Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Mar 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed a team of 7 software engineers in MapR Engineering’s Apache Drill team, with the responsibility of directing the development and adoption of software tools to carry out integration of MapR’s enterprise version of the Apache Drill project. I worked closely with engineers, by defining project outlines/goals, perform code reviews and analysis of performance results. I continued to maintain the ability to write code and debug issues, as it helps in identifying solutions that will help accelerate and improve the product development process... and also because I love to.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked with the Performance group in MapR Engineering. Involved in developing internal tools to aid in development and performance analysis of enterprise products. I worked on established and emerging Hadoop technologies that deal with Big Data, often comparing performance of similar open-source projects. For this, I've built complex frameworks with analytical support features to. Additional duties involved working on customer proof-of-concepts and performance escalations.

Mar 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Feb 2010 – Mar 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Working with the Performance group in Informatica Corp.’s R&D division, prepared internal tools to aid in development and performance analysis of then-upcoming enterprise products – Informatica Analyst Tool (data profiling) and Informatica Data Services (database federation), and was heavily involved with senior architects in performance analysis and product managers in on-site customer proof-of-concepts.

Jul 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

Aug 2007 – May 2008 · 9 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Worked on tuning and evaluating Phase 2 of Project Halo, which focuses on developing and testing a suite of tools to enable Subject Matter Experts (chemists, physicists and biologists, in particular) to build knowledge systems unassisted by knowledge engineers.
• Project Halo is a staged, long-range research effort by Vulcan Inc. towards the development of a "Digital Aristotle"—a reasoning system capable of answering novel questions and solving advanced problems in a broad range of scientific disciplines and related human affairs.
• Link: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mfkb/RKF/projects/halo.html/

Jan 2007 – May 2007 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• As a teaching assistant, I provided tutoring sessions to undergraduate students of various diverse programs (including those with non-CS majors), who were enrolled in "Elements of Computing".

May 2007 – Aug 2007 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Developed an XML-based network graph translator with back-end integration for the flagship AI product – Cyc. This
• allowed for visually-interpreted relationships between entities be converted into format suitable for logical inference by
• the Cyc inference engine.

Aug 2005 – Jul 2006 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• European Division (EMEA):
• Designed and developed re-engineering Java projects in Management Information Systems for a major Belgian telecommunications service provider -- Telenet. Proprietary systems were integrated with open-source technologies to ensure a smooth transition to new and cost-effective solutions for the client.