Jan 2011 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• I am leading the design, implementation and live ops for a company wide storage API where internal customers can keep their data. My team serves more than 30 internal customers varying from multi million daily users games to internal tools.
• As the principal engineer for my team I have participated in the initial design, coding, testing, performance testing, production monitoring, resolving production issues, optimizations, high scalability, high availability and cost reduction.
• These APIs are currently handing over 1.3 Billion transactions per day and is built on a variety of technologies including Java, MongoDB, Tomcat, Spring.
• I have also led and implemented tools to diagnose issues on production including mongodb and http sniffer tools developed in c++, as well as internal dashboards to graphically understand the behavior of the different components.

Dec 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mountain View, CA

• Took over as Engineering Manager of the RPG Studio, which is responsible for games like Mobsters, Mobsters 2, Sorority Life and other titles. These games had traffic of 1MM users per day each and were at the time the main money makers for the company.
• This team included 12 engineers and 3 QA Analysts.
• Mentored various members of the team on technical expertise, professional
• development and career development.
• Quickly identified major pain points for the team and reorganized the process to
• address them in the first three months.
• Led the move to a better deployment strategy, changing deployments from taking
• multiple hours in the middle of the night, to taking a few minutes at any time of the day, at the same time minimizing the risk. This strategy was later adopted by most games in the company.
• Promoted better engineering practices: Unit Testing, Coverage review, TDD, Bug Reproduction before fixing, Instrumentation of logs to catch unusual conditions and general live health checks, Testable code. All this practices improved stability reducing the number of production incidents from 2 or 3 times a week to 1 or 2 times a month.
• I successfully hired and trained my replacement on this position to move into the DisneyDB Team.

Jan 2009 – Dec 2009 · 11 mos

• As member of the CTO Office I was responsible of the overall server architecture for Devicescape services: connection, data acquisition and location based services to support over two million devices
• The CTO Office is responsible for identifying new Intellectual Property and fostering patent creation on the Engineering team. I was quickly recognized as a key member of the team and Devicescape created the CTO Office composed by the VP of Products, the Chief Architect and myself.
• Led the design and implementation of a new modular architecture on the server side to allow for clean separation of modules and horizontal scaling as needed
• Led the design and implementation of Devicescape Easy WiFi network, associated Location Based Service and the new API for data collection, processing and device communication
• As of 11/2009, the Easy WiFi network collects about 600k requests a day to maintain a realtime status for over 2.5MM access points and support over 1MM devices.
• Key member of the migration from a standard hosting company to Amazon Infrastructure, project completed on time and budget and with minimal downtime
• Created and promoted among the teams automated testing and unit testing for all new code and core parts of the existing code, improving the code quality and guaranteeing backwards compatibility which is key for Devicescape
• Implemented the Google Checkout integration to allow charging from consumer applications and devices.

Feb 2006 – Nov 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for the entire CDC Factory product line: a web-based manufacturing operations management system for real-time scheduling, operations, quality and maintenance
• Leading a distributed development team of over 35 engineers, located across the United States, Europe, and China. Set up the team in China.
• Managed the integration of acquired IP, transferred knowledge, and released Version 5, 5.5 and 6 of the Scheduling product.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs

• First engineer of JRG, responsible for the first version of Factory Planner based on LAMP, installation and deployment of the first customers, and setup of the data center, all accomplished with a boot-strapped startup budget.
• Key participant with the CTO and VP Engineering on the technical direction of the company, including migration to J2EE for Version 2.0 of Factory Planner, adoption of open source solutions for key components, design for scalability and performance, upgrade of the data center, and the adoption of agile development methodologies by the team.
• JRG was acquired by CDC Corporation (01/2006).

Mar 1999 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs 10 mos