May 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Oversight of a team of managers and senior engineers focusing on the data lakehouse platform, data analytics, and AI/ML applications for EPiX.
• Successfully built our data lakehouse from the ground up (0->1), establishing it as the central repository for all engineering platform data, metadata, and developer metrics.
• Led the launch of Developer360, our inaugural developer analytics and metrics platform, integral to the Integrated Engineers Portal for enhancing productivity.
• Initiated significant AI/ML algorithm enhancements that substantially improved the accuracy of Software Engineer Assist, JPMC's internal AI assistant for engineers.
• Spearheaded efforts to integrate advanced language models (SLMs and LLMs, including PHI-3.x, Llama, and ChatGPT) to boost the functionality and intelligence of our developer platform.
• Collaborated closely with product owners to develop strategic roadmaps, mentored managers and teams on engineering best practices, and cultivated a positive, high-performing team culture.
• Led by example through active coding, extensive participation in code reviews, and personally testing ("dogfooding") our team's deliverables.
• Demonstrated thought leadership by hosting and participating in JPMC's internal and external AI/ML panels, discussing industry advancements and our contributions in the field.

Jun 2019 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• Spearheaded a critical, multi-quarter initiative to productionize the Fiddler Platform. This involved establishing a dynamic, agile development environment across geographies, which led to orders of magnitude increases in reliability, availability, scale, and performance. This project also instilled a culture of accountability and responsible software engineering practices across the team.
• Recruited, built, and onboarded a diverse team of technical leads, Machine Learning Engineers, and software engineers.
• Managed all aspects of project sprints, including timelines, estimations, and roadmap prioritizations to ensure strategic alignment.
• Drove product quality and test automation initiatives, directly enhancing Fiddler's resilience and improving overall developer experience through streamlined tools and frameworks.
• Actively fostered a positive team culture built on empathy and trust; provided direct mentorship to team members.
• Collaborated extensively with CXOs and cross-functional managers, contributing to pivotal build-vs-buy decisions regarding technology and engineering solutions.
• Led the design and development of Fiddler's core platform, including optimizing crucial data cleaning and ingestion pipelines.
• Architected and deployed a highly scalable, container-based ML model serving system on Kubernetes.
• Designed and implemented role-based access control (RBAC) and authorization mechanisms for Fiddler's microservices.
• Created and developed a powerful SQL 'slice-and-explain' interface to enhance data interpretability.
• Established robust infrastructure management, monitoring, and alerting systems for Fiddler's entire infrastructure.
• Directed all engineering-related tasks necessary for achieving Fiddler's SOC2 compliance, demonstrating a strong focus on security and operational integrity.

Feb 2016 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Jose, CA

• Architected the Docker container management infrastructure for Nutanix microservices.
• Optimized the flagship 1-click rolling upgrade and distributed services management.
• Spearheaded the Nutanix Controller VM move from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7.
• Designed and developed the ESXi authentication framework for Nutanix.
• Designed, implemented, and delivered Nutanix on Citrix XenServer and IBM PPC64LE.
• Created a gold image automation framework for Nutanix.
• Responsible for device drivers, kernels, open source software, systemd, security (SELinux), and parts of the build infrastructure.
• Mentored the team on systems and design.

Aug 2006 – Feb 2016 · 9 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, CA, USA

• Technical Lead & Individual Contributor, vSphere Management Platform
• Designed and developed the SSL X509 Certificate Management for vSphere vCenter Server and ESX Server.
• Engineered and optimized NFC (Network File Copy), the network transport for Virtual Machines, within the vSphere vCenter Server.
• Designed and developed an Object Property Key Value Store module for vCenter Server.
• Developed and enhanced components of the vSphere vCenter Management Agent.
• Technical Lead & Individual Contributor, vSphere Distributed Systems & Mobility
• Designed and developed "Free Block Avoidance" -- a Microsoft Windows guest operating system specific optimization for migrating virtual disks (storage vMotion) between datastores on a server.
• Developed and optimized core components of the flagship virtual machine live migration (vMotion) and storage migration (Storage vMotion).
• Technical Lead & Individual Contributor, vSphere ESX vmkernel Device Drivers
• Authored the vmklinux block emulation layer and contributed significantly to the design and development of the Linux Emulation Layer (vmklinux) for ESX Server.
• Developed and ported critical network drivers (e1000, tg3, bnx2, bnx2x) and the cciss driver for HP Smart Array Controllers for ESX.
• Actively designed and developed the Driver Development Kit.
• Developed tools to analyze driver model changes and API/ABI changes for driver development.

Nov 2004 – Aug 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• UMTS Modem Integration Team, Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, CA.
• Worked with different teams to integrate the code between the WCDMA layers
• Debugged and analyzed system level issues
• Defined and created the integration environment and test scenarios

Aug 2003 – Aug 2004 · 1 yr · Clemson, SC, USA

• Teaching Assistant for a Network Programming course in the Computer Science Department. The responsibilities of this job include helping under-graduate students learn Network Programming in C/Java. Troubleshoot their problems, both syntactic and logical. Test their programming assignments and grade their exams, projects and homeworks.

Aug 2002 – Aug 2003 · 1 yr

• I was a graduate student assistant with the Telecampus division of Division of Computing and Information Technology (DCIT) for an year.
• The responsibilities of this job included systems maintenance, web development and website maintenance, administrative tasks, support and digitizing video tapes.