<p>Leading the platform and data organization and driving scale.</p>

Director of Data & Platform

<h3>Stern Pinball</h3><p><strong>Director of Engineering</strong><br/> <em>2024-Present</em></p><ul><li>Led the migration to a cloud-native architecture, leveraging Kubernetes, RDS, and other AWS services, resulting in a 30% reduction in operational costs and a 99% reduction in scale and orchestration driven service degradation.</li><li>Designed and implemented data ingestion and processing workflows and infrastructure, heavily leveraging Kinesis, Firehose, Lambdas and Redshift to support a 100x increase in data consumption.</li><li>Shaped a DevOps culture, promoting observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, alerting via PagerDuty, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and incident management via a lightweight Slack flow promoting automation, continuous delivery, and collaboration.</li></ul>

Director of Engineering

<h3>Unity Technologies</h3><p><strong>Director of Engineering</strong><br/> <em>2017-2023</em></p><ul><li>Led the platform-of-platforms strategy, the intersection of E-Commerce / IAM / Licensing / Finance and the rest of the company. Drove a modernization effort to expand billing capabilities, regulatory and security compliance, and streamlined, centralized data tightly integrated with business tools and processes.</li><li>Shepherded the migration of all Unity services from AWS to GCP, serving as the main point of contact for GCP engineers and TAM’s, driving change at GCP based on feedback from Unity engineers and executives that led to substantial bug fixes in their platform, as well as the creation of a new training product based on our experiences.</li><li>Managed an organization of 8 cross-functional teams and 50+ people, successfully growing multiple individual contributors to leadership and staff+ roles.</li><li>Defined technical and product strategy for payments and payout systems, supporting over $2B in revenue through those systems each year.</li><li>Responsible for the $100m+ cloud computing budget, driving cost savings of over 50% through improved cost analysis and alignment with executives on understanding cloud spend ROI, collaboration with cloud providers, and optimizing discounting and service credit opportunities.</li><li>Developed and drove incident management/SRE practices and culture, aligning with 100+ engineering teams on an array of options to arrive at best practices for reliability, observability, and incident management resulting in a savings of $20m+/year from mitigated or prevented issues.</li></ul>

<h3>InvisiHosting</h3><p><strong>Owner</strong><br/> <em>2005-2020</em></p><ul><li>Started and grew a consulting and anonymous web hosting consulting firm, specializing in the e-commerce needs of small and medium businesses.</li><li>Hired and managed a team of five, with additional support from contractors.</li><li>Managed all aspects of the business and customer lifecycle, from marketing to sales to engineering to support to billing.</li><li>Built and supported customer needs across a wide variety of tech stacks.</li></ul>

Owner

<h3>OfferUp</h3><p><strong>Senior Site Reliability Engineer</strong><br/> <em>2016-2017</em></p><ul><li>Built and supported AWS infrastructure to power products at scale, efficiently handling billions of requests per month and terabyte-level realtime data needs.</li><li>Developed tooling for developer self-service of infrastructure needs, leading to a 50% reduction in provisioning requests to the team.</li><li>Introduced and implemented Kubernetes for new service orchestration, resulting in a 90%+ decrease in deployment time compared to non-k8s’d services.</li></ul>

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

<h3>Zulily</h3><p><strong>Lead Software Engineer</strong><br/> <em>2014-2016</em></p><ul><li>Led the successful migration of the company&#x27;s $2 billion payments flow to a compliant, custom-built system.</li><li>Drove the ML infrastructure strategy, introducing Kubernetes and GCP, resulting in a 15% increase in model effectiveness.</li><li>Drove regulatory and business reporting tooling, decreasing the time needed to deliver relevant data to auditors by 80%.</li></ul>

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