Splice
Sr. Engineering Manager - Infrastructure
March 2023 - Present
- Leading the Data Engineering, Security Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering teams (10 FTEs).
- Drove EBIT from -12% to +2% through multiple consolidation and performance initiatives.
- Drove cross functional efforts to standardize golden paths for core infrastructure across Data, Security, and SRE.
- Coached and mentored an Individual Contributor into a Management role.
Engineering Manager - SRE
December 2020 - March 2023
- Ownership of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, compute platform, databases, observability platform, and edge networks.
- Delivered a framework for provisioning on-demand compute, enabling test suites to run in minutes instead of hours.
- Drove down toil by consolidating IAM, KMS, VPC networks, and integrating platform access to an IDP.
Staff Engineer
January 2020 - December 2020
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Built a platform that enabled developers to self-service provision containers with baked in observability, blue/green auto-deploys, autoscaling, and ensured a baseline of security standards across all APIs.
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Bootstrapped and progressively iterated on an Incident Response system.
Sr. Software Engineer
October 2018 - December 2019
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Reduced p99 search latencies from 1sec+ to <100ms by identifying and remediating performance bottlenecks.
Technologies: Go, Python, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Terraform, AWS, BigQuery, Docker, Datadog
Simple
Sr. Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
July 2015 - August 2018
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Built product applications and infrastructure services on Kubernetes.
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Improved Mean Time to Recovery from days to hours, and decreased the number of outages per month by 60%.
Technologies: Go, Ruby, Scala, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
Simply Measured
Software Engineer - Product and Data Engineering
October 2013 - June 2015
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Built MapReduce jobs that normalized billions of rows of Facebook and Youtube data.
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Optimized data ingestion workers, improving performance, reliability, and decreasing operational burden.
Technologies: Go, Ruby, Java, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Hadoop, Memcache
Other Experience
Software Engineer, Teaching Assistant
August 2008-December 2013
- Sifteo: Build web APIs for distributing software and collecting hardware diagnostics.
- Kelly Dunn LLC: Created web services that enabled musicians to distribute their music online.
- Originate: Built ecommerce, gaming, taxi hailing, and healthcare web applications.
- University of Washington: Taught Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases, and Web Development courses.
Technologies: Go, Ruby, Java, Javascript, C, C++, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Chef, AWS