Experience

Kochava

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

• Vice President of Engineering & Product

  • Dec 2019 - Oct 2021

• Director of Software Engineering

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

• Lead Software Engineer & Software Architect

  • Feb 2018 - Jan 2019

  - Created technical specs, project timelines and lead scrums- Mentored junior developers - Developed legacy software migration plans - research new technology to apply within our technology stack ( gRPC, Kafka, K8s, Queuing technologies etc..) - Partnered with product and other engineering orgs to design and delivery production system. - Met with stakeholders to discuss new product and system requirements

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Aug 2016 - Feb 2018

  - Developed Rest APIs using golang to support millions of requests a minute - Create and refactor existing golang projects to meet industry standards.- Create real time metrics dashboards using InfluxDB and DataDog - Developed unit and integration tests plans for existing applications to reduce code complexity and down time. - Deployed applications to cloud environments using Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Spinnaker and Docker. - Participated in on call rotation for core applications Show less



XCHNG

• Cayman Islands

• Lead Software Engineer & Software Architect ( Kochava Labs )

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2021

  - Designed and lead implementation of a distributed ledger project - Developed byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol base on PBFT - Developed web assembly runtime in golang to support smart contracts - Developed peer to peer network library written in golang using TCP/TLS - Developed peer to peer membership library based on SWIM written in golang using UDP - Implemented smart contract sdk written in rust for our distributed ledgers virtual machine - Worked directly with CEO and CFO to align project with strategic initiatives - Managed multiple remote and local developers - Created technical specs, project timelines and lead scrums Show less



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Build/Automation Engineer

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2016

  - Developed Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline using Jenkins, Docker and Chef. - Created and Refactored existing ant and maven projects to fit standards and simplify build process.- Managed source control repositories using git, and cvs.- Managed development environments ( DB2, WebSphere MQ, RHEL ).- Provided application detailed design documents.- Developed in house tools to improve quality of life for developers and improve development cycle

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2014 - Jan 2015

  - Design and develop integration test project for internal application using testng, junit and other java test frameworks- Manage and support Jenkins continuous integration lab used to stream line release cycles- Analyzed customer tickets to prevent and fix software bugs using Java for a large B2B Cloud EDI translation platform.- Automated application metric reports using python



Wright State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Studies - Research Assistant AViDA

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

  - Research assistant focusing on computer graphics and virtual reality - Integration of OpenSceneGraph with VRUI virtual reality development toolkit - Used C++ and OpenGL to create virtual shopping experience for marketing research - Experience with optitrack infrared sensors, data gloves and other virtual reality devices. - Development done in linux using cmake and make. - Met with project sponsor to discuss project direction and progression - Research assistant focusing on computer graphics and virtual reality - Integration of OpenSceneGraph with VRUI virtual reality development toolkit - Used C++ and OpenGL to create virtual shopping experience for marketing research - Experience with optitrack infrared sensors, data gloves and other virtual reality devices. - Development done in linux using cmake and make. - Met with project sponsor to discuss project direction and progression



Defense Research Associates

• United States
• Telecommunications

• Software Engineer Internship

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2014

  - Worked on Sense and Avoid projects for UAS - Development support and code enhancements for existing Java and C++ tools - Developed plugins in Java for ImageJ to enhance data analysis - Collected and analyzed GPS and flight data - Developed SQL database tables used to query flight data - Worked on Sense and Avoid projects for UAS - Development support and code enhancements for existing Java and C++ tools - Developed plugins in Java for ImageJ to enhance data analysis - Collected and analyzed GPS and flight data - Developed SQL database tables used to query flight data



OmniSpear Web & Network Solutions, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Developer Summer Intern

  • Apr 2012 - Jun 2012

  - Completed customer tickets associated with provided products - Implementation and design of web applications - Completed customer tickets associated with provided products - Implementation and design of web applications