Founding Engineer at Raptr
San Francisco Bay Area
Founding Engineer at Raptr
San Francisco Bay Area
My career objective: Work with brilliant minded people, tackle challenging problems, and make a difference in the world.
I am currently working with a talented team in pioneering a new way for users to discover new games and share their gaming experiences with friends.
I have years of experience architecting and implementing cutting-edge solutions for building and running mission-critical, consumer-facing web applications.
software engineering, distributed computing, systems design and deployment, high availability operation, product development, viral marketing
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Raptr is building a new way for people to play and discover games. Our goal is to make playing games more fun and social. We do this by letting you:
* Know when your friends are playing
* Share your achievements automatically
* Discover new games you might like
* Update your games automatically
* Display your gaming identities in one place
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
July 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 2 months)
I was brought in as the first employee to a new group named Systems Deployment Engineering, whose job is to quickly learn the intricacies of Google's proprietary deployment infrastructure and use that knowledge to rapidly deploy new Google services into datacenters. This role required me to partner up with other software engineers across Google's global R&D team and to pioneer new ways to integrate and deploy their products into Google's production environment.
Then I moved to the Launch Engineering team, where I was the launch lead for 70+ launches at Google. My role required me to audit, evaluate, and advise on the architecture, capacity, reliability, failover and scalability, security, performance, monitoring and manageability of every product launch conducted by Google.
I also spent my 20% time implementing cool features for products such as Google Finance, Mobile Wireless Transcoder, Google Reader, and a few other super secret projects.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ET; Internet industry)
July 2001 — June 2005 (4 years)
* Tech Lead for numerous core backend components of the trading system.
* Designed and implemented the batch framework scaled for thousands of batch jobs.
* Created various tools for release engineering, deployment, and monitoring.