Jun 2019 – Aug 2024 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Provided technical leadership to Confluent's Trust and Security organization. Responsible for customer-facing security features like Role Based Access Control and Audit Logging.

Feb 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Helping Data Scientists use their skills for social good. Providing expertise in Docker, Databases, and Software Engineering to help teams work effectively together.
• Working on a team that has produced a system to analyze news articles for mentions of people being displaced by disaster or conflict. Our project won a UN Unite Ideas competition sponsored by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center.

Aug 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Leading DCode, RetailMeNot's Data Science group. Using Python and Apache Spark to analyze large datasets and produce recommendations for users.

Mar 2014 – May 2019 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Led RetailMeNot's Core Business Algorithms team
• Software Development
• Designed system to decide what coupons to show on RMN's merchant pages, the heart of the site. Brought together information from disparate sources for efficient processing of millions of coupons for tens of thousands of merchants every half hour.
• Refined heuristic and machine learning algorithms to determine what order to show those coupons
• Ensured that the coupon selection and ordering process could scale horizontally to support multiple A/B tests being run at the same time
• Parallelized algorithm training and processing using producer/consumer model
• Production Support
• Diagnosed, triaged, and fixed urgent problems in multiple codebases
• Managed Amazon Web Services resources, including EC2 servers and RDS databases
• Responded to malicious traffic
• Managed the RMN site release process and load testing
• Mentorship & Recruiting
• Developed and taught a workshop in scoring algorithm design
• Mentored interns
• Represented RMN at college career fairs
• Conducted on-campus and on-site interviews
• Buzzwords
• Python, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS, Akamai, PHP

Sep 2009 – Mar 2014 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Working on iOS and Mac OS X applications, web sites, and database-centric projects.

Jan 2006 – Sep 2009 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Developed a chat and gaming platform for multi-player casual games. Launched 5 games and a site-wide chat system on the platform. More games in development...

Sep 2005 – Sep 2009 · 4 yrs

• Developed a multi-player gaming and chat system for casual games.

Aug 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Built and managed database-backed web sites in Perl, Java, and PHP.

Jan 2002 – Feb 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Supported the Internet's most popular streaming media services. Wrote tools in Perl to monitor and administer large-scale streaming operations.

Jan 2001 – May 2001 · 4 mos

• Built XML data interchange systems for a financial news and alerting web application.

Jun 1999 – Oct 2000 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Developed server software in Java and ATG Dynamo to run a streaming music service.