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Founder, CleverQuilts | Building Digital Products & Tools for Quilters

cleverquiltscom

Mar 2026 - Current (7 months)

Technical founder of a cloud-native platform serving the quilting community. Engineered custom spatial geometry algorithms to solve physical, real-world constraint logic where standard AI models fail, while hiring and managing specialized GTM, QA, and marketing talent.

Technical & Leadership Highlights:
• Custom Spatial Geometry Engine: Designed and built a deterministic spatial constraint engine in Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript to calculate real-world physical requirements and precision layouts—filling key gaps left by generative AI.
• Cloud-Native Architecture & Release Operations: End-to-end full-stack development and deployment of scalable web applications, automated build/release pipelines, and resilient cloud

Sr Manager, Data Platforms

OpenTable

Jul 2022 - Jul 2026 (4 years 1 month)

Technical leader focused on building reliable, scalable data infrastructure and running high-performing teams.

Core Skills
Data platforms & infrastructure
• Distributed systems
• Performance & reliability
• Security initiatives
• Infrastructure migrations
• Cross-team leadership
• Global team management

Senior Manager, Data Platforms
Lead three teams: two database administration teams (US and India) and Network Operations, with two managers reporting to me.
Delivered major infrastructure work including VMware to Proxmox migration with minimal disruption.
Drove forward DB TLS encryption to improve security and scalability.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform i

Manager, Data Platforms

OpenTable

Dec 2016 - Jul 2022 (5 years 8 months)

24/7 Operational Continuity: Transformed a local 2-person team into a 7-person global unit across the US and India, eliminating single points of failure and providing round-the-clock infrastructure support.

Massive Infrastructure Scaling: Directed the expansion of the data footprint from 2 to 5 platforms and 500 to 5,000+ VMs, enabling the organization to support a 10x increase in user load and data throughput.

High Availability & Risk Reduction: Engineered a resilient global stack using load balancing and automated failover, reducing system downtime and ensuring business-critical data remained accessible during regional outages.

Operational Velocity: Introduced build automation and connection pooling, reduc

Database Manager

Turnitin

Jun 2013 - Dec 2016 (3 years 7 months)

Managed an internationally distributed team of DBAs, focused on fostering individual skill growth.
Managed roadmap of long term architecture for both backend and application layer data storage.
Architected the transition of replication strategies for multi-datacenter postgres cluster.
Architected and implemented service based sharding of a 700G postgres database.
Created standards and implemented tools to control schema changes and ensure a reliable, stable method of upgrades and rollbacks.
Created week-long department wide training events and managed in depth tutorials on data topics to foster engineering best practices.
Introduced semi-annual hackatons to encourage creativity and boost moral.
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DevOps/Database Engineer

Message Bus

Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year 1 month)

Worked in an agile scrum environment to build automated cloud based Postgres and mysql VMs with Chef and Capistrano. Architected and implemented OLTP database system designed to handle 200G data per day utilizing DBLink, inheritance, and PL/pgSQL procedures for shard creation. Designed OLAP snowflake data warehouse for API retrieval of analytics.

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