Software, Data & ML Engineering Leader

I have a history of successful leadership experiences designing and delivering innovative technology capabilities, which have resulted in significant business outcomes and organizational transformations that increased revenue, market share growth, and deepened customer engagement and brand loyalty.

Experience

Walmart Global Tech, Dallas TX

Sr. Engineering Manager II - Data PlatformMar., 2019 — Present

Leading the organization's cloud data lakehouse system, data platform strategy, and execution to build, maintain, and evolve a highly scalable data extraction, transmission, storage, and consumption PaaS software platform for analytical use cases, ensuring compliance with the CCPA, VCDPA, MHMD etc. Hiring and overseeing high-caliber technology talent, including coaching staff , conducting performance reviews and appraisals, personal development planning, and fostering effective teamwork.

Sams Club, Dallas TX

Principal Software Engineer - Cloud InfrastructureSep., 2017 — Mar., 2019

Architected Sam's Club's public cloud consumption model, defi ned the HA/DR strategy for data and application services, and championed the cloud-native development model within the organization of 300 plus engineers.

Walmart eCommerce, Bentonville AR

Principal Software Engineer - Data FoundationFeb., 2015 — Sep., 2017

As a data foundation private cloud product consultant, I oversaw all aspects of messaging (Kafka, JMS), streaming (Storm), search (Elastic), relational (MariaDB) and NoSQL (Cassandra) databases, and Cache (Memcached). Additionally, I designed, architected, developed, and led the in-house implementation of messaging as a service (JMS and Kafka) within Walmart’s private PaaS cloud Platform OneOps (www.oneops.com).

Walmart, Bentonville AR

Enterprise Solutions ArchitectJan., 2013 — Feb., 2015

Guided Walmart's SOA strategy alignment with business goals, meeting executive expectations. Led architecture for large programs, creating application, deployment, and data architecture, generating project artifacts through logical and physical design authorship.

Walmart, Bentonville AR

Senior Software Engineer - Finance DataApr., 2011 — Jan., 2013

Led the team to integrate Home Office finance systems with other country’s finance systems such as SAP - built integration layer that handled 100 million events a month.

Microsoft, Redmond WA

Software Engineer - IoT PlatformJune, 2007 — Apr., 2011

Windows Embedded Compact Operating Systems Networked Multimedia features owner, responsible for quarterly feature release to partners.

Thomson Reuters, Minneapolis MN

Software Engineer - Data Retrieval PlatformAug, 2005 — June, 2007

Worked as a technical lead of NOVUS (a middleware platform for supporting various online products) data retrieval group - ownership of design, development, testing, maintaining, and supporting several NOVUS online services providing APIs for 100s of TPS.

Open Access Technology International, Minneapolis MN

Software Developer - Energy Trading PlatformSep., 2004 — Aug., 2005

Worked as a member of webRTO team - designed, developed, tested, and maintained online application software confirming secure and reliable transactions for 100s of third party users.

Minnesota State University, Mankato MN

Web Software DeveloperJan., 2001 — Aug., 2004

Designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained services of the MnSCU system which is an Integrated Statewide Record System (ISRS) of the MN State Colleges & Universities.

Education

Dakota State University — Madison, SD

PhD, Information Systems - Data Analytics

Specialized in data analytics and machine learning, advanced algorithm development, deep data analysis, and implementing cutting-edge solutions for data-driven decision-making. Proficient in optimizing data systems and providing strategic insights for enhanced business performance, with a focus on driving innovation and achieving objectives in the dynamic landscape of data science.

Webster University — Webster Groves, MO

Masters of Business Administration

Specialized in business administration with social and governance framework for modern organizations, identifying and evaluating opportunities, creating implementation plans, managing business processes and providing decision support.

Minnesota State University — Mankato, MN

Masters in Compute Science

Specialized in Computer Science with theory of computation, data structure and algorithms design, advanced networking & databases as well as software design concepts and projects.

Minnesota State University — Mankato, MN

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Specialized in Computer Science with data structure, algorithms, networking, databases, software design development and testing. Minored in Mathematics.

Certification

Usable Security

Cybersecurity Specialization - University of Maryland, College Park

Cryptography

Cybersecurity Specialization - University of Maryland, College Park

Software Security

Cybersecurity Specialization - University of Maryland, College Park

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