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VP of Engineering

Cribl

Dec 2022 - Current (3 years 11 months)

Leading a highly passionate and technically driven engineering team dedicated to revolutionizing enterprise data observability for IT and security through cutting-edge software solutions.

Join us in building high-scale data processing, streaming engines, and distributed systems for both on-premise and SaaS/cloud environments—shaping the future of data management.

Sr. Director of Engineering

Cribl

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 (2 years)

Building a world class engineering team - Come and join our team that's disrupting Data Observability!!

https://cribl.io/jobs/

Head of Engineering, Platform Experience

Splunk

Mar 2020 - Dec 2020 (10 months)

Building out the engineering team that's responsible for driving the engineering efforts to discover and build the next generation User Experience of Splunk’s SaaS data platform.

Head of Engineering, Application and Developer Platform

Splunk

Feb 2018 - Mar 2020 (2 years 2 months)

Building out and leading the engineering area that is responsible for building the next generation Application Data Platform and Developer ecosystem of Splunk. This engineering area was responsible for all User Interface components used by all Splunk built apps and the next generation Splunk Application architecture build on top of Splunk's new, API driven data platform.

Head of Engineering, Splunk Nova

Splunk

Sep 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Build out and led a team of engineers within the Incubation engineering area in designing and building an innovating SaaS Data platform for empowering cloud native developers in building Data Analytic apps. The team successfully delivered a multi-tenant data analytic service https://www.splunknova.com/ that exposed a set of public REST APIs, for powering Data Analytic applications. The platform became the baseline and technology seed for the next generation Splunk Data platform.

Senior Director of Engineering - Splunk Cloud

Splunk

Feb 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year 8 months)

Continued to be responsible for all aspects of building and running the engineering area that built and delivered all product offerings of Splunk Enterprise Cloud. During my time with Splunk Enterprise Cloud, the business grew from $0 to $100M in revenue.

Director of Engineering - Splunk Cloud

Splunk

Jul 2013 - Jan 2015 (1 year 7 months)

Built out the engineering team that worked on prototyping, and delivering the GA of Splunk Enterprise Cloud to the market. Managed all aspect of running this engineering area, working closely with the other engineering leaders, marketing and sales to make sure the successful delivery of Splunk Enterprise Cloud to customers. Engaged early adopters of Splunk Enterprise Cloud, as we iterated on the technology stack and business.

Engineering Manager/Lead - Splunk Storm

Splunk

Apr 2010 - Jul 2013 (3 years 4 months)

Leading a very fast paced engineering team that builds and maintains Splunk Storm product. Splunk Storm is a software as a service(SaaS) application that focuses on empowering its users to troubleshoot and analyze applications in the Cloud and elsewhere. Splunk Storm takes advantage of cloud computing technologies to scale.

- As the first engineer to be assigned to the project, I worked with an architect and a product manager to define and prototype the Splunk Storm product.
- Led the design and architecting efforts to figure out how to use the off the shelf Splunk Enterprise product as a multitenant service.
- Managed the release of Alpha, Private/Public Beta, and GA of Splunk Storm.
- Hired and built out the en

Engineering Lead, Manager - Splunk on Windows

Splunk

Nov 2008 - Apr 2010 (1 year 6 months)

Led the Windows Engineering team to develop and maintain Splunk Search Engine application in all of Microsoft Windows environment.

- Hired and built out the Windows engineering team of 7, responsible on working on Splunk Windows product. The team included a Windows systems architect, 3 core engineers, 1 UI engineer, and 1 Windows Installer engineer.
- Worked with PM to develop new features for Splunk on Windows
- Worked with other teams in engineering to improve the performance of the product on Windows.
- Established best practices for developing Splunk on Windows for all of Splunk engineering.
- Led the effort of build the first version of Splunk Windows app.

Engineering Lead, Splunk on Windows

Splunk

Feb 2007 - Nov 2008 (1 year 10 months)

At Splunk, I was the first engineer to be hired for porting Splunk C/C++/Python code base from Unix to Microsoft Windows platform.
- I led and managed all aspects of the Splunk Windows product, from porting the third party software that Splunk uses from Linux to Windows, as well as the core search engine technology.
- The final product included a self installed Splunk MSI package that installed and ran Splunk as a service on Windows client and server x86, x86-64 machines.
- Led the efforts to building out from scratch the Windows test platform, Windows release engineering tools, as well as the developer tools to maintain the Windows product.

Sr. Search Engineer, Web Search

LookSmart LTD

Jul 2005 - Feb 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Web Search (Wisenut Search, Furl Search) team. In Wisenut I was responsible for researching and developing techniques, requiring little changes to the code base, but improving Wisenut search relevance. Furl search I was responsible for developing a distributed system that would scale the Furl Search platform. Participated in implementing pattern matching and categorization techniques for improving Vertical Search.

Software Engineer, Grub Technology

LookSmart LTD

Jan 2003 - Jun 2005 (2 years 6 months)

Core engineer for the Grub Project, a distributed computing platform based on client/server architecture. Grub took advantage of idle and unused computing resources (memory, CPU, storage) and we were able to develop a general purpose distributed platform. One of the usages of such platform was crawling and categorizing of the Web.
At LookSmart I was part of developing the next generation of Grub client and server platform, which could scale up to 10K clients. We were able to accomplish that by releasing several versions of Grub client and server. Implemented pattern matching techniques that would process URL contents and categorize them. Extensive work on improving the processing of Robots.txt pages.

NCAA Soccer Referee

National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association

Jan 2001 - Nov 2013 (12 years 11 months)

NISOA/NCAA Soccer referee. To manage and control up to 22 players, the coaches and the spectators on the stands in a highly a competitive soccer game. NCAA and NCIA college games.

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Software Engineer

The Worx Company

Oct 2000 - May 2001 (8 months)

I did a variety of work during my time at The Worx Company, including writing Visual Basic and Visual Basic Scripting for the Microsoft IIS/ASP platform. As well as participating in the development of at least half dozen projects, I coded substantial portions of a remote data-entry application for television satellite installation offices. I also developed several applications for the company Intranet.

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Software Engineer

Grub Inc

Aug 2000 - Jan 2003 (2 years 6 months)

As an engineer at Grub, I participated in the initial stages of design and development of the Grub platform. Grub became a distributed crawler platform, which took advantage of idle and unused computer resources to crawl millions of URLs. We accomplished that and the technology was eventually sold to LookSmart, LTD.

Computer Lab Assistant - CS Department

University of Central Oklahoma

May 1999 - Apr 2001 (2 years)

I managed the computer lab of the CS department. Assisted the students with their programming assignments and various challenges that they were encountering working with different computer systems in the lab, such as compiling their code in the AIX UNIX systems or Microsoft Windows.

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