Work Experience

AIRMAP (2016-2018) Software Engineer

BERLIN, Germany

• Build real-time data pipelines to collect telemetry for manned and unmanned aircraft from multiple data providers.
• Integrate our aggregate stream of real-time telemetry with internal products via consumable APIs and protocols.
• Static geospatial airspace data map tile generation pipeline.
• Map tile server which served static and dynamic geospatial airspace data.
• Support and refine currently deployed microservices.
• Migrate services to Kubernetes based deployments.

SANTA MONICA, California

• TEAM LEAD managing the engineers building core microservices.
• Break down product specifications into actionable engineering tasks and distribute them to team members for execution.
• Real-time telemetry data pipelines.
• Geospatial data processing pipelines.
• Support and develop internal and external RESTful APIs.
• Manage competing project timelines to align with Senior Management’s overall company goals.
• Maintain infrastructure on AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, Elasticache, RDS, Kinesis)

technologies: k8s, AWS, Azure, Golang, NodeJS

HISTORYBUFF.COM (2015-2016) Director, Technology

• Full stack development
• Maintain infrastructure on AWS (EC2, ECS, Elasticache, RDS, Route53, Cloudfront)
• Maintain development and deployment pipeline using Docker containers.
• Build User Generated Content CMS allowing internal and external users to create text and media articles.
• Work with 3rd party vendors to implement technologies (Stormpath user management, Cloudinary for images)

technologies: AWS, Docker, Python, Flask

GIANT MEDIA by ADKNOWLEDGE (2013-2015) Senior Software Engineer

• Design and implement a real-time backend to serve native video advertising via 3rd party publishing partners and collect viewing statistics.
• Develop a real-time bidder according to openRTB spec to compete in auctions, basing decisions on current campaign fill rate, price trend, and a viewer model built from internal and third party data.
• Lead on machine learning project which implemented neural network and random forest to parse web articles and select valid content.
• Build administrative dashboards for inhouse and external clients to display information about video ad campaigns.
• Maintain logging tools for tracking impressions and interactions with the ad unit.
• Write Hadoop scripts to process logs on Amazon Elastic Map Reduce to create reports for sales team.

technologies: AWS, Python, Django, Flask

DIGITAL DOMAIN (2012-2013) Assistant Technical Director

• Write and maintain tools to monitor multiple render queues and track disk usage.
• Database Administrator for MySQL databases that store information across multiple physical locations (Venice, Vancouver)
• Web Designer - Access and visualize the information.
• Disk Management Tool - Users can view their disk footprint and delete rendered data. They can also restore deleted data.
• Projections Tool - Historical computational resource usage, graphed over time. Queries databases in several physical locations, aggregate the data, and present it via a web interface as graphical models. Users can interact with graphs dynamically.

technologies: Python, Django, jQuery, Mustache.js, MySQL

DIGITAL DOMAIN (2010-2012) Digital Production Assistant

• Wrote tools in Python to automate render farm management and disk space management.
• Render Priority and Report Tool - Web UI to prioritize jobs across multiple render farms
• Built reporting tools to display information about completed, running, and queued jobs. Tool will estimate completion times.
• Tools built with python backend and exposed via web UI in the Django web framework.

OVATION (2010) Web Developer

• Widget creation in Flash and Javascript, MYSQL database management, content management, brand management across social media.

Technologies

• LANGUAGES: Python, Javascript, Golang
• FRAMEWORKS: Django, Flask, NodeJS, Express.js, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes
• PROTOCOLS: MQTT, Protobuf
• CLOUD: AWS, Azure

Interests

Traveling to far off lands, Surfing, Sailing, Free Diving, Fútbol, Animation, Interactive Media