Kempner High School

Architect at ZAM Network

● Legacy System Modernization and Cost Reduction: Led refactoring of legacy C# platforms to Go on AWS Lambda and ECS, increasing uptime to 99.9% and reducing infrastructure costs by 70%.
● Infrastructure Cost Optimization: Developed a cost optimization service in Go for AWS accounts, achieving 35% monthly savings.
● Core Service Migration and Optimization: Migrated core services from MySQL to DynamoDB with sub-millisecond latency.
● High-Scale Data Integration Pipelines: Engineered scalable ETL pipelines with AWS Glue, Python, and Kinesis for real-time analytics.
● Infrastructure Automation and Continuous Deployment: Automated infrastructure changes using Terraform and AWS CDK, enhancing scalability.
● Desktop Client Migration: Seamlessly transitioned desktop clients from Curse to Twitch with zero downtime.
● DevOps Leadership and CI/CD Optimization: Streamlined CI/CD pipelines by migrating 50+ microservices to TeamCity, reducing build times by 90%.
● Mentorship and Leadership Development: Mentored individuals and developed strategies to align projects with business KPIs, boosting deployments by 35%.
● Crisis Management and Incident Response: Managed incident responses across 30+ teams, ensuring quick recovery and secure environments.
● Data Lineage and Governance: Established automated data lineage and governance processes for the data lakehouse.
● Analytics and Recommendations: Developed time-series analytics and recommendations using Apache Airflow and Druid.
● GraphQL Development and Microservice Integration: Contributed to a GraphQL setup with sub-4ms latency.
● Conflict Resolution: Implemented conflict resolution techniques, fostering open communication and collaboration.

Twitch

Staff Architect

• Refactored legacy ad serving platform from Perl to PHP and Go, achieving greater than 10x performance.
• Standardized and migrated the PHP application stack to Zend Framework 2 with Doctrine, Bootstrap, LessCSS, and jQuery.
• Managed hybrid cloud infrastructure migration from SoftLayer to Rackspace and AWS.
• Introduced a centralized SOA platform using Apigility for various web components, enhancing integration and performance.
• Implemented DDoS mitigation with Akamai and Prolexic, improving site reliability and security.
• Established a continuous delivery pipeline with GitHub, Travis, Jenkins, and other tools, significantly enhancing deployment reliability.
• Configured MySQL Proxy for read/write splitting, load balancing, and sharding, resolving critical database bottlenecks.
• Utilized Chef and CloudFormation configurations for seamless infrastructure management.
• Refactored critical services from Rackspace CloudFiles to AWS S3.
• Set up monitoring and security tools, including Nagios, Munin, and OSSEC.
• Developed a distributed architecture for asynchronous processing with Gearman and Supervisor.
• Researched and tested various database technologies for performance optimization, including MongoDB, Neo4j, Titan, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL.
• Implemented a tiered Varnish reverse proxy cache to enhance infrastructure efficiency and stability.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to establish best practices and standards for software development, UI/UX design, and technical documentation.

ZAM Network

Senior Architect

• Enhanced page load times by 400%, optimizing local radio and television sites.
• Led development of the enterprise blog platform, establishing coding standards and best practices for third-party developers.
• Implemented agile development practices, accelerating time to market for new products.
• Collaborated with teams in New York and Miami to customize and expand a new content management platform.

Univision Interactive Media

• Hired and developed a team of thirteen mid to senior level software developers, mentoring and training individually and through bi-weekly talks.
• Led the migration of six major city newspapers to a new digital platform, conducting workshops and training for editors and journalists.
• Designed and implemented scalable infrastructure for a new content management and digital rights management platform.
• Conducted vendor analysis, set up core software components, and managed deployment tools.
• Implemented agile methodologies, improving project management and delivery timelines.
• Served as architect, project manager, lead developer, administrator, and analyst.
• Led early development and architected front-end solutions for complex scaling issues.
• Developed tools for deployment and release management.
• Assisted business analysts in developing agile methods for requirement gathering and documentation.

Hearst

Development Team Lead

• Developed a web-based abstraction layer using PHP over the existing Java product offering engine.
• Implemented web services using JSON and SOAP, enhancing system integration with internal and external clients.
• Refactored service applications using Zend Framework, improving performance and maintainability.
• Integrated Ads and Web teams to deliver an analytics dashboard for search marketing and direct sale ad performance.
• Assisted in adopting agile methodologies and Scrum for efficient product and team management.
• Managed and maintained long-standing intranet applications.

WhiteFence

Software Development Manager

• Built platforms for real-time analytics and dynamic landing pages for 450k domains.
• Automated domain management, monetizing over 50 million monthly visitors.
• Designed integrations and ETL processes for aggregating and collating analytics metrics across 100 disparate sources.
• Created experimentation platform for automated multivariate experiments using ads, landing pages, and activities.
• Developed analysis and reporting solutions, object management systems, and backend operational infrastructure.
• Developed an automated system for identifying and labeling domains based on traffic sources and audience behavior.
• Worked on premier properties including Netster.com, Bands.com, CreditReports.com, Shows.com, AfricanAmericans.com, VietnamWar.com, and OfficeSupply.com.

Internet REIT

Senior Software Engineer

Skills: Market Research · Online Advertising · Communication · Customer Experience

Keller Williams

Realtor

• Conducted various contract web development projects primarily using PHP.
• Worked on diverse projects including search portals, reference sites, e-commerce engines, online gaming, analysis and reporting tools, object management systems, and pay-per-click engines.
• Focused on adhering to industry standards and best practices.
• Developed a strong interest in programming design patterns during this period.

Cory Comer