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Work History

• Yelp
• Engineer Manager
• September 2006 to Present

• Currently balance my time between coding, being a tech lead and managing a team of engineers responsible for revenue products. We work on Ad Delivery, Billing, Sales Engineering and a consumer facing website that allow business owners to interact with the Yelp community.

• Hewlett Packard
• Software Engineer
• June 2001 to September 2006

• Started here as a summer intern during college. Ended up staying on part time while I finished up school. As part of the Availability Clusters Solutions Lab (ACSL) I worked on the Serviceguard product as a core feature engineer developing for both Linux and HP-UX in C and Java. Became lead engineer for security features.

  In additional to my core product duties I developed intranet tools for software development. This included a custom web application framework written in Python (this was well before things like ruby rails or django and the like) This included an ORM, programatic UI builder and applications for Peer reviews, Testing/QA, project management and a Lucene based search engine.

Education

• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• Computer Science
• 1999 - 2004