May 2023 – Dec 2023 · 7 mos · Remote

May 2022 – Jan 2023 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead the Developer Productivity organization setting up Coinbase to scale the engineering team up to ten-fold. Defined and delivered KPI metrics (DORA) to drive prioritization of productivity investments. Developed overall Coinbase engineering system vision and presented to executive team, including CEO. Developed long-term strategies, organizational structures and roadmaps for the areas of authoring/remote development, PR/code review, build systems, integration, automated testing, and deployment. Created developer enablement and support strategy leveraging an extensible developer portal based on Backstage.
• Results in first 6 months: Moved company from a mono-repo to a multi-repo codebase strategy. Increased developer overall CSAT by 40%. Reduced PR/code review cycle time by over 40% across international timezones and 20% overall. Improved quality as measured by reduction in production issues per deployment by 16%. Increased deployments per developer by 18%.

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · https://www.scu.edu/ethics/

• Advising Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (sponsored by Mike Markkula from Apple) with a mission of building humane technology systems.
• https://www.scu.edu/ethics/

Nov 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Lead the Development Experience (DevX) engineering organization that drives to improve productivity and happiness of LinkedIn's ~5000 developers. The areas of ownership and focus for this team include LinkedIn's software build systems, dependency management and engineering, development authoring tools, development collaboration tools (including code review), test frameworks, continuous integration (CI) systems, resource ownership and discovery, and the development workflow and interfaces. The efforts of this team have led to the ability to build, test and deploy quality code to the production LinkedIn site hundreds of times per day.

Aug 2014 – Nov 2019 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Manage the engineering group that is driving and implementing a massive rework of LinkedIn's development infrastructure to increase the speed of innovation, optimize the efficiency and utilization of compute resources, increase the productivity of developers, and improve the engineering culture at LinkedIn. The efforts of this team have led to the ability to deploy code to the production LinkedIn site multiple times per day; previously deployments took two weeks or more. This enables developers to get source code from commit, through automated testing and into to production within 24 hours.
• The team develops systems that make these improvements possible:
• an automated deployment system, a Kubernetes-based scheduler for resource allocation and job execution, a hierarchical service configuration system, a mature python development foundation and framework common for all tools and python-based applications at LinkedIn, and a web-based control center application that provides development and operation engineers a comprehensive view of and control over the current state of code commits, automated tests, and automated deployments to pre-production and production environments. The Developer Information organization, which is a part of the team, provides training, documentation leadership, and a maintained knowledge base to optimize LinkedIn developers' experience.

Mar 2011 – Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Manage the Infrastructure Tools engineering group that is driving and implementing a massive rework of LinkedIn's development infrastructure to increase the speed of innovation, increase the productivity of developers, and improve the engineering culture at LinkedIn. The efforts of this team have led to the ability to deploy code to the production LinkedIn site multiple times per day; previously deployments took two weeks or more. This enables developers to get source code from commit, through automated testing and into to production within 24 hours.
• The infrastructure tools team develops systems that make these improvements possible: an automated deployment system, a hierarchical service configuration system, a mature python development foundation and framework common for all tools and python-based applications at LinkedIn, and a web-based control center application that provides development and operation engineers a comprehensive view of and control over the current state of code commits, automated tests, and automated deployments to pre-production and production environments.

Mar 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr

• Manage the development and operations of platforms and tools that protect Yahoo’s brand by ensuring that Yahoo’s users have a consistent and exceptional experience visiting Yahoo properties. Monitoring tools include a SLA monitoring system, a multi-tenant low-latency monitoring and a legacy nagios-based monitoring system. Performance tools include a “round trip” front-end user-experience monitoring system, and front-end developer tools including YSlow. Work directly with senior management and architects across Yahoo to define requirements and manage Yahoo property on-boarding to platforms.

May 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Manage the development of Yahoo Finance, the most visited financial website in the world. Staffing of up to 14 direct reports, both front-end and back-end engineers, located in multiple countries (US, UK, France, Germany). Led a strategic program for Yahoo Media to globalize product development.
• Managed global finance news project from concept to delivery (http://finance.yahoo.com/news)
• Managed Interactive Charts project (http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts)

Jul 2005 – May 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Manage the development of SEO and web analytics tools and platforms to provide for business insight on the performance of Yahoo’s media sites. Staffing of up to 8 direct reports developing software from conception to delivery. Partnered with BI product management team to develop and deliver to business requirements.

Jul 2003 – Jul 2005 · 2 yrs

• Technical lead for the development and support of tools and programs to integrate with 3rd party business partners. Responsible for methodology, proof of concept solution architecture, partner technical relationship management, and special project delivery. Responsible for design of application layer web service interfaces for an SDK/appliance. Technically led team through SDLC for multiple releases of the SDK/appliance.

Aug 1999 – Jul 2003 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Key engineer on a team that developed the modeling environment/IDE for an enterprise integration platform. The modeling environment facilitates development and deployment of integration (EAI/B2Bi) and Business Process Modeling (BPM). Lead developer for the modeling metadata framework using Java, NetBeans, XML Schema and Corba IDL

Jun 1996 – Aug 1999 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Java developer on SCM and browser products incuding HotJava/Mozilla and JavaSafe. Partnered with Professional Services to assist strategic customers in the design and development of Java-based solutions based upon Sun’s vision of Java Enterprise Computing.