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Carnegie Mellon University

University of California, Berkeley

Created and led  Ginkgo’s AI/ML core team, integrating AI across business, software, and scientific projects. Served as the tech expert in  negotiations for a major contract with cloud providers, resulting in significant investment and partnership with GCP.

Hired+acquired a team. Within 3 months, my team of 5 delivered a scalable ML platform on GCP with Kubernetes, Argo, Hydra, and PyTorch Lightning. We also enabled scientists to deploy fully configured GPU dev environments with a single click, and created standard ML project templates and a core ML library.

Embedded engineers into scientific teams to provide expert oversight and training, accelerating the development and evaluation of DNA and protein design models. Modeling efforts included training multi-billion parameter LLMs from scratch, LORA fine-tuning HyenaDNA, as well as more traditional approaches.

Led evaluation of search / RAG solutions for the enterprise. Oversaw negotiations, configuration, pilot, and company-wide rollout. “I have not liked a piece of tech this much on initial usage since my first Blackberry” - Ginkgo CFO.

Authored company guidelines for using ChatGPT. Rolled out coding assistant / copilot, promoted best practices. Encouraged software teams to leverage LLM-powered APIs, fostering experimentation and adoption of advanced AI-enabled software engineering techniques.

Mentored and coached technology leaders across the company.

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.

VP of AI Enablement

Joined Zymergen as it was transforming from a startup into a mid-size company.  Grew the software team from ~12 to ~70. Led efforts to develop software to meet requirements of high-scale bioengineering.

Directed projects on workflow definition and orchestration, lab automation, instrument data capture, Lab Information Management System (LIMS), and conceptualization of complex domain data models to support diverse scientific applications.

Created an internal SRE/DevEx team to serve as force multiplier for the rest of software. Championed efforts to simplify and modernize internal technology stack. Formulated and evangelized concepts of domain driven software and org design and application-centric architecture. Coached managers, PMs, and engineers on practical application of these concepts.

Fostered a mature management culture within the Technology department, establishing robust processes for hiring, people & product management and stakeholder engagement. Formed the Software Architecture Group, a forum for Staff+ engineers to identify cross-cutting concerns, share learnings, and drive major technological investments. 

Successfully rallied and retained the core team during a market downturn, restructuring, and several waves of layoffs. As CTO, worked with the C-Suite to identify and execute a suitable exit strategy, leading to the acquisition by Ginkgo Bioworks in Fall 2022.

Worked to integrate Zymergen and Ginkgo teams and software, addressing differences in company cultures, processes, and tech stacks to ensure a successful transition.

Zymergen

Chief Technology Officer

PicnicHealth

Advisor

Wrote "The Missing README" (https://www.themissingreadme.com) with my co-author, Chris Riccomini. The Missing README contains the skills you'll need to be a successful software engineer, the skills your manager wants you to know, the skills you weren't taught in school.
It's the book we (and many other EMs and Tech Leads) wished we had to give new hires on our teams to get them up to speed quickly.

No Starch Press

Author

Zymergen uses software and robotics to guide changes to microbial DNA to create new chemicals, or make old ones more efficiently. Working at Zymergen offers engineers exposure to a field that makes a difference in the lives of millions of people: low-cost, scalable chemical manufacturing touches everything from how airplanes are built to the frontiers of life-saving medicines.

The software engineering team is responsible for developing custom workflow, computational biology, and data science tools that are crucial to the company's success.

VP Software Engineering

Sr. Software Engineering Manager

Joined Twitter as it was hitting hockey-stick growth. Created and managed the Data Platform group, scaling the team from 3  to ~50 engineers, data scientists, and eng managers.

Responsible for offline analytics infrastructure, including development of stream and batch data processing tools, data lifecycle enforcement, metadata management, and more.

Nurtured an engineering culture that resulted in significant open-source contributions to major projects such as Pig, Hadoop, and Storm; and creation of Parquet, Scalding, and Heron. Established Twitter as a leader in data processing innovation in the 2010’s. 

Directed creation of Apache Parquet, now the industry standard file format for columnar data storage. Brought together the Cloudera and Twitter engineers to co-develop the project, contributed to the file format spec, wrote integrations for Scalding and Scrooge (Scala Thrift).

Created and led the Metrics Reporting and A/B Testing Framework team, transforming an outdated system into a highly accurate and reliable platform, significantly enhancing Twitter's experimentation capabilities and re-establishing  internal users’ trust in the system.

Twitter

Senior Engineering Manager

Responsible for all aspects of the offline analytics infrastructure. Development of ETL and data processing tools, data lifecycle enforcement, batch workflow libraries, major contributions to Apache Pig in collaboration with the open-source community surrounding that project. Served as the main reference for all things Hadoop-related. Grew the team, recruiting infrastructure engineers, data scientists, and information visualization specialists.

Senior / Staff Software Engineer

Token non-Yahoo in the early days.

Pig was a learning experience -- working in open source, working with Hadoop (starting with Hadoop 0.18), working with a large existing codebase. Made some really good contributions there. A couple bad ones, too :). Good times.

The Apache Software Foundation

Apache Pig committer

While in graduate school, I had the good fortune to intern at Cloudera, then just a few months old. During my internship, I surveyed Hadoop data processing and ETL solutions employed by Cloudera friends and customers, contributed improvements to Apache Pig, and created a visual Pig script builder prototype.

Cloudera

Software Engineering Intern

Ask.com

Senior Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer with the Data Engineering group at Ask.com, my responsibilities include ETL, summarization, and analysis of large volumes of Ask.com clickstream data. 

Some highlights:

* Responsible for all software for identifying and flagging non-human traffic to the website. Developed and tuned heuristics for both post-factum and real-time analysis of the Ask.com clickstream data.

* Created system for distribution of non-standard reports via the web, ftp, or email. 

* SQL tuning, ad hoc data analysis, automations, requirements gathering, and more.

Software Engineer

*  Created a tool for automated alignment of related microbial dna

* Developed of Vista Genome Browser 2.0, a Java 2 applet/servlet combination that provides a dynamic visual front end to a database of multiple species whole-genome alignments. Responsible for all server-side computation, communication with MySQL databases, XML generation, and XML parsing on the client side. Load balancing and query optimization techniques were used to optimize browser performance and prevent resource drain. 

* Developed and maintained Text Browser, a Perl and MySQL based interface that allows web users to browse whole genome alignments.

* Created an easily adaptable system for highly controlled data access over the Internet. The Perl-based server featured user/group permission capability, transparent data access, file locking and usage tracking.

Dmitriy Ryaboy