San Jose, California, United States
Experienced hands on engineering leader with strong skill set grounded in web, mobile, and big data technologies. I've worked across diverse industries (real estate, govt/military security, social gaming, education, live entertainment/ticketing, video platform, performance improvement, healthcare, and LMS) and managed teams from 2 engineers to 70+ engineers distributed across 3 geographies. Working across various industries, I've been privileged to be part of teams building the worlds most secure USB drive + cloud services, the 4th largest game on Facebook serving 2.5 billion requests a day, world class analytics product ingesting billions of events a day with 2.5 PB of data under management, software servicing some of the top sports teams in the world, products supporting the most critical agencies in the federal government, and educational software distributed across 4000+ classrooms across the US. I have deep knowledge and experience across the technology stack, from HTML/CSS/Javascript/Android through the web tier and to the database (MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, Postgres, etc.). I try to remain technically agnostic, understanding that no single tool or technology solves every problem. From a leadership perspective I focus on three broad areas: people, operations, and technology. The intricate dependencies between these areas offer unique sets of challenges specific to each organization, but mapping these relationships and understanding them is key to building a cohesive, effective, performant, driven engineering organization. Finally, I pride myself on understanding and balancing the pragmatic nature of helping run a business with the strategic goals that must be met to drive growth. I'm a strong advocate for program management and the role it plays in catalyzing R&D efficiency and results, and have always felt there are a lot of parallels between how one designs and develops a distributed software architecture, and how one builds and runs an efficient team.
As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses get pay right and to make sustainable fair pay a reality. At Payscale I lead our engineering which includes product engineering, data engineering, infrastructure, and devops.
WorkRamp is the All-in-One LMS that your employees, customers, and partners will love. By centralizing learning and training in a single platform, we help teams scale with confidence, create consistent learning experiences, and drive to better business outcomes. At WorkRamp I'm responsible for all aspects of engineering, including recruiting, P&L, program management, infrastructure, development (web, DevOps, QA), and security.
Responsible for all aspects of engineering, including recruiting, P&L, program management, infrastructure, development (web + mobile applications, data engineering, data science, DevOps, QA), and security. Also acting information security officer, having built and run the internal compliance program, maturing it to SOC2 type 1 and type 2 certification.
Responsible for all aspects of engineering, from hiring, to development, support, and security. Also oversaw the BetterWorks information security program, including leading R&D efforts relative to SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance.
Responsible for big data and insights, content management, DRM, and video playback at Ooyala. Working with the big data team to build next generation solutions capable of consuming large amounts of data efficiently, consume and store the data in a scalable manner, and enable the data to be processed and queried as fast as possible. Content management work is focused on delivering our next gen media platform. Playback is focused on delivering a dynamic, customizable player running cross platform. Working with the rest of the executive team to ensure predictable SLA's across the org around data consumption and delivery, and make sure that the company's data requirements are met at all times. Additionally I work with our discovery and insights team to ensure that we are able to make sense of the data we collect.