• 2003 - 2006
• Brigham Young University
• Provo, UT

• Graduated August 2006
• 4.0 GPA
• Phi-Kappa-Phi Honor Society Member

• 2002 - 2003
• Brigham Young University
• Provo, UT

• Graduated August 2003
• 4.0 GPA

• 1992 - 1998
• Brigham Young University
• Provo, UT

• Graduated Cum Laude December 1998
• 3.81 GPA

• June 2023 - Present
• Meta
• Remote MD

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer in ads experiments.

• August 2022 - June 2023
• Meta
• Remote MD

• Engineering Manager in Reality Labs (AR).

• April 2021 - July 2022
• Meta
• Remote MD

• Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead in "Privacy: External Data Misuse" team.

• March 2018 - April 2021
• Data Machines Corp.
• Ashburn, VA; Baltimore, MD

• Primary Investigator and Chief Architect for DARPA MediFor (Media Forensics) System and Integration
• Primary Investigator and Chief Architect for DARPA LogX (Next Generation Logistics) System and Integration
• Chief Architect for NXGBCC (US Army Next-Generation Biometrics Collection and Search)
• SRE Founder and Oversight Board member
• Company-wide technical leadership for multiple additional contracts

• August 2018 - Present
• Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute
• Baltimore, MD

• Create and teach curriculum for Cloud Computing Security course

• March 2014 - March 2018
• Google, Inc.
• Washington, D.C.; New York City, NY; Baltimore, MD

• Area 120 Project involving TTS and speech recognition (Chief Architect) (Aug 2017 - March 2018)
• Machine Learning for Hiring and People Operations (Tech Lead) (Mar 2015 - Aug 2017)
• Payments (in between projects: Jan 2015 - Mar 2015)
• Elections Search Results and Civic Now Cards (Mar 2014 - Jan 2015)
• Chrome iOS, 20% time (Jan 2015 - Mar 2015)
• Python readability reviewer
• Go readability reviewer, instructor
• Machine Learning instructor
• Various university recruiting and speaking engagements

• 2014
• Self
• Baltimore, MD

• Red Brain Labs (UT): Multi-day consulting on ML models and systems engineering.

• January 2014 - March 2014
• Data Tactics Corporation
• McLean, VA

• Worked on the XData project, specifically Go Circuit (in Go, of course). Built filesystem-based (Fuse) networked concurrency primitives: create, mutex, channel, and select before heading back to Google.

• February 2013 - December 2013
• Harbor Labs, LLC.
• Owings Mills, MD

• Technical expert report drafting, patent non-infringement and invalidity.
• Prior art research and report drafting.
• Code review and evidence collection for patent infringement and non-infringement experts.
• System design and practice review for content owners.
• Ongoing research on Bayesian methods for image understanding and particle swarm optimization.

• May 2006 - February 2013
• Google, Inc.
• Mountain View, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Zürich, Switzerland

• Enormous-scale machine learning for ads click prediction
• AdSense for Search Tech Lead - team of 8 engineers
  • Made modeling improvements with direct and substantial impact on revenue.
  • Made the "Top 10 Accomplishments at Google" list for Q1 2010
• AdSense for Content - Predictions
• Regional Maps Data work - Tech Lead at Zürich office.
• Site Reliability Engineer in Ads Predictions ("root@google")
• Search Quality Projects - received an Executive Management Group award.
• Gears-based YouTube uploader
• Teaching and speaking engagements:
  • Invited talk at Rice University on Bayesian optimization models
  • Guest lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh (Google technologies)
  • Internal Python Training (instructor)
  • CMU 15-505: Internet Search Technologies (instructor)
  • BYU "Why Graduate School?" talk (invited speaker two consecutive years)
• Volunteer Python readability reviewer - keeping the codebase clean

• May 2005 - September 2005
• Google, Inc.
• Mountain View, CA

• Statistical machine translation - received an Operating Committee award.

• January 2005 - May 2005
• Brigham Young University
• Provo, UT

• Graduate-level Artificial Intelligence class. Completely overhauled curriculum, wrote new assignments, labs, and tests, and did all of the TA stuff, too, since I didn't have a TA. One of the most enjoyable things I have ever done. Got excellent reviews.

