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• Chief Technology Officer, Forces Horizon

  May, 2023 - Dec, 20237 months

  As a strategic and technical leader, drives the product roadmap and development of the innovative AI platform that empowers job seekers to showcase their skills effectively and executive recruiters to improve business process efficiency by 10 to 20 times.

  • Partnered with the CEO to align the technology vision with the strategic goals and execute the mission of the company.

  • Defined the technology stack consisting of AWS, Docker, Python, FastAPI, GraphQL, React, Next.js, MySQL, MongoDB, OpenAI, LangChain and Pinecone.

  • Assembled and led the engineering team in delivering the MVP on time and under budget. Acted as the Project Manager utilizing Jira and made code contributions across the application stack.

• Practice Lead, Capgemini, Insights & Data

  May, 2019 - May, 20234 years

  Worked at a global consulting and technology services company, a major player in the IT services industry, known for innovation and digital transformation. Led teams and managed budgets and timelines, ensuring high-quality consulting services that met client expectations. Drove client engagement, problem-solving, and contributed to business development efforts, maintaining strong client relationships and delivering strategic guidance and value.

  • Established strong foundations for advanced analytics by developing graph database, GPU-accelerated computing, and synthetic data practices.

  • Forged strategic partnerships with Neo4j and NVIDIA, harnessing their expertise and technologies to drive innovation and achieve superior performance.

  • Led the development of a business-aligned recommendation engine for a major cruise line, delivering a personalized and engaging customer experience.

• Director of Engineering, Product Manager, HCL Technologies

  Aug, 2016 - Apr, 20192 years 9 months

  HCL Software is a division of HCL Technologies, a global IT services and consulting company. HCL acquired an extensive portfolio of products from IBM in 2016 and specializes in software offerings that help organizations with digital transformation, application modernization, and IT management needs. Led the organization of 70 engineers responsible for four DevOps products.

  • Led a successful engineering organization transformation to a DevOps, CI/CD model, resulting in reducing technical debt within the product portfolio by 50-75%.

  • Streamlined delivery of critical features, resulting in multi-million license wins with the two major semiconductor customers and securing numerous contracts with Fortune 500 companies across verticals.

  • Led the creation and deployment of a robust REST API ecosystem for the legacy product suite, enabling cloud deployment and new integrations, resulting in US Patent.

  • Mentored and nurtured emerging talent, successfully onboarding numerous promising individuals.

  • Achieved 30% development cost savings by implementing three impactful strategies in the technical documentation, dependency management, and test data management.

• Senior Technical Sales Specialist, IBM

  Jul, 2015 - Aug, 20161 year

  Working closely with the account executives, provided technical expertise and support in driving sales strategies and growth within the DevOps, API management, Software Quality and Service Virtualization space, helping clients understand and implement IBM's technology solutions to address their business needs.

  • Completed IBM Global Sales School, a comprehensive sales and leadership training program in Sales Techniques, Tools and Technologies, Product and Industry Knowledge, Customer Relationship Management, Teamwork and Collaboration, Problem-Solving and Adaptability, and Ethical and Legal Considerations.

  • Engaged clients through discovery sessions, workshops, Proofs of Technology, Proofs of Concept (PoC), and speaking engagements at the industry and IBM conferences.

  • Facilitated the adoption of StrongLoop, a platform for creating scalable and secure APIs, mobile and web applications acquired by IBM in 2015. Co-authored a RedBook publication on API Management using StrongLoop and API Connect.

• Head of DevOps, TIAA

  Sep, 2011 - Jul, 20153 years 10 months

  Worked at a financial services organization widely recognized for its retirement and investment solutions, including 403(b) and 401(k) plans for educators and nonprofit employees. Played a key role in introducing DevOps to the company and building a dedicated DevOps team as part of the major overhaul of the TIAA application platform.

  • Collaborated with stakeholders, including senior leadership, to align DevOps initiatives with business goals and effectively communicated their value. Developed and implemented strategies and best practices to streamline software development and deployment processes while also leading and managing a high-performing team of DevOps engineers.

  • Oversaw the design, implementation, and maintenance of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automation tools, and infrastructure, building up the capacity to handle the continuous development, testing, and deployment of 260 applications with over 1,500 CI/CD cycles daily.

