Supported the world's most popular online eSports demo-sharing community. It was a free non-profit spot where competitive gamers from all over the world could connect and share their experiences.

Fullstack Engineer

Bachelor of Science (BS)

High School

Living the life on a lovely team called Knowledge Graph. We are responsible for the live and on-demand TV and Movie metadata, images, schedules, and sports data. We build and deploy ingest pipelines, publish data-sets, and craft production high-throughput APIs used by all our frontends and some backends. The team is highly collaborative and touches many parts of the company.

Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager

Beyond building APIs, focused on microservices architecture, proper cloud infrastructure, complete backend observability, load-testing systems, and autoscaling. Calibrated an engineering quality bar by pair-programming with various teams. Started SRE and Engineering Productivity teams. Helped hire, onboard, and worked with many teams as we scaled up from a few engineers to 80+ SWEs.

Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Manager

Reporting directly to the CTO at a small 5-engineer startup, started the Knowledge Graph team by building metadata ingest pipelines and frontend-facing content APIs to power the end-user experience.

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead

At this seed-stage Wearables + IoT startup, I helped build the team and the next-gen platform for smart eyewear (eg: Google Glass) and indoor positioning using BLE beacons. Responsible for devops, API, Android and Web. Evangelizing best-practices, doing Java the modern way, TDD and Continuous Deployment.

Used Java, C++, Android/JNI, Dagger, Dropwizard, RxJava, Docker, Git, IPython, Robolectric, Angular JS, Sass, and AWS.

Founding Engineer

Bootstrapped startup.

Three products: reddit-style bug-tracker, WebGL enabled 3D model viewer, WebRTC enabled micro-podcasting

Used: Python, Nginx, MongoDB, MariaDB, SphinxSearch, Redis, PHP + Behat/Mink (BDD), Docker, Git, Fabric, Sass and HTML5 (WebGL/WebRTC).

Helped bring Twitter and Facebook conversations with sentiment analysis to MSNBC's live TV news shows. First appeared in the 2011 Election coverage and the Alex Wagner show.

Used C#, MSSQL, IIS, DirectShow video processing, and ORAD TV integration.

Software Engineer / Realtime Graphics

Built frameworks, SOAs, POS/Kiosk devices, NUI experiences. From Web to Xbox Kinect for high-end brands. Wrote code that required hard maths (eg: FFTs, circular harmonics).

* BMW Configurator for BMW (multi-threaded async data streaming, pixel-perfect rendering)
* Multitouch Reader for New York Times (Msft Surface)
* Neuro Rehab for Cook Children's Hospital (signal processing)
* Virtual Colonoscopy for Intel (3D math, multi-client wireless streaming)
* Kinect Prototype Demo for Microsoft (Xbox Dev Kit, C++)
* 200C EV Concept Car for Chrysler (wireless HVAC control, low-level gesture recognition on a curved touch-panel dashboard)

Guess which project won an award at CeBIT and which rolled up at Detroit's 2009 Auto Show!

Used C#, C++, DirectX, PHP, CSS3, JS with Canvas, Msft Surface, Unity 3D, WPF, Xbox Kinect.

Software Engineer / Game Developer

At this funded eSports startup, I built a large web admin panel, ladder logic, and knockout tournament bracket system. Used the LAMP stack.

Software Engineer

Scaled the Knowledge Graph team into a full department with multiple focused engineering teams.

Staff Software Engineer / Director Of Engineering

Director of Engineering at fuboTV

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