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Staff and Support Engineering teams, with products and systems across their lifecycle. Work together with leadership team to ensure smooth operations and meet upcoming needs. Ensure clarity of delivery objectives and business impact of our efforts.Infrastructure for multi-cloud platform that puts the Engine in WP Engine.

Managing the Performance and Reliability teams in the Platform group. Coaching engineers to grow their impact in alignment with the business results identified by Product. Driving processes towards self-service and independent execution within clear boundaries to support security and reporting goals.

Architecture review and consultation, Secure development practices, Authnz, Mapping processes and technical controls to specific audit ready evidence, Webinars, Incident response, Customer consultation, Telemetry, Logging, Signatures, Abuse value chain disruption.

Software Architecture has seen me through a wide variety of projects: writing the scripts behind an massive 80k site migration dubbed "Falcon Punch", leading key milestones for internal integration projects, mitigating 0-day attacks on the WordPress ecosystem, and setting up new software projects for success.

Leading, recruiting, mentoring, performance management, project management, sprint planning, root cause analysis, retrospectives, product management, light feature development, requirements analysis, incident management, communications, and just plain pushing on hard problems and getting them solved, I wore many hats while helping WP Engine scale enough as an organization to allow specialization.

Break out modules and make them testable. Script dependency graph generation. Understand WordPress. Widen and remove Bottlenecks. Champion sandboxes.

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Software Developer - Code CollaboratorIts a Java Web App on a roughly J2EE stack, plus client software in Eclipse RCP/SWT and a command line tool.Patience Diff Algorithm (Usually nicer diffs than Eclipse's RangeDifferencer)Built and maintained multiple SCM Integrations: Perforce, Git, Subversion, Synergy, Team ConcertCustomer Advocate

"Deep" support for tax applicationsOracle database administrationTranslated PowerBuilder8 (9?) to Visual Basic (.NET 2.0)Reworked some crystal reports to run 100x faster via relational algebra simplifications

It is not easy being person of the year, but in 2006 I stepped up and helped do my part.