Case Western Reserve University

University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Experienced chocolate consumer

Seattle, Washington, United States

My focus is leading Twitter's TPM org in Seattle and San Francisco. We drive end-to-end, customer-focused delivery for company's highest priorities. 

Over time, the group has led a host of critical cross-functional efforts for the company; our track record includes shepherding CxO-level initiatives, scaling engineering operations and business processes as well as curating product strategy for the core product and infrastructure.

Past:
Software Engineering Manager
I led Twitter's Data Applications team, a great group of engineers that processes 100s of billions of events per day to create large (multi-petabyte) datasets which provide the foundation for data products and analytics applications across the company.

Staff Technical Program Manager

Twitter

Senior Manager, Engineering and Technical Program Management

Achievements (in alphabetical order):
-  Climbed Dunn's River falls in Jamaica
-  Compared beaches of Southern California, Hawaii, and Aruba
-  Enjoyed ocean and river kayaking
-  Got my dose of snow in the Midwest and a doze of tropical rain in Hawaii and Aruba
-  Hiked Haleakala Crater top to bottom (and back)
-  Kayaked with whales of Alaska, Hawaii and Northern California
-  Learned the basics of growing coffee, bananas, and macadamia nuts in Costa Rica
-  Observed expansion of the Panama Canal
-  Successfully avoided a police search party in Old Town Cartagena, Colombia
-  Swam with dolphins
-  Visited Sin City and played poker against pros

3rd Rock from the Sun

World Traveler

Member of the executive team that grew Grid Dynamics from a small startup to a 350-people company with five offices in three countries and serving customers around the globe.

Grid Dynamics International, Inc

Chief Operating Officer

- Built and managed a 50-people distributed engineering organization
-  Created and led a scalability practice within the company

Director of Engineering

- Defined and scoped a subset of SQL language to be supported in SQL Azure; led its specification, development and testing for the first release of the product

-  Created and owned product vision for the XML Schema Designer in Visual Studio. When we started working on the designer, we were years behind competition. When we were done, our designer was recognized as the best tool by both developers and industry XML Schema experts

-  Became the go-to person on everything XML-schema related across Microsoft and industry schema developers

Stan Kitsis