Sunnyvale, CA
Skills
Math, Physics, and Science.
Platforms: Linux, AWS, Unix, Solaris, *BSD, Windows
Tools of The Trade: bash, python, puppet, boto, AWS, Aliyun, Jenkins, git
Data Systems: MySQL, Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, Hadoop, Hard Drives, Paper and Pen
Education
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
B.S. Physics, Spring 2006, GPA: 3.4
Experience
Quixey - Engineering Manager, DevPlatform (November 2014 - Present)
- Grew a team from 3 to 6 engineers
- Own my team's vision, direction and execution towards improving the development platform
- Act as SCRUM facilitator, incrementally improving velocity and execution of team
DevOps Engineer (May 2013 - November 2014)
- Provide teams with automation, tools, and training for a self-service approach to Operations
- Automated many high-overhead processes including management for Hadoop, Kafka, Zookeeper
- Became the subject matter expert on AWS with little prior experience.
Google - Systems Engineer (June 2012 - May 2013)
- Sole Operational Engineer supporting up to 4B page views and 230M users per month
- Coordinate decommissioning plans among various departments
- Vendor management including negotiation, payment, cancellation, and reimbursement
Meebo - Lead Data Systems Engineer (June 2011 - Acquired June 2012)
- Guided architectural decisions regarding data systems for 600-server infrastructure
- Launched and maintained cross-datacenter Cassandra, clustered CouchDB, sharded MySQL
- Implemented Machine Learning algorithms on user data
Server Operations Engineer (August 2007 - June 2011)
- 3 datacenter moves with sub-minute downtime
- Deployed puppet on existing 400 server infrastructure
Battelle Memorial Institute - Research Associate (Autumn 2005 - August 2007)
- Stress, strain and failure studies of new designs using FEM/A
- Managed 90 processor high-performance computing cluster
Dept. of Physics, OSU - Student Programmer (Summer 2004 - Summer 2006)
- Developed web interface for molecular dynamics software using PHP
- Created an online scientific collaboration environment using PHP and MySQL
Unit One Nine - Web and Flash Developer (Spring 2004 - Autumn 2006)
- Developed corporate and client websites and Flash ads for AOL AIM using ASP, PHP, Windows and Linux
References available upon request.