Jan 2019 – Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Redwood City, California

• I started Shoreline to help SREs improve the efficiency, performance, availability, and security of the systems they manage. The old approach of operators staring at monitoring screens and grinding through ticket queues doesn't scale, particularly as micro-services proliferate and deployments happen more frequently. Shoreline makes it easy to automate frequently occurring incidents in minutes and perform real-time fleet-wide debugging of new incidents that arise.
• Shoreline was acquired by Nvidia in July, 2024

May 2011 – Dec 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I ran a number of the analytic and relational database services within the AWS Database Services team. Within analytics, these were Athena, Data Pipeline, EMR, Glue, LakeFormation, Managed Blockchain, and Redshift. Within relational databases, these were Aurora for MySQL and PostgreSQL and RDS for MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Over my time at AWS, the revenue for these services grew from a few million to several billion, driven by our customers growing data needs, embrace of open standards, and use of the AWS cloud.

Oct 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• I joined Oracle through their acquisition of Interlace (see below). Interlace was acquired into the enterprise performance management and business intelligence team at Oracle, unifying Hyperion, Seibel Analytics and some smaller acquisitions. I led the Interlace team through its transition before stepping into the overall architecture role across EPM/BI, a product family with over a thousand developers and billions in revenue. A primary contribution was the advocacy for and engineering execution against a key strategic project for Oracle to leverage in-memory and multi-core appliance hardware to dramatically improve performance, scalability and user interaction for our BI Foundation products.

Oct 2001 – Oct 2007 · 6 yrs

• I founded Interlace, seeing an opportunity to bring OLAP-style planning to sales and operations functions within large enterprises. I was the initial CEO, hiring the development team, designing our core IP, building a V1 product, selling three customers, and closing our initial venture round with Accel Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Post-funding, I stepped into the CTO and VP Engineering role at Interlace, delivering a number of significant product releases, developing our offshore development team, and helping to close sales with key customers. I was the sponsor for our largest customer relationship, personally closing over 3M in business with them. We were acquired by Oracle in 2007.

Jan 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I joined Ariba through their acquisition of TradingDynamics (see below). At Ariba, I added the QA and documentation teams to my development responsibilities, and led the team through three major product releases, including transitioning the product from an auction server platform component targeted at dot-coms to an enterprise sourcing application targeted at G2000 customers. This product quickly became the leading product in the enterprise sourcing space and a significant revenue stream for Ariba.

Apr 1999 – Dec 1999 · 8 mos

• TradingDynamics was formed out of Stanford to provide game-theoretically valid dynamic pricing software to industry. I joined pre-product/pre-revenue, when we had a small team and a clean design for configurable auctions, but limited work on user and programmatic interfaces, technical architecture, and how to package the core technology to match emerging market needs. I helped build the engineering team for these surrounding components, drove architectural decisions, and helped steer the team to a successful version one product release within six months. Our focus on infrastructure led to rapid sales cycles to the emerging marketplaces and B2B dot-com vendors, and significant interest from larger ISVs, resulting in our acquisition by Ariba in 1999.

Apr 1995 – Apr 1999 · 4 yrs

• Arbor was an innovator in the multidimensional database space, coining and popularizing the term OLAP. I was the architect for their flagship product, Essbase, providing design leadership across engineering as we scaled from 1M to 200M in annual revenue. In addition to system-wide design responsibilities, I was personally responsible for developing our core multidimensional structures, data loading, SQL integration, security, partitioning, parallel loading and aggregate creation, performance, and scalability. Arbor IPO'ed in 1995 and merged with Hyperion Software to form Hyperion Solutions in 1998.

Aug 1989 – Mar 1995 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• I was a member of the Oracle RDBMS development team from releases 6 - 7.3, joining when there were 20 developers working on the overall RDBMS kernel, of which 4 were responsible for the data and transaction subsystem. Over this period, I was responsible for a number of components of the RDBMS, including space management (tablespaces, segments, extents, blocks), process recovery (SMON, PMON), database administration, and import/export utilities. I was also responsible for coding standards and portability compliance as RDBMS representative to Oracle's Coding Standards Committee.