Principal Engineer, Service Infrastructure @ WeWork

About us

  WeWork is a global network of workspaces where companies grow together. Teams of any size can find refreshingly designed collaborative space, private offices, and meeting rooms that energize their employees and their guests. But WeWork is so much more than four walls—providing community, amenities, events, and technology to evolve space into experience.


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Shots Studios, Inc., founded by brothers John Shahidi & Sam Shahidi, is a Los Angeles-based data-driven creative company. The company creates original mobile-first content for YouTube, Instagram, and other streaming platforms. Over 20 BILLION minutes of Shots Studios’ content is watched every year.

Shots Studios

Lead infrastructure strategy Lead a team of 30 mostly Mandarin only speaking engineersWorked in Beijing and lead the reduction in cost by 50% enabling our flash game to become profitable in the UAE


Sold to Classmates.com schoolFeed was a reunion social network.  Fantastic Engineering by the team to handle the load of MILLIONS of DAU on a few servers.* designed the entire stack* wrote the feed all the way from CSS, DOM, Javascript to Service calls* Node JS Realtime feed* rabbitMQ message bus* api layer* mysql sharded* gearman* scaled email platform* scale on every level* handle 1800% growth without issue* 100K DAU (on 5 servers)* viral tuning* currency management* Paypal adaptive payments, Paypal digital Good Integration* SendGrid integration* Java Datalayer Beans* SmartFox Server SFS2x Vetting for Bingo Game
    
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RockYou is an interactive media and entertainment company amplifying the authentic voice of multicultural millennials. Wrapped around RockYou’s video network which reaches 75 million monthly viewers, developed and optimized by publishers of leading social media apps, RockYou Media provides brands and publishers with hyper-engaging content for a multicultural audience. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Chicago and New York.


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Yahoo dials up what people love most with apps and sites like Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo Mail and more in the works everyday. We reach millions of people around the globe and connect advertisers with just the right audiences to help build their brands and businesses. Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC) and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. Find more Yahoo jobs, B2B info and press updates at verizonmedia.com.

For sales opportunities visit: https://www.verizonmedia.com/advertising/contact-us

To work with us, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verizon-media/


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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Flickr

With more than 115 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Online adults, 18 and up, choose Friendster to connect with friends, family, school, social groups, activities and interests. Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world via www.friendster.com and  m.friendster.com from any Internet-ready mobile device. Friendster has a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking, with more expected over the next several months.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, IDG Ventures, and individual investors before being acquire by MOL Global in 2009. For more information, visit: www.friendster.com

Friendster

Scaled AdultFriendFinder from a single webserver and a few database servers to a farm of servers enabling a tripling of profit within a few months.


FriendFinder Inc., is a leading provider for online dating. The company provides dating tools to over 16 million members worldwide in 7 different languages, with 195 Mbit of traffic daily.- Manage 40 mySQL Databases with in house developed software, written in perl overloading many PERL DBI methods to enforce a controlled master to sub master fail over database connection transparent to any calling application. Each cluster is configured with a series of Slaves. This design has saved the company more then 2 million dollars annually.- Re-engineered 3 Search Engines to produce TWO orders of magnitude increase in throughput / performance which is directly responsible for a 10% increase in revenue.- Re-architected the entire database Backend to ensure 99.99% uptime / data integrity for 13 distinct sites that average a total > 30GB+ of data transferred per day-producing more then 800 TPS on the mySQL database servers.- Designed /Redesigned many of the database schemas, which on average has reduced "load" by 20-40%- Re-engineered / Manage Cupid-Mail Program, FriendFinderInc's main viral marketing tool, which emails more then 6 million users a day.- Continued Performance analysis / Capacity Planning and mySQL tweaking to get the most of mySQL from the hardware supplied.
    
