Director Of Engineering @ Engine Media Group, EMX, Chicago, IL. 11/2017 - 7/2022
Digital Advertising company, tech-enabled, data-driven, solving the business challenges of marketers, agencies, and publishers. EMX is the fully owned technology that powers Big Village's
programmatic advertising business
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2020-2022 Worked directly with SVP of Engineering on solving difficult challenges, such as improving architecture, troubleshooting complex system issues, improving agile processes, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with other directors. Our high performance ad system was based in AWS and handled over a million QPS spread across multiple data centers and continents.
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2017-2020 Owned development and operations for Balihoo, a cloud-based local marketing platform that enables clients to manage ads and local websites across thousands of locations. Used dozens of AWS cloud services written mostly in Python and Javascript. Managed team, including project resourcing, interviewing, hiring, firing, and career growth. Transitioned everything to offshore team in 2020.
Software Engineering Manager @ Opticsplanet, aka Ecentria, Chicago, IL. 5/2013 - 4/2017
E-commerce and technology company
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As manager responsible for 2 cross-functional teams, 11-14 people, including quality of features and code, scheduling and meeting deadlines, hiring and firing, annual reviews and budgeting.
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Interviewed hundreds of candidates, hired and onboarded 15 over 3+ years.
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Strong believer in empowering teams by promoting individual career growth, transparency of work, and team collaboration.
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Promoted agile lean and kanban methodologies, defined and evolved roles and guidelines, and acted as Scrum Master on both teams.
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Collaborated with business and management on direction, architecture, scheduling, delivery, and maintenance of project work.
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Continued reviewing all code by my teams as well as writing code for various side projects, such as prototyping technical solutions, customizing atlassian products, and enabling visualization of work.
Senior Developer @ Critical Mass, Chicago, IL. 3/2010 - 5/2012
Digital Advertising Agency providing Marketing, Strategy, Branding, Creative, Technical, Analytics.
- As senior developer worked with clients and internal teams to architect, build, deploy, and maintain code for websites.
Supported desktop, mobile (iPhone, Android), and tablets (iPad).
- Led CM in implementing Test and Target framework from Adobe (Omniture). Improved use of Adobe Sitecatalyst in several areas.
- Clients worked with include United Airlines, USAA, TE Connectivity, Nissan/Infinity, Auto Trader, Moen, and Budweiser.
Lead Architect @ MidVentures, Chicago, IL. 2/2009 - 10/2009
Web 2.0 company providing leading-edge software, design, marketing, and venture funding solutions
Internet Engineer @ Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA. 8/2003 - 4/2006
Joined Yahoo search engineering at 30 people, grew to 600+ during my tenure
due to switch from using google to Yahoo for search results.
- My Web 2.0 - Was the lead front-end engineer
on myweb2, an online social and
tagging based bookmark system.
Sold team and management on new features and improvements, managed other front-end engineers, coordinated with designers, product managers,
and backend engineers. Worked in PHP/Apache/FreeBSD, cvs, and twiki
- Video Search - Designed and wrote the front-end code.
- YTester - Designed, wrote,
and maintained an automated testing system for web search and related
verticals, written in perl. Taught YTester in Bangalore, India.
Software Artist @ Cloudmark, San Francisco, CA. 4/2002 - 9/2002
Anti-spam email startup company. Designed, wrote, tested and maintained the client code for
Vipul's Razor 2.0
Software Engineer @ Critical Path, San Francisco, CA. 7/1998 - 9/2001
Email hosting startup company. Was 56th employee hired, raised $42 million in 1998 before IPO.
Company peaked at over 1,000 people during my tenure.
- Platform Architect -
Collaborated on platform for hosted services, including
100,000+ virtual domains, 10 million users, email
(pop/imap/smtp/webmail), calendar, addressbook, and directory
services.
- Locator - Designed, wrote, and QA tested a
'Locator' server using LDAP/GDS.
- Brightmail - Integrated
Brightmail's virus and spam checking
libraries + tools into CP architecture.
- SSL/Security - Served as architect,
programmer, tester, and liaison to Verisign in implementing an
automatic SSL certificate issuing system.
Engineer @ Intel, Santa Clara, CA. 7/1995-6/1998
Began as a Graduate Rotation Engineer, a
leadership program for recent university graduates
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Ported C code
to work in a proprietary Windows
95/98/NT4 NDIS kernel mode driver for ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) network card.
- Maintained a Demo Room and lab -
Presented
demonstrations to internal and external audiences.
Responsible for selecting, ordering, and configuring network
components (switches, routers, analyzers), and PCs
- Web site Administrator - Created two
websites, one written in perl/linux, second used Frontpage, Word,
Powerpoint on NT.
Engineer Intern @ IBM, 1992 - 1993
Prototyped IEEE standard 802.5 Source Routing in 1993 in NC, Simulated Token-Ring network in 1992 in VA.
Independent Consultant, 1999 - present
- Bureau of Trade (2012) - As software architect, Designed and built a
JSON API server in node using mongo db backend, deployed on heroku, to house all product and curated data.
Built admin website for API using twitter bootstrap. Built a simple mobile web app, serving static html/css/js using backbone.js
framework, where browser fetches data from JSON API server.
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Various Web Clients - Improved web presence, from global interactive ad agencies to small local organizations.
Adapted to needs - architecting solutions, hiring and interviewing teams, documenting procedures, writing code, and fixing bugs.
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MP3Find.pm (2002) - Designed and wrote
Apache+Mod_Perl utility for creating MP3 playlists over the Internet
which can be used for Audio CD burning software and other various MP3
players [more]
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Event Producer - Promoted, coordinated and administered 15+ non-profit events,
the biggest of which generated $20,000 gross, with over 1,000 attendees.