Sunnyvale, California, United States
Highly skilled and dynamic software engineer with over 15 years in delivering cutting-edge solutions to the most demanding and complex projects in the automotive and eCommerce space. Demonstrated expertise and understanding of the latest technologies and trends, with a strong background in cloud migrations and modernization, adhering to the most stringent requirements, standardization, and regulatory guidelines to ensure seamless and successful global deployments. Possesses exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and mentor engineering teams, collaborate with product managers and stakeholders, and serve as a trusted technical liaison with suppliers, driving alignment and delivering results that contribute to the success of organizations.
Supported building and lead a charging engineering team to bring products from concept to reality. Managed all aspects of the projects including visibility, forecasting, risk management, cost planning, and capacity planning. Key achievements: • Defined high-level requirements for vehicle/charger integrations, charging cloud infrastructure, service mesh, and cross-functional dependencies applying and complying with industry and security standards such as OCPP, OCPI, ISO15118, Cloud Native, DR, AuthN/AuthZ, and CI/CD to scale and meet the demands of all customers. • Implemented hands-on processes for code maintenance, quality control, build and release pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring tools, and best practices while focusing on flexible, low-cost, highly available and resilient architectures in production. • Architected and released services to integrate with charging roaming partners for interoperability and navigation suppliers to support near-real-time charger availability and geospatial search, vehicle telemetry, trip planning, remote start/stop, plug and charge, payments, and inter-department integrations. • Directly impacted customer-facing products such as vehicle infotainment, battery management systems, charging stations, mobile apps, site host portals, fleet portals, data lake, and reporting tools/dashboards. Technologies and skills: System Design, AWS (API-Gateway, Lambda, EKS, IAM, MSK, S3), Azure, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spring Cloud, OpenSearch + Kibana, DataDog, Splunk, Graphana, SonarQube, Vehicle Telemetry, Terraform, gitlab
Project Lead with responsibility for feature API development, integration, release, and scaling of data content and location services for Mercedes Benz cars. Focused on continuous improvement by implementing ISO:9001 processes and standards, test-driven development, and agile methodologies.
Technical Lead for connected vehicle features for Navigation, Entertainment and Speech Services. Previous projects included API development, content integration and release management of Mercedes Benz COMAND features gas prices, parking, POI search, weather information, EV charging stations. IP Radio, and ASR + NLU speech dialogue systems for the US, Europe and Japan. Led the technical offshore mobile development team (iOS and Android) for the Smart car app cross connect.
Developed applications and supported the launch of Mercedes-Benz Apps across all global markets including the first context-aware Speech Dialog Systems and offboard Text-to-Speech APIs.
Customized and migrated Europe’s leading conversion Engine FACT-Finder into eCommerce business platforms. Lead technical development of migrating data imports from single instance SQL servers to Linux clusters with couchbase. Implemented caching strategies for data warehouse imports with memcached which increased import time and reduced server loads by 20%.
Prototyped a WebSocket application for bi-directional communications in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) and widget components (voice interface, virtual keyboard, notification service) for a Volkswagen Infotainment-System based on the Global Open Research Infotainment Architecture.
Implemented prototype applications for infotainment systems. Responsible for the architecture and design of an aggregated data streams to access and persist content provider data. Introduced customized VMs with Ruby on Rails developer SDKs. Analyzed and examined the usability and maintainability of prototypes on Heroku´s PaaS platform.