Magic

Director of Engineering

Coinbase

- Lead an organization that builds and improves features for USDC on the entire Coinbase ecosystem, providing customers more reasons to hold and use USDC.
- Lead a team to build Coinbase's first issued token, cbETH, a liquid staking version of staked ETH, providing new utility and liquidity options for Coinbase and DeFi customers.

Senior Engineering Manager

Amazon

Lead an organization in Amazon Retail Consumer Electronics that builds scalable features for all of Retail. Team built and supported the Compare With Similar Items table on the detail page, the In House Installments feature that allowed customers to pay for products with installments, and a Guided Search feature for mobile that provided a better UX for customers filtering down search results.

Software Development Manager

General Networks Corporation

Lead all engineering, product, sales & marketing departments that deliver custom workflow, document management and portal solutions to clients. Hands on product/engineering work for key projects that drive high priority client relationship growth.

COO/CTO

Lead teams of product/engineering to develop custom solutions in the workflow automation and intranet portal spaces. Design and develop custom Microsoft SharePoint add ons to improve customer UX.

Director of Professional Services

Lead a pod of developers to implement custom workflow automation solutions for clients. Scoping, TDD, implementation and ongoing KTLO/OE contracts for high profile customers.

Practice Manager

Martin Worldwide

Design, scope and build a web based marketing list count/delivery system with C#/SQL backend and jQuery/JavaScript front end. Included authentication, role based permissions, cart/checkout capability and automated list delivery.

Full Stack Developer

QuikStor

Email/Phone software support for a Storage Facility Management thick client application. Development tasks to resolve small bugs and create patches for high priority issues/clients.

Technical Support Specialist

I post about Engineering Leadership, Strategy and Optimization.
As a Director of Engineering at Magic with over 16 years of engineering experience, I have had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of teams and technologies. Throughout my career, I have taken on many different roles, from software engineer to technical lead to engineering manager. 

I have worked with startups as well as large organizations, and I have experience with managing/mentoring both ICs and managers. I have led teams in delivering products from ideation to launch and have experience working with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of a project.

Owen Runnals

 Software Development Engineer

Visual BI Solutions

After completing my first year at Grad school, I started working as Graduate analytics and engineering at Visual BI solutions.
Roles and Responsibilities
-- Developed windows installers for all the modules of VBI View which enables hassle-free product installation and upgrades.
-- Developed a generic backup utility script in python which can take the backup of the configuration and other required files, database for the Visual BI products which reduced human intervention during updates.
-- Design, develop and maintain the REST APIs using python Flask framework for handling web services for VBI view.

Graduate Analytics and Engineering Intern

The University of Texas at Dallas

Computer Science outreach Instructor

Tesco Bengaluru

After completing my undergraduate degree, I was recruited by Tesco Bengaluru. I worked in Data engineering and Supply chain insights team as a software engineer for 4 years. Below are my roles and responsibilities.
-- Worked as Principle developer in the team of 5 engineers in implementing the supply chain sales and forecasting algorithm on Hadoop platform which led to high data availability and reduced data traffic on EDW server.

-- I was part of Tesco Top 5 priority project – Finance Transformation program which aims at calculating the operational sales which are used to measure the operational performance that is closely aligned to the sales metric communicated.

-- Worked closely with UK IT Supply chain team to gather requirements and implemented New Generation Forecasting which involves developing ETL and writing complex views in Semantic Layer.

-- Archived 7 years’ worth Tesco broadband data on Hadoop by taking the data from an external vendor and developed an indexing functionality to retrieve the archived customer’s bill efficiently.

-- Achieved CPU savings of about 500K CPU cycles by optimization of Teradata batch queries (PI change, PPI, Statistics Re-collection at an optimal interval/random Amp sampling) which resulted in an hour per day savings in the peak hour window.

-- Developed and implemented the complex ETL solution for Group Promotional Forecasting model for Tesco Lotus(Thailand) which provides near real-time accurate promotion forecasting to deliver availability, waste and stockholding benefits and I was also nominated and sent to work on-shore in Thailand for few weeks to collaborate with Thailand supply chain team.

-- Core team member for migrating the Tesco Master data warehouse appliance from old Teradata server running on V13 to new Teradata server running on V15 and ensured 0% data loss.

--Up-skill the team in Hadoop Technologies, training fresher College Graduates.

Software Engineer

Graduate Student at University of Texas at Dallas pursuing master’s in computer Science. 

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry focused on Data Engineering which includes 2 years of experience in Big Data Stack.

Interested in Big Data, Data Warehousing, Machine Learning, AI, Data Analytics

Skills 
♣	Programming-Scala, Python, Java, VB, object-oriented programming, Shell scripting,
Cobol JCL(Mainframes). 
♣	Big Data stack- Hadoop distributed file system(HDFS), Map and Reduce, Spark, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, 
Oozie (Worked on both Cloudera and Horton works distribution).
♣	Database- MySQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Teradata and Utilities (BTeq, MultiLoad, FastLoad and TPT).
♣	Tools - GitHub, Apache Maven, Teradata SQL Assistant, IntelliJ, TensorFlow, Flask.
♣	Other – Data Warehousing, Data Analysis, Requirement analysis, Agile SDLC methodologies (SCRUM, KANBAN), JIRA, Zendesk.

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