Microsoft

♦ Led a team of 12 in the architecture, design, and development to deliver a new internal service for all production clouds at Microsoft. Drove the collection of requirements from 4 separate customers through multiple interviews and meetings per customer to understand their use case for VMs used for troubleshooting. We designed a centrally managed and scalable compute solution that enables engineers to simply click a button to login to a fresh and secure virtual machine to test their service or reproduce a customer issue that is automatically deleted when no longer needed. This service replaced 100% of insecure debugging virtual machines from 2 cloud environments and contributed to automated front-end testing for 2 other product teams.
♦ Championed the augmentation, development, and coordination with cross-organizational teams to deliver the internal DevOps platform used to automate the deployment of 100+ services into special cloud environments saving more than 200 engineering hours per month over the existing process.
♦ Reduced network isolation deployment times by 40% by and eliminated the need for two users to initiate concurrent deployments while increasing the completion rate of deployments by optimizing the code running the deployments.

Site Reliability Engineer II

US Navy

♦ Led the design, development, team of 5, and delivery of an application and database solution to solve inconsistent human resource response times and reduce labor-intensive operations.
♦ Communicated with 15+ users to draft requirements and iteratively deliver functionality based on their feedback.
♦ Designed back-end database tables to include fields, data types, and relationships to implement 5+ functionalities in application.
♦ Troubleshot over 700 customer inquiries on application functionality and desired features resulting in 20+ major bug fixes and minimal data loss.
♦ Researched objects and syntax required to deliver automated filling of paperwork cutting 3 weeks of work down to 5 minutes semi-annually.

Application Development Lead

♦ Led a team of analysts dedicating 3,500 hours, analyzing 250,000 results from 200+ queries; resulted in valuable intelligence from 28 previously undiscovered documents, 20% of which yielded 500+ new selectors, increasing the number of known selectors for the team by 25%.
♦ Executed queries on targeted DNI and DNR selectors to satisfy intelligence needs.
♦ Performed tasking, maintenance, and compliance for all targets.
♦ Performed contact chaining to identify the center of gravity in organizations.
♦ Identified new electors for tasked and developing targets

Target Digital Network Analyst

♦ Provided timely SIGINT reporting to the IC through 1,000+ hours of analysis, 150 hours of quality control, and 80 hours drafting 5+ reports. Efforts increased mission production by 200% and established the standard for reporting in the 502 CMT in support of Pacific Commander's objectives.
♦ Drafted and edited initial reports based on quality assurance findings.
♦ Performed both initial and final quality assurance on reports drafted within 502 CMT before released tot he Intelligence Community.
♦ Provided reporting information in response to Intelligence Community (IC) requirements and in accordance with missions of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Information Assurance, and Computer Network Operations.

Target Analyst Reporter

♦ Operated signals collection equipment, systems, and antennas for analysis in identifying essential elements of information.
♦ Maintained cryptologic databases to gather additional target information and operating characteristics while protecting sensitive methods and sources.
♦ Supervised signals collection, analysis, reporting, SI communications and assigned personnel.
♦ Allocated Signals Intelligence collection resources and adjusted tasking as required.
♦ Complied with classified information storage, transportation, and protection requirements.

Cryptologic Technician

♦ Located and detected new and sustained targets of interest through search and survey.
♦ Executed Radio Frequency (RF) scans to identify relocated or Off The Air (OTA) targets of interest.
♦ Processed high priority sustained collect signals including both Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) and Dialed Number Recognition (DNR) across multiple field sites.
♦ Identified, troubleshot, and mitigated collection and processing issues associated with sustained mission across two major assets.

Signal Recovery Team (SRT) Signals Analyst Lead - National Security Agency (NSA)

♦ Performed the fix actions necessary, including restarts, configurations, and maintenance.
♦ Performed acquisition, analysis and reporting of state-of-the-art communications signals at the intermediate level.
♦ Provided indications and warnings to national level policy makers through data collection processing and forwarding to the Office of Primary Interest.
♦ Trained operators in the use of multiple follow on processors, signals databases, and other tools needed to complete relocated missions.

Signals Collection and Analysis Operator - National Security Agency (NSA)

♦ Built Infra-as-Code to dynamically generate configuration files for back-end Skype/Teams call routing deployments for more than 5 environments.
♦ Automated feature flag detection resulting in identification and creation of over 1,000 bugs saving more than a month over the current process in the delivery of features for 3 special cloud environments for Microsoft Teams application.

