Sep 2020 – Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• During my time at GitHub I have managed various organizations of different sizes in the Compute Products area.
• Engineering Leader for Compute Products Org managing multi product portfolio of Actions, Hosted Runners, Codespaces, Packages, Pages and npm. Portfolio consisted of products at varying level of maturity and scale. Managing 200+ team of incredible smart engineers and managers. Closely partnering with product and revenue on product and engineering strategy. Highly focused on improving availability, operational excellence and morale through cultural efforts. During time improved delivery cadence of Mac cloud runners, increased availability of Actions, and built a strong leadership bench.

Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 · 8 mos

• Zone Lead for Architecture & Shared Services Zone. Also help organize and run the company wide Virtual Architecture Group and Web Architecture Group with Principals, and other senior engineers from across the company participating in them.
• Drive several engineering wide improvements - observability standards, RCAs, architecture reviews

Oct 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Was Principal Engineer reporting into Office of CTO and was a member of the staff of CTO.
• Created a company wide architecture interest group which drove architecture reviews, Engineering Handbook and several other engineering wide improvements.
• Mentored several engineers and helped drive technical decisions.

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Backend platform developer on Stride, Atlassian's real time chat application product.
• Worked on team architecting, building, deploying and running several Stride features - notifications, presence, message search, etc. In the process partnered with both teams internal and external to the product in the company.
• Subject Matter Expert on resiliency and reliability in building a Kafka pipeline/service (event driven architecture), microservice based architecture, golang. Wrote several internal libraries to improve reliability of Kafka pipeline. Gave internal talks, wrote blogs, and spoke at external conference on the same.
• Partnered with another Stride developer to build and open source load shedding technology https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/loadshed/src/master/ to overcome some of the limitations of circuit breaking by hystrix.
• Collaborated with technical leaders in the company to help solve technical challenges for the company. Enjoys the exercise of unraveling an ambiguous large problem to well defined technical design. (GDPR)
• Passionate about fostering a culture of learning, mentoring and sharing. Started several initiatives like Lunch and Learn, Write/Speak/Code hour with other developers.
• Technologies: golang, kafka, cassandra, aws (alb, ec2), docker, microservices, event driven

Apr 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Software Dev/Team Lead - Redis Product (http://objectrocket.com/redis/)
• Work on a software development team responsible for building, scaling a highly available Redis product.
• Worked with other developers on features like - vertically scaling redis, Redis on AWS
• Worked on adding newer versions of Redis to the platform. Developed plan and testing strategy.
• Troubleshooting production issues with CDEs/Ops and Engineers.
• Mentored new developers on the team.
• Technologies: Python, HAProxy, KeepAliveD, Redis, OVZ containerization
• Previously worked on MySQL product.
• Responsible for working with Product manager, Ops and QE on design inception to production deploy of a feature.
• (1) Replication:
• Led development effort on Replication for MySQL 5.6, Percona 5.6 and MariaDB 10.
• Docs: http://docs.rackspace.com/cdb/api/v1.0/cdb-devguide/content/replication.html
• Primary programming language: Python
• Other tools used: Puppet
• (2) High Availability for MySQL
• Worked on the feature end to end. Worked with ops/DBA to design technology stack. Designed software architecture.
• http://docs.rackspace.com/cdb/api/v1.0/cdb-devguide/content/ha.html
• (3) Worked with OpenStack Community/Trove Core.

Jun 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Projects worked on:
• (1) Cloud Images
• The Rackspace Cloud Images service offers retrieval, storage, and metadata assignment for images through a simple Representational State Transfer (REST) web service interface.
• Link: http://docs.rackspace.com/images/api/v2/ci-devguide/content/index.html
• Some of the features worked on include:
• Image Sharing - allows users to share images with each other(with an anti-spam mechanism) http://docs.rackspace.com/images/api/v2/ci-devguide/content/image-sharing.html
• Property Protection - providing CRUD protection for properties which can be added on an image
• (2) Scheduled Images
• Cloud Servers users can create two different kinds of images from their running servers: manual, or scheduled. A manual image is requested by the user, and runs only one time. A Scheduled Image is an automatically captured image that runs once per day, and retains up to the number of images specified by the user.
• Link:
• Qonos - https://github.com/rackspace-titan/qonos
• Scheduled Images - http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/scheduled-images-faq
• Involved in various parts of software development lifecycle: working with Product Manager and open source community and feature design, agile process management - helping organize retrospectives for team, code reviews, working with QE, release engineering and deployments.

Feb 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Blacksburg

• Our Vision: Fostering the growth of the technology community in the New River Valley by providing not-for-profit education and events.
• The group has grown from 8 members to 400+ members in the past one year and offers free classes for both kids and adults in python, arduino programming, etc.
• Links:
• www.letscodeblacksburg.org
• Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/591345357544168/

Jun 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Core contributor for Trove, databases Project in OpenStack
• Core contributor for Glance, images service project in OpenStack(https://github.com/openstack/glance)
• Also an occasional nova contributor.
• Done several workshops on contributing to OpenStack.

Aug 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Text Mining tool to analyze Electronic Medical Records
• Graduate Research Assistant under Dr. Harold “Skip” Garner, Executive Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
• Creating a tool to help doctors analyze patient’s electronic medical records (EMR) better using text mining. Worked in liaison with Carilion Clinic.
• Authored white paper titled ‘Clinical Decision Support Dashboard: Extracting value from Electronic Medical Records using text mining’.
• Summer Research Project to build Commercial Text Mining Tool
• Helped win grant for Virginia Bioinformatics Institute from HelioText.
• Built a market analysis tool which would crawl the web, extract content and analyze it and display the different themes and associated key words for given concept or product.

Dec 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 mo