• January 2002 - January 2005
• Brigham Young University
• Provo, UT

• Freshman introductory CS course. Held (insane but amazing) office hours, gave lectures, graded work, etc. TA stuff.
• Second-year data structures course. Rewrote entire curriculum, including lectures, assignments, and tests during off hours, when not doing standard TA stuff. New changes officially adopted and integrated.
• Graduate-level Bayesian Statistics for Machine Learning course. Standard TA stuff, plus developing curriculum and creating tests and assignments.

• August 2001 - December 2001
• Utah Valley State College (now UVU)
• Provo, UT

• Taught discrete mathematics for CS students. Developed and delivered curriculum and lectures, wrote and administered tests, graded papers and programming labs, held office hours, basically did everything and loved all of it. The students did, too, and gave me glowing reviews. I was proud.

• 2000 - 2002
• Orangatango.com
• Provo, UT

• Migrated entire code base to a single-machine development environment, allowing for development in a sandboxed environment using CVS./li>
• Designed and implemented high-performance template engine for Perl (HTML::CMTemplate) and Python (CMTemplate.py), used for all content in product.
• Virtualized all data access, built implementations in Oracle, PostgreSQL, and XMLRPC.
• Rearchitected to scale up using geographically distributed nodes.
• Developed several management applications in Perl.
• Co-designed and implemented Bayesian content filtering system as an Apache 2.0 module.

• 2000
• PageLaunch.com, inc.
• Provo, UT

• Designed and implemented a free hosting architecture using PHP, Python, MySQL, QMail, and Apache 1.3 on Linux. The system included bandwidth and space-limiting features, a custom file manager, and administrative tools for the clients as well as the system administrator. The system was load-balanced and scalable in space, CPU, and bandwidth requirements using cheap Intel hardware and free software.
• Developed an easy roll-out code structure to allow for updates of production servers with minimal service interruption.
• Managed the technology team, including 4 developers, 1 network administrator, and 1 HTML designer. Assigned tasks and followed up on completion of various tools and web pages.
• Set up and maintained a Bugzilla bug database.
• Set up and maintained a CVS repository. Created a web interface for CVS updates on the test server.

• 2000
• Linux2Order.com
• Provo, UT

• Assisted in moving web services to Apache on Linux from IIS on WinNT.
• Assisted in the configuration of a backend Oracle database.
• Assisted in the administration of an Apache Web Server with SSL.
• Trained programmers on the use of CGI to create dynamic archives for immediate download.

• 1996 - 2000 (Evening Job)
• Aptex Video
• Provo, UT

• Wrote and maintained custom test and initialization (over RS-232) software used to drive analog LCD flat video screens using Delphi, C++ Builder, and limited x86 assembly.
• Wrote and maintained a hardware licensing web site. Wrote code to perform secure communication over HTTP without the use of SSL. Wrote tools for administration of the license database over HTTP using Perl and MySQL.

• 1999 - 2000
• Campus Pipeline
• Salt Lake City, UT

• Lead Engineer of small Intranet Web Development Team.
• Designed and developed intranet applications in Perl, SQL (Oracle), HTML, JavaScript, and Java.

• 1997 - 1999
• Access Data
• Provo, UT

• Developed and maintained Password Recovery Toolkit version 4.x for Windows using C++ Builder.
• Assisted in development of Version 5.x using Visual C++.
• Developed system models for clean plug-in integration and maintenance.
• Developed compiled code obfuscation and licensing for product protection.

• Deposed as fact witness, April 2019
• Fact Witness in trial, December 2019

• Go, Java, Python 2 & 3, Bash, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart, SQL, Hack (current)
• C, C++, HTML5, CSS, AngularJS, Angular2, Flutter (experienced)
• Perl, Make (experienced but rusty)
• PHP 3 & 4, Delphi (quite rusty but not overly concerned)
• Haskell, Racket/Scheme, Clojure (varying levels of familiarity)

• Google: MapReduce, Flume (Data Flow), Dremel (BigQuery), Borg, GFS/CNS (Cloud Storage), BigTable, Spanner, Chubby (Paxos)
• Protobuf, gRPC, Google AppEngine, GCE, Cloud Functions, Actions on Google, DialogFlow (API.AI)
• Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Ceph
• HTTP, RESTful Services, mTLS