Technologist, Opportunist and Yahoo
Greater Los Angeles Area
Technologist, Opportunist and Yahoo
Greater Los Angeles Area
I like to describe myself as a difference-maker at Yahoo - there are a lot of us here who want to take Yahoo to Web 3.0 and beyond. Ad Exchange, Panama Platform, Social Network, Open API and Platform, Innovation and Excellence.
I'm hiring: Senior Managers and Engineers to build the next generation Ad Exchange for Yahoo! Shoot me an InMail for details!
I make a killer butternut squash soup
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
2001 — Present (7 years)
I was originally part of Goto.com (the true pioneer in sponsored search, not that other G company), which became Overture, then acquired by Yahoo! as Y! Search Marketing. I have either developed, designed, managed or integrated with all systems that comprise multi-billion dollar revenue-generating Y! advertising engine.
Since Q3 of 2005, I have been leading five teams of 30 software engineers to rebuild our application stack for Panama, a project consisting of 600 engineers, 10K servers and 3M lines of code. Alas, this was also about the same time I stopped playing foosball...
Since Q2 2007 I have also been involved in building Yahoo! Advertising Management Platform, amp.yahoo.com. Aside from directing my existing engineering teams in the US, I have also assisted in the hiring, crosstraining and cross-continent coordination of two engineering teams in Y! Bangalore to increase overall engineering capacity.
I'm always looking for great engineers! Ping me for details.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
I was one of 5 core engineers that built the J2EE server side (on Weblogic 5.1) of the Kiko Lesson Creator - a pre-AJAX Javascript-enriched web-based WYSIWYG site publishing tool (think Geocities, but 10x cooler and with an education-bent).
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
We built a pre-J2EE multi-client-to-server graphical/rich-media ad exchange network and serving systems. Unfortunately Doubleclick had a monopolistic grip on the banner ad marketplace during this period, and neither the system nor the company took off.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Investment Management industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Developer for Axiom, a Fixed Income Portfolio Management software, written in C++. Aside from learning about bond futures and CMOs, which greatly helped in managing my own personal finances, my most memorable take-away from working at Wilshire was being able to say our company founder was also the first Space Tourist.
(Biotechnology industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Researcher in a NIH-funded lab exploring HIV Ribozyme Gene Therapy. Split my time between doing research in the Biohazard Level 3 lab wearing a bunny suit, and writing VB-Excel spreadsheets to facilitate data analysis in a computer lab. (sans bunny suit).
BS, Biochemistry, emphasis in CS, 1992 — 1996
Maui, foodie, Lakers, Bruins, weight lifting
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BEA Weblogic Guru of the Year, 2002
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