Joshua Kwan

Co-Founder and CTO

Ternary

Jun 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)

Leading the engineering effort to build a best in breed product to help real people solve real cost problems that happen while scaling out in the cloud.

Team Lead and Architect, DevOps

LiveRamp

Aug 2018 - Jun 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Lead (formerly managed as well) the 6-developer Ops (later DevOps) team. Successfully led this team over 18 months to 100% migrate LiveRamp's environment from on-prem datacenter to Google Cloud Platform. The migration of 90PB of data and 90,000 cores of data processing workloads began in June of 2018 and concluded in November 2019 with zero perceptible downtime by customers. During the migration, worked cross-functionally to implement brand new security, governance and cost control processes at the same time as migration. Mediated between security, compliance, and software development teams to create the right balance of risk avoidance and speed for delivery of product. Today, all LiveRamp teams feel strong ownership over their infrastruc

Senior Software Engineer

LiveRamp

Dec 2016 - Aug 2018 (1 year 9 months)

Arbor exits via acquisition by LiveRamp, but the mission continues with an even stronger team!

Senior Software Engineer

Arbor acquired by LiveRamp

May 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 8 months)

Ongoing development of a data platform for online advertising data built on Google Cloud Platform, Go, Aerospike, and Kubernetes. We maintain a highly redundant and performant deployment that has to handle >30,000 QPS of webservice traffic and never go down, in addition to behind-the-scenes data processing of the data that we accept via our webservice and other means.

Senior Software Engineer

Schrödinger

Jan 2014 - May 2015 (1 year 5 months)

Technical lead for the Infrastructure team. We support our division's LiveDesign product by maintaining build systems (Maven/Make), continuous integration (Jenkins), and production deployment methods (in-house solutions that wrap around AWS and vSphere APIs.) We also wrote and maintain a REST service for distributed job management based on Celery. It's used by the LiveDesign product to run computational models on drugs in a massively parallel and scalable manner.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

vmware

Jan 2009 - Dec 2013 (5 years)

Windows, Linux, OS X cross-platform development and all-around hackery for end-user computing software solutions, implemented in Python, C++, HTML5, you name it. * Helped create a system called CDS (Component Download Service) which is still used in VMware end-user products today to deliver updates to many thousands of users via a CDN. * Co-developed ThinApp Factory (vmware/thinapp_factory) which is a continuous integration system for automatically creating ThinApps from a recipe. * Co-developed VMware Horizon View HTML Access which allows people to use Windows apps from a browser. Worked on the patented algorithm which allows users to see only the windows associated with their app instead of an entire Windows desktop. (US Patent 10082941)

Member of Technical Staff Intern

vmware

Jun 2007 - Jan 2009 (1 year 8 months)

Worked in the Product Infrastructure Team on Linux Easy Install. In my spare time, contributed to the team's responsibilities of deploying VMware Tools to lots and lots of Linux distributions as well as assisted with WiX and InstallShield-based Windows installers for VMware Workstation. Internship occured in June 2007 but I stayed on as a part timer until I converted into a full time employee after graduating from UC Berkeley.

Labs Intern

accenture

May 2006 - Aug 2006 (4 months)

Worked with Java Portlets to create a frontend for a NLP news aggregator.

Labs Intern

Sun Microsystems

May 2005 - Aug 2005 (4 months)

Worked on a research project involving the use of a spinning laser to provide touch input capability on a large display wall.

Intern

Rackable Systems

Jun 2004 - Aug 2004 (3 months)

Maintenance of in-house Perl scripts and benchmarking Adaptec and 3Ware RAID HBA performance on SLES and RHEL rackmount servers.

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