Sep 2019 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco, CA, United States

May 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Working in the Tooling and Operations team in the Netflix UI Engineering org. Developing custom build tools, dashboards, CI/CD pipelines and processes to make devs and test engineers more efficient and productive.
• node.js backends
• Redux/React frontends
• Java/Springboot full stack
• Jenkins integrations
• Git/BitBucket integrations
• MongoDB
• Postgresql

Jan 2015 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Technical lead of API Infrastructure team, responsible for architecture and delivery of infrastructure systems for supporting multiple client-facing APIs. Team is 100% responsible for several micro-services deployed to AWS. Responsibilities include feature pipeline, CI/CD, DevOps, QA, 24x7 support, new development and sustaining/bug fixes.
• Stack: Java 8, Jersey/Jetty, python, MySQL/Aurora, React.
• Integrating with 3rd party systems to provide cohesive API infrastructure.
• Next gen API management system.
• Key contributor for architecture, design, and implementation.
• Experienced in multiple AWS services/APIs and DevOps.
• Advocate for test-driven development, automation, and reuse.
• Coordinator and host of weekly R&D Tech Talks.
• Annual internal Hackathon coordination.

Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Richardson, Texas

• Led CTO Innovation team, reporting to TekComms Chief Technical Officer. Innovation team was responsible for producing proof-of-concept systems ahead of mainstream engineering teams, focusing on Big Data, virtualization, and automation.
• Stack: Java 7, groovy, Spring, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Docker, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, stream processing
• Researching new technologies for elastically scalable distributed applications.
• Driving delivery of new architecture and SDKs.
• Recruiting and retaining highly technical dream team of architects and principal engineers.
• Managing multiple proof-of-concept project streams.
• Contributing hands-on with architecture, design, and implementation.
• Cost-center and budget responsibility for CTO office.

Jan 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Richardson, Texas

• Developed M2M applications for processing, storage and display of mobile-generated events and provisioning of mobile terminal endpoints. Recognized as the only engineer on-staff capable of moving between java (server/UI) development and C (mobile endpoint) environments.
• Stacks: Java 7, Tomcat, SQLServer, ActiveMQ, Spring MVC; C, embedded RTOS
• Performance and optimization of M2M server software; 20x performance boost.
• Developed simulator software used by server/UI development team and System Test team.
• Designed database storage architecture.
• Developed embedded mobile endpoint software, assisting in upgrading legacy system to new hardware platform.

Oct 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Allen, Texas

• Performed technical leadership of small Java Enterprise development team. Responsible for execution of Windows and MacOS application and RESTful enterprise services framework for real-time third-party health-related notifications.
• Reverse engineered legacy moth-balled source code.
• Updated technology of legacy product in multiple platforms and software languages.
• Dual role as System Architect and technical leadership of development team.
• Migrated MFC C++ code to MacOS Objective-C.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Allen, Texas

• Developed platform/OS architecture and frameworks for SunOS/Linux/Windows XP applications.
• Developed generic build system for cross-platform build environments.
• Developed platform-independent C++ abstraction of networking layers for TCP/IP, UDP/IP and UDP Multicast.
• Developed platform-independent C++ abstraction of various OS interfaces, including semaphores, mutexes, atomic counters, locks, events, timers, I/O control, etc.

Jan 1993 – Jan 2006 · 13 yrs · Richardson, Texas

• Requirements analysis, design, system architecture, software implementation/test/delivery/maintenance of real-time embedded applications and system services.
• Managed and lead 20+ architects and developers in cross-functional product team.
• Key contributor to ISO 9001 process development for department.
• Developed configuration management, version control, and defect management processes and procedures.
• Brought multiple embedded multi-core, multi-host application/processing boards to market.
• Architected real-time database, multi-threaded services, communication protocols and SDKs for large-scale embedded systems.

Jan 1993 – Jan 2006 · 13 yrs

Jan 1991 – Jan 1993 · 2 yrs

Jan 1984 – Jan 1991 · 7 yrs