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Chief Technology Officer
Mogul• September 2014 - Present
Served as the Director of Engineering, Principal Architect, and acting Chief Technology Officer of publicly traded (ASX:ESH) video gaming and esports company, Mogul. Lead substantial digital product, company strategy, and cross-functional team growth to 50 persons, plus additional external outsourced agencies. Spearheaded a massive restructure and refactoring operation involving migration of core platform services from .NET full framework to .NET 5 and Entity Framework, as well as mass adoption of container deployments, including CI/CD deployments complete with IAC using AWS CDK. Served as both an individual-contributor, and technical lead; thorough infrastructure refactoring to containers as well as data-layer migration from self-managed EC2 instances running MS SQL to AWS Aurora with PostgreSQL, and other infrastructure optimizations to reduce footprint while increasing responsiveness and scalability, with a major cost modification from near $500k annual AWS spend to less than $150k. Additionally, directed technical scoping and engineering efforts to support adoption of a PaaS model with a saturated B2B approach, launching massive esports engagement and experience projects with Walmart, Microsoft, Monster Energy, the International Esports Federation, and many others; all while implementing additional wireframe, scoping, and SDLC process to improve execution and support chain.
Senior Software Engineer
Razer• March 2015 - July 2017
Software engineering lead for the Arena Software within Razer (company valuation of over $1B). Razer Arena provides esports management and tournament software with casual and competitive player-centric features with a focus on grassroots and professional gaming and live-streaming, all connected within the Razer software ecosystem having a user base of over 20 million users. • Focus on high-level architecture and engineering of high-availability and scalable cloud-based web services. • Provide individual contributions in various aspects of backend software development and infrastructure management. • Define processes and integration guidelines for internal and external extensibility. • Promote and ensure adequate cohesion between various global engineering resources to unify software engineering efforts.
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