Summary
In my current role as Director of Engineering at Zyston, I’ve been responsible for the transition and integration of Blue Lava customers and products into the Zyston offering. I've directly handled the operation and management of the Blue Lava tenants and infrastructure, supporting customers along the journey, all the while reducing costs.
As Director of Engineering at Blue Lava, I had the opportunity to help define our roadmap, strategize on hiring, introduce tools like story mapping and feature planning, work directly with customers on feature requests, and implement automation that enabled my teammates to deliver more efficiently.
Before Blue Lava, I was Director of Engineering at Nike, leading several teams of over 40 engineers responsible for the transition to real-time data and analytics. I was asked to streamline several disparate systems into a singular data platform with real-time capabilities. We saved the company over half a million in AWS spend in one year. We implemented everything from data capture, ingestion, data pipelines, data warehousing, and machine learning. I focused on hiring and promotion, introducing roadmaps, budgeting, vendor relationships, establishing support efforts, and working cross-functionally with many internal stakeholders.
Before joining Nike, I directed the data platform efforts at Recurly with a core focus on building a high-functioning team. In the process, we introduced a DevOps culture that was soon adopted by the rest of the organization.
Throughout my 27+ years of experience, I have cultivated a comprehensive skill set spanning the entire technology stack. I have gained valuable expertise in various domains from JavaScript, Ruby and Rust, to APIs and data platforms.
Experience
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Identified as an essential employee during the acquisition of Blue Lava in late 2023. Driving post-acquisition integration, aligning engineering & operations, processes, and infrastructure to streamline delivery and reduce costs.
AWS Rust WebAssesmbly Yew Ruby Postgres Event-sourcing RabbitMQ Kafka -
Led and mentored a team of Principal, DevOps, QA, and Product engineers, enabling a tight collaboration with customer success, product, and design. This included identifying and attracting high-quality talent, as well as, upskilling the existing organization. Voted employee of the year in 2021!
AWS Ruby Python JavaScript Postgres Lambda Dynamo CloudFormation Event-sourcing Kafka Debezium -
Led the program of ~40 engineers responsible for Nike's shift to real-time data and analytics. Teams implemented instrumentation and data capture, data pipelines, infrastructure, warehousing, and personalization. Member of Nike's ~12-person data platform leadership team.
Kafka Kinesis Lambda API Gateway Terraform CloudFormation Kubernetes Elasticsearch S3 Hadoop Hive Segment Scala TypeScript Python Go -
Led Recurly’s Data Platform and Services team and strategy, growing a small team into the team that received the largest budget increase of the year. Our infrastructure ran Recurly's reporting and analytics.
AWS Data Pipeline Soop Kafka Spark Elasticsearch Redshift Dynamo MySQL Ruby Python Java Scala -
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