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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

System Architect for a sequencing system including instruments, orchestration software and GPU-accelerated analysis engines. Brought teams from various computing and laboratory disciplines together to produce a concrete plan of the MVP under development.- Negotiated interfaces across teams to hit performance and timeline targets.- Established integration schedules and technical milestones to align cross-team development and promote visible progress.- Produced architectural specifications and presentation decks which established program alignment.- Performed computer system performance analysis resulting in achievable performance metrics.- Iterated customer and product requirements to ensure integrity. Reported on sequencing computing market trends.- Managed technical relationship with offshore development contractor.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

System Architect for the Multi-Tenant Cloud-Based IOT Platform for managing the workflows and devices of a Sequencing Lab including connectivity with the LRM and ICA APIs of Illumina Sequencers.- Ushered IOT Gateway for Sequencing through security and manufacturing reviews resulting in a clear path for customer deployments.- Established AWS best practices for deployment team.- Investigated tools and technologies and authored whitepapers resulting in bringing Cromwell on AWS and Nextflow in-house.- Designed APIs and managed technical relationship for integrating our cloud-based informatics platform with FMI genomics analysis engine resulting in a smooth development relationship between the two companies.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

Software Architect for Instrument Manager System Software prototype that performs sequencing and analysis. The architecture is a small SpringBoot web server exposing Authentication and ReST APIs that are consumed by instruments’ software and analysis software. As proof of-concept it laid the foundation for a future system.- Built a team.- Led the project and transitioned it to Scrum and Agile methodologies giving structure to product development.- Laid the foundations for system design to be used in future sequencer products.- Successfully MVP linking of the hardware sensors to control software, and simulated results to secondary analysis computer.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a system architect, I guided the development of our cloud-based video recording solution. We deployed the initial system using Rails, AWS, CloudFront, Docker and FFMPEG. This resulted in a positive customer integration.I led development of showcase web and mobile applications for the platform and product integration materials as a developer evangelist.I identified existing valuable IP, prepared patent specifications, and filed patents to develop investor value for potential VCs.Conference Presenter at WebRTC symposia and developer meetups.

I created Sensr.net jointly with my co-founders. Sensr.net is an open platform for analyzing, archiving and streaming data from internet-connected IP cameras. We built a scalable system capable of absorbing upload data from millions of data producers.My primary focus was the video pipeline. I architected, developed and deployed our scalable video pipeline for absorbing a combination of RTSP and HLS video formats through HTTP and FTP.I led our joint-engineering project with Ambarella and Chicony by producing specifications, leading meetings and developing test integration procedures. This resulted in the product launch of an H.264 IP-enabled camera from Chicony that integrated with Sensr.net.Startup activities included meeting with VCs, drafing patent specifications and filing patents. I also bought the office furniture and helped make it a comfortable place for our small team.

San Jose, Ca, Us

My work spanned two broad categories: Verification and Memory ArchitectureAs a manager, I led the development of simulation models and Verification IP used in our joint development programs with IBM and Sony. This resulted in a successful integration of Rambus PHYs and Memory Interfaces in the Sony Playstation PS3.As a Memory Architect, I drafted patent specifications for advanced DRAM memory architectures.Awards: Distinguished Inventor. Best Paper Award for CDN Live! 2006.

Moffett Field, California, Us

Original research and publications regarding parallelizing compilers for distributed memory supercomputers.Published chapter in book entitled "Parallel Programming in C++."MasPar, Cray YMP. HPC, High-Performance Fortran, C++, MPI.

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