After a happy exit from Kno, began a new gig with four friends, and grew my team size at my service-based start-up 10x and revenue by 30x within 4 years.
Designed the architecture for a Melbourne-based social-media application. Used AWS for super-fast content delivery. Assisted team in designing the AI module responsible for accomplishing something intelligent.
Designed multiple business intelligence and data warehouse applications which gather information from multiple systems and cast data into meaningful information for the business. Designed tools/ETL for massive technology/ platform migrations.
Architect for the development of highly scalable fail-safe, REST/Microservices-based application infrastructure and Spotify API wrappers for a New York based start-up.
Designed, built & operated a robust infrastructure based on AWS & Fastly for serving applications 24X7 across the four continents (highest load – 400K impressions per minute, costs under $10K/m).
In the stone age of the Spotify API era, lead the effort to develop a custom load-balancer in C# for LibSpotify (C-based Spotify Client API) – over 1M playlists created, 50M+ tracks manipulated – 99% Up-time.
Lead the development of a custom build system integrated with AWS, Cloudfront, Bitbucket, Bits on the run (Video CDN) & Fastly with the purpose of fetching the latest code from repositories, extracting resources (verbiage, assets, etc) posting to a custom CMS, determine hosting zone, determine the number of online servers, publish code, clear Fastly cache, clear remote webserver APC cache.
Using awesome tools, designed a custom proxy infrastructure for remote API calls (Facebook, Spotify, Last.fm, ROVI, etc.) for improved response times and lower data costs. Developed a high-performance multi-threaded data harvest system for remote APIs (e.g. Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Instagram, Last.fm, and ROVI).
Pursuing excellence in the delivery team ensuring test automation, continuous integration, code reviews, and architecture excellence.