Summary
I'm passionate about solving complex engineering problems with pragmatic solutions while also building effective and cohesive organizations of developers. I specialize in data processing and ingestion systems although I like learning and working at any part of the stack, from devops to analytics and everything in between.
- I've built high throughput and reliable infrastructure in a plethora of languages with a focus on data engineering that supports machine learning & data science.
- I've built multiple teams and organizations from single digit developers to acquisition and beyond
- I've managed pretty much every type of developer and love the challenge of getting all the pieces to work together
- I love interacting cross functionally and up/down the organization from ICs to executives
Most importantly, I love building communities of people that enjoy each other's company while building
awesome products & infrastructure.
Work Experience
Kinsa Inc.
San Francisco, CA
VP of Engineering, Data
2022 - 2023
Director of Engineering, Data
2020 - 2022
- Kinsa is a connected thermometer company that anonymously aggregates temperature readings to create a surveillance system for disease. I joined Kinsa to scale and optimize their core ingestion and ML-powered illness processing pipelines. Concurrently, I built a robust data org including a data engineering team, a data science team and an epidemiologist-focused analyst team. I loved building a surveillance system for illness while also finding novel product uses for our aggregated illness data. The systems we built 10Xed Kinsa's recurring revenue from data to almost $5 million. Most of the infrastructure is written in Python.
WeWork Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Senior Manager, Presence
2019 - 2020
- WeWork acquired Euclid to cheaply and ubiquitously detect occupancy levels of it's spaces without serious infrastructure investment. I navigated the vicissitudes of pre and post IPO attempt at WeWork along with the subsequent global pandemic without suffering serious attrition. The Euclid wifi tech ended up having some lasting usefulness in the WeWork technology stack as being able to understand realtime occupancy was required for reopening post-pandemic. We migrated most of our Scala code to Go and all of our AWS infrastructure to K8s.
Euclid Inc. (Acquired by WeWork)
San Francisco, CA
VP of Engineering
2017 - 2019
Director of Engineering
2017 - 2017
Engineering Manager, Applications
2016 - 2017
Software Engineer, Backend
2015 - 2016
- Euclid was a company that used WiFi infrastructure to passively detect occupancy levels of brick and mortar spaces to more effectively advertise to customers. Went from software engineering to engineering leadership at Euclid through the trials and tribulations of trying to sell wifi analytics products. Built and maintained the ingestion and processing structure for wifi data that handled hundreds of millions of events per day. Grew into management starting with one team and ending on the leadership team. We built a wonderful engineering organization that was center to getting acquired by WeWork. Euclid used Scala for ingestion and Scala/Spark/EMR for processing with Python/Flask APIs.
Appredeem Inc. (Acquired by Perk.com)
San Francisco, CA
Full Stack Engineer
2012 - 2014
- Full stack engineer focused primarily in data analytics and backend API development for a mobile advertising app (Apptrailers) and a messaging application (Smug). Along with API development, focused in fraud analysis and detection along with user acquisition monitoring and classification. In addition, created a datawarehouse for tracking access logs and large data tables using Infobright DB. Backend API for Apptrailers was primarily PHP/MySQL, Smug was written entirely with Ruby/Redis.
Zephyr Health Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Data Science Intern
2011 - 2012
- Modeled physician networks so that pharmaceutical companies could more efficiently target marketing efforts. The networks were directed, weighted and derived from both public and proprietary data. Developed methods to automate mining techniques where required. Performed network analysis to generate target lists of network-defined prominent physicians. Aided in the development of an application to display and manipulate networks for visualization purposes. Worked primarily in PHP/MySQL and jQuery.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
Student Scholar
2010 - 2012
- Duties consisted of building and maintaining various operational applications, including a process improvement application, a student presentation application and a software risk grading application. Worked primarily in LassoScript, PHP and jQuery.
Certified Equity Professionals Institute
Santa Clara, CA
Systems Administrator
2009 - 2011
- Duties included debugging and implementing a new application designed for the CEP. This involved overseeing implementation of the new system, maintaining it and adding new functionalities required by the CEP staff. Worked primarily in PHP.
Bronco Bikes
Santa Clara, CA
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
2008 - 2009
- One of four founding members of Bronco Bikes, a student led initiative that aimed to create a bike sharing program on campus in Santa Clara University. Primary duties included constructing an information system to maintain the bike rental system along with raising approval and awareness from campus officials and the student body. Built the application in PHP
The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
Associate Web Developer
2008 - 2009
- Hired as an Editorial Intern, transferred to work under the chief web developer. Helped publish new content, along with work on transferring the site to an interactive, Web 2.0 platform. Worked primarily in PHP.
United States Embassy
Moscow, Russia
IT Helpdesk Operator
2007
- Provided assistance and support in information technologies to Russian and American employees in the second largest American embassy. Also worked to rebuild a database that maintains travel vouchers.
Science Applications International Corporation
Falls Church, VA
Computer Engineer Intern
2006
- Completed a summer internship under the Enterprise Architecture branch of SAIC. Worked as a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security, compiling and managing a database that helped facilitate the creation of the DHS.
Skills
- Languages: Python, Scala, Go, SQL, Bash, Ruby, PHP, Spanish
- Tools: Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Terraform, Redis/Memcache and much more!
- Hosting: AWS, GCP, bare bones
Education
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
Masters of Science in Information Systems
2012
Bachelors of Science in Information Systems
2009