Jan 2018 – May 2024 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Lead cross-functional efforts to push the envelope on enabling rapid feature delivery while improving efficiency, safety, maintainability, and costs. Partner with the Netflix platform organization to influence the development of, and encourage the adoption of the Netflix paved path for cloud services.
• Developed, and delivered Vayu, one of the first services on the Spring Boot paved path at Netflix - reducing latency for configuration changes in Netflix caches by over 80% while also using delta encoding to reduce payload sizes by over 90%.
• Advocated for, and contributed to decomposing monoliths into several event driven micro services using federated GraphQL, Change Data Capture (CDC), and Kafka as the underlying message bus.
• Created Carom, a web service responsible for securely configuring and delivering DNS records used by Open Connect for streaming.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Change agent at what was initially a struggling two-person team, that eventually blossomed into a well regarded 20+ member team responsible for managing critical Open Connect functionality via cloud services, and purpose-built web UIs. Responsible for interviewing, and mentoring several successful team members.
• Modernized the tech stack from Groovy / Grails to RESTful micro services in Java - evangelizing and adopting modern design and architectural patterns. Improved feature delivery velocity by over 50%.
• Designed and led the development of the Open Connect Partner Portal (https://my.oc.netflix.com) - used by hundreds of ISP, and other partners worldwide for all things related to Netflix, and Open Connect.

Aug 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Became one of the earliest members of the engineering team responsible for developing cloud services to control Netflix streaming caches created by Netflix’s home grown CDN, Open Connect. I was a jack of all trades - pitching in as needed to develop, test, and deploy high quality, performant, and scalable cloud services.
• Developed a critical new web service responsible for CDN steering and selection during Netflix streaming.
• Developed a Mock DAO (Data Access Object) framework that directly led to vastly improved agility and made CI/CD possible by cutting down test times from over 7 hours to under 4 minutes.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Used deep systems knowledge to pioneer DevOps for Netflix Streaming Servers, before there was an established SRE team at Netflix. Collaborated with multiple middle, and edge-tier service teams to triage and lead production streaming issues to rapid resolution.
• Created an automated push workflow using Python that eliminated human error and reduced a day-long manual process for deploying streaming server code to under 30 minutes.
• Improved performance of Netflix streaming servers by 25%+, resulting in over $2 million in annual cost savings which were especially significant due to the challenges brought on by the Qwikster spin-off.
• Invented the “Hammer Rule” for auto-scaling AWS cloud VM instances to help prevent outages during traffic spikes.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Develop frameworks to launch and automate testing of highly scalable distributed systems. Create automated unit, component, regression, load and user acceptance tests using C++, Java and Python.

Aug 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

• AQL Testing and environmental qualification of CMOS image sensors using C++, Python and Visual Basic. Responsible for supporting analysis and resolution of quality issues for Automotive & Industrial Business Unit customers.

Dec 2006 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

• AQL Testing and environmental qualification of CMOS image sensors using C++, Python and Visual Basic. Determine root cause of failures and develop new image test algorithms to improve production test coverage.