Headline

AI and Content Engineering at Scribd

About

Results-oriented professional with 10+ years of experience and a proven knowledge of IT strategy, cloud architecture, real time data, growing and managing teams, and delivering cross functional projects from start to finish.

Location

Oakland

AI stack

antigravity

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Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Scribd, Inc., Feb 2026 - Present · 9 mos, North America

Lead Engineer at Scribd, Inc., Apr 2021 - Jul 2026 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Principal Engineer at Moz, Oct 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos, * Provided technical leadership in Cloud technologies (AWS) such as Security (IAM), Networking (VPC, VPN, Transit Gateway), Queueing (SQS), MapReduce (EMR, Spark) by creation of standards, mentoring and automated CI/CD (Github Actions, Travis CI) and provisioning (Terraform) * Performed successful POCs to demonstrate how Cloud (AWS) technologies such as Glue, Athena, Spark EMR be used to democratize data, optimize processes and reduce costs * Interviewed senior level engineers and data science candidates for various teams across the organization

Director of Technology at STAT Search Analytics, Apr 2014 - Oct 2018 · 4 yrs 7 mos, * Scaled the technology and product by 10x in less than 5 years leading to a successful acquisition * Mentored 3 Managers on technical implementation, people and process management * Hired, onboarded, and lead a team of 13 developers across 3 different teams * Worked with the CEO and Director of Product on Product strategy and feature implementation from idea to release * Architected a large scale distributed system on the AWS cloud using technologies like MongoDB, Resque, Redis, DynamoDB, Redshift, MySQL, Ruby and Scala that processed about 10 TBs of unstructured data daily * Planned and executed features on a Ruby on Rails Web Application with a JS frontend that aggregated and displayed insights from above data

Web Developer at STAT Search Analytics, Nov 2011 - Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Vancouver, Canada Area, Working on new UI and Backend features as well as bug fixes on http://codex.getstat.com and our customer apps using Ext.JS frontend and Rails 3 backend MySQL query and database optimizations to improve app performance. We store and analyze Big Data. Maintaining and enforcing data integrity across MongoDB and MySQL databases. Created a deployment pipeline using websitrano and cap scripts Migrated Rails 2.x application to Rails 3

Co-Founder and Developer at God-Mode Games, May 2010 - Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos, God-Mode Games, Created a Multiplayer Action Swiping iPhone Game called Angry Ninjas and Ninja Superstar. Players use directional multitouch gestures to kill Ninjas and complete against other players. Technologies used - Cocos2D-x (C++ framework), Objective-C, GameCenter, In-App purchase, Analytics, Ad Network integration. Multiplayer Backend, Analytics and Push notification was developed in Ruby, Sinatra, MySQL and MongoDB Created a facebook music application about finding and sharing new music with friends in a DJ RPG called Ultimate DJ Technologies used - Ruby framework Sinatra, node.js, JQuery, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Varnish, Facebook, Youtube, iTunes, Amazon music api, HTML5 offline storage. Made a music application about creating, sharing and rating best playlist for a Situation called The Perfect Song for the Situation - http://apps.facebook.com/theperfectsong Technologies used - Ruby on Rails, jQuery, MySQL, Facebook, Youtube and Amazon music api

Castle MonoRail C# .Net Programmer at Keytech Limited, Jul 2009 - Jul 2016 · 7 yrs 1 mo, Creating eCRM in Rails (Castle Monorail) and VB .Net Created controllers and models by communicating with API of existing web service in .Net environment. Configured IIS Web site to work with Castle Monorail and app specific customization Fixed cross browser layout issues

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Macquarie University

MSc (Thesis), Biomedical Engineering - Software specialization, University of Alberta