As the lead engineer on the DSP pacing team, I spearheaded the effort to modernize the component architecture and enable a move to cloud based infrastructure. Deconstructing a monolithic application deployed on bare metal machines into a set of stateless, event driven microservices deployed in kubernetes created a 50-60% reduction in compute resources, while allowing for rolling releases without outage and on demand scaling. All while continuing to achieve our most important KPIs: sub millisecond performance for millions of requests per second, and distribution of the state of thousands of active advertising campaigns across multiple global data centers in under 5 seconds.

At the world's largest wordpress host, I worked to deliver a new hosting platform for wordpress. A fully containerized LAMP stack delivered on Kubernetes and deployed in both CGP and Azure, this new platform and its supporting automation will result in infrastructure cost savings of over 50% for our customer workloads as well as reduce support and operational toil while facilitating more rapid iteration of feature development on the platform.

I lead the effort to turn a prototype application for oil and gas producers into a scalable multi-tenant SaaS application. While working here with a small team and outside contractors, we moved the entire application to the AWS cloud, added significant new features, and built and deployed the second version of the user interface with an all-new user experience. This effort resulted in generating over 50k of new monthly recurring revenue for this business while reducing infrastructure costs.

Working at Maana, I developed digital knowledge solutions on the Maana platform. In addition to my consulting work with industrial and oil and gas customers, I worked to define standards and practices for software architecture and development for the Customer Solutions business unit, and worked with executive leadership to improve the processes for developing and delivering software.

As a Software Engineer at MacroFab, I worked with a small team of full stack developers on a next generation manufacturing platform for electronics. As an agile (scrum) team, we focused on bringing new features to market as quickly as possible using a microservices architecture deployed on Elastic Container Service in AWS. My primary responsibility was our processing backend, which accepts design and manufacturing files in multiple formats and normalizes them so that our production facilities can produce the customer’s products efficiently and with high quality. In addition, I performed a large amount of the DevOps and automation work that allowed us to rapidly iterate while building and deploying the software.

As a Distinguished Engineer on the Architecture team, I was a part of a technical leadership team that helped other engineering teams succeed. Operating primarily in a consultancy role, I assisted our DevOps organization with efforts to stabilize our cloud-based infrastructure and help define the next version of our continuous integration and delivery platform.In addition, I was primarily responsible for training and onboarding new engineers and teams to our web services platform and framework. I also was one of the primary evangelists and educators for our architectural and technical guiding principles and best practices.I was also one of three engineering leaders chosen to work on our strategy team. In this role, I reported to the Chief Strategy Officer, and along with the team was responsible for defining the long-term product roadmap and the technical strategy necessary to achieve the business's goals.

As Director of Engineering, I developed, supported, and enabled multiple software engineering teams working around the world. I staffed and mentored these teams and was accountable for their deliverables while creating an environment where they can thrive.As Director of Engineering I develop, support, and enable multiple software engineering teams working around the world. I staff and mentor these teams and am accountable for their deliverables while creating an environment where they can thrive.I coordinate our engineering efforts with other organizations in the company, working directly with executives in all parts of the business to deliver new software products and features. Collaborating with product management, I use my experience to help define features that are technically feasible and solve customer problems; and negotiate with stakeholders to prioritize the product roadmap.By providing technical thought leadership and evangelizing disciplined and modern software engineering principles, I ensure we are building solutions that provide value to customers and are high in quality, reducing operating expenses and allowing for rapid delivery.I coordinated our engineering efforts with other organizations in the company, working directly with executives in all parts of the business to deliver new software products and features. Collaborating with product management, I used my experience and domain knowledge to help define features that are technically feasible and solve customer problems; and negotiated with stakeholders to prioritize the product roadmap.By providing technical thought leadership and evangelizing disciplined and modern software engineering principles, I ensured we were building solutions that provide value to customers and are high in quality, reducing operating expenses and allowing for rapid delivery.

As a Principal Engineer for Cloud Insight, I was responsible for helping define the overall direction of the product, system architecture and development best practices, as well as leading a team of developers working on a subset of the system’s micro-services.Cloud Insight was developed to create software-defined security in a dynamic ever-changing environment. Driven completely by micro-service APIs with a thin client UI, this product leverages AWS APIs and uses cross account IAM access to continuously assess the customer environment and ensure the latest information regarding the security posture is always available. Using this information, we then provide simple, concise recommendations for remediating security issues in the environment, while providing navigable relationships to cloud entities, such as security groups, AMIs, and launch configurations, allowing you to focus your security efforts in a manner consistent with your software deployment methodology.

As architect for Alert Logic's Web Security Manager product, I oversaw a couple of major initiatives. The first project was one of integration - taking a stand alone solution that we acquired and converting it to Software as a Service to more closely meet the needs of our customers and service delivery teams. Once the SaaS product was launched, we then developed a version of the software that runs natively on Amazon Web Services and works with AWS services to provide an auto scaling Web Application Firewall solution. As part of the software release I spoke, along with our Chief Strategy Officer, at Amazon's Re:Invent conference in November 2013 about our solution and about auto scaling security in the AWS cloud.

As the UI Lead, Platform Services at Alert Logic, I was responsible for leading the team developing the next generation services and modular framework that will allow us to deliver multiple unique products in a consistent user interface. We have created a user interface and web services platform that abstracts out issues of scale, performance, data access and consistency, input and output validation, access control, and other common functionality to a set of easily used and implemented standards, controls, and APIs. By using an array of existing technologies and combining them into a service-oriented architecture, we have allowed product teams to move forward and deliver on their requirements. While enabling rapid development and a modular deployment methodology that insulates products from one another, limiting side effects and enhancing the ability to test and release new software.

As a Senior Developer at Alert Logic, I was responsible for helping to design and implement both front and back end solutions for our Threat and Log products. I helped create new solutions and maintained existing projects in a variety of programming languages, from JavaScript and PHP; to Perl, C, and Erlang, while being able to deliver against requirements in a timely manner.

As the IT director, I was responsible for a staff that managed over twenty websites. I was ultimately responsible for all internet marketing, website design, server administration, and web related hardware and software. While at Global Healing Center, I was also instrumental in making significant changes to increase revenue, including launching a completely redesigned website, implementing a new customer retention email campaign, and making changes to the product lineup and shopping cart that resulted in a cart size increase of over 30%.

As the IT director, I was responsible for two PHP/MySQL e-commerce websites, multiple MySQL databases, the internal network (Windows Server 2003 domain) and all internal issues, as well as managing PPC campaigns at pricing comparison sites such as shopping.com. I managed a staff of computer technicians and was ultimately responsible for customer technical support and the computer service department.

At EV1, I supported Cobalt RAQ servers running Redhat Linux 6. I was responsible for supporting customer issues with server software such as Apache, Sendmail, MySQL, and intend, as well as BIND and proFTPd. Other responsibilities included installing system software, kernel configuration, hardware support, and maintaining servers at a colocation facility.