Interested in software's application to other fields, particularly clean/alternative energy. Interested in IoT/distributed systems projects, such as the ones I have helped to build at Apple & Tesla.
Scaled from one electricity market and 100 MW under management to five global wholesale electricity markets totaling 7 GWh+ of assets under management (70x growth)
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Designed, developed and maintained real-time algorithmic trading and control applications for Tesla utility-scale batteries in all supported Autobidder markets
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Developed the first virtual power plant (VPP) to deliver regulation services in North America - program with Green Mountain Power to shave monthly and yearly peak loads using customer Powerwalls
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Delivered regulation services (ISO New England) controlling 200+ Powerwalls to follow a 4-second AGC signal
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Architected cross-market services for orchestrating bidding algorithms, defining
trading strategies, ingesting market data and serving visualizations for traders in the Autobidder UI
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24/7 on-call rotation for Autobidder back-end services in all markets (AEMO, ERCOT, CAISO, ISO-NE and UK) shared across engineering team of 4
Working on Tesla Energy systems for real-time ingestion and retrieval of signal data for all Tesla storage assets (Megapack, Powerpack, Powerwall) as well as Tesla Solar and SolarCity assets
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Real-time telemetry systems are used in the Tesla mobile app, Powerhub (commercial operations UI), real-time bidding (Autobidder) and VPP control
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Developed a real-time alerting system for extreme weather events (Storm Watch) using public alert data (Common Alerting Protocol), enabling Storm Watch to receive worldwide alerts (previously North America only) and scale at lower cost
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Developed reporting applications for performance-based incentives targeted at utility-scale solar/storage projects in New York and California (NYSERDA, SGIP)
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Responsible for architecture, development and support (part of 24/7 on-call rotation) for all telemetry services
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Mentored two interns; projects were developed, tested and deployed to production by the end of each internship
Designed and developed a service to notify customers in the Tesla app when their Powerwall is providing backup power to their home during an outage
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Worked on the team’s first distributed actor-based application (Scala/Akka) to stream higher resolution time-series data when customers requested a real-time view of their solar output
