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Boston, Ma, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Tidepool is an open source, not-for-profit company focused on liberating data from diabetes devices, supporting researchers, and providing great, free software to people with diabetes and their care teams. We are also developing Tidepool Loop, a hybrid closed loop automatic insulin delivery system for iPhone.We are 100% remote and hiring! https://tidepool.org/jobs/

Developed global intelligent cloud services such as Universal Guide, Recommendations and Unified Metadata for Samsung's smart consumer devices (TVs, mobile phones, tablets, etc.).Key Technologies: AWS; Scala, Java, Node.js, Ruby; PostgreSQL, DynamoDB; Redis, Kafka, Spark; React, AngularJS, Bootstrap; Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Directed the design, development and deployment of a brand new large scale cloud service for Seagate's consumer products.• Pivoted team to new product direction following acquisition, retaining 100% of staff.• Took over and re-built the cloud service engineering team from ground up.• Drove new project from concept to design to completion in 7 months while maintaining 100% uptime with existing service customers.• Collaborated with client teams in US, France and India.Key Technologies: AWS; Scala, Gradle; Cassandra, Solr, Redis; Finagle, Finatra, Swagger; AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap.

Directed engineering team building a new consumer product that creates a private cloud of customers' personal photos and videos across all their devices. Content is accessible securely via peer-to-peer networking on every device without having to upload them to any cloud service.• Successfully launched v1.0 product under intense schedule pressure, and followed up with 3 major software releases in less than year to introduce new features.• Developed core foundational cross-platform library used to build all client applications for iOS, Android, OS X, and Windows. It provided all core product features including security, network, database, search, synchronization, metadata and image/video processing.• Championed development of over 2,200 automated unit and system tests to continuously integrate high quality code. Developed several in-house tools to reduce team's time-to-fix and enable support to resolve customer issues faster.Key Technologies: iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, Linux; SQLite3, peer-to-peer (P2P), networking, imaging, security, databases, protobuf, NDK, SDK; jQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap; Sinatra, Padrino, EventMachineLyve Minds was acquired by Seagate Technology in August 2015.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Built the multimedia framework software team that developed the Amazon Fire TV. Collaborated with Amazon Instant Video team to improve media playback experience.Key Technologies: Android (ICS & JB), TI OMAP, Qualcomm 8064Additional Keywords: Git, Perforce, Jira, Jenkins, Hudson

San Jose, Ca, Us

Developed and launched two photography web services, Photoshop.com and Adobe Revel (formerly Carousel). Spearheaded the expansion of Adobe's business from shrink-wrap desktop software into large scale consumer web services. Worked with globally distributed teams in the U.S., India, Germany, UK, and Romania.Built web services using both leased hosting providers as well as Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, etc.). Drove integrations with 3rd party web services such as Facebook, Google (Picasa & Gmail), Flickr, Photobucket, and Microsoft. Successfully championed TDD/BDD and Continuous Integration (CI) methodologies to reduce release cycles down to minutes from 12+ months.Key Technologies: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, VMware; nginx, Apache; Merb, Unicorn, Sinatra, Padrino; MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Splunk; Ruby, Lua, Perl, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, ActionScript, Flex; HTTP, HTML, CSSAdditional Keywords: API, REST, SDK, WADL; Full Stack, Virtualization; Mercurial, Git, Github, Perforce, Jenkins, Hudson, CruiseControl, Pivotal

San Jose, California, Us

Directed staff of up to 7 managers and 55 engineers. Led software development for TiVo platforms since the original Series2 product in 2000 culminating in the release of the Series3 HD product in 2006.Scaled the team's capacity to release up to four products per year in parallel, up from single product, enabling the company's customer base to grow over 100%. Partnered with system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors to define requirements and negotiate features.Key Technologies: Linux, MIPS, Broadcom, Atmel, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, CableCARD, DVR, DVD

Led a team of up to 9 software engineers in developing application and driver software for Canon's digital still and video cameras and flatbed scanners to target diverse hardware platforms and operating systems, including PCs, PDAs, and set-top boxes.Canon Information Systems Inc. was a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan. It is now named Canon Development Americas.Key Technologies: Windows, TWAIN, WIA, DV; x86, MIPS

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Developed software solutions for security and telecommunications products.Developed several key components of the LanFax Redirector product family. It received Best of Times Award from LAN Times magazine in 1993 and 1994.

Helsinki, Fi

Signal Officer commanding a platoon of 30 soldiers to plan and execute all communications for mobile armored jaeger (infantry) units up to brigade strength.