Amateur philosopher

Shopify

Sr Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Data Engineer

My initial responsibilities at Uken were helping the services team create and maintain software responsible for core, game-independent functionality such as:
-  Cross-platform push notifications
-  Cross-platform (Google, Apple, PayPal) payment processing
-  User authentication and authorization

As of winter 2013, I moved to Uken's newly created Analytics team and started a new role as a data engineer. My achievements include:
-  Building Uken's data infrastructure from the ground-up.
-  Designing an event log standard to track key user events.
-  Setting-up batch processing layer on top of Hadoop and Hive, starting with bare betal Cloudera cluster and then moving to AWS's Elastic Map-reduce.
-  Setting up Hive and re-designing our HDFS data storage layout to optimize for Hive's query planner.
-  implementing core data modeling processes including map-reduce based sessionization of play time.
-  Acting as a bridge between product teams and Analytics teams in the implementation of A/B testing and more sophisticated event logged such as game economy tracking.

Uken Games

Software Engineer

- Worked as a lead engineer in the core services team
-  Contributed to several stages of optimization to the ad delivery system
-  My team worked on several incremental refactorings of a big legacy system, which was achieved by breaking it down into specialized modules.

Key achievements:
-  I devised and implemented a simple solution that reduced load on the load balancers two-fold during an internal hackathon.
-  Planned and lead the extraction of a specialized core module of the ad delivery system which contributed to its stability and manageability.

Diogo Terror