Apr 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Responsible for streaming infrastructure and data ingestion strategy for Block.

Apr 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• I run Data Infrastructure (near-realtime data pipelines, event and feeds ingestion, data warehouse, data inventory and privacy services) at Square. Team consists of multiple leads managing different aspects of our platform.

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021 · 6 mos

Apr 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr

• Team lead (manager) responsible for streaming data infrastructure for company.

Aug 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Lead team in development and maintenance of real-time streaming ETL platform and data governance platform. Manage a team, with people responsibilities, and foster relationships with our various data consumers, both internal and external

Jun 2018 – Jan 2019 · 7 mos

Mar 2018 – Jun 2018 · 3 mos

Aug 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As the Technical Lead, responsible for teaching and enforcing best practices on many parts of the analytics platform serviced to multiple game teams (first and third party). Most of my role is focused on development, architecting services, and working with other teams to ensure customer requirements are accounted for in all of our data products.
• The rest of my role is on mentoring our junior and senior engineers. This includes teaching best practices for testing and development through one on ones, brown-bag sessions, code reviews, and occasional pair programming.
• Primarily working in Python 3, with many different AWS services, not limited to Kinesis, Lambda, Redshift, and ECS, in order to upgrade existing pipeline to handle billions of events per day.

Sep 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California

• Working on Architectures, POCs, and all things relating to the video games industry! Working with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Engineering teams in order to align the company to the various needs and requirements of the games industry. Act as an games subject matter expert for partnership discussions, interact with internal and external marketing for industry-specific ad campaigns. Build games and e-sports POCs using internal products and open source platforms to assess current state with the requirements of the industry, and present gaps in coverage to product and engineering teams. Give presentations on building services and games using various technologies (internal and external).
• Speaking sessions: PyCon Jamaica, Gaming Analytics Summit San Francisco (Sponsor Keynote), Interconnect 2017, PyParis 2017

Feb 2014 – Oct 2014 · 8 mos

• Assist/own technical relationship to clients with a senior architect. Responsible for having strategic discussion with clients and guiding them to their goals, utilizing technology to get there. With my deep understanding of the space (especially the video game industry), I bring value through interpreting best practices for the client, captures requirements, gains insight, and finds opportunities for the company, namely in the data sciences (Analytics, Cloud, Social, Database, Watson) space. Also work on proof of concepts/technologies, organize events, manage projects and assessments, code up examples.

Mar 2013 – Feb 2014 · 11 mos

• Focusing on the Insurance and Financial Services Sector, assisted in the technical ownership of various clients to the company with a senior architect. Responsible for capturing requirements, gaining insight into issues and opportunities, namely in the data sciences (Analytics, Cloud, Social, Database) space. Translated various needs within the industries to architecture subsets, presented the best practices the architectures supported, as well as recommended technical solutions to business problems.

Jul 2012 – Mar 2013 · 8 mos

• Training in the sales cycle, architectural theory and practice, as well as various processes within IBM. Worked on a variety of business projects to develop business capabilities.

Aug 2011 – Jan 2012 · 5 mos

• Investigation in different uses of machine learning for large scale log searching

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos

• Created search framework for heterogeneous Big Data solutions with Lucene, Hadoop, Mahout and Hbase. Responsible for applying machine learning techniques (Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Cosine Similarity) to generalize, correlate, and search through large data sources. Work done in Java and Python. Gave presentations and interfaced with Executives.

Oct 2014 – Aug 2015 · 10 mos · San Francisco, California

• Creation and maintenance of various ETL jobs, data and analytics-focused APIs, reports and dashboards. Documentation and architecture assessments of our game and data platform. Coming up with next-generation services to give insight to the other teams in the company.

Aug 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · University of Florida

• Created some Natural Language Processing tools for extracting key elements of questions passed to Morpheus Q&A system. Currently researching methods in Declarative Computational Journalism in the database. Work done in Java, Python.

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos · Clearwater, Florida

• Refactored and added functionality to proprietary system. Installed a Postgres back-end store. Trained in Java and application to object relational mapping, query processing, and unit testing with JUnit.

Sep 2008 – Dec 2008 · 3 mos · Newberry, FL

• Trained in web production with an in-depth focus on programming in the .NET framework. Worked on small-scale projects in C# and ASP.NET with SQL Server 2005.

Aug 2007 – Dec 2007 · 4 mos · Gainesville Metropolitan Area

• Tutored students in both a private one-to-one setting, and a classroom group setting in math (Precalculus, Survey of Calculus, Calculus I), as well as held test reviews with large groups of students.