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Principal Software Engineer

Tableau•  September 2019 - Present

Proven leader, mentor, software engineer, and architect for multiple impactful software projects in the Enterprise Data Platform organization contributing across multiple teams: Data Engineering, Telemetry, and Data Platform.

Senior Software Engineer

Tableau•  July 2015 - September 2019

Technical lead and senior software engineer on multiple critical internal tools and web applications fundamental to Tableau’s performance testing and analysis infrastructure. Architected and wrote planning documents for multiple internal tools. Expert in data analysis and visual analytics designing several key visualizations for analyzing and understanding performance data and the state of the test infrastructure. Mentor to the teams new hires and responsible for setting direction and giving guidance to multiple team members related to ongoing projects.

Senior Software Developer Engineer in Test

SpaceCurve•  August 2013 - June 2015

Test lead and automation developer on several key product features including SQL Spatial Query Engine, Spatial Join, Spatial Aggregation, Data Migration, and various DB partitioning features. Responsible for building performance, stress, and customer workflow tests. Provided planning expertise writing several product test plans and automation designs. Lead on product performance testing.

Senior Software Developer Engineer in Test

Isilon Systems•  January 2007 - July 2013

Test lead for multiple protocol stack components. Responsible for forming vision and direction of internal test projects; drafted test plans, managed schedules and resources, developed automation and coordinated with other teams to ensure a high level of quality in EMC Isilon's OneFS NFS protocol stack.

Software Developer in Test

AudienceScience•  June 2005 - December 2007

Responsible for developing component libraries and tools to enable automatic testing and configuration of the company’s product architecture. Contributed software development expertise and extensive knowledge of QA methodology to the team.

Software Developer in Test

ATT•  March 2003 - May 2005

Tested applications relating to fault management, network administration, and quality of service for AT&T’s global wireless network. Provided software test lead expertise and execution for the full product test lifecycle: writing test documents (test plans, test summaries, and outlining test cases), performing software testing, developing tools, and writing automated test suites.

Software Engineer

3Com•  November 1998 - December 2002

Designed and developed software for 3Com’s carrier product line and contributed to the creation of 3Com’s 2.5G/3G wireless platform by involvement in development and testing of a back-end high availability RADIUS proxy, creation of product fault management, statistics collection frameworks and customer specific application development consulting.