May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Leading engineering for LinkedIn’s complete product portfolio including our Consumer products, our Advertising and Enterprise products, and Trust. Our team builds the platform that enables 830 million professionals worldwide to connect to opportunity and that create customer value to the tune of almost $14 billion in revenue in FY22. We are a hybrid, distributed global team, with 2500 employees located across five primary R&D centers (SF Bay Area, NYC, Bellevue, Bangalore, Tel Aviv) and a growing presence of remote employees.

Feb 2016 – May 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos

• Led engineering for all growth, engagement and monetization aspects of LinkedIn's consumer experience. On the growth and engagement side this includes building the experiences we deliver our 500M+ members in our iOS, Android, and Desktop apps and the technology platforms that power those experiences. On the monetization side, this includes our Premium subscription offerings and our Marketing Solutions (advertising) business.

Jan 2014 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Led engineering for LinkedIn's Content products and infrastructure, including Professional Publishing, SlideShare, Content Distribution (Pulse), Sharing, and Groups.
• Open LinkedIn's San Francisco and NY R&D offices and grew them to 300+ and 50+ employees, respectively.

Nov 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led LinkedIn's Core Engineering Team which is responsible for a rich blend of high volume products & infrastructure central to the LinkedIn consumer experience across all major platforms (web, mobile, and APIs).
• Our 100+ engineers work on products including Growth, Profile, PYMK, Endorsements, WVMP, Students/Universities, Internationalization, and Localization.

Nov 2010 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Led feature development, software architecture, and system architecture for all things Profile at LinkedIn.
• Team highlights include:
• Implementation of 'New Profile' redesign, a development platform for LI's members to define their rich professional identity
• Implementation of Mobile Edit Profile functionality - tech's first extensive mobile profile editing flow at scale.
• Increased productivity for profile feature development: 60+ features released over 24 month span
• Increased rate of LinkedIn member profile updates by 35% (member growth-adjusted)
• Implementation of LinkedIn's first multi-data center use case; reduced end-user response times by 200ms
• Increased extensibility of member profiles by developing 'Flex' document-based storage: 11 new sections added over 12 month span
• Delivery of LinkedIn's first high-volume consumer website implementation using client-side templating
• Re-architecture and UX redesign of Member Account & Setting page

Aug 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Led re-architecture of LinkedIn's highly-performant, horizontally- scaled Profile web application and supporting SOA stack; performed rigorous performance analysis and certification; smoothly ramped to 100% in production; set up extensive monitoring infrastructure.   Developed multi-tier, horizontally scalable system for processing and serving over 1 million profile updates a week. Enabled near-real time update publishing and decreased processing time 5-8x from legacy system it replaced.Technologies: J2EE, JSP, Spring MVC, Oracle DB, Apache Tomcat

Jul 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco

• JVS is the Bay Area’s leading job training non-profit helping people to build skills, find jobs and achieve self-sufficiency.

May 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Diego County, California, United States

• Led numerous software release projects involving software developers, QA engineers, and deployment specialists.
• Guided projects through requirements gathering, design, implementation, test, deployment, and support.
• Managed a team of three software engineers responsible for tools and menu development..
• Architected, implemented, and maintained framework for Point of Sale and Credit Card Service Provider integration. Object Oriented Design Patterns were used throughout (Façade, Adapter, Service Provider Interface, State, Factory).
• Forged technical relationships with 3rd party vendors and collaborated with them to design and improve robustness of kiosk integration APIs in their software.
• Interacted with customers to manage expectations for delivery of software.

Oct 2004 – May 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Diego County, California, United States

• Developed and maintained order placement, card processing, transport, and messaging libraries.
• Led development of every POS Adapter used at EMN8 installed sites today. Used Java, COM, and MFC coupled with a variety of technologies including SOAP RPC, socket-based XML messaging, COM API, and fixed-field request/response protocols.
• Defined XML messaging API that is distributed as a template for POS companies seeking to develop support for kiosk integration. This messaging API is being pushed for adoption as an industry standard.
• Served as interim Configuration Manager and used Software Configuration Management Patterns to implement Apache Ant based build process and flexible Wise Installer framework that has been used for configuration and deployment of EMN8 kiosk software for 2+ years.

Jul 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Diego County, California, United States

• Architected feature enhancements, aided in project planning, and lead design and code reviews for other staff engineers.
• Designed and developed a Universal Chat Client in Java to allow users to simultaneously chat over IRC, Jabber, and Sametime protocols within one user interface. Chat client provided multiple concurrent chatroom windows, instant private messaging, awareness/buddy list, and user profiles.
• Lead development for Java Universal Chat Applet, which provided users all of the functionality of the Universal Chat Client from either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. * Designed and developed web service for gathering, validating and submitting tactical data via SOAP RPC to a data management server. * Developed Database Audit Tool for data scrubbing which detected and resolved invalid, redundant, and conflicting data in Domino databases used for storing tactical data.