Experience

MakersPlace

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

• Director Of Engineering

  • Sep 2021 - 2 years 4 months



UPJAUNT

• United States
• Travel Arrangements

• Co-founder

  • Jan 2019 - Sep 2021

  Running a team of dedicated travel enthusiasts.



Grindr

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager - Platform, APIs, Chat, Big Data Applications

  • Nov 2015 - Feb 2018

  Los Angeles Responsible for the Grindr Platform including the APIs, Realtime Chat System, Subscription Service, Data Engineering Groups, and Back-office applications. * Managed Backend and Big Data engineers across 7 teams and 3 continents * Drove the transition from a bloated monolith to a microservice architecture achieving a faster time to market, lower operating costs and major improvement to overall system availability * Brought the platform from almost daily outages to 99.99% uptime through… Show more Responsible for the Grindr Platform including the APIs, Realtime Chat System, Subscription Service, Data Engineering Groups, and Back-office applications. * Managed Backend and Big Data engineers across 7 teams and 3 continents * Drove the transition from a bloated monolith to a microservice architecture achieving a faster time to market, lower operating costs and major improvement to overall system availability * Brought the platform from almost daily outages to 99.99% uptime through microservice architectures, test automation, and small iterative releases * Deprecated legacy systems and databases using live real-time migrations with zero downtime * Moved the teams from big high risk releases to a fast paced delivery minded org, achieving daily continuously delivered features Sponsored initiatives: * Open Sourcing initiative to highlight Grindr’s engineering prowess * Defined the architectural review board guidelines to remove friction and allow teams to work autonomously and innovate on their own architectures * Required Continuous Delivery of all new services * Pushed for the development of a learning minded organization that led to blog articles and conference presentations highlighting how Grindr solves complex problems * Sponsored consulting efforts to speed up the usage of big data across all of Grindr Show less



Game Play Networks

• Senior Software Engineer - APIs, Product

  • Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

  Los Angeles



Interset

• VP Data Architecture and Security Analytics

  • Nov 2012 - Dec 2013

  448 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA



Oracle

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

• Development Manager - Oracle Knowledge Applications

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2012

  Greater Los Angeles Area



InQuira

• Senior Solutions Developer/Senior Applications Developer

  • Sep 2010 - Oct 2011



CircleUp

• Senior Software Developer

  • 2006 - 2010



Internet Systems Group

• Consultant/Turnaround Software Developer

  • 2004 - 2006



Star Software Systems

• Tech Lead/Software Developer

  • 2003 - 2004