# Chris Pomerantz

> Technology Enthusiast | Cloud Architect

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrispomerantz

As an Innovative and results driven Lead Software Architect with over 20 years of extensive experience my goal is to ensure complete usability and availability for all clients. My advanced software development, architecture, and deployment skills produce the most optimal software applications and systems. With remarkable infrastructure design skills to generate cutting edge processes my products have received editor's choice recognition. I am also proud to hold a US Patent for the development of a technical method for managing the transformation of semi-structured data found in Excel files into a template used to import this data into another structured data source. This use of technology leveraged with my enjoyment in identifying and meeting client needs provides for long-standing, key business partnerships.

My Proven history of quickly adapting and applying new code to produce flawless, user-friendly solutions in a short time has benefitted many users, allowing for improved and enhanced usability. I am highly skilled in software analysis with a hands-on approach in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. This hands-on approach has led to an outstanding ability in identifying complications and loss of productivity and to determine reasonable solutions to problems. Meticulous engineering project management and team leadership has allowed me to consistently provide high quality and rapid results. In addition to my dedication to quality, my comprehensive communications skills allow me to effectively interface with all organizational levels as well as clients and vendors.

## Work Experience
### Engineering Lead @ Jubilee Homes
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading engineering and technology at Jubilee. Building a technology platform to support our unique financial product for home buyers.

### VP of Technology and Engineering @ Unison
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025
Helping Unison to move to the Cloud and scale for the future. Worked with the company to scale it's engineering department and move from a disjointed more monolithic architecture to a more modern 
 micro-service/micro-site architecture. Focused on decomposing the business into small chunks that could be developed as discreet components. These components were developed using core AWS technologies for serverless compute and event-driven architectures allowing Unison to scale both in its traffic but also in the engineering process. Developed engineering standard practices and processes for the company to use CI/CD and design reviews to reduce engineering workload and release higher quality software. Technologies include various AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Kinesis, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, RDS, RedShift, S3, API Gateway, etc. Personally worked with Node.js and led projects using React and Python. Deployments using Jenkins, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, and Containers.

Worked cross-functionally with groups to align our technology footprint. Focused on data flows and making data available to the company for on-demand analytics. Helped drive initiatives to automate the Sales pipeline and designed solutions to take us into the future.

### Senior Principal Architect @ Move, Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, CA
Lead a team of engineers in building scalable, highly available services used by web and native mobile applications for the Realtor.com suite of products. Responsible for gathering requirements and working in a cross-functional environment to support products used by more than a million users a day. Reorganizing monolithic services into smaller micro-services that are more focused creating less coupling and better reuse.

Re-architected the Mobile API into a modern system running as an auto-scaling, highly available service in AWS. Responsible for leading the development team in creating the service, deployment, and monitoring in the Cloud. Built with Node.js using the Hapi framework. Deployment into AWS through CloudFormation and Jenkin's. Monitoring using CloudWatch, New Relic, and ElasticSearch for logs.

Lead a small team in creating a video platform for a new section of the Realtor.com News and Advice web site. Created a curation tool used for managing video content on AWS and JWPlatform for content delivery. Delivered a video meta-data service for searching and delivering video content. Evangelized the reuse of the main Realtor.com web site to save time by leveraging the existing infrastructure. Mentored a new team in extending the platform to serve News and Advice articles there by removing a sluggish WordPress site with a sleek and lean web delivery system. Built with Node.js on AWS using ElasticSearch and Redis.

Decoupled the mobile tracking events from the client and Mobile API into a micro-service used to route events to an undetermined number of third-party and internal tracking services. This reduced the complexity of the client needing to format and send events to multiple services. Created using Node.js using the Hapi framework on AWS. Kinesis queues with Lambda functions used for handling the high throughput required by the mobile applications. Events are routed internal BI systems as well as Omniture and New Relic for real time analysis.

### Owner/Software Architect @ Fluid Data Concepts LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA
Oversee all day-to-day operations of an independent consulting company, developing various software projects for a wide variety of clients. Develop and engineer systems and applications in alignment with customer requirements and specifications. Gathered and analyzed customer information to determine project specifications.
Key Projects & Achievements:

Balenz Software, Inc.: Provide maintenance for main software offering. The application is a native Windows UI talking to an application server running on IIS written in C# using Windows Forms, .Net Remoting, SQL Server, Oracle, and ASP.Net.

