Objective:

Seeking exciting engineering projects and organizations where I can contribute.

Employment History:

Distinguished Software Engineer
Warner Music Group (WMG)
April 2023 – February 2024, Remote

Engineering Leadership (2023–2024):

WMG was transitioning from outsourced engineering to building a new in-house engineering organization with a new mandate from the board of directors.

As the most senior engineer at WMG, I helped define the engineering culture, tools, processes, and best practices for this nascent engineering division.

Led and implemented a project that saved $14k/month in costs while realizing $500k/month in incremental revenue and improving request latency by ~30,000x.

Key participant in hiring and onboarding new engineers as we grew the org to 200 people.

M2 Engineering Manager
Facebook
October 2020 – January 2022, Bellevue, WA & Remote

AI Infrastructure (2020–2022):

Led an org of four teams and ~forty engineers owning the authoring SDK, pipeline orchestration, fleet scheduling, and observability used to train the majority of ML models at Facebook.

Measured and improved training reliability, oversaw several successful migrations in the training stack, and improved team engineering culture and software quality.

Senior Engineering Manager / Senior Staff Software Engineer
Google
Kirkland, WA
December 2005 – January 2020

Developer Infrastructure (2016–2020):

Led an effort to make Google's world-class internal developer tools available to cloud customers and Alphabet companies.

Supported and improved several key tools keeping Google's ~50k internal developers working efficiently and productively.

Took Google's Cloud Source Repositories product from stuck in alpha for years to full GA launch, growing adoption from under 10k to 50k+ 30-day active users.

Managed six teams across three geographies and ~fifty software engineers.

Overhauled cs.chromium.org and created cs.opensource.google, cs.android.com, and source.bazel.build.

DoubleClick Search (2009–2016):

DoubleClick Search went from the industry's #4 SEM solution to #1 in under five years, growing spend under management and revenue by an order of magnitude.

Led the DS backend, infrastructure, and bid optimization teams (~twenty engineers).

Designed and implemented the data model, stats schema, and reporting stack for DS.

Systematically measured and improved DS reporting latency; reports that took 30+ minutes now finish in seconds.

Codebase in C++, Java, continuous processing, and MapReduce.

AdWords Optimization (2005–2009):

Tech Lead for a project computing actionable intelligence for advertisers involving large-scale data processing, indexing, segmentation, storage, and reporting.

Tech Lead for AdWords backend services for keyword semantic clustering, generation, and suggestion.

Keyword-related projects were responsible for hundreds of millions of USD in annual incremental revenue for Google.

Miscellaneous:

Recipient of two Google Operating Committee awards (2008, 2009).

Recipient of one Google Citizenship award (2014).

DoubleClick Search was a top 10 company achievement for Google in 2010.

Heavily involved in Google mentoring and hiring programs.

Software Design Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
July 1998 – November 2005

Windows NT Kernel (2000–2005):

Windows architecture and Win32/64 programming expert.

Wrote and maintained stress, functionality, and regression test code for the NT PE loader, process management, thread dispatcher, and memory management subsystems.

Experience with user and kernel mode debugging; wrote several debugger extensions for ntsd and kd.

Found hundreds of bugs in the Windows codebase.

Helped ship Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, XPSP2, WSSP1.

Windows for Express Networks (1998–2000):

Implemented file sharing (via SMB) and Internet connection sharing (via NAT) on a fixed-function server appliance.

Engineering Intern
IBM & Nortel
Research Triangle Park, NC
Summers 1995, 1996, 1997

Education:

B.S., Computer Science, May 1998
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Skills:

Engineering toolchain, culture, and best-practice definition. Team and organization leadership. Defining and communicating vision. Project planning. Building teams, growing managers and engineers. Executing. Specifying, designing, and implementing complex software solutions and distributed systems. Writing solid code.

C, Java, C++, Python, Go, parallel and distributed computing, continuous processing pipelines, big data, software optimization.

Miscellaneous:

• Author of an International Master level, cross-platform chess engine (Typhoon).
• References available on request.