Leading team developing memcache and related products for Google Cloud Platform. Previously was Principal Engineer at HP Labs, working as system architect, project management, and computer science researcher. Had significant business impact in print design tools, mobile photography, elastic cloud deployment, and scalable web applications. Was chief architect, technical leader, and acting product owner of http://www.hpclipper.com/ Champion of the user and the customer, always making sure that engineering supports viable business models. Champion and pioneer in agile processes and engineering practices. Champion and pioneer in modern cloud-scalable technologies such as NoSQL (Riak and Cassandra) and rapid development web frameworks (Ruby on Rails and Play Framework). Prolific coder, programming daily in Java, Scala, and Javascript/Coffeescript. Researcher in several advanced research organizations. Product developer in both large corporations and startups Holder of thirteen published patents (six granted and eight pending) and others in the pipeline. Specialities: System Architecture, Elastic Cloud Scaling, Software Design, Research, Agile Development, Java, Scala

Software Engineer Team Lead @ Technical Lead of the team responsible for memcache and related external customer-facing Google Cloud products. Build new features and products, and work with site reliability engineers to keep our production systems humming along. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Hands-On Senior Software Architect @ From February 2001 to June 2013 (12 years 5 months) Software Engineer @ From February 2000 to February 2001 (1 year 1 month) Project Manager @ From May 1993 to January 2000 (6 years 9 months) Senior Engineer @ From July 1991 to May 1993 (1 year 11 months) Member of Technical Staff @ From June 1987 to July 1991 (4 years 2 months)

Eamonn O'Brien-Strain is skilled in: Scalability, Java, Machine Learning, Scala, Scrum, JavaScript, Agile, Architecture, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Refactoring, AWS, Team Building, Coaching, Team Leadership