Todd Markle Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

West Hollywood, California, United States

Data is a cross-functional niche. I assist teams like product, finance, legal, and engineering navigate the space. Sometimes this means soup-to-nuts specification development. Some days it means solving mysteries. More often it's just advising people on how to get things done in a way that can be planned and delivered.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Cloud Engineering team (GCP)* Build-out of Python data libraries and tools.* Packaging, versioning, and launch strategies.* Design and build job control framework.* Job orchestration (Airflow).

Greater Los Angeles Area

Client: Conduce* Wrote an engineering training manual for a data start-up (hands-on working code examples).* Wrote product proposals for external consumption.Client: Metapop* Served as the technical co-founder of a new music start-up* Gathered data from various sources to demonstrate market potential and feasibility.* Wrote the engineering budget (salaries, services, capital) under various product scenarios.

Global, With Backpack

Homeless, jobless, with backpack. Traveled on seven continents. Volunteered where helpful-- mentored some tech students in South African schools. Helped track some endangered animals.

Pasadena, Ca

• The third engineer to join the U.S. OpenX team. I wrote the technical spec for nearly every data initiative for the first four years or so-- from before the first impression, to an annual run over 3 trillion impressions.• Decided what data to capture, what aggregations to run, how to deliver data, contents of the many internal feeds. • Designed the enterprise forecasting product, the campaign throttling product, and the enterprise reporting product.• Wrote the data client that integrated outside partners with OpenX data.• For the first two years, I doubled as chief analyst, doing investigations of data irregularities and impression loss.• In the fifth year, I wrote tools to help clarify traffic quality. (Map-reduce queries, visualization tools, pulls from external vendor data, etc.)• In my last 6 months, I taught classes in ad tech to incoming engineers.

• Technical owner of the Stats program, which was the principle tool by which advertisers,publishers, and internal employees received reporting and financial data.• Increased uptime from 80% to over 99% in the first six months.• Reduced time to deliver reports by a factor of six or more.• Capacity and feature set increased-- more customers, bigger datasets.• Manged priorities, product goals, launch cycles, feature integration, etc.• Recruited, trained, and supervised developers.

This is the same position listed above. Overture was a search company purchased by Yahoo

San Mateo, Ca

• Developed web applications, data-driven web sites, and various other tools for private companies and municipalities.• Clients included Payme.com, Linear Electronics, Valley Transit Authority (Santa Clara County California transit), MARTA (Atlanta Georgia transit). •Wrote and deployed software, pitched projects to clients, wrote RFP's, managed customerexpectations and deliverables, recruited and trained assistants.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Wrote various backend tools for an on-line payment company. (I leave this here so the PayMe crew can find me in searches).

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Bioengineering

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