OBJECTIVE: 
Seeking problems of scale in high volume environment.
SKILLS:
Python, Perl, Moose, Apache+mod_perl, dancer, bottle, C, shell, TDD
Linux, Apache, SQL (Postgresql / MySQL), MongoDB, Redis, Riak, AWS, Git, Gerrit, Github, Subversion, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Jira, 
EXPERIENCE:
AirMedia, Los Angeles, CA: Chief Ninjaneer: July 2014 Ð July 2015
	First Engineering hire building a video distribution and recommendation platform for premium ad supported video.  AirMedia provided free distribution in exchange for a post-roll video recommendation unit.   Wrote, deployed and maintained the python back-end services and data reporting hosted in AWS with a mongoDB database.  Technical lead for investor due diligence.  Onboarding and mentoring.

DemandMedia, Los Angeles, CA: Lead Engineer + SRE + Ops: Aug 2011 Ð July 2014 
	Project Incite: 8 months from idea to 2MM product creating live contextual recommendation across eHow.comÕs 3.2 million pages and members of an exchange service.  Utilized rabbitmq, python, thrift, scrapy, aws, redis, riak, postgresql, django, chef, nagios, git, and gerrit.

	Won inaugural company Hackathon to capture a million dollar market via targeted pharmaceutical advertising for eHow.  Championed and launched product, deployed at scale across eHow.

	Implemented server and process improvements for eHow.  Improved Pagerank by tracking and analyzing page load times, shaving hundreds of milliseconds off of TTFB to clients and googlebot.   Analyzed and upgraded codebase for php 5.3 Ð 5.5 transition. Trained eHow Engineers on splunk, git, puppet, python.

Open42 / DemandMedia, Los Angeles, CA: Chief Ninjaneer / Lead Engineer: Nov 2010 Ð Aug 2011 
	Open42Õs small engineering team built a high speed, high capacity, cloud based, Òbig dataÓ data warehouse for analyzing click traffic at Demand Media, geared to provide machine learning algorithms for related content projection and clustering.  Demand Media acquired Open42 in Aug 2011 to bring the technology and team in house.

	Served as technical point-of-contact from Open42 to Demand Media.  Wrote data analysis jobs utilizing Hadoop.  Due diligence of RSSGraffiti code, re-architected as a proper work queue to improve database locality.  Migrated open42 code repository from SVN to git. Migrated the RSSGraffiti SVN repo to git and online bug tracker to local redmine instance.  Picked chef as deployment infrastructure and wrote most of the company recipes. Created automated nagios monitoring for all ec2 cloud hosts.  Installed and spearheaded adoption of bug tracking (redmine, integrated into git, gerrit and github), code review in gerrit and continuous integration in jenkins. Amazon EC2 AWS configuration and life cycle management.  Redis based IP blocking system for legacy product (7MM entries).

The Rubicon Project, Los Angeles, CA: Senior Software Engineer: Oct 2008 - Sept 2010 
	The Rubicon Project, the world leader in Yield Optimization technology, launched in 2007 with a mission to automate buying an selling across the $65 billion global online advertising industry.  The Ôcore engineeringÕ team is responsible for all elements of ad scheduling, serving and back end log processing and aggregation.

	Rewrote perl ad scheduler to use a custom rules engine instead of SQL bitmasks, speeding up a 10-30 minute process to sub one minute.  Monitored and analyzed slow network transfer in scheduling system, improved sync speed by factor of 5. Stabilized log aggregation and pushed to make our data pipeline a valued piece of infrastructure.  Migrated monthly aggregation rollup into a streaming calculation after the calculations exceeded the capacity of the database.   Reverse-engineered calculations for financial proration then improved them to use exact splitting of fixed length fractional amounts so all sums were consistent, parallelized as first production use of Hadoop cluster.  Improved layout of SVN repositories, oversaw/assisted with all SVN merges, implemented unit tests for scheduler, added strictures and warnings to scheduler and aggregator code and fixed resulting errors concurrent with mainline development.

Mediaplex, Los Angeles, CA: Software Engineer Manager: Aug 2006 Ð Sept 2008 
	Mediaplex, an operational business unit of ValueClick (Conversant), delivers technology solutions to enable online publishers to meet specific business needs.  Lead engineer on team of four engineers enhancing a mature online advertising system for moderate-sized publishers. Selected new features, distributed work, designed code, implemented updates, tested and provided live support. Improved accuracy of teamÕs project estimates and delivered releases on time.
Revived MOJO team by providing leadership that empowered engineers to take ownership of their work. Improved communication, cohesiveness and morale by starting weekly one-on-one meetings to track progress, address issues and grow employees. Built solid relationship with systems team through personal communication, follow-through and professionalism - resulting in improved support. 
Extended Perl advertisement allocator. Maintained Apache+mod_perl UI and delivery system on RHEL5 Linux environment. Used MySQL database for counts and configuration. Migrated reports and data to an Oracle data warehouse. 
COMMUNITY:
Organizer and speaker for LA Perl 2008-current.  http://la.pm.org
Spoken at Scale Devops day 2014 and multiple YAPC conferences.
EDUCATION: 
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering: three quarters remaining.
	Andrew Grangaard	(818) 464-6712 
	andrew.grangaard@gmail.com	28 Outrigger St. #7, MDR, CA  90292