Experience

Orchid

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Datavant

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Engineering Team Lead

  • Mar 2021 - Dec 2022

  Lead a cross-function team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers to develop and evaluate ML-powered matching algorithms for use on de-identified healthcare records.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 2020 - Nov 2021

  * Design and led implementation of data ingestion and distribution pipeline processing tens of thousands of files and 20+ TB data per month * Designed data distribution, segmentation, and analytics queries on top of Snowflake data warehouse * Managed combined team of data and full-stack engineers



CloudWright

• United States
• Software Development

• Co-Founder

  • Jun 2019 - Jun 2020

  Greater Seattle Area High-powered product automation in simple Python. We think that 80% of useful internal tools haven't been built yet. Members of your team have new ideas for applications all the time, but face barriers when trying to turn them into reality, because of last-mile obstacles like password management, 3rd party API integrations, scaling, and deploying. CloudWright lets your team build those tools. We handle the infrastructure, provide a first-class editor experience, and let… Show more High-powered product automation in simple Python. We think that 80% of useful internal tools haven't been built yet. Members of your team have new ideas for applications all the time, but face barriers when trying to turn them into reality, because of last-mile obstacles like password management, 3rd party API integrations, scaling, and deploying. CloudWright lets your team build those tools. We handle the infrastructure, provide a first-class editor experience, and let your team members — including those new to programming — focus on bringing their ideas to life. Show less



LiveRamp

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Lead, Big Data Infrastructure

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2019

  Head of Big Data Infrastructure team. Led migration of 2,500+ server Hadoop environment from an on-premise datacenter to Google Cloud Platform. Worked with finance team to estimate projected costs, negotiate contractual requirements, and take advantage of Committed Use discounts Developed and deployed cluster autoscaling system to save millions of dollars annually in compute cost.

• Software Engineer — Big Data Infrastructure

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Lead developer of Workflow2, LiveRamp's primary data processing pipeline engine As Senior Engineer, helped 100+ data engineers build and optimize dozens of data workflows processing tens of petabytes of data per day Scaled Hadoop environment over 6 years: - Grew cluster from 100 to 2,500 nodes - Upgraded Cloudera Hadoop from CDH3 to CDH5, including Java upgrades - Migrated from MR1 to YARN - Enabled HDFS Federation — scaled from one NameNode to 4 HA, Federated… Show more Lead developer of Workflow2, LiveRamp's primary data processing pipeline engine As Senior Engineer, helped 100+ data engineers build and optimize dozens of data workflows processing tens of petabytes of data per day Scaled Hadoop environment over 6 years: - Grew cluster from 100 to 2,500 nodes - Upgraded Cloudera Hadoop from CDH3 to CDH5, including Java upgrades - Migrated from MR1 to YARN - Enabled HDFS Federation — scaled from one NameNode to 4 HA, Federated NameNode pairs Primary on-call contact for infrastructure downtime events. Coordinated response and communication across dozens of engineers, datacenter staff, and external vendor support engineers. Primary maintainer of Hank, LiveRamp's OSS key-value datastore. Developed Golang smart-client to interface with Java data servers.



Rapleaf

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2012

  San Francisco Develop data matching algorithms to boost customer data match rates by 20% Developed data inference and matching algorithms on large (10 billion+ record) distributed datasets

• Software Development Intern

  • May 2010 - Sep 2011

  Working on researching, developing and implementing efficient data anonymization algorithms. The goal is to develop an algorithm which is able to k-anonymize the data Rapleaf serves, while preserving as much targetable information as possible.



Vanderbilt University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, Fault Adaptive Control Technology Group

  • Sep 2009 - May 2010

  Built a system to generate efficient and reconfigurable state equations for Hybrid Bond Graph models. Use these equations in conjunction with Kalman filters for state estimation and tracking.

• VUSRP Undergraduate Research Fellow

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Implement and evaluate the performance of SAPOP, a partial order planning and scheduling system. Developed a translator to convert PDDL International Planning Competition domains into Spreading Activation networks.

• Programmer, Teachable Agents Group

  • May 2008 - Apr 2009

  Worked on Betty's Brain, a computer tutoring system which teaches children about concept mapping. Worked with the JGraph library to implement a concept mapping system.