Large Scale Distributed Systems Developer in Seattle, WA, United States

Relational databases in the cloud! I worked primarily on RDS instance provisioning, monitoring, and fault tolerance. Design work was awarded the patents below:

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/20140201363

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/8676753

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/20110099146

Along with four other fantastic developers, I helped define and write "ARIA," the next generation data visualizer used by Skype. This is an Angular-based SPA website that allows Skype engineers, technicians, PMs, and managers to query, view, manipulate, share, and control internal worldwide metrics data (e.g., call length, dropped calls, or bandwidth usage).

This was my first professional exposure to AngularJS, and it spawned an instant love for front-end web development. I look forward to diving into more large-scale Angular projects in the near future!

Trade in your goods for an Amazon gift card!

I helped bring this project from inception to a multi-million dollar revenue stream, contributing on every level from web-facing widgets to back-end data mining. I earned the following patents along the way:

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/8799101

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/8533055

Along with two other engineers, I helped produce the BingAds library for Android devices. This is an ORMMA-compliant Java library that allows Android developers to monetize their apps using ads served by Bing, as an alternative to Google's AdMob.

Key features that I contributed to include customer geotargeting using Bing Maps (e.g., if a customer clicks on an ad for Pizza Hut, we offer the ability to open a map showing the nearest franchise), click debouncing, pixel tracking, and impression metrics, and ORMMA (Open Rich Media Mobile Advertising) spec'd hooks for advertisers to interact with device hardware (e.g., rotating an ad for a new car in response to signals from the device's accelerometer).

At Amazon.com's Trade-In page, you may find recommendations to trade in items that you have previously purchased at Amazon. I designed and implemented this feature entirely, including daily offline data mining of hundreds of millions of customer purchases (terabytes worth) stored in Amazon's data warehouse, to automated deployment of result data to backend servers (in the form of multi-GB BDB database files), to distributed caching of past purchase information with memcached across server clusters in multiple data centers, to the fully internationalized and localized Perl/Mason/JS/CSS front-end code that displays past purchases to customers.

Beyond the technical contributions, I worked directly with product managers, advertisers, business development, and senior management to craft requirements and bring this feature from concept to reality. 4+ years later, the software is still running strong and generating revenue for Amazon every day!

The AWACS is a US Air Force jumbo jet outfitted with long range radar and sensor capabilities, and it functions as a mobile command and control center in the sky. Between sensor integration, communications management, and battlespace control, the software that powers the AWACS is diverse and significantly complex.

At Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, I partnered with two PhDs to create a tool that deploys and configures the multitude of AWACS software components in laboratories, ground bases, and in the aircraft itself. With dozens and dozens of systems running on at least five different operating systems across many servers and workstations, ensuring that the whole system functioned correctly was no small integration task.

The tools that I wrote used Java, Awk, and Ant build scripting to provide a graphic control interface for installing AWACS software in a number of environments. I'm proud to say that my toolset is responsible for the properly functioning deployment of the AWACS software flown by the US Air Force today!