Builder of great teams and software. Relentless attention to detail throughout
the software development life cycle. Keen focus on process, tooling, team
dynamics, and measurable outcomes. 20+ years experience in startups and large
organizations. Comfortable as an individual contributor or a team leader.
Work
Site Reliability Engineer, Woven by Toyota, 2024 - Present, Ann Arbor, MI
Woven is helping Toyota to build software defined vehicles, and I'm helping to
make the systems that make that possible.
Site Reliability Engineer / Manager, Google, 2019 - 2024, Pittsburgh, PA
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful. SRE focuses on the implicit "always" in that mission.
- Oversaw the creation of a new sixteen person SRE team in Pittsburgh owning
operational availability for the core Search Ads platform
- Managed migration from dedicated hardware to shared infrastructure for Search
Ads serving
- Collaborated closely with sibling teams in Dublin, owning cross-site joint
operations
Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer, Duo Security, 2016 - 2019, Ann Arbor, MI
Duo, a Cisco business unit, provides human-friendly security for education,
tech companies and an ever increasing swath of enterprise.
- Partnered with Corporate Security to design and implement a robust production
compliance and security regime
- Shaped weekly, quarterly, and yearly operations goals in concert with
engineering, product, and customer success
- Volunteered to help re-work engineering onboarding and training for new
hires and engineers gaining elevated access
- Responsible for identity and access management of expansive AWS footprint
including EC2, RDS, Elasticache, and Elastic Search resources
- Managed an operations team with mixed remote/local, early-career/experienced,
and new-hire/long-tenure direct reports
- Participated in regular on-call, with emphasis on continuous improvement and
monitoring
- Dove into a complex code base and environment and contributed significant
efficiency, stability, and repeatability improvements
VP of Engineering, DramaFever, 2012 - 2016, New York, NY/Philly, PA
DramaFever, a Warner Brothers company, develops and customizes a streaming video
platform powering many popular video sites.
- Managed a team of 40 engineers, with responsibility for mentoring, roadmap,
procedures, and interactions with product teams and executives
- Developed customer facing and backend features on a Django + JS stack
- Increased search efficiency by implementing Swiftype for in-site search
and autocomplete
- Built video analytics system with millions of data points per day
analyzed using Amazon DyanamoDB, Elastic Map Reduce (Hadoop / Hive), and
Redshift cutting reporting time from days to minutes
- Instituted processes and tooling with GitHub, standard
branching practices, continuous integration (Jenkins), and code review
- Increased monitoring with New Relic and Graphite
Developer, 8thBridge, 2011 - 2012, Minneapolis, MN and remote
EighthBridge, since acquired by Fluent, pioneered e-commerce within social media
sites.
- Developed and debugged software for high-volume, high-reliability
transaction processing with highly variable input and data store
requirements
- Conducting code reviews for security and correctness using GitHub and
JIRA/Crucible
- Helping to manage large Amazon EC2 deployments using Chef for automation and
Jenkins for builds and deploys
- Using NewRelic, Cacti, Graphite, Splunk, Snort, Pingdom, Akamai, Cloud Front,
PagerDuty,and BrowserMob to ensure always-on availability
- Primary point of contact for PCI-DSS certification -- one of the first on
Amazon Web Services / Elastic Computing Cloud (AWS-EC2)
Developer, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, 2010 - 2011, Minneapolis, MN
- Work with bioinformatics, genomics, and physical science investigators at
the University of Minnesota to apply massively parallel computing resources
in the furtherance of their research
- Modify and consult on projects in Java, Python, Perl
- Designed and deployed University-wide Galaxy bioinformatics framework
offering
Co-Founder and Lead Technologist, Swarmcast, Inc., 2002 - 2010, Minneapolis, MN
Swarmcast invented and commercialized modern segmented video streaming.
- Built a team of 15 engineers from the ground up: set their goals, selected
their tools, crafted their environment, defined their procedures, and
oversaw quality for multiple public launches
- Reliably designed and delivered customer-facing, groundbreaking, HTTP-based,
live video delivery software, both client and server systems, on time and
under budget
- Personally authored core pieces of multiple server-side and client-side
products licensed by Major League Baseball, Siemens, Comcast, and Roku
- Oversaw professional services groups in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Tasks included contracts, project scheduling, resource allocation, and
customer relations including international travel
- Managed the patent pipeline, yielding 6 fully granted in the US and
internationally