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Engineering leader with 25+ years building developer platforms, SaaS products, and real-time communications systems at scale. Proven track record leading large teams through rapid growth and transformational change at Microsoft, Cisco, and startups. Deep expertise in messaging, voice, collaboration platforms, and cloud infrastructure serving millions of users globally.
Enterprise SaaS and developer productivity and excellence are my sweet spots.
Partner Director of Engineering
September 2022 - present
Leading platform engineering for large-scale, real-time conversations in Microsoft 365, serving hundreds of millions of users across Engage, Teams, Outlook, and enterprise collaboration tools. Architected and delivered messaging platform supporting 10B+ messages daily with 99.9% availability. Built and scaled engineering teams across mobile, infrastructure, and platform services while driving operational excellence and developer productivity improvements.
Principal Group Engineering Manager
April 2018 - September 2022
Led engineering teams for Yammer/Engage across mobile (iOS/Android), infrastructure, and core service platform. Improved service reliability from 99.5% to 99.95% through systematic instrumentation, monitoring, and incident response improvements. Established DevOps culture with automated testing, daily deployments, and metrics-driven development reducing release cycle time by 60%.
Senior Director of Engineering
October 2015 - December 2016
Led platform-as-a-service (PaaS), architecture, client, messaging, and content services teams for Cisco Spark (now Webex). Architected and delivered build/test/deploy/monitor pipeline supporting 1000+ deployments annually with zero-downtime releases. Established multi-datacenter disaster recovery (DR) process and achieved 99.9% availability target through rigorous SLO definition and tracking. Implemented outage post-mortem process and continuous improvement practices, reducing P0 incidents by 75%.
Director of Engineering
July 2013 - October 2015
Led client (mobile, web, desktop), messaging services, and content services development for Cisco Spark from inception through launch. Established DevOps engineering culture from day one with automated testing, continuous deployment, and comprehensive observability.
Founder/Builder, Antidote Systems • Built SaaS security platform protecting digital identity • 2017-2018
Technical Leader & Engineering Manager, Cisco (Versly acquisition) • Built cloud collaboration platform; acquired by Cisco • 2010-2013
Founder, Bay Area Software • Built cloud data aggregation and analytics platform • 2007-2010
Chief Architect, Borland (Gauntlet acquisition) • Built continuous integration platform; acquired by Borland • 2005-2007
Technical Lead Engineer, BEA Systems (WebLogic acquisition) • Core developer on WebLogic application server, J2EE containers, and enterprise tooling • 1998-2004
Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems • Core developer on Java VM and java.net.* JDK • 1997
Columbia University • Master of Science, Electrical Engineering
Yale University • Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Platform & Infrastructure: Distributed systems, microservices, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), real-time messaging, voice/video, developer APIs, PaaS
Languages & Technologies: Kotlin/Java, Python, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, k8s, modern Agentic and DevOps toolchains
Leadership: Engineering culture building, technical strategy, operational excellence, SRE practices, developer productivity, team scaling