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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

• Delivered under-budget performance at or above service SLAs 7 years in a row while company grew revenues 20+% YoY, conducted multiple acquisitions, and expanded to multiple countries, leading to acquisition by Insite Venture Partners for $752MM in 2014. • Wide impact across all aspects of technical strategy and execution; developed company-wide Project Management, IT, and QA organizations, in addition to executive roles for ~120-person multinational technical team. • Led multiple development initiatives to rearchitect critical service components; scaled proprietary databases and distributed filesystems to over 6 petabytes of storage and millions of requests per second across 4 datacenters. • Re-negotiated interface between customer care and technology organizations, redefined corporate bug triage/escalation process and staffed a multilevel development team dedicated to addressing customer-reported issues. • Increased product availability from 97% to 99.9% in first six months at the company with zero budget impact via DevOps/SRE practices. • Led initial migration from traditional datacenter facilities to hybrid cloud, including bare- metal/VMWare in traditional datacenter facilities and integration of acquisitions with infrastructure already in the cloud.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

• Responsible for all operational aspects of a complex technology stack ranging from embedded low-power sensors deployed in urban environments to mesh networks, databases, Ruby on Rails and mobile web applications deployed in the cloud (AWS).• Led developers responsible for key components, including proprietary Linux servers deployed on telephone poles, over-the-air reprogramming of remotely-deployed sensors, and data processing pipelines.• Staffed company’s first formal QA function and defined dev-to-production processes.• Drove a 20% improvement in availability of sensing systems via data-driven approaches to operational and engineering quality.

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• Recruited to found new server-side engineering team after leading efforts to rewrite/rearchitect ad serving platforms from inside Operations.• Introduced DevOps, low cycle-time, automated build, and automated testing practices.• Built horizontally-scaled multi-tiered Internet ad serving platform in Perl, C and C++ toserve hundreds of millions of ad impressions per day.

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• Scaled operations from 10 to over 1500 servers in 4 distributed, active-active data centers.• Ported proprietary ad-serving applications from C++/Windows to C and Perl on Linux,eventually assuming responsibility for all development activities related to ad serving.• Built distributed host/network/application monitoring system in Perl and mySQL with smart alert aggregation, suppression, and trend reporting. • Automated OS and application installs so that the entire environment could be managed by a staff of five.

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