Robot Stampede: Developed an interactive book of the classic Red Riding Hood Story for the iPhone and iPad. Provide ongoing development of a Facebook game using Flash/Flex for the UI, PHP, and Node.JS on a Cloud server using Amazon Web Services platform. Amazon’s Linux is the OS and DynamoDB is used for persistence. Architected and developed a highly scalable solution for rapid scalability and high availability.

ING Financial Services: Developed a Tetris-like iOS game utilized for marketing to teach about investing.

Sri Harini Media: Developed a prototype social web application using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript for the UI communicating with a Node.JS server running on Amazon Linux and DynamoDB for persistence.

Cisco: Assumed development of an internal sales tool used for lead generation and sales progress tracking in the Unified Computing Systems group. This Enterprise level tool was written as a single page HTML 5 application with a .Net backend. The HTML UI communicates with WCF services using AJAX and JSON talking to REST or other Web Services. Technologies applied include Kendo UI, HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, WCF, SQL Server, and MongoDB.

Advanced Talent: Directed the migration of their internal sales tool from Oracle to SQL Server. A classic ASP application written in VBScript running on IIS.

### Software Architect @ Balenz Software, Inc.
Jan 2002 – Jan 2011
As a member of the original founding team, served as the Lead Software Architect and Engineer directing technical aspects of the product. Executed an Agile approach in development and project management. Interfaced with clients to determine the best approach for implementing the feature set for usability and efficiency. Technologies applied include .Net, C#, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net, SQL Server, Oracle, and JavaScript.

Key Achievements:

Participated in the creation of a technical method for managing the transformation of semi-structured data found in Excel files into a template used to import this data into another structured data source. The template could be modified over time if the source Excel file changed while keeping track of the original mapping, allowing for semi-automated data transfer from Excel files into a structured data source.

Created an Enterprise level application used by financial institutions and large corporations based on the above method to spread financial data into a third party application. Application was shown to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost savings and increased accuracy and reduced new hire training.

Participated in the company’s product planning and technological development strategies.

### Senior Software Engineer @ WebPartner
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | Cupertino, CA
Responsible for the migration of the SAAS web site monitoring tool from a Windows platform to an open source Linux platform. This included conversion of a classic ASP web site to a JSP solution and migrating from Microsoft Java to Sun Java. Re-engineered the application to support high scalability and availability. Created a service for load testing and analyzing the performance of a web site under load. Involved in feature planning based on customer feedback and interaction. Technologies used include Linux, Apache, Tomcat, XML, HTTP, Servlets, JSP, SQL Server, Windows, ASP, VBScript, and HTML.

Key Achievements:

Quickly adapted and applied new code to resolve ongoing issues.

Directed a team converting the core application from a Microsoft stack to an Open Source stack.

Re-engineered the application to support high scalability and availability.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Jitlia Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | Irvine, CA
Responsible for design and development of the company’s software offerings. Lead a team through analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of applications used for disaster recovery and business process management. Participated in trade shows for marketing purposes. Technologies utilized included C++, MFC, Java, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, and Linux.

Key Achievements:

Directed a design team in the development of the company’s disaster recovery software products.

Researched methods to create an SAAS for creating and hosting disaster recovery documents.

Managed a team responsible for designing, creating, and manufacturing of the software packaging.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Castle Rock Computing
Jan 1992 – Jan 2000 | Cupertino, CA
Designed and implemented innovative network device management software. Structured software design and implementation around system architecture requirements and technical descriptions. Communicated and executed design decisions to support solution software, system performance, and scalability. Attended trade shows for marketing purposes. Provided on-site support, training, and implementation services. Technologies used included C++, C, SNMP, TCP/IP, ICMP, MFC, PHP, Java, Applets, Java JNI, SQL Server, Jet Database Engine, and Windows APIs.

Key Achievements:

Participated on design team responsible for creating a real-time, distributed database used in the enterprise version of the application.

Designed and developed a Java applet used to connect to and interact with the distributed database through the use of the Java Native Interface APIs.

Key member involved in moving the application from a Windows 16 bit platform to a 32 bit platform.


## Education
### Computer and Information Sciences in General
De Anza College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-pomerantz

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