• EC2

  • Own the customer-facing EC2 Instance Health API and underlying monitoring systems.
  • Took ownership and repaired some older systems in need of TLC related to the EC2 data-plane build and release process.
  • Proposed changes to the EC2 data-plane release process that reduced customer-impacting outages related to deployments.

• Working on an alpha capture system.
• Automated a release and deployment process using Ansible. Took a manual, multi-step process and transformed it into an automated, single-step process.
• Advocated for and helped design and build a system to collect and report applications metrics; enabled reporting and monitoring of performance and availability metrics.
• Re-designed and implemented login and session management across multiple sites.

• EC2

  2013 - 2014
  • Designed and implemented a service to automate multi-region tasks across AWS.

• Infrastructure Supply Chain Automation

  2011 - 2013
  • Founding member and technical lead for team focused on improving Infrastructure's supply chain
  • Designed and implemented systems that led to significant reductions in procurement cycle times
  • Grew team from 3 to ~15 members over two years
  • Launched externally accessible portal to ingest supply chain data from vendors
  • Active in the career development of teammates via informal mentoring, leveling for promotions, and writing promotion documents

• Infrastructure Automation

  2009 - 2011
  • Designed and implemented RESTful web services using Java for Amazon's server provisioning system
  • Added support for EC2 capacity into the provisioning tools
  • Deployed the provisioning system in several new AWS regions as part of new region builds
  • Periodic 24/7 operational support including responding to high-severity issues
  • Upgraded a critical MySQL database used by dozens of systems from 5.0 to 5.1 with minimal downtime and no negative impact

• Extracurriculars

  • Recruiting: hundreds of interviews
  • Mentored several developers
  • Started an internal group to improve software quality within Infrastructure
  • Helped several teams troubleshoot MySQL performance problems
  • Technologies
    • AWS Services
    • CoffeeScript
    • DHCP
    • EC2
    • Git
    • HTML/CSS
    • Haml/Sass
    • Java
    • JavaScript
    • MySQL
    • Perl/CGI
    • REST
    • RHEL
    • Ruby/Rails
    • Simple Workflow Service
    • Solr/Lucene

• Developed features for a homegrown CMS supporting comcast.net and fancast.com
• Developed user interfaces and publishing systems for editors to manage content
• Wrote software to ingest syndicated news content from various news sources
• Helped launch re-architecture of comcast.net
• Designed and implemented user-preference storage system based on the OpenSocial API and backed by MySQL
• Technologies
  • Java
  • MySQL
  • OSGi
  • REST
  • RSS/Atom
  • Restlet
  • Servlets
  • Solaris
  • Spring
  • Squid
  • XPath
  • XQuery

• Developed telephone system (PBX) reporting software for internal Mac OS X applications
• Parsed and imported telephone switch traffic data into a PostgreSQL database
• Created backup scripts and performed maintenance for a PostgreSQL database
• Wrote complex SQL queries to extract data for report generation and generated DocBook documents
• Ported a PowerPlant application to Mac OS X
• Technologies
  • Cocoa/Cocoa
  • Mac OS X
  • Objective-C/C++
  • PostgreSQL

In my free time I developed an iPhoto plug-in SmugMugExport which uploads photos from iPhoto to SmugMug.

• Performed research tasks related to programming support for embedded wireless devices
• Passed all written preliminary exams
• Wrote network simulations using Python

Master of Arts and Science (December 2003)
Major: Computer Science
GPA: 3.7

Bachelor of Science and Engineering (May 2002)
Major: Computer Engineering
GPA: 3.6
Senior Project: A Nintendo emulator written in Java