May 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Teaching the world how to simplify streaming processing analytics using Timeplus Proton using SQL in a single binary. Bridging the operational and analytical planes (think streaming platforms like Kafka and fast data systems like Clickhouse).
• Running and building a solution engineering team to produce collateral and solutions for customers solving data pipelines, anomaly detection, and streaming analytics

Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos · Toronto

Aug 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Act as a senior architect and subject matter expert providing strategic guidance to customer side technical stakeholders on architectural decisions, development, deployment, monitoring, testing and support of large scale systems involving Confluent's products.
• Also acting as a Product Manager with an Outside-In focus by being the voice of the customer to the rest of Confluent.
• Java, Apache Kafka/Confluent Server, Connect, Apache Zookeeper, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, Confluent Operator, Replicator

Apr 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

May 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · London

• Enabled multiple Fortune 500 customers to leverage Elastic's products (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Found) in Development or Deployment of solutions to problems in Search, Analytics, Logging, Metrics and integrations with Big Data sources or technologies in the domains of Finance, Telecoms, Real Estate, E-Commerce, and Entertainment
• Tools: Ansible/Puppet, Java/Scala, HTTP/REST APIs, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Python, Apache Camel, Clojure, RDF, SparQL, Relational Databases

Sep 2014 – Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Worked as a consultant and technical leader for various financial firms and their projects around data, system integration, and technology modernisation.
• Projects:
• TP ICAP, London (2017-2019)
• Delivered a critical Financial Regulatory Reporting platform (MIFID II) within tight time constraints while building a brand new cloud based data platform and dealing with changing regulatory environment and requirements.
• Managed a team of software engineers, QA analysts, and Business analysts to deliver the MIFID II platform.
• Advised and assessed innovative approaches to solve data and technology driven approaches to business problems as well as reduce costs by including Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, NoSQL, Big Data warehouses, Streaming, and Serverless/container technologies.
• Technology Vendor Selection, DevOps, Data architecture, integration architecture, harmonization, regulatory reporting, performance tuning, monitoring, search, analytics, recommendations systems
• Barclays Wealth Management (2014-2015)
• Delivered a brand new (Live) Event Management solution for the Marketing team which handled campaigns, bookings, rewards management, reporting, etc.
• Tools: Adobe Experience Manager, OSGi, J2EE, MongoDB, Oracle, Marklogic, Elastic stack, Ansible, Gradle, Apache Camel, AWS Services (S3, Glue (Apache Spark), Athena (Presto), Batch, Elastic Container Service (Docker), Kinesis, Lambda)

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• Worked on Xively, the next generation of platforms and technologies to enable consumers and businesses to leverage the Internet of Things to their advantage including Smart Home, Inventory Management, and Telemetry. The work from this was later spun off and sold to Google.
• Worked on an MQTT Server (to collect data from sensors and devices), a Time Series server, and a Directory server/Middleware server to connect various client applications and administrative applications.
• Evaluated and implemented Tsung to load test MQTT Servers based on various customer usage scenarios.
• Worked on proof of concept for Graph based device/user modelling using Neo4j and various queries in Cypher to anticipate security or usage queries of various management applications.
• Produced a server meeting the Hypercat specification to integrate with Xively v2 API.
• Tools: Microservices, Clojure, Apache Cassandra (Datastax), Ruby on Rails, Puppet, Backbone.js, Neo4j, Dropwizard, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Hypercat, Java

Nov 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Helped customers build reusable components using Day (later Adobe) CQ5, based on a NoSQL store called CRX (Apache Jackrabbit) and OSGi based application server (Apache Felix).
• Contributed to open source conversations and tooling in Apache Jackrabbit, Apache Sling, and Apache Felix.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Acted as Solution Architect and Engineering Manager for various implementation projects around Adobe Experience Manager, Search Engines, and Application integration.
• Barclays Investment Bank and Corporate (2011-2013)
• Delivered several multi-million dollar migrations (from Vignette and Sharepoint) of internet and intranet applications from legacy vendor products to leveraging Adobe Experience Manager and other technologies like OSGi, Java, Camel etc. The work carried out was then replicated to be used in Barclays Wealth, Corporate, Group, and Retail.
• Accenture (2012)
• Acted as a subject matter expert and technical lead on Adobe CQ5 (later Adobe Experience Manager) as a global sales and marketing digital platform on matters of solution architecture, development, deployment, and integration for Astra Zeneca, a global pharmaceutical company.
• Enabled Solutions, Development, QA, and Infrastructure teams in day-to-day operations and strategies.
• Dealt with partner/offshore developers in matters of design, code delivery, deployment.
• Six Dimensions
• Delivered several crucial Adobe Experience Manager projects for a Learning Management System integration for Art Academy University
• TechTier US
• Implemented a framework and components to roll out a mobile website for mobile.sap.com on Adobe Experience Manager.
• Tools: Java/J2EE, Web Services, OSGi, Hibernate, HTML/CSS/Javascript, ActiveMQ, Adobe CQ5, Apache Sling, Apache Felix

Apr 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Wrote applications and frameworks for customers using Java, Spring, Portals and Portlets, Enterprise Content Management, Search Engines (Autonomy IDOL Server)

Mar 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Designed and implemented processes for training and supporting customers of Metafour's software in the areas of Courier, Tour/Hotel Bookings, and Travel industry.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs

• Worked on various outsourced projects including for Vonair, Azolve, Etc.
• Wrote applications in Java, C#, ASP.NET, etc.
• Azolve
• Designed and built various content management and portal frameworks for customers of Azolve in the spaces of Pharmaceutical, Telecommunication, and E-Commerce using ASP.NET and SQL Server
• Vonair
• Designed and implemented VOIP/Video Over IP Clients and Tools for Provisioning, License Management, Whitelabeling using Java, Swing, JNI, C++, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)