Delivered individual contributor engineering work and managed the engineering department for this Series A ML infrastructure company* Optimized real-time inference APIs, increasing concurrency and lowering cost through Gevent and asyncio* Implemented model inference concurrency with GPU sharing* Implemented SOC2 and HIPAA compliance controls system-wide* Directly managed Baseten software engineers, driving performance and professional growth goals* Created and owned operational excellence standards and ceremonies* Owned engineering department hiring* Drove major product initiatives through squad ceremonies and data-driven releases* Tech ⇾ Python, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Django, KServe, CUDA, Stable Diffusion, Pandas, PyTorch, Tensorflow, LLMs

Managing and leading the Prime Video Creative Personalization team responsible for building and maintaining machine learning models and real-time inference for artwork personalization across Prime Video. Drove 2.9% worldwide increase in streams through the teams' artwork recommendation systems.Responsibilities include: managing all hiring, retention and career growth for Creative Personalization engineers and scientists; ideating, scoping and driving executive and team-level goals; ideating, scoping, planning, and scheduling engineering and applied science initiatives; managing operational budget; and driving team-level operational, engineering and science standards.Continuing to build and improve on our artwork personalization model using: data-driven feature ideation and resourcing; offline applied science analysis and predicted lift assessments; engineering design, implementation, and testing; and A/B experiments to determine effectiveness.

Managed and led the Routing team, responsible for routing all AWS CloudFront requests worldwide to the best data center based on factors such as latency, capacity and cost.Delivered projects that drove worldwide latency decreases, POP overload reduction, networking cost decreases, and operational load reductions. Participated in escalation on-call for a tier-1 service, CloudFront. Responsibilities included customer escalations and wordings; cross-team operational issues; and org-wide operations ceremonies.

Ran Vevo's Engineering team, which includes direct management of 5 Engineering Managers with 30+ Software Engineers. Teams included Product, Platform, Web, TV, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Content Operations.Managed all hiring, vendor relationships, hosting and infrastructure costs, outside consultancy and contracting.Collaborated with senior leadership on high-level goals, direction, and value-add for Vevo Engineering on a short and long-term basis.Developed technical and operational Engineering standards applied on a departmental-level.Actively worked on internal engineering libraries and projects.

Managed the team responsible for developing, scaling, and maintaining Vevo's platform services.Led systems engineering, architecture, and standards for all of Vevo Engineering.Implemented company-wide standards for software development, building, testing, tooling, monitoring, metrics and system reliability.Designed and developed highly scalable feature services and tooling for use across Vevo Engineering. Designed and implemented service framework for easy development, deployment, management, and monitoring of Java back-end applications.Code written in Java, Groovy, and Python.

Designed and developed platform services for this media startup, building an online video sharing community. Focus on high scalability, reliability, and velocity.Funded by TrueVentures. Acquired by Vevo, establishing the Portland Vevo office.

Developed platform feature services and internal frameworks on the Architecture team for Jive's core internal collaboration software.High touch areas included authentication, rendering frameworks, SSO, content creation, JVM optimization, and core service frameworks.Majority of software written in Java and Python.

Designed, developed, and implemented processing and reporting systems for this market research firm.Developed custom analytics and reporting systems for accounting firms, non-profit organizations, and medium-sized corporations. Interacted directly with clients to define requirements and timelines for delivery.Code written in Java, PHP and C#.

Planned, developed, and implemented product integration and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise storage systems. Software used block-by-block replication over TCP/IP with heavily integrated SCSI components.Code written in Java and PHP.