Normative July 2023 - Present
- Placeholder as I get settled in
Workday April 2021 - July 2022
- Successfully leading a post-acquisition, integration team
- Achieving 100% employee retention through 1 year post-acquisition
- Leading a multidisciplinary team of Software Developers, DevOps / Infrastructure, QA, and Security engineers
- Doubling the team size and leading recruitment efforts
- Creating and owning a 2 year product roadmap for the organization and managing OKRs to keep the projects on track
- Receiving multiple 0 finding pentest results (apps, network, platform)
- Responsible for the teams delivering the product with highest level of uptime in the company
- Driving improvements with cumbersome company-wide processes
Peakon May 2018 - April 2021
- Leading a multidisciplinary team of DevOps / Infrastructure, QA, and Security engineers
- Recruiting and onboarding 15+ engineers
- Creating and owning a 2 year product roadmap for the organization and managing OKRs to achieve the 2 year roadmap
- Ownership of 90% of the non-headcount budget for Engineering
- Mentoring senior engineers and coaching engineering managers
- Leading multiple initiatives to improve our commitment to core values
- Improving employee engagement and a positive work culture
- Playing a major role in obtaining ISO 27001 and SOC2 certifications
- Key member of the Due Diligence team pre-acquisition
Dubsmash March 2016 - September 2017
- Automating code testing and delivery
- Reducing operational costs while improving reliability
- Creating consistency though the migration to Docker
- Writing tools for system management
Wimdu June 2015 - February 2016
- Managing 2 individual teams (DevOps and Development)
- Implementing a roadmap to improve developer productivity
- Migrating the entire platform to AWS
HERE/Nokia June 2010 - May 2015
- Line manager to a team of 10+ System Engineers
- Mentoring and coaching to help engineers to do their best
- Migrating from multiple datacenters to a multi-region AWS setup
- Simplifying process to reduce cost and increase efficiency
- Automating configuration of the monitoring and metrics infrastructure
Aupeo! April 2009 - June 2010
- Performing general. Linux system administration tasks
- Office IT Support (Windows, OSX)
NTT/Verio February 2008 - March 2009
- Managing a FreeBSD/Linux web hosting service
- Technical lead for two data center builds, installing over 3000 servers
AOL/Time Warner July 2002 - December 2007
- Running a multi-gigabit audio/video streaming platform
- System administration of large scale websites including mapquest.com, netscape.com, shoutcast.com, and winamp.com
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