Site Reliability Engineer

Northwestern Mutual

♦ Used financial vehicles to help clients achieve their personal financial goals.
♦ Licensed to sell Life and Health Insurance in the State of Ohio.

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Alex Thielman

Lendurai

Cofounder, CTO

Bolt

Indirectly delivered €billion in value by amplifying the productivity of the best data science team in the region.

Supporting 30+ data scientists, 100+ ML pipelines, and 1000's of production model deployments per month.

Optimised data-science builds from 40+ minutes down to 2 minutes.

Reduced RAM requirement of some ML servers by 90%.

Before:
 - One crucial pipeline took a week to run,
 - with constant babysitting,
 - and produced ~20 models.
 - Retraining happened every few months, since it cost dozens of man-hours each time.
 - Several other small pipelines with similar issues.
 - Pipelines were error-prone, retries were all-or-nothing.
 - AWS costs per-model were high.

After:
 - 100+ pipelines,
 - some producing 100's of models per run (1000's models monthly in total),
 - running automatically to schedule (some daily) 
 - Pipelines rarely failed.
 - AWS costs per-model produced were reduced by 30-90%.
 - Nightly rebuilds + end-to-end testing of all pipelines, delivering issues to Slack.

Unsupervised automatic deployments for some pipelines using extensive automated testing and quality-control tooling.

Data scientists can own their projects from start to finish (notebook to production to retirement) without requiring any time from data-engineers.

Training others in TypeScript, Python, Airflow, Docker, Linux, Bash, asynchronous programming, systems programming, POSIX fundamentals, and more.

Developed Chrome extensions to automate parts of work flows and to improve people's productivity with Airflow / S3.

Senior Data Engineer

Open Cosmos Ltd.

Designing and developing flight-software.

Documenting aspects of the design and development/build processes.

Training others in relevant CS theory, tools, design patterns; such that they could eventually take over development of the project from me.

Assembly / C / C++ / Kotlin / Java / Bash

Lead Flight Software Developer

Growing the software team such that the people outnumbered the projects, and organising the team in a way that allows it to react to rapidly varying external priorities.

Recruiting and training a team of 11 skilled software engineers,
coördinating half a dozen software projects,
while also designing the next-generation flight-software architecture.

Head of Software

Building and managing the IT infrastructure, developing software for satellites and for the ground station, building the GS-portion of the radio link using a software-defined radio, training others in the team with Linux / Git / C / C++ / Java / C# / ZeroMQ / electronics, creating development environments and diagnostic tools.

Making pretty much all technical decisions regarding software, as the only software engineer in the team

Porting Das U-boot for custom boards, writing U-boot scripts, configuring and deploying customised Linux kernels for said boards, setting up the userspace (systemd all the way).

Setting up environments for other developers to use to develop for (bare-metal/freestanding) embedded systems, with a strong focus on integrated unit-testing and CI integration driving the design of the environments that I created.  Configuring and building cross-compilers.

Developing various diagnostic tools including Linux client+server to allow remote pseudoterminals accessible via CANbus and serial, which enabled others to easily control and communicate with many systems at once in a semi-automated manner.

Designing architecture for our first cubesat's flight software, such that debugging, logging, and unit testing are easy and efficient.  Over the course of the project, three of us (myself and 2 aerospace engineers) were implementing this software, so I introduced the team to Git and thankfully they liked it and picked it up very quickly.

Building IT infrastructure for source control, logging, backups, remote access, automation, corporate websites, satellite mission control.

Setting up the ground segment for a cubesat mission, including tracking, radio mod/demod codecs for software-defined radios, building a network of ground stations, designing some electronics for the RF chain including solid-state TRX switching (<1ms switch time vs 50ms for mechanical).

Database design (PostgreSQL).

Training new staff with libraries / frameworks / internal tools.

Software and Payload Engineer

Entrepreneur First cohort #5

Entrepreneur In Residence

Preston College

Squash coach

Preston Grasshoppers RFC

Next Generation Chorley

Assistant squash coach

Top algo voice. Can't reverse a string.

If you want my response to your "competitive salary" offer, you first must defeat me at StarCraft II.

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