Kimberly Aswell
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VP, Tech Product Management
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
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Director of Engineering, Data Services and ArchitectureAledade IncJan 2017 - May 2018 (1 year 5 months)Supported engineers by listening to them and working to empower them.
Increased Engineering capacity by helping grow headcount from 4 to 20 over 2 years.
Stabilized flagship product via process refactoring, increasing transparency and improving communication with stakeholders.
Brought engineers, PMs and stakeholders closer by refactoring product development process.
Improved consistency, cross-team collaboration and reporting speed by introduction of a data warehouse.
Reliably delivered working software by way of Product Flow and Agile Scrum.
Stabilized product development process by introducing QA environment and processes.
Stabilized production databases via impr- Senior Software EngineerAledade IncMay 2016 - Dec 2016 (8 months)Helped Engineering build a team. Worked with team leads to define a talent acquisition pipeline, conduct interviews and introduced a take-home code test.
Helped Product and Engineering deliver working software reliably. Gradual introduction of Scrum led to burndown for the first time.
Onboarded engineers quickly. Refactored outdated install procedure into a reproducible and verifiable one. Required nested virtual machines. Tools: Ubuntu Linux, VMWare, bash, ssh, OS X, Virtualbox, PostgreSQL, Python.
Wrote and operationalized production PostgreSQL data products. Ported SAS code to SQL. - Director of Engineering / Systems ArchitectNarrativAug 2014 - Nov 2015 (1 year 4 months)Employee #1 at BAMx. Lead the engineering effort to get from 0 to production in 12 months.
Architected and built innovative adtech RTB service integrating merchants and publishers at the semantic product level; improved publisher and merchant ROI by monetizing existing product content.
Recruited and lead a fantastic team of engineers that emphasized communication, productivity, mindfulness and responsibility — yielding high product quality, test coverage and documentation.
Optimized cycle time via unit+integration tests, Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, Docker-based deploys.
Chose Python for fast dev cycles, mature tooling and most importantly access to great engineers.
Python2 + Flask + UWSGI + nginx on AWS EC2 / ECS cluste - Systems Architect / Senior Software EngineerWinampJan 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year 10 months)Architect and lead developer of Winamp Cloud service backend: designed, developed server
and protocol for combining/synchronizing a user's media library across multiple devices into a unified collection. Supports synchronized cross-device editing of Unicode-based metadata database, streaming of multiple media formats, remote file management, pluggable backend storage drivers, thin and native clients.
Responsibilities: worked with management to define requirements, designed an offline-tolerant synchronization scheme and a JSON-based protocol encoding over HTTP. Built NetScaler- friendly Erlang server, centralized user management in MySQL, distributed user data in sqlite3 on Riak cluster, implemented OAuth-based clients for Facebook - Software EngineerConsultingNov 2009 - Dec 2011 (2 years 2 months)MySQL-based e-commerce systems analysis. Process-based parallel refactoring and scheduling optimization decreased database contention; increased system reliability and throughput 10x. — Hyborian Solutions, Las Vegas, NV
Developed Twitter tracking/reporting to follow network-related handles, discussion and geographical distribution using Linux, PHP, Javascript and Highcharts JS graphing library Performance tuning with Sergey Chernyshev of the NY Web Performance Group: automated perceptual tuning of JPEGs (github.com/rflynn/imgmin), optimization and minimization of CSS ( - BSoftware EngineerBernoulli Cardiopulmonary CorpNov 2004 - Oct 2009 (5 years)Maintained, created protocol drivers for dozens of medical devices (ventilators, pulse oximeters) in C and SQL.
TCP/IP server gateway software and modular plugin/driver architecture in ISO C.
Linux/C/embedded: ported C network server, drivers to embedded MIPS bridge.
Clock skew detection/correction, tunable waveform display resolution, scheduling algorithms. - Software EngineerSelling Source LLCAug 2003 - Nov 2004 (1 year 4 months)Engineer #5. Built backend MySQL/PHP/Perl programming for web application framework powering hundreds of websites. Designed database handling tens of millions of records.
- Software EngineerConsultingSep 1999 - Dec 2002 (3 years 4 months)Backend applications on Linux using MySQL and languages like PHP, Python, Perl.