Software Architect @ • Architected next generation Application, Server, and Network Infrastructure correlation, monitoring, alerting and remediation platform incorporating a Metrics TSDB as well as event/log processing leveraging Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch, and other technologies. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) President and CEO @ From January 1998 to Present (18 years) Software Development Manager @ • Architected and as manager and scrum master led a DevOps team of 11 engineers to develop, operationalize, and support industry leading WordPress as a Service platform and product using agile scrum methodologies. • Assisted marketing, product, and support organizations to grow industry leading WordPress SaaS platform from inception to hundreds of thousands of active sites and millions in revenue within 6 months of product launch elevating GoDaddy to be the largest Managed WordPress provider. • Actively evangelized product offerings and engaged with user-base, local developer community, and WordPress ecosystem by attending and presenting at meetups, WordCamps, live Google Hangouts, and other social channels and user forums. From April 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 7 months) Lead Software Engineer @ • Led team of 4 engineers to build distributed Hosting and Support focused internal tools following corporate and industry best practices. • Worked closely with business leaders throughout product development, security, operations, the customer care center and other divisions to prioritize and deliver solutions supporting and enhancing company objectives such as increasing first call resolution (FCR) and lowering average handle time (AHT) within the call center through tools automation. • Analyzed, proposed and executed architecture improvements to existing applications to scale them to ever-expanding needs. From December 2010 to April 2013 (2 years 5 months) Senior Software Engineer @ • Drafted specifications, architected, and developed distributed and parallelized PHP/MySQL applications and SOAP web-services leveraging multiple tiers of caching, unit testing and map-reduce functionality. • Led development projects by interfacing with multiple teams in requirements gathering, phase definition and implementation. • Introduced new technologies to my development team such as SVN, Gearman, puppet and Hudson/Jenkins. These increased user experience, traceability, metrics collection and automation in build and test processes. • Mentored junior, mid, and senior level QA and developers in algorithms, development and debugging techniques. From October 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 3 months) Software Engineer @ • Planned, architected, and developed websites and web applications leveraging C#, Java, Perl, PHP, XHTML/AJAX and Flash/AS3 technology. • Wrote project proposals and worked with new and existing clients to define project requirements, timelines and milestones. From February 2009 to September 2009 (8 months) Software Engineer @ • Architected and developed interoperating OO-PHP & Apache2 CGI (C) applications for an ARM Linux embedded system. From October 2008 to February 2009 (5 months) Software Engineer @ • Developed and debugged x86/64 Slackware Linux based Civil Litigation appliances and software. • Designed and developed PHP-SOAP client for web based administration and operation of eDiscovery appliances. From August 2006 to September 2008 (2 years 2 months) Technical Marketing Engineer @ • Developed and modified C based Linux and VxWorks device drivers and boot-loaders to improve system performance. • Set-up, debugged and completed performance analysis leveraging Spirent Communications platforms on XScale (ARM based) systems using Linux, WinCE, and VxWorks. • Performed usability tests for multiple product releases including Open-Source security applications and boot software. From May 2005 to July 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering @ Arizona State University From 2002 to 2006 Felix Gorodishter is skilled in: CSS, HTML, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Gearman, LAMP, Web Development, Web Services, PostgreSQL, Memcached, jQuery, AJAX, SOAP, Object Oriented Design