Tech Lead at LiveRamp for a backend, big data team
San Francisco, California
Microsoft
Software Development Intern
May 2014 to August 2014
Redmond, WA
Verizon Wireless
IT Intern
May 2013 to August 2013
Warren, NJ
LiveRamp
Software Engineer
July 2015 to June 2017
San Francisco, California
LiveRamp
Tech Lead of “Ingestion” Team
San Francisco, California, United States
LiveRamp
Tech Lead and Manager
June 2017 to June 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
I worked on the JETS team, which was responsible for the telemetry pipeline for the suite of Office products. I wrote code in C# and Scope, and in-house language similar to SQL that allows one incorporate C# methods into queries. I worked on the JETS team, which was responsible for the telemetry pipeline for the suite of Office products. I wrote code in C# and Scope, and in-house language similar to SQL that allows one incorporate C# methods into queries.
What company does Christian Hansen work for?
Christian Hansen works for Microsoft
What is Christian Hansen's role at Microsoft?
Christian Hansen is Software Development Intern
What industry does Christian Hansen work in?
Christian Hansen works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Christian Hansen's colleagues?
Christian Hansen's colleagues are Ryan Bernstein, Matt Connors, Niels Baarsma, Tim Geenen, Daniel Booz, Justin Pratt, Ashley Wicklund, Zachary Buswold, Zhiqi Li, and Amit Sharan
💼 Past Experience
Summary of Christian Hansen's work experience: Christian Hansen is currently a Software Development Intern at Microsoft from May 2014 to August 2014 (4 months) in Redmond, WA. He worked on the JETS team, which was responsible for the telemetry pipeline for the suite of Office products. He wrote code in C# and Scope, and in-house language similar to SQL that allows one incorporate C# methods into queries.IT Intern at Verizon Wireless from May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) in Warren, NJ. He helped maintain and add new features to Verizon Wireless's Precision Market Insights web app, which uses data collected from the Verizon Wireless's network to allow businesses to plan an advertising campaign using outdoor media (such as billboards) and predict how well various demographics will be reached.Software Engineer at LiveRamp from July 2015 to June 2017 (2 years) in San Francisco, California. Helped refactor data pipelines to use a new identity graph, deliver data enriched with that graph, and calculate new statistics on enriched data.Lead development of an application to regularly export configurable subsets of LiveRamp’s identity graph using Java, Hadoop, Thrift, and MySQL. Worked closely with full-stack web developers.Tech Lead of “Ingestion” Team at LiveRamp in San Francisco, California, United States. Worked with Product Manager to set team priorities for a seven-engineer team that pulls 10TB+ of data per day into LiveRamp from our SFTP server along with clients’ S3, GCS, SFTP servers, and APIs, then parses and anonymizes the data. Team uses Java, Hadoop, Spark, Terraform, Kubernetes, Google PubSub, Thrift microservices, CloudSQL, ProFTPD. Led technical design of cross-team changes and nudged team to increase testing.Led migration of Ingestion team systems from non-cloud datacenter to Google Cloud to meet a tight deadline. Coordinated with the technical account management team and at least nine other engineering teams .Transferred maintenance of some systems to contractors while coordinating with internal security, legal, and ethics teams on the hand-off. Tech Lead and Manager at LiveRamp from June 2017 to June 2019 (2 years 1 month) in San Francisco, California, United States. Led the team which developed the “IDL Mapper Sidecar” (see https://sidecar.readme.io/docs) appliance, a low-latency containerized application written in Go that runs in customers’ environments for real-time bidding use cases. Designed and implemented high-availability systems hosted in LiveRamp’s environment that the appliance communicated with to pull configuration and push telemetry. Had two direct reports and worked with the Product Manager to set team priorities.Coordinated with four other engineering managers to dissolve the Platforms team, moving engineers to other teams with higher-priority projects and transitioning ownership of Platforms-owned systems.During this time, acted as incident response coordinator for resolution of high
🎓 Education
Christian Hansen's education has Provided him with the necessary skills for a successful career in the electrical and computer engineering field. Hansen spent his four years at Watchung Hills Regional High School where he studied electrical and computer engineering. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, he moved on to work as a research associate at Google for two years. He then moved on to Microsoft Research in the Playercloud project. There, he was responsible for developing a new software development methodology for gaming that was introduced into the Microsoft Research community. He is currently working on a project focused on artificial intelligence for real-time gaming.Christian Hansen is currentlysituated in a position at Microsoft Research where he is responsible for developing a new software development methodology for gaming that is introduced into the Microsoft Research community. He is also currently working on a project focused on artificial intelligence for real-time gaming.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Overall, Christian Hansen has a strong technical background and interpersonal skills that have proven themselves in various roles in the technology industry. Hansen has a particularly strong ability to work with others in a team environment, leading development of products and working closely with other engineering teams. Hansen is also Beverage Lab Manager at LiveRamp and has previous experience with creating and running food metabolism and aroma analysisineries.Skills: technical background in C# and Scope interpersonal skills with a strong team environmentability to work with a variety of languages, including Java and JavaScript14 months of inside experience with Microsoft Redmond, WA2 years of experience at LiveRamp, where he helped refactor data pipelines to use a new identity graph, deliver data enriched with that graph, and calculate new statistics on enriched data4 months at Verizon Wireless, where he helped maintain and add new features to Verizon Wireless's Precision Market Insights web app1 month at LiveRamp as a Tech Lead of the “Ingestion” Team
Introversion (I), Sensing (S), Thinking (T), Perceiving (P)
1 year(s), 2 month(s)
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