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Denver, CO, US

Denver, CO, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Focus: SaaS Growth Strategy / Scaling Engineering Teams & Systems / Optimizing COGSStack: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Django, Redis, ReactBeyond powers millions of vacation rentals, driving billions.
• Scaled Engineering Team: Grew the engineering organization from 16 to 49 engineers across 9 squads within 18 months. Revamped the engineering hiring practice, developed career paths, and maintained an annual retention.
• COGS Optimization: Reduced hosting COGS by 44% while supporting a 172% increase in traffic. Negotiated contracts resulting in 11% additional savings and decreased cost per listing by 63%.
• CI/CD Excellence: Achieved 1,298 production deployments per month with 99.98% application uptime, a 0.03% Change Failure Rate, and a Mean Time to Restore of 26 minutes.
• Data Infrastructure Modernization: Scaled systems from processing 2TB/day using a proprietary MapReduce implementation to processing 30TB/day using Kafka, Airflow, Spark, and Dataproc.
• Cloud Migration: Led the migration from monolithic, vertically scaled instances to cross-cloud providers using elastic container orchestration (Nomad) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Chicago, IL, US

• Focus: Startup tech team & architecture / SaaS growth strategy / Capital raiseStack: Cordova / Vue / Node / Postgres / AWS (Elemental/ECS/RDS)Chill has developed a modern approach to meditation. No chanting, no dogmas.
• Participating in company strategy and capital raising activities
• Providing direction and strategy for architecture (AWS / React Native / Vue / Node / Elemental)
• Helping the Ukraine based development team on specific technical blockers
• Supporting the product team build and prioritize the roadmap

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

• The Chicago CTO Group is a private Chicago based network of over 300 software executives aimed at increasing diversity in STEM at a young age and exchanging ideas, sharing experiences, helping each other and the.
• Organizing monthly round table group meetups up to 50 participants
• Coordinating quarterly speaker events and panels with top industry experts
• Implementing a 501.c3 incorporation to give back and grow the Chicago Tech community

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Focus: SaaS growth strategy / Scaling Product and Engineering teams, culture and processesStack: Kotlin / Swift / React /.NET / AzureWe’ve built Livly to deliver unmatched digital experiences to residents, superpowers.
• Grew the product and engineering organization from one 19 engineers flat team to 39 engineers contributing as 5 cross functional squads (PO, UI/UX, iOS Swift, Android Kotlin, React/Redux, Backend.NET and QA) and a.
• Supported 5 internally promoted squad leads as hybrid Engineering Manager and Individual Contributors, and collaborated with offshore staff augmentation resources in Chile and a project based team in Russia
• Implemented quarterly planning cadence, matching stretch delivery product commitments to the board with 37 net new and enhanced product features over Q4 2019 and Q1 2020
• Controlled a 2 weeks sprint cadence for squads, supported by a fully automated CI/CD Azure DevOps pipeline
• Improved SDLC and Trunk Based Development practices resulting in 60% increase in velocity, lowered unreviewed PR from over 50% to less than 10% and halved response time on code reviews to 45 minutes

San Ramon, California, US

• Reputation.com acquired SIM Partners on 3/1/2018 ***Focus: M&A / Product offering and tech team integration / Offshore teams managementStack: Angular / Java / Spring Boot / Redis / RabbitMQ / Mongo / ES / AWS &.
• Led international Engineering operations across Chile, India and the USA. Participated in increasing the organization's footprint by implementing and leveraging both offshore and onshore outsourcing models. Built a.
• Led the post M&A technology integration efforts, effectively coupling 50% of the original code baseline, resulting in the ability to expand ex-SIM clients on the complete reputation.com stack as well as up-selling the.
• Supported training and coaching of the whole ex-SIM engineering team from.NET/React to Java/Spring/Mongo/Elasticsearch/Maven/RabbitMQ/Redis/Angular, with no attrition, delivering our first projects with near perfect.
• Led the adoption and improvement of Agile practices throughout the entire Engineering organization, implemented and leveraged an Agile KPIs framework while coaching teams from no agile practice to 90% maturity.
• Promoted migration efforts from DevOps scripts automation, to dockers containers and Kubernetes orchestration, resulting in a drastic reductions of release outages, increase of delivery speeds and shortening of TTM.

San Ramon, California, US

• Focus: SaaS growth strategy / M&A / Product planning / Software architectureStack: React /.NET / AWS (EC2/Lambda/Glue/Redshift)Oversee Engineering, Product, DevOps, IT, Security and Infrastructure for a venture-backed.
• Supported SIM Partners ARR growth strategy. Led the technology positioning aspect of the M&A Process, resulting in an executed acquisition agreement with reputation.com within a 3 months timeframe.
• Initiated platform enhancements to improve UX and streamline Client Success communication channels, resulting in part of a drastic shortening of new clients onboarding timelines by over 80%, reducing churn to 9% and.
• Established a flexible and cost-efficient staff augmentation solution through near-shore outsourcing, growing a dedicated.NET/AWS engineering team in Chile, increasing overall Engineering throughput by 50%.
• Raised and moderated a cross-team initiative to design and implement a comprehensive Glue ETL, S3 Data Lake, Redshift Data Warehouse and Periscope presentation BI strategy which benefited multiple product lines.

San Ramon, California, US

• Focus: Startup and scale product and engineering teams and architecture / Offshore staff augStack: React /.NET / AWS (EC2/Lambda/Glue/Redshift)Build and scale the technology team and platform from the ground up. Lead.
• Led the technology share of yearly budget planning efforts and grew its budget from 0 to $5M. Established a scalable engineering culture and team structure running 5 development teams, supported by an AgileOps and a.
• Participated in capital raising and due diligence activities through SIM Partners' $13M Jump Capital and River Cities backed Series A and B.
• Led the full cloud migration of SIM Partners' stack to AWS, with no system downtime and providing multi-AZ, multi-region, and multi-cloud providers redundancy. Achieved 99.99999% measured systems uptime over 36 months.
• Improved engineering work accountability, traceability, and predictability, by defining a KPI framework based on SaaS industry standards. Established a complete Agile framework and automated tracking for SCRUM and.
• Promoted Machine Learning training resulting in the development of a proprietary clustering and conflation classifier. Leveraged sentiment analysis NLP libraries and automated time-intensive data mapping workflows by.

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Founded Epsilon Force in 2002 and operated as CTO. Epsilon Force was a near-shore Agile Software Development shop comprised of 12 engineers, providing services on a variety of projects from US-based startups to large Chilean corporations.The Epsilon Force team developed a cross-sell integrated booking engine for airlines to enable hotel bookings, car.

Schaumburg, IL, US

Led a 3-developer team and implemented a back-end and front-end web solution for a leading US dating service over ASP/COM/ADO/SQL Server 6.5. Subsequently migrated the system to ASP.NET/ADO.NET/SQL Server 2000.

Master'S Degree, Software Engineering

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