  • Teamed with lead platform architects to design and implement a new application platform based on the Spring Framework. Introduced and facilitated the adoption of tools like Gradle for build engineering, SonarQube for continuous code quality, and Sauce Labs for Web and Mobile UI testing, seamlessly integrating these tools into the CI/CD pipeline.

  • Proactively enhanced system performance, addressing infrastructure bottlenecks and bolstering security to ensure data integrity and confidentiality. Led continuous improvement efforts by optimizing existing processes, staying updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, and ensuring alignment with organizational needs.

• Software Engineering SME, 

  Jan, 2007 - Jan, 20114 years

  Provided process and infrastructure scaling and development expertise to major financial clients.

  • JP Morgan Chase Bank: During significant expansion, led the scaling of development tools, source code architecture, parallel development, CI/CD pipeline, and process standardization. Provided expert support, training, and mentorship to development leads.

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Led the design, implementation, and launch of a new CI/CD pipeline for a customer-facing investment management and trading platform. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on requirements, use cases, security, and budget management.

• Release Engineering Manager, IBM OpenPages

  Jan, 2005 - Jan, 20072 years

  Worked at the pioneering governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) software company, OpenPages, which was acquired by IBM in 2010. Orchestrated software release planning, scheduling, and execution, implementing automation tools and processes to enhance efficiency and reduce deployment errors. Played a vital role in ensuring seamless and reliable software releases, contributing to the growth of software development teams.

  • Grew the RE team from one to five engineers.

  • Spearheaded a complete overhaul of the build and release infrastructure working closely with IT, development, sustaining engineering, and QA, including source control, CI, test environments, release archives, and offshore team support.

  • Achieved an 80% decrease in CI build time while accommodating a 100% growth in the engineering team and tripling the code base size.

  • Implemented 24x7 monitoring and support for the release engineering infrastructure to achieve uninterrupted operation.

  • Introduced an efficient system for rapidly transferring large release artifacts to the offshore team, reducing transfer times from hours to minutes.

• Software Engineering SME, 

  Jan, 1999 - Jan, 20056 years

  Successfully upgraded software, streamlined processes, and significantly reduced development times and costs across multiple organizations.

  • Fidelity Investments: Played a crucial role on the Y2K team, overseeing the essential software platform upgrade for floor traders, ensuring Y2K compliance, and seamlessly transitioning from C++ to Java.

  • State Street Bank: Introduced cutting-edge version control and release management practices to the database development and DBA community, collaborating closely with DBA and application development leaders to set standards, processes, and procedures, resulting in a streamlined database lifecycle, enhanced Disaster Recovery, precise reproduction of Production defects in DEV and TEST environments, and a notable 2 to 5 times reduction in application development iteration time.

  • Cognex: Oversaw a comprehensive transformation of software code management, build, and release processes to support the substantial expansion of the company's flagship product, involving collaboration across R&D teams to collect system and functional requirements, prototype development, stakeholder consensus, and successful production implementation.

  • Nortel Networks: After acquiring BayNetworks, spearheaded the enhancement of source code management, parallel development, change management, integrations, continuous build, and release processes for the Layer 3 switching firmware.

  • Comverse Technology: Crucially contributed to the integration of InTouch assets into the Comverse platform post-acquisition, introducing an innovative build orchestration framework for efficient project management and reducing platform build time from 24 hours to 10 minutes.

  • Sonus Networks: Created a storage-efficient release management and archiving system for artifacts from 1 to 20GB, traceable to the source code, achieving immediate storage savings of over 60% and an annual reduction of storage growth by over 90%.

  • LTX: Reverse engineered and standardized 300 complex semiconductor testing platform firmware build scripts, reducing script size by 70% and decreasing build time by 90% by leveraging untapped tool capabilities and optimizing the build pipeline in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Principal Software Engineer, Boston Technology

  Jan, 1996 - Jan, 19993 years

  Worked on developing a scalable Unix-based distributed voicemail system for global landline and mobile service providers.

  • Collaborated with engineers across development, QA, RE, and support teams in developing system platform components in C and C++.

  • Identify the need to automate source code generation related to the proprietary database schema and live data migration to satisfy frequent additions of new product features. Designed and implemented the new tooling to automatically generate source code from specification documents, resulting in consistently repeatable quality outcomes and reduced the time from requirement to release by 65% over the previously manual process.

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