Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · 8 mos

May 2022 – Feb 2023 · 9 mos

• Provide senior architectural guidance for internal and client projects.
• Advise on OSS licensing and technology/law issues.
• Lead strategic technology and open source initiatives.

Jul 2013 – May 2022 · 8 yrs 10 mos

• Led engineering organization and technology steering group.
• Architected and owned AWS cloud infrastructures for multiple clients leveraging Terraform, CloudFormation, and wide ranges of AWS offerings (Lambda, VPC, etc.)
• Led and advised JavaScript design / infrastructure for top-five e-commerce sites with teams of over 50 engineers.

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · arlington, va

• Led software development and operations for the world's largest Spanish learning website (http://spanishdict.com).
• Developed responsive, full-stack JavaScript adaptive learning platform with Backbone.js, Zepto, RequireJS frontend and Node.js, Express, MongoDB backend.
• Architected Hadoop data mining, Node.js backend API service, end-to-end testing, and other projects.
• Transitioned entire system to Amazon cloud, with hot failover for all critical systems, leveraging EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Elastic Load Balancers, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, Route 53 and Opscode Chef.

Aug 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Seattle, WA

• Developed frontend and backend technologies for cloud-scale intellectual property analytics system and data store backed by various frameworks, databases, search, and messaging tools.
• Implemented sharded Solr search system with advanced query, faceting, and statistics support.
• Redesigned patent document store into cloud-backed, distributed system, available across all servers.
• Scaled out Celery server pool with new task scheme using RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Created custom frontend test infrastructure for browser-less JavaScript / AJAX testing with code coverage reports using Rhino, Envjs, jQuery, QUnit, JSCoverage and MockJax.

Mar 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Developed and hardened backend services and components of Windows Azure storage service.
• Created scalable logging, deployment, and reporting frameworks, used by various internal projects.
• Led threat model and security assessments of the storage platform for public release.

Jun 2008 – Sep 2008 · 3 mos

• Developed back-end auction analysis library for Google Audio Ads using Java and Protocol Buffers.
• Created AJAX web front-end interface using Google Web Toolkit and Java servlets.

Sep 2007 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Researched "return-oriented programming" buffer overflow exploit technique on SPARC. Catalogued and created C API for proof-of-concept exploits and Python disassembly / exploit discovery tool.
• Enhanced internal structures of Xen/Qemu virtual machine data tracking system using C and Python.

Jul 2007 – Sep 2007 · 2 mos

• Developed cross-platform portable code samples for Foundations team in Shared Product Components division. Programmed Java and C# packages targeting Eclipse and Visual Studio.
• Designed quality metric reporting tool for aggregating unit testing and code coverage data across Java and .Net software components using Maven, Jelly scripting, and XSLT.
• Researched and resolved software defects though code and technical literature reviews.
• Interfaced with Intuit cross-business unit customers regarding product feedback and issues.

Oct 2006 – Jun 2007 · 8 mos

• Led labs and discussion sections for "CSE 3 - Fluency in Information Technology" and "CSE 30 - Computer Organization and Systems Programming" for Profs. Rick Ord and Susan Marx.
• Held office hours and mentored students in computer lab regarding computing assignments.

Oct 2003 – May 2006 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Litigated intellectual property litigation disputes in the computer and life sciences industries.
• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the computer and mechanical arts.
• Advised software clients regarding patent portfolio assertion and open source licensing.
• Provided technical counseling in trade secret and CAN-SPAM criminal investigations.
• Licensed in California (currently inactive) and with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sep 1999 – Jun 2000 · 9 mos

• Developed web applications for business clients. Wrote E-commerce, website management and security packages using Cold Fusion, Perl, C, Informix, and MS SQL.
• Maintained collection of UNIX and Linux web, email, and database servers.
• Assisted with data recovery and security investigation.

Feb 1999 – Jun 1999 · 4 mos

• Created web templates and C database interface programs to drive dynamic web site for technical redesign of the Stanford Law School's Securities Class-Action Clearinghouse.
• Wrote Perl utility scripts and developed new site functionality, including search options and aggregate case statistics.