PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Technology Leader and Evangelist in Engineering, IT and Organizational Development
• With a unique broad spectrum expertise and “hands on” cross functional experience in the areas of: Big Data, IoT, Machine Learning, Data Science, Cloud, Real - time, Networking and Confidential
• Extensive US and international success in startup, turnaround and expansion environments.
• Hands on in formulating, executing and delivering projects fostering high-productivity teams.
• Expertise on adapting Advanced Analytics, Data Mining, Data Warehousing and NoSQL.
• Wide spectrum of form factors from Embedded, Mobile, STB, Servers, MPP, Data center to Cloud.
• 20+ years of system-wide polyglot experience in Enterprise, Embedded and Cloud segments.
• 16+ years of highly scalable and distributed data mining, CEP and micro-service architectures.
• 12+ years of setting up and managing distributed teams (30+), vendors and customers.
• 6+ years of Big Data, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, MPP migrations and DevOps.
• Big Data, MPP & IoT adaption Business Development Agile, SCRUM and Confidential
• SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and BDaaS Mobile, POS, NFC and BLE Portfolio Management
• Property and Open Source Functional Programming OOD, TDD, BDD & CI

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Deployment Environments and Compliance: Hadoop + Spark + Storm Lamda architecture (Hadoop 1.x-2.x, HDP2.x, CDH5.x, Spark, Storm, MapReduce, HDFS, Mahout, MLlib, Hive, Kafka, Sqoop, Flume, Falcon, NLP, SolR, OpenNLP, Splunk, KNIME, SAS, Datameer, Azkaban, Ambari, Oozie,), Play, REST, Nagios, IaaS (EC2, IBM SoftLayer), PaaS (EMR, Heroku, Azure HDInsight), FDA, PCI

Programming environments: Scala/Java ecosystem (Scalding, Cascading data pipelines, JVM, Akka, SummingBird), .NET C#, C++, Python, HTML (CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AngularJS, PHP), Unix (Linux, VxWorks, Ubuntu, Mac, CentOS, QNX), Windows, ARM/Neon SIMD AARCH64

NoSQL, ORMsRDBMS, MPPs: HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, AWS Dynamo, Hibernate ORM /OGM, SQLite, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle/ATG, Teradata/EDW, Greenplum, DB2, BlueMartini

Network/Cloud Related: MQTT/CoAP, NVMeoF, RDMA, IB, RoCE, SDN, MiniNet, TCP/IP, ATM, CloudFront, HAProxy, Nginx, Varnish, JMeter, AWS (RDS, S3, EBS, IoT), I/f (Avro, Thrift, JSON), PMML

Process, Project & Configuration: Gradle, SBT, Git, SVN, ClearCase, Perforce, TFS, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Chef; MS Office / Project, JIRA, Google Apps, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Visio

PROFESSIONAL DETAILS:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Associate Technical Director

Environment: Scala, Java, C, Hadoop:HDP2/MapR, Spark, MLLib, HBase, SolR, Storm, Kafka, KNIME, OpenNLP

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the formulation and execution of datacenter CoE for Big data, IoT and Storage strategy. Forged together a diverse team (18+) of architects, data scientists and seasoned engineers who specify, benchmark, architect, develop & support sales of the next generation Big Data & Storage technologies for the end customers running some of the biggest datacenters of the world under most stringent SLAs.
• Standardized practices and process on implementing Big Data solution architecture for multiple customers focusing on end to end scalable data pipeline for ingestion and transformation of multi-structured data, message broker architecture, ETL conversions, MPP adaptations, lambda architectures supporting hybrid OLTP/OLAP workloads and NoSQL / in-memory adaptations.
• Instrumental in enabling multiple product lines with Big Data and Storage centric features to deliver $50+ million incremental revenue. Worked with marketing and sales in identifying the next set of futuristic technologies and features that will be streamlined in the releases of datacenter product lines.
• Participated in technology leadership efforts of the company in emerging big data technology internals of In-memory computing, Big data feature offloads to Smart NICs, NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA/RoCEv2/IB transports and Big Data benchmarking to augment Google perfkit.

