySQL, ColdFusion and Apache.
• Set up and maintained development and production servers.
• Conducted research in preparation of the selection and design of new PHP based technologies for next generation e-commerce platform.
• Provided point of contact with off-shore development teams.

New York City, NY, US

• Developed a proprietary web based, data driven, and object oriented application used to manage live television show logistics. 90% of codebase is still in use.