Resume

About#

I am an experienced engineer and leader with a proven record of leading and delivering impactful projects. I have strong leadership skills demonstrated through successful coordination and implementation of critical projects across multiple teams. I have a history of driving cost savings, efficiency improvements, and successful team scaling while maintaining high standards in personnel recruitment, growth, and hiring.

Experience#

Provi#

September 2023 - Present#

Career Break - Full-time Parenting#

October 2021 - September 2023#

Amazon Web Services - Senior Software Development Engineer#

August 2019 - October 2021#

• Led, designed, and helped implement DataPrepper, Observability, and OpenSearch Ingestion for AWS OpenSearch with multiple teams. I managed all technical aspects of the project and helped coordinate messaging, deliverables, and timelines across the teams externally and internally.
• Partnered with organizations across Amazon to size their OpenSearch clusters for performance, scale, and cost.
• Worked with AWS Glue to launch AWS GLUE Elastic Views. Drove data type compatibility and data and control flow design with Distinguished Engineers and multiple AWS teams.
• Amazon and AWS Bar Raiser

Amazon - Senior Software Development Engineer#

August 2016 - August 2019#

• Led technical direction and development for six projects, Amazon Insights into Manufacturing (AIM) in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) space to gain insights into Amazon’s fulfillment processes leading to improved efficiency and cost savings.
• AWS TimeStream based on architecture and designs of AIM
• Interacted with multiple internal Amazon Fulfillment teams to on-board and integrate them with our IIOT platform to simplify their systems and reduce their OE load. Saved Amazon over $100 million / year across all Fulfillment Centers
• Drove adoption of ISA95 standard for machine and software interoperability allowing for savings of $50 million / year.
• Worked with Amazon management to create new projects and hire teams that grew the organization from two teams (~12 people) to six teams (~60 people), with each team solving customer problems.
• Created multiple proof-of-concepts that turned into full products and reports providing insight into the Amazon Fulfillment process improving overall performance and reducing costs by $30 million / year.
• Migrated a Tier1 service from Oracle to DynamoDB in a month while improving response time on calls from 10ms to 1ms or less and improving uptime, stability, and maintainability (Code base size was reduced by over 50%).
• Bar Raiser

Rapid7 - Principal Portfolio Architect in the Office of the CTO#

July 2014 - July 2016#

• Led teams technically and worked with stakeholders at various levels to deliver major project on-time
• Combined multiple inter-office continuous-learning groups into a unified group that met regularly
• Created infrastructure-as-code for multiple projects that allowed for code sharing across multiple organizations

HomeAway - Staff Software Engineer Team Lead#

May 2013 - July 2014#

• Provided technical leadership, architecture, planning, and guidance to multiple projects
• Launched and supported multiple projects that have multi-quarter goals, releases, differing stakeholders, and product spanning impact
• Mentored developers who are at various stages in their career
• Helped launch the HomeAway Data Exploration and Science Birds of a Feather group
• Evangelized and implemented SONAR to track and manage code quality
• Increased test coverage and decreased complexity in multiple codebases while implementing new features delivered ahead of schedule

Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc - Senior Software Developer#

November 2010 - May 2013#

• Created a MapReduce deduplication routine for a cloud system running a modified CDH installation
• Architected and created an analytic pipeline using MapReduce and Hadoop for graph analytics for big data
• Designed, implemented, and performance tuned an ingest pipeline for cloud systems
• Researched, designed, and implemented proof-of-concept near-realtime deduplication services using sub-graph matching on both NoSQL and relational database systems
• Simplified projects through refactoring and applying SOLID design principles
• Refactored a large project’s system to support SSL security throughout all communication channels
• Designed federated data access layer to allow seamless querying and access to disparate data stores
• Read and analyzed research papers for big data analytics and dispersed information to various teams with brown bag lunch presentations

IBM - Senior Software Developer#

June 2006 - November 2010#

• Architected, developed and maintained a suite of high-availability web reporting and analysis tools.
• Two patents covering data input in tools.
• Managed information architecture, design and usability.
• Ensured a cohesive user experience on Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.
• Tools reduced workloads, increased productivity and improved insights.
• Used daily by 4000+ users worldwide.
• Co-led and transitioned multiple projects to 10-person team in Pakistan.
• Mentored and led multiple co-ops and developers.
• Primary or sole developer on 11 projects.

IBM - Lead Software Developer#

August 2003 - June 2006#

• Led design, development, and testing of web-based questionnaire system deployed to both customer-facing and internal-facing portals
• Integrated questionnaire system with multiple departments for business analytics
• Mentored co-ops and developers
• Provided one-on-one personalized programming techniques and best practices classes for team

IBM - Software Developer#

September 2000 - August 2003#

• Architected, developed, and tested Lotus Notes and Java Applet-based interactive questionnaires deployed to customer-facing portals
• Researched, compared, and summarized various software development techniques

The University of Texas at San Antonio - Research Assistant#

August 2002 - August 2003#

• Implemented and tested Dynamic Frequent Line Cache using SimpleScalar
• Developed software for configuration and monitoring of an FPGA-based intrusion detection system
• Built, installed, tested and developed simple testing code for a five-node parallel graphics cluster using Chromium and Linux to study experimental graphic speed-up techniques

Education#

The University of Texas at Austin - Ph.D. Electrical Engineering#

August 2003 - May 2016#

• Dissertation: Modeling and Formal Verification of Gaming Storylines

The University of Texas at San Antonio - M.S. Electrical Engineering#

January 2002 - August 2003#

• Thesis: Dynamic Frequent Line Cache

The University of Texas at Austin - B.S. Electrical Engineering#

August 1998 - December 2001#