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FriendFinder Inc., is a leading provider for online dating. The company provides dating tools to over 16 million members worldwide in 7 different languages- Manage 40 mySQL Databases with in house developed software, written in perl overloading many PERL DBI methods to enforce a controlled master to sub master fail over database connection transparent to any calling application. Each cluster is configured with a series of Slaves. This design has saved the company more then 2 million dollars annually.- Re-engineered 3 Search Engines to produce TWO orders of magnitude increase in throughput / performance which is directly responsible for a 10% increase in revenue.- Re-architected the entire database Backend to ensure 99.99% uptime / data integrity for 13 distinct sites that average a total > 30GB+ of data transferred per day-producing more then 800 TPS on the mySQL database servers.- Designed /Redesigned many of the database schemas, which on average has reduced "load" by 20-40%- Re-engineered / Manage Cupid-Mail Program, FriendFinderInc's main viral marketing tool, which emails more then 6 million users a day.- Continued Performance analysis / Capacity Planning and mySQL tweaking to get the most of mySQL from the hardware supplied.
    
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Managed and implemented various projects that where either very specific to a single component of AuctionWatch to implementing a solution that would allow AuctionWatch to run all of its services on a single Linux Server. As well as re-architecting a large portion of the BackEnd using mySQL for faster and more reliable communication in an effort to increase performance between applications.- Worked with a team to help develop a PERL version of all of eBay’s functions for use with the ebayAPI.- Lead the effort of integrating the eBay API into all of our products that communicate with eBay, while recoding most of the backend applications to reduce simultaneous calls to eBay, as well as keeping the overall call count to within AuctionWatch's window.- Lead the Development portion of the project for running the entire site on a single Debian Server, which would serve 100+ power-users or more.- Design and Implemented the Auction Launching software. Target goal was to reduce load over-all on all systems while increasing the rate of Launches per second to any venue. This Goal was reached.- Design and Implemented an Inventory Management Solution for a target goal of support 800K users. This was implemented with one Linux DB server and N FAST servers-which executed XML transported functions.
    
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation. Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide. With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle also owns Solaris, Java, MySQL and the Sun line of storage, server and network hardware.


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San Francisco State University, located in one of the world's most vibrant and beautiful cities, is a recognized leader in addressing issues both global and close to home.

In the global arena, typically SF State enrolls the largest number of international students at any comprehensive university in the U.S., and ranks second among U.S. universities for the number of students who study abroad for an academic year. With a diverse range of students from almost every state and nearly 100 countries, the University community is a perfect setting for learning to succeed in a pluralistic society and global economy. Our highly diverse campus consistently ranks in the top 20 nationwide in awarding undergraduate degrees to minorities.

SF State's pioneering commitment to community and civic engagement is prevalent throughout the curriculum. More than 500 courses combine academic study with community involvement, and our location in a center of business, technology and culture provides a laboratory for community-service projects, work-study opportunities and internships. The University has been named by Princeton Review one of 81 "Colleges with a Conscience,"​ and is classified as one of the Carnegie Foundation's "Community Engagement"​ institutions.

Ever since it was established in 1899 as a teacher-training school, SF State has been known for its commitment to excellent teaching. Students work closely with senior professors and other instructors from freshman year through graduation. Trained in some of the finest institutions in the world, faculty members include winners of prestigious teaching awards, cutting-edge researchers, and professionals devoted to solving community problems.
SF State awards bachelor's degrees in 78 areas, master's in 62, and a doctorate in educational leadership. Programs offered jointly with University of California campuses include a Ph.D. in education with a concentration in special education with UC Berkeley, and physical therapy clinic...

Principal Engineer at WeWork

WeWork

Principal Engineer

Shots Studios

CTO

FunPlus Game

Vice President Of Technology

schoolFeed, Inc.

Chief Architect

RockYou

Chief (Scalability + DataLayer + MySQL) * Architect / Director of Engineering

Yahoo

MySQL DBA/ARCH GURU

Flickr

mySQL Architect (DBA)

Yahoo! Inc

Lead MySQL Database Architect

Friendster

Sr. Database Engineer / Sr. Software Engineer / Sr. MySQL DBA

FriendFinder Inc

Sr. Database Engineer

Friendfinder Networks, Inc.

mySQL DBA / Database Engineer

Friend Finder Inc.

Sr. Database Engineer

Vendio

Web Developer

Sun Microsystems

Systems Engineer

San Francisco State University

Computer Science and Communication

Bachelor of Science - BS