Principal / staff engineer

System Architect / Principal / Tech Lead Seattle, Washington, United States

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Summary

Principal Engineer with experience designing and implementing global-scale distributed systems.
15+ years of experience in software design and development.

Principal Engineer, Nordstrom, Inc. Jan 2022 Apr 2023
* Designed and implemented store traffic analytics, saving $10M in third-party contracts
* Proposed and delivered a platform for streaming ML models, accelerating business insights
* Instituted the Go Special Interest Group for disseminating best practice across the organization
* Shaped Nordstroms language standardization effort, with an emphasis on developer productivity
* Created training materials and ran workshops on SOLID design principles for the organization
* Mentored senior developers, providing both technical and career development guidance

Staff Engineer, Rakuten USA Dec 2018 Dec 2021
* Led the adoption of Kubeflow for ML pipelines, reducing training times by 15x
* Shaped the direction of Googles managed AI Pipelines offering
* Designed the BigQuery data tier for providing ML researchers with training data
* Extended CI/CD methodologies to infrastructure through the use of Terraform
* Instituted technical sessions for sharing of approaches and techniques between teams

Solution Architect, Rakuten USA Apr 2016 Dec 2018
* Designed the global product catalog for Rakutens worldwide operation
* Coordinated multiple teams in the US and Japan to integrate with existing systems
* Introduced Docker and Kubernetes to a team only familiar with bare-metal installs
* Developed CI/CD processes that reduced deployment times by 50x

Solution Architect, play.com Feb 2012 Apr 2016
* Defined REST API standards and provided reference implementations for the company
* Evangelized the use of open standards such as OAuth 2.0 for authentication
* Managed technical integration of play.com into the Rakuten family of companies
* Led a UK-based team providing API services and cloud-centric management tools

Expectations

Remaining close to the customer in order to rapidly deliver products to production, whilst mentoring developers on design principles and instituting good coding practice across an organization.