Career Profile

I have 25+ years experience building successful web products, business intelligence units, cloud networks, and the teams to support them. I have contributed to both small startups and global corporations, with roles in technical leadership, data warehousing, web development, network security, and system engineering.

  • Building AI/ML platforms and teams to enable data scientists to deliver value at scale
  • Built and ran data analytics team for Rent.com, led through $415m acquisition by eBay
  • Architected vertical search engine for Campus Explorer (now Archer Education)
  • Designed Blackline Systems' Linux automation platform through successful IPO
  • Optimized VideoAmp's user segmentation platform and real-time ad-tech bidding systems
  • Collaborated with and advised startups at all stages of funding and growth.

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Experiences

Director of Data Engineering

2024
Nayyar

On a mission to make Americans better protected through smarter health, insurance, and finance decisions!

Senior Lead Software Engineer

2022 - 2024
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Led teams delivering Personalization, Platform, and LLM-powered Q&A. Building AI/ML platforms, pipelines, cultures, and teams for innovative applications in the firm-wide Machine Learning Center of Excellence.

Principal/Lead Data Engineer

2014 - 2022
Various

Full-time, contractor, and consultant to various early- to mid-stage companies in the financial, entertainment, adtech, and blockchain spaces:

  • Peloton, connected home fitness, from 2020-2022
  • VideoAmp, data-driven advertising, from 2019-2020
  • The Walt Disney Studios, private video streaming service, from 2018-2019
  • Stealth Startups, internet security & blockchain, from 2017-2018
  • BlackLine Systems, accounting software provider, from 2014-2017
Also worked with several early-stage startups in an advisory or interim CTO capacity providing strategic vision and technical oversight.

Director, Infrastructure

2012 - 2014
Rent.com, a RentPath Company

Managed production platform teams through acquisition from eBay by RentPath. Responsible for Los Angeles transition from eBay to RentPath networks. Managed security, vendor relations, technical roadmap, and disaster recovery initiatives.

Principal Architect

2008 - 2012
Rent.com, an eBay Company

Managed Oracle infrastructure team. Expanded data center network onto Cisco, Citrix, and HP hardware. Deployed NetScaler ADCs, enabling Layer 7 content switching to facilitate responsive web redesign. Migrated legacy hardware to VMware instances on blade servers.

CTO / Principal Architect

2006 - 2007
Campus Explorer

Architected and launched search engine for colleges using MySQL, Perl, and Catalyst MVC with Template Toolkit and jQuery UI. Participated in early recruiting efforts, strategy, and funding, including initial legal formation and incentive structuring.

Director, Data

2001 - 2006
Rent.com, an eBay company

Hired and managed company's first data team. Architected Oracle data warehouse, saving >$1M in first-year vendor spend. Delivered reports to C-suite using Perl and HTML::Mason. Administered and tuned Veritas clusters. Rent.com was sold to eBay for $415M.