Technical Lead @ * technology and people leadership * people and team management * building and recovering teams and technology * data science strategy * data product engineering * information retrieval * machine learning * recommendations * music information retrieval * distributed systems * data duct tape * agile development From June 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Berlin Area, GermanyData Nerd @ * search * recommendations * data exploration and prototyping * BI * startup monkey * agile development From October 2011 to May 2012 (8 months) Berlin Area, GermanySoftware Architect @ * data-driven product engineering * data exploration and prototyping * data infrastructure * data lifecycle management * distributed systems * architecture * continuous deployment pipeline * mini (not quite micro) web services * agile development From December 2008 to September 2011 (2 years 10 months) Berlin Area, GermanyOwner @ From April 2003 to December 2008 (5 years 9 months) Senior Software Developer @ * product engineering * distributed systems * architecture * agile development From April 2006 to November 2008 (2 years 8 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaJ2EE Software Developer @ * product engineering * B2B financial systems * peer-to-peer distributed systems * continuous integration infrastructures * agile development From February 2000 to April 2006 (6 years 3 months) Vancouver, Canada Area

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science major, Philosophy minor @ Simon Fraser University From 1997 to 2003