Profile

Wire Pulse, Inc.

Chicago, IL

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer along with CIO responsibilities.

February 2023 to present

• Architect, build, manage and operate cloud services and infrastructure for Wire Pulse.

• Developed custom clustered MQTT broker for IoT communications, REST APIs and OpenAPI specifications, daemon and ETL tasks as needed to support SAAS operations.

• Architect and roll out comprehensive APM solution for services and processes.

• Developed SSO (single sign on) and data management applications using Wt. Python behave driven playwright tests.

• Terraform for provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS.

• Set up security posture for AWS services.

• Championed and lead company through SOC 2 Type II attestation process.

Veritone, Inc.

Costa Mesa, CA

Principal Engineer

August 2018 to February 2023

• Develop micro and nano services, GraphQL API, deployment platform for running AI engine workloads. Services developed in Go, Java, and Node.js.

• Develop MVP products, which later become full-fledged Veritone products (Track, Voice).

• Develop bespoke products for DOJ, US Navy, NASCAR.

• Port Veritone aiWARE stack from AWS to Azure and on-premise environments using Kubernetes and Docker swarm technologies.

• OpenFaaS and Kubeless serverless computing to replace AWS Lambda functions.

Wazee Digital

Denver, CO

Principal Engineer

June 2017 to August 2018

• Micro and Nano services for cloud digital media management platform. Services developed in Java and Go.

• Platform built using NiFi, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Reporting services using DynamicReports.

Tempus

Chicago, IL

Senior Software Architect

March 2017 to June 2017

Developed Custom FHIR server for storing Clinical records from partner hospitals and health care providers.

Gracenote

Chicago, IL

Senior Software Engineer

August 2014 to March 2017

• Develop real-time data update pipeline for transmitting changes from editorial systems and internal data sources (Sybase, PostgreSQL, Datomic, XML, JSON) to REST and Apache Avro/Thrift based web service API tier deployed on AWS cloud.

• Develop real-time customer specific update streams based on incoming real-time data streams. Multi-tier application developed in Scala, using Kafka/Confluent as the message queue and PostgreSQL/Redis as the persistence engines.

• The data update system drives Comcast X1 platform and is slated to become the primary platform for other customers such as DirecTV, Dish, Time Warner, Apple, Google etc.

Intellectual Ventures

Seattle, WA

Consultant

April 2015 to November 2015

Develop application for Arduino platform to transmit air quality data gathered using Sharp GP2Y1010AU0F Optical Dust Sensor to Sidecar cloud API. Develop custom authentication and authorisation libraries (embedded C++) necessary to publish sensor data to Sidecar.

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago, IL

Senior Application Developer

April 2009 to July 2014

• Developed Single Sign On application and REST services for use by the online versions of Scientific Style and Format, The Chicago Manual of Style and the account management applications. Migrated various systems to Magnolia content management system.

• Developed JIRA plugins to migrate PERL based Submission Manager process tracking application to JIRA.

• Developed new website for UCP using Magnolia CMS. Contributed documentation including source code to Magnolia Wiki based on custom modifications built for UCP. Developed custom background tasks to keep content in the JackRabbit repository in sync with various data sources MS SQL Server database, MySQL databases, XML feeds, SOAP services etc. from various other divisions of the Press and the Library of Congress.

• Created XML manager desktop application used to generate web content for the Chicago Manual of Style Online product. Migrated CMOS Q&A content from XML files into Magnolia CMS.

• Migrated PHP based internal project tracking system to JSP and JasperReports.

Sans Pareil Technologies, Inc.

Chicago, IL

Founder, President & CEO

January 2006 to April 2009

A self-owned company that develops custom desktop, mobile and web applications for customers and also develops open-source applications and frameworks.

• Developed event management application framework for Applitite. The framework was used to build the official iPhone and Android applications for Chicago Blues Fest, Taste of Chicago, Chicago Jazz Fest, The VooDoo experience, New Orleans Jazz Fest etc. Developed database update REST service used to keep the application database in sync with the data management system.

• Developed iPad and iPhone application for Toyoda Machinery USA.

• Developed iPhone Sudoku game for Kamicom. Developed game webservice for distributing new Sudoku games and for managing game solution times submitted by users.

• Various Web 2.0 modules for Tribune Media Services using Google API, GWT, Echo, JDO, Lucene and Hibernate.

