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Rama Roberts
rama@scratchmonkey.com
Summary of
Qualifications & Skills
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Fourteen years of development experience in high volume services and infrastructure.
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Six years of engineering management/team lead
experience.
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Proven ability to substantially contribute to
all aspects of the product development life cycle from evaluation
and design through build, integration, deployment and enhancements.
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Extensive background in implementation and
customization of third-party solutions as well as in-house
application development.
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Thorough understanding of the entire software
and hardware stack.
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Effective at working across organizations as well as geographically distributed teams.
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Skills: Java, Perl, C, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, web services, Tomcat, Glassfish, Memcached, HAProxy, Amazon AWS, Solaris, Linux.
Professional Experience
November 2010 - current
Architect, Mobile Advertising
Mobclix, Palo Alto CA
- Joined as engineer #6. Developer on core platform, chief infrastructure guy.
- Helped scale the platform to over 10 billion monthly impressions.
- Designed and built real-time systems which drove ad delivery pacing and customer dashboard.
- Developed numerous features for the ad server, including rewriting the data tier for performance and reliability, an all new the 'decision tree', and RTB (real time bidding).
- Re-architected and deployed infrastructure for 40% cost savings, simplicity, and performance.
April 2009 - November 2010
Senior Engineering Manager
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
- Lead the design and building of a private cloud environment used internally and productized. Leveraged a combination of Oracle's existing software stacks and custom software, which became Oracle's next generation of virtualization software.
December 1996 - April 2009
Senior Engineering Manager, Architect, Lead Developer, Developer
Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park CA
- Progressed from junior engineer, senior engineer, lead developer, architect, and engineering manager across multiple business units in the company. Numerous top ratings across all roles in annual reviews.
- Built and managed the engineering teams responsible for all of Sun's ad delivery, search, developer, and social web platforms.
- Core contributor to the organization-wide architecture council. Responsible for overseeing our 145 person engineering organization, defining best practices, and reviewing designs and implementations.
- Developed numerous projects across the company, such as SA management tools, SSO service, ecommerce platform, advertising service.
Education
B.S., Computer Science (CS/CSE), 1996 University of
California, Davis.
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