Howard Grimberg's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Señor Software Engineer @ SEVENROOMS I remove features and replace them with bugs or is it the other way around?Ran off with a few ex-Amazonians.• Reverse engineered a custom customer system for a major client and implement an interim synchronization solution with no access to original code. Involved diving deep into assembly.• Various third party integrations of...

Señor Software Engineer @ SEVENROOMS I remove features and replace them with bugs or is it the other way around?Ran off with a few ex-Amazonians.• Reverse engineered a custom customer system for a major client and implement an interim synchronization solution with no access to original code. Involved diving deep into assembly.• Various third party integrations of varying complexity, depth of integration, and performance requirements.• Saved roughly 47% (and improving) in backup storage costs by proper tiering of backups (cold, warm and hot storage). Net savings is somewhere in the high tens of thousands a year. All for noticing a simple misconfiguration.• Implemented a partner API. I also provided the tier-of-last-resort customer support for this API among other things.• Automated the generation of the partner API documentation, client code and server stubs for massively increased developer productivity.• Various performance and site reliability improvements. For example, fixing less than optimal settings resulted in strong performance improvements of the web application to customers while reducing computing costs.• Various features that enabled MM dollars in new business. • Migrated the search infrastructure to an entirely new back-end (scoping, planning, implementation and operations).• The search back-end migration unlocked a large set of possible functionality and vastly improved existing features (a 10 millisecond wait for a search result versus a 5 second wait).• Shamed others into code quality improvements. Encouraged code review as a requirement rather than a nice-to-have thing. Doing prevented countless accidents (at least 2 notable ones) as well as a major reduction in new technical debt.• Established a process to measure technical debt and drive improvements.• Mentored engineering interns and new hires. Also served on the hiring committee as was a technical interviewer. From October 2016 to November 2018 (2 years 2 months) New York, New YorkSoftware Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services Living life in the "The Cloud" or as I like to call it "Cloudy with the occasional Internet Storm" Best Part: No traces of Perl within AWS• Technical owner of the AWS Console landing page. Arguably the most important landing page in the (IT) world.• Developed an A/B testing system that enabled easy experimentation of customer-facing feature. The solution was substantially more accurate in assigning treatments, reduced technical debt and was more scalable than what already existed. • Served on a tri-weekly on-call rotation to support 2+ tier-1 services (among others).• Documented region build process to reduce the amount the tribal knowledge needed and reduce region build time to a single developer working for 2 days, lowering the number of developers needed and amount of time.• Worked to progressively lower technical debt.• Built services needed for the Mumbai and Ohio region launches.• Served as an intern mentor. Led intern toward a successful conversion to full-time SDE I.• Career total code written of 72,995 lines added, 44,371 lines removed. In 2015, I had a net negative lines of code. I removed slightly more code than I added. From January 2016 to August 2016 (8 months) Seattle, WASoftware Development Engineer @ Amazon • Developed 4 features on Amazon.com detail and search pagesrelated to Amazon Fashion.• Served as the technical lead for an experimental fashion browsing featureacross mobile and desktop. Feature used data generated by a sister team to present customer with clothing options that carry a specific motif.• Delivered a 900 milliseconds page load time. Original target was 3 seconds orless in order to meet or exceed performance benchmarks. Developed a plan to further reduce latency down to about 300 milliseconds.• Served as local subject matter expert for various Amazon technologiesconcerning web page rendering and delivery.• Piloted and documented techniques to improve developer comfort andproductivity by enabling many development tasks to be completed locally on an Apple OSX workstation versus traditional development using a Linux remotedesktop.• Participated in a monthly on-call rotation to support internal and externalcustomer-facing features as well as general operational tasks.• Collaborated closely with product management and UX design to evaluatefeasibility of new features.• Served as the local hardware manager. Responsible for hardware provisioning andmanagement.• Reduced hardware under-utilization to near 0%, saving several thousand dollars a month.• Served as an intern "buddy". An intern buddy is a secondary mentor outside of an intern's organization that serves as second-opinion for any questions the intern has.• Certified technical interviewer. Consistently given many "Thumbs Up" for accurate assessment, especially for phone screens. I was known to be a very strict interviewer. From June 2014 to January 2016 (1 year 8 months) Seattle, WASoftware Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon • Rebuilt wishlist landing page front-end to be responsive and match new UXstandard for Javari family of websites.• Developed back-end for a major customer-facing feature for Endless.com/Javari.{co.uk, fr, de, jp}• Achieved target page rendering time of 2 seconds From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) Seattle, WASenior Software Engineer - Frontoffice Trading Systems @ Bloomberg LP Working on trading infrastructure for futures and other derivatives on behalf of customers.Current responsibilities involve rebuilding bespoke post-trade systems regarding settlement and reporting into a single, unified, cloud-native system improving performance, adding features and reducing costs, running on a heavily extended flavor of Kubernetes using (now open sourced) comdb2 for storage.- Palliative care for IBM AIX/POWER and Oracle Solaris/SPARC based tier-0 trading systems software. - Mass migration and re-architecture to GNU/Linux using the latest and greatest ideas and tools.- Internal high-performance FIX connectivity and routing.- Improved system resiliency and flexibility.- Improved developer productivity. Developers can work on local workstations or laptops instead of shared development servers. New York, New YorkSoftware Engineering Intern - Information Management @ IBM True story: Customer asked if they could buy the demo instead of the underlying database engine which was the object of the sale.• Refactored and documented a sample application for IBM Informix RDBMS. • Implemented build script to automatically test, build and package internal and public versions of the code.• Extended the application to demonstrate the spacial and time-series dataprocessing features of the IBM Informix database server.• Collaborated with local and remote engineering teams as well as field technicalsales personnel.• Collaborated with remote UX team to ensure compliance with IBM branding and accessibilitystandards. From May 2012 to August 2012 (4 months) Lenexa, KS