• Desktop applications for LSA Studies using Qt. Developed MongoDB based distributed data storage and access framework for use by all applications.

• Developed financial performance analysis software service for analysts of e-commerce websites.

• Developed Clinical Leadership Database application for leading Pharmaceutical Industry client of PharmARC.

• Developed laboratory resource scheduling system and custom Radius Authentication server for Moraine Valley Community College.

Tribune Media Services

Chicago, IL

Senior Applications Developer/Core Tools

June 2000 to December 2005

• Developed first version of TMS CoreLib middleware API that is used by all TMS inter/intranet applications for accessing TMS data stores (ODBMS, RDBMS, XML).

• Developed the TV Listings part of the NBC Winter Olympics 2006 site using the new architecture based on an ODBMS.

• Architected, designed and implemented move from a Relational Database Management System to a Object Database Management Ssystem. The migration resulted in performance increases ranging from 45-200 times that with an RDBMS.

• Architected, designed and developed client side data caching model using a variant of the DAO and Transfer Object patterns and an embedded database to offload load from the central database server.

• Architected, designed and developed a webservice for HP, that provided HP the ability to manage subscriber accounts via a secured communication channel. The webservices also supported direct subscription management functions designed to provide subscribers the ability to modify and manage their subscription.

• Architected, designed and developed the TV listings application and data management applications for NBC Olympics 2004.

• Architected, designed and developed TMS webservice designed to present Movie and TV data in XML format, conforming to schemas developed by TMS. Developed reference desktop clients and client API's using Qt/C++ to access the webservices.

• Developed the TMS standard XML schemas for TV and Movie related information.

• Architected, designed and developed a webservice for Philips iPronto/ProntoNeo/RC9800i devices. The webservice supports device authentication using HTTP-Digest, device activation, and dynamically generating customised TV Listings in an XML format conforming to the schema specified by Philips.

• Developed coding and documentation standards and application deployment processes.

• Architected, designed and developed the integrated Zap2it Toolkit Application which incorporates an enhanced Movie Toolkit Application (versions 1.0-3.0) and Internet Event Listings Application.

• Designed the Tribune Media Services Enterprise standard database model that is used by all editorial applications developed by TMS.

Net Quotient Consulting Group

Chicago, IL

Software Developer

September 1999 to May 2000

• Built user interface applications and back-end databases using Java and Vignette StoryServer based on functional specifications for New York Life.

• Assisted in creating prototypes and functional specifications for software projects involving New York Life.

• Assisted in developing technical methodologies for engineering solutions to Web-based development problems at Net Quotient.

• UNIX system administrator for the Chicago office.

IMI Systems, Inc.

Cincinnati, OH

Consultant

February 1998 to September 1999

• System Analyst, IBM Chicago

  
  

  February 1999 to September 1999

  
  

  Consultant for IBM working at Blue Cross and Blue Shield Illinois. Responsibilities included:

  • Network Analysis. Identified all the UNIX application servers (Solaris 2.5/2.6, AIX 4.3.x) that comprised the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Illinois computing environment.

  • Software Analysis. Identified all software (local and third party) that were installed in the network, as well as all the locally developed databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB/2, Access).

  • Tools Analysis. Analyse and evaluate third party data management and test automation tools such as File-Aid/CS and WinRunner 2000.

  • Database Design. Designed and implemented a Project Tracking database in MS-Access to inventory results of the network and software analysis. Developed forms and reports to present summary of results for project tracking.

  • Project Management. Oversaw Y2K testing efforts for all UNIX hardware and UNIX based software applications and database servers at Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

• Consultant, Convergys Corporation

  
  

  March 1998 to December 1998

  
  

  Y2K testing of the Precedent 2000 - a three-tier client/server Wireless Business Management and Billing system - software package developed by Convergys (formerly Cincinnati Bell Information Systems). Responsibilities included:

  • Developed a multi-threaded Windows application using Qt/C++ for the Usage Processing Subsystem of the Precedent 2000 system.

  • Implemented numerous internal windows for viewing log files generated by the Precedent 2000 application.

  • Implemented a SQL editor for users to run their own queries or execute PL/SQL stored procedures, and save queries as menu items. The result set from the database was converted into a table model and presented in spread-sheet format.