Kitman Ho McNeel's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec Corporation From November 2005 to December 2006 (1 year 2 months) Culver City, CALead Engineer @ ZEFR Lead the data platform team consisting of four developers in maintaining and enhancing the entire data pipeline system including data discovery, transformation, database ingestion and query result presentation. Research latest technologies, provide technical directions and recruit new team members. Also lead the design, planning and execution of the architecture for our next generation system focusing on reliability, scalability, enhanced modularization, extensibility and efficiency measurement. Technologies include Redshift, Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Docker, MemCached, Python and Golang. From August 2015 to February 2016 (7 months) Venice, CADevelopment Manager @ Symantec Corporation Managed multiple software development teams ranging from two to four engineers with a focus on backend components, including a malware detection/removal engine, a self-updating file attribute database, a file monitor/scanner and a digital signature verification engine. These components are utilized in a variety of Norton and Symantec security products designed for both consumer desktops as well as enterprise systems. From December 2006 to October 2013 (6 years 11 months) Culver City, CASoftware Design Engineer @ Microsoft Corporation Designed and implemented various features and APIs for the full-text search engine in a set of key Microsoft products, including SharePoint Portal Server, SQL server and Windows Indexing Service. I have extensive knowledge and understandings of all aspects of a full-text search engine from file parsing, word breaking, indexing to querying and ranking. From January 1998 to November 2005 (7 years 11 months) Redmond, WASoftware Engineer @ Victorious Conduct research and prototype latest scalable technologies. In charge of the architectureof a new scalable backend system. Single handedly implemented the initial system from scratch. This system supports real-­time data stream processing utilizing Apache Storm framework with Apache Thrift interface in Java on Linux. Other technologies integrated include Kafka queue, Apache ZooKeeper, DynamoDB (NoSQL) and MySQL databases. Also set up the entire system to run on Amazon web services (AWS). Integrated this new backend with the existing API designed for iOS and Android applications.Work on migrating existing functionalities into the new backend using Storm topologies to improve parallelism. Develop tools to measure and monitor end­-to­-end performance and health of the system. Work with SRE engineer to develop build, automated testing and release processes. Mentor and lead junior engineers through design review, code review and practice of test driven programming. Interview and evaluate engineer candidates. From October 2014 to August 2015 (11 months) Santa Monica, CASenior Software Engineer @ Stamps.com Maintain, enhance and optimize the scalable, distributed system backing the production stamps.com website. Functionality spans all parts of the postage purchasing business logic including account creation/maintenance, complex postage calculation and shipping rules. Troubleshoot critical customer reported issues on production systems requiring understanding of the entire system end to end. Features worked on include update and delivery of pricing tables; update of the compression logic, design and implementation of automated report generation services.Technologies include backend SOAP based web services on Microsoft Windows .NET Server platform implemented in C#, managed and unmanaged C++, SOAP and XML, SQL stored procedures and relational database. From December 2013 to September 2014 (10 months) El Segundo, CASenior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) - Amazon Global Selling @ Amazon Designed highly scalable distributed systems to provide frictionless cross-border selling experiences for third party sellers. Worked with the business team to bring new features from conception to design, prototyping, implementation and release. Built the foundation of the program by enabling horizontal scaling of the realtime cross-marketplace product offer synchronization processor. Provided long-term focused directions for junior engineers. Studied the architecture of partner team owned services. Proposed scalable and frictionless changes, obtained buy-ins and made implementation to external services. Many changes and new features influenced by my design ended up benefiting other Amazon teams utilizing these platforms. From July 2019 to December 2019 (6 months) Seattle, WashingtonSoftware Development Engineer II - Amazon Global Selling @ Amazon From February 2016 to July 2019 (3 years 6 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Software Engineer (SDE III) @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bellevue, Washington, United StatesSenior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) - Prime Video @ Amazon My team helps viewers discover video titles on any devices where Prime Video is available. Our APIs are designed to enable rapid addition and update of new features distributedly built by many teams at scale. Our software provides turnkey onboarding support for new devices. A new device can avoid the need to integrate with a multitude of backend data services and hit the ground running by integrating with our single API. Our layer also provides high availability, backwards compatibility and customizable fallback behaviors.Lead and mentor a team of engineers by setting high standards for design, coding, code review, testing and DevOp for the video title metadata service. Understand cross team integration and architecture to help business teams create and implement new features and user experience improvement experimentations. Identify limitations of the current architecture to help shape and build the next generation architecture with focus on self service onboarding for backend data services From December 2019 to August 2020 (9 months) Greater Seattle Area