Member of Facebook's Data Infrastructure team.

Member of AWS Redshift, Tech Lead for Performance team, leading efforts on performance and scalability. Role also includes defining roadmap, providing guidance to other teams, mentoring, on-call rotation, and customer escalations.

Amiato (formerly known as Nou Data) was a fully managed, real-time ETL cloud service, connecting unstructured-data sources to structured business intelligence (BI) tools. The underlying technology was Schema-lift, which automatically inferred the structure of semi-structured data (i.e., JSON logs), transformed it into tables, and loaded it into data warehouses. Led the initial architectural design of the core database service and worked on all early prototypes and later versions and components of the service. Helped grow team to nine members, and drive acquisition by Amazon in 2014.

Worked on both industry-leading research and early-stage strategic projects. Projects included:

• Research on software-controlled energy use produced the first widely available study on the energy efficiency of commercial and open-source database servers, and provided direction for future research around energy proportionality (goo.gl/nGpFfF).

• Research on next-gen in-memory databases produced a blueprint for modern high-performance in-memory OLTP databases (work included in the 5th Ed. of the Red Book: goo.gl/oTsvEv).

• Worked on a scalable, distributed in-memory database that offered strongly consistent low-latency operations and complex on-the-fly analytics for financial trading applications (part of a customer collaboration).