Stu Thompson Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Ads Data Architecture and Engineering focused on 1st and 3rd party ingestion, data management, ad capacity, reporting and cost control with Cloud Data Store, BigQuery, Hive, Presto, Metabase and Zeppelin. The ads data scope is significant, billions of events per day for several years and measuring in the multiple petabyte range.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Technical lead of "Haymaker" project, Pandora's in house ad server, mediation service & VAST+ event pipeline. Distributed, large scale, high volume, high availability platform based on legacy-Pandora infrastructure: Java, Jetty, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, proprietary VM on Debian in multiple data centers. Architecture, development and operations. Mentorship and knowledge share with a new team of engineers in Pandora's new Atlanta Engineering office. The most personally rewarding contribution was guiding ad delivery and log ingestion through Pandora and SoundCloud's migration of audio ads from DFP display ad server to AdsWizz's platform. It was a long hard slog but we did it. Ask me about it!

Oakland, Ca, Us

Technical lead of "Haymaker" project, Pandora's in house ad server, mediation service & VAST+ event pipeline. Distributed, large scale, high volume, high availability platform based on legacy-Pandora infrastructure: Java, Jetty, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, proprietary VM on Debian in multiple data centers. Architecture, development and operations. SOX and TAG compliance. Mentorship of a great team of engineers at various levels of seniority. Occasional technical due diligence responsibilities. The most personally rewarding contribution was FKclient, a (Franz) Kafka configuration and monitoring wrapper used by Haymaker and other Pandora services. Ask me about it!

Oakland, Ca, Us

Engineer on "Haymaker" project, Pandora's in house ad server for proprietary ad formats. Distributed, , high availability platform based on legacy-Pandora infrastructure: Java, Jetty, Redis, proprietary VM on Debian in multiple data centers. Architecture, development and operations. The most personally rewarding contribution was the quadratic function based ad pacing algorithm. Ask me about it!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As the leader of the platform team, my role at Forio covers server side software development, production platform operations, and management. While developing Forio's third generation simulation platform, Epicenter, we also maintained existing systems. Technologies employed included Java, Bash, Python, Ruby, Ansible, RESTful APIs, MongoDB, JSON, Ansible, Docker, Lua, Amazon AWS, RDS, S3 & EC2. Over the past two years I have a couple of key strategic accomplishments worthy of highlighting:* Taken development of Epicenter from initial concept through to public launch* Reduced cloud infrastructure costs (AWS) by 30%* Introduced detailed system, service and application monitoring systems* Co-Founded the Bay Area Julia Users Meetup and hosted/produced 7 meetups

Zürich, Zurich, Ch

* The long-term development ownership of SMS2—architecture, implementation, performance tuning, maintenance, custom integration and second line support * Full ownership of production infrastructure: vendor negotiation, specification, build, installation, maintenance and monitoring of SaaS platform. Seven x86 servers, 10Gbps networking, and 9TB redundant NAS with >99.9% up time * Project management of three near-shore developers in Dnipropetrovsk, UkraineThe vast majority of my coding activities were with Java, Spring, Tomcat, Bash, MySQL, AMF versions 1 & 3, OpenAMF and BlazeDS. There was also frequent exposure and debugging of Flex/ActionScript3 and 3rd party LAMP applications.Critical accomplishments include: * Tuning of SMS2 over four years via Java heap analysis, NIO benchmarking, leading to a 20x increase in capacity * Reduction of infrastructure costs by 50% year-on-year while increasing capacity by 33% year-on-year through negotiation and new data center project * Self built 9TB two-node network attached storage, for a small fraction the cost of (DRBD, NFS, Ubuntu, commodity hardware)

Chiang Mai, Th

In 2003 the company was purchased by Virtue Broadcasting Plc, and again in 2004 by World Television.

Virtue Broadcasting purchased Unit.Net in the summer of 2003.

London, Gb

World Television purchased Virtu Broadcasting in the summer of 2004.