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I am a servant leader with 18 years experience building and scaling engineering teams and software. I consistently take on and successfully execute challenging and mission critical initiatives where the organization has limited prior experience. Skills * Hiring, building, leading and scaling engineering teams (from 0 to 40+ engineers) * Extremely flexible and adaptable leader and technician - lead the team and dive-in when needed * Implement structured processes to improve collaboration and create maintainable & supportable products * Adept engineer with experience in Big Data, Machine Learning and AWS * Experienced in strategic planning, staffing, budgeting and resource allocation Recent Blog Posts * Symmetric Encryption - http://eqxtech.com/engineering/symmetric-encryption-in-python/ * Modern Data Warehouse - http://eqxtech.com/engineering/modern-cloud-architecture-with-aws-informatica/ * Too Many Secrets - http://eqxtech.com/engineering/too-many-secrets/ I'm also the proud inventor of the SmartCap - a FitBit integrated water-bottle cap that tracks consumption: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1668299045/smartcap-record-remind-and-rehydrate/ Technologies I have worked with Professionally and deployed to Production: Programming: Python, PHP, C, Perl, Javascript, Objective-C, Bash, Lua RDBMS/NoSQL: Redshift, MySQL, Mongo, SQLite, MSSQL, Oracle, Hive, PostgreSQL Cache: Redis, Memcache, Varnish Big Data: Hadoop, MapReduce, Parallel programming, ETL design, MPP (Impala, Redshift), Schema design, Data Warehouse Design (Fact/Dimension) Data Science/ML: scikit-learn, pandas/dataframes, databricks, sageMaker, kmeans, regression, linear optimization, random forest. AWS: EMR, EC2, lambda, Data-processing pipeline, SWF, S3, etc. Servers: Apache, Nginx, Flask Containers: Docker, ECS Security: OWASP, pen-testing, binary exploit development, MSF, XSS, L/RFI, CSRF, SQLi, etc Automation: Jenkins, Selenium, Travis, Github Actions SDLC: Waterfall, Agile, R&D, skunkworks My hobbyist experience includes: Programming: Java, groovy, scala, R, Commodore64 asm & Basic, Go, Rust, Solidity, Truffle. Robotics: Khepera-II, Genetic Algorithms, Evolvable controllers, embedded programming Capital Markets: Algorithmic trading, data-mining, currency/binary trading, art markets My tech-activities include: Meetups: Frequent "big data" meet ups, R/stats & finance Speaker: Recently spoke at "Big Data Warehousing" meet up and "Open Finance NYC", along with a 45m talk at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in 2008.