Confidential, Menomonee Falls, WI

Sr. Manager of Engineering | Lead Architect

Environment: Scala, Java, Python, Scalding, Hadoop, HDP2, Splunk, Storm, MLLib, PySpark, HBase, SolR, Kafka

Responsibilities:

• Identified Scala, Scalding, Akka, Play, SolR, Storm and Spark as the key enablers of the lambda architecture; Worked hands on in several PoC architectures, upgraded them to production pipelines, and supported peak SLA performance tuning; mentored in training and adaption of upcoming technologies.
• Managed and worked ‘hands on’ in the product roadmap, architecture and implementation of data governance, real time CEP, click stream processing and golden path analysis. Oversaw continuous upgrades of tool ecosystem including HDP1.3-HDP 2.x, HBase 0.9x and Blue Martini-Oracle ATG/EDW.
• Worked on ML algorithms of Frequently Bought Together, Related, Similarity (KNN) and Top-K trending to enhance the retailer’s omni-channel strategy (kiosk, mobile, email and web).

Confidential, Orange County, CA

Sr. Technical Manager | Tech Lead

Environment: s: Java, Hadoop, EMR, HDInsight, Scala, Hive, Pig, AngularJS, Mahout, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB

Responsibilities:

• Managed and worked ‘hands on’ in data ingestion, pipelines, security, workflow automation, Dashboards, A/B test framework, Rules Engine, Real Time Insight Services, Cloud strategies and recommendations.
• Evaluated technologies, developed PoCs, architected and developed production implementations of targeted advertisements, log mining, clickstream analytics, anomaly/threat detection and fault isolation.
• Championed agile, TDD and BDD for specification, design and development of Cloud DVR, OTT, SDV, PPV, VOD, Interactive Services to the cloud DVR portal for companion device apps and IPTV.
• SME in Intellectual Property and Open Source across the organization and helped mitigate critical liabilities for the company. Worked with customer teams to enhance the process for planning, work request formulation and customer/vendor management thus leading to an efficient go-live pipeline.
• Lead the porting and migration of existing network based cell management servers for RFID to use cloud infrastructure. Implemented click-once deployment of field-installed device software using GoGrid cloud infrastructure and EdgeCast CDN. Designed an innovative visual user panel for the management console.
• Designed and implemented a BDM Resource management system to detect, diagnose and upgrade DSC based devices (CAN). Introduced agile to the teams; worked with external teams in UK and vendors in Asia.
• Instrumental in completing the project in record time and planned budget accounting for FDA compliance.

Confidential, Confidential, CA

Sr. Project Lead (Dev/QA) - Sr. Systems Engineer

Environment: s: C#, .NET 3.0, Java, C++, QNX Linux, Spring, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GoGrid, JavaScript

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the product lines with remote access for mobiles and DLNA/multi-zone interoperability.
• Designed and implemented a light-weight ORM that supports scaling of storage across components and zones.
• Introduced agile / SCRUM by leveraging my experience in quality coordination prior with Confidential .
• Working with executive management, transformed the legacy culture of the manufacturing organization with no software quality background, into a process to comparable to mature Confidential organizations.
• Successfully set up and managed an offshore QA organization while playing a very active role in the development team.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

System Architect

Environment: Java, C++, Linux, SQLite, Oracle, MVC, ARM / MIPS processors, Several RTOS

Responsibilities:

• Guided the teams from design to integration, supported my Director in several process initiatives, coordinated with teams and vendors in UK, Korea and Singapore with stringent specifications and deadlines for the releases.
• Provided process innovation by enhancing the management of processor specs, memory map, data store, features in interactive services and performance/UE metrics thus vastly improving the pipeline of vendor coordination process.
• Primary liaison with the sister company Confidential UK as a core vendor for middleware.
• Coordinated several key vendors while in parallel indirectly managing development of multiple product lines shadowing the Engineering director.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Software | Apps Engineer | Team Lead

Environment: s: C, C++, Java, Solaris, IDL / CORBA, SQL, several RDBMS, Tcl/Tk

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the design and development of a real-time financial transaction management system for commodity and currency (forex) futures and options handling of more than 8000 peak TPS.
• Enacted the role of Quality coordinator for Confidential & Confidential dedicated facility and dealt with external auditing firms to take the group from an SEI maturity of level 2 to level 5 in short span of 22 months.
• Was instrumental in developing long-term business relationships with companies such as Switchcore, Sonus net.com and Alcatel with whom there were no prior long-term projects for the company.
• Stayed loyal with the company until a successful exit when it was bought over by Flextronics and then Confidential .