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Neustar, Inc (Through the acquisition of Aggregate Knowledge, Inc), San Francisco, CA
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Director of Engineering (4.6+ years)
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Aug 2013 - May 2018
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- Managed five engineering groups that make up a large part of
Neustar's Media Intelligence product line: Media Insights,
Actions, Audience, Taxonomy/Onboarding, DMP/Syndication.
- Modernized the entire frontend and backend development life
cycle. Developed a SPA (Single Page Application) frontend
infrastructure using AngularJS, Bootstrap, and Gulp to enable rapid
and continuous software development.
Developed a backend infrastructure using an API First Development
approach using RAML (RESTful API Modeling Language) and a
Data Model First Development approach
with jOOQ (jOOQ Object Oriented Querying).
- Introduced Scrum and Kanban style agile development processes to
multiple engineering groups.
- Encouraged the adoption of Cucumber as a collaboration tool between
Product Management, Engineering, and QA to drive a Test Driven Agile
Development approach.
- Guided the successful adoption of the Continuous Delivery approach
to enable multiple deployments per day using a combination of
technologies such as Jenkins, Hipchat, S3/Cloudfront, Gitlabs, Gerrit,
Karma/Jasmine, and Cucumber.
- Heavily engaged in recruiting efforts and built several high
performing engineering teams that value high-quality and frequent
delivery of customer value.
- Responsible for defining and improving the SDLC (System Development
Life Cycle) for the entire Neustar organization with a heavy emphasis
on areas involving Tooling, Automation, Continuous Integration,
Continuous Delivery, Configuration, and Deployment Management,
PaaS, Security and License compliance, and OSS
(Open Source Software) Governance.
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| Nextag, Inc, San Mateo, CA
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Director of Engineering (2 years)
Engineering Manager (1.75 years)
Lead Software Engineer (1.6 years)
Senior Software Engineer (2 years)
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Aug 2011 - Aug 2013
Feb 2010 - Oct 2011
Jul 2008 - Feb 2010
Jul 2006 - Jul 2008
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| Group - Release Engineering: |
May 2013 - Aug 2013 |
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- Managed a team of 2 to modernize the entire development, build, and
deployment process.
- Spearheaded the practice of using Vagrant to speed development
by providing a consistent dev environment.
- Spearheaded the use of Puppet to automatically configure
development, build, QA, staging, and production environments.
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| Group - Mobile Apps: |
Jul 2012 - Aug 2013 |
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- Managed a team of 4 through the adoption of Lean Startup
principles to launch the Price Machine app for Android.
- Coached team into a high performing agile group.
- Spearheaded efforts to adopt Continuous Integration with
device-level automated Cucumber tests for iOS and Android
applications.
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| Project - Wize.com: |
Jul 2012 - Aug 2013 |
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- Managed a team of 10 to deliver the wize.com
site where we attempt to solve the problems of "The Paradox of Choice".
(Current site has pivoted away from this concept)
- Spearheaded company's first adoption of Java Thrift services for
use with our Rails frontend.
- Managed efforts to migrate from MRI Ruby/Unicorn to JRuby/Puma.
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| Project - Merchant Platform: |
Apr 2011 - Jul 2012 |
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- Managed a team of 7 to modernize the existing Merchant Platform.
- Spearheaded efforts to use Ruby on Rails for the frontend layer.
- Spearheaded company's first efforts on Continuous Integration with
Jenkins, Continuous Deployment with Capistrano, and Test Driven
Development with Cucumber.
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| Project - Nextag Stores: |
Feb 2010 - Jan 2011 |
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- Managed a team of 5 to develop and launch Nextag Stores, which
enables a marketplace functionality on the Nextag site. Nextag Stores
allow merchants to list products on CPA where Nextag acts as the payment
provider.
Nextag Stores had processed millions in revenue in under a year of
going live.
- Led Nextag Stores through OWASP, PCI Level 3, and PCI Level 1
compliance.
- Technologies used: Java, Spring, dependency injection, hibernate,
Oracle SQL, and AOP.
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| Project - Mobile: |
Jul 2008 - Apr 2011 |
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- Led a team of 4 in developing the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
mobile-optimized versions of the site, which received nearly 6
million visits per month and generated hundreds of thousands in
revenue per month.
- Developed Nextag's first iPhone App. This app allowed users to
search and browse consumer products to find the lowest price on
our network of thousands of merchants.
- Ported the zxing barcode scanning library to Objective-C
enabling the Nextag Mobile app to perform price checks using the product
UPC code.
- Managed a team of 3 in enhancing the iOS Nextag Mobile App with
iPad compatibility, image recognition, local stores, real-time
inventory, and list synchronization features.
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| Project - Real Estate: |
Jul 2006 - Jul 2008 |
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- Led a team of 3 in developing the full-featured Nextag
Real Estate site with an 80 million home dataset.
Featured extensive use of Google Maps, ability to view comparable home
values, ability to view school district test results, and ability
to view historical home value trends.
- The site used Java, Lucene, and MySQL to serve SEO optimized
content rich pages
using DataQuick, TigerLine Census, and public school records.
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- Successfully pioneered and employed Nextag's first scrum agile
development process and have coached numerous high performing
teams through their agile transformation.
- Established wide adoption of standard development
tools such as Checkstyle, Findbug, Structure101, and Cobertura Code
Coverage. The Nextag Stores group had the highest level of code
quality in the company as measured by these tools.
- Helped teams achieve high unit test and integration test
coverage and helped QA teams in automating regression tests.
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- Created a culture of feedback within the teams and encouraged
continuous 360-degree feedback.
- Involved in the recruiting process for all levels of software engineering and QA.
- Organized quarterly team building events and regular release events.
- Conducted weekly 1-1s with employees to discuss the day-to-day as well
as career building strategies.
- Actively worked with HR and management to improve the office work
environment, company culture, and morale.
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