Scott Hallock

3614 Clover Creek Lane
Longmont, CO 80503
720-323-6695
[email protected]

Experience

7/18 - 10/23
Engineering Manager, Google, Boulder, Colorado
  • Build and manage a team of software engineers, technical leads, and managers building the next generation of asynchronous and batch processing systems for Google Drive.
  • Design, implement, and operate Java-based software systems running on Google infrastructure that handle all processing needs for Google Drive that are not directly in the serving path.
  • Coach software engineers, technical leads, and managers, helping them to increase their spheres of influence within Google.
11/16 - 7/18
Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services, Denver, Colorado
  • Build a new predictive analytics team at a new AWS development center in Denver, Colorado by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring Software Development Engineers and Research Scientists.
  • Establish a culture of technical and operational excellence through formal training, informal coaching, design reviews, and code reviews.
  • Design, implement, and operate a predictive analytics platform on EC2, AWS Lambda, EMR, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, and S3.
  • Using techniques such as random forest and binary logistic regression, train machine learning models to predict AWS network failures in advance of customer impact.
11/15 - 11/16
Software Engineer, Google, Boulder, Colorado
  • Design and develop Google's billing and payment system, a Java software stack for processing global customer invoice payments and P2P payments using Google's production infrastructure.
  • Design, implement, and test software for processing bank statements in MT940 and BAIv2 formats, properly classifying statement lines based on incomplete and often incorrect payment descriptions.
2/15 - 11/15
Site Reliability Manager, Google, New York, New York
  • Maintain production readiness for Google's internal production monitoring systems, internal production rate limiting systems, Cloud Pub/Sub product, and Cloud Autoscaler product by automating software rollouts, automating the monitoring and management of machine resources, handling and automating cluster turnups and turndowns, debugging and providing fixes for production software errors, and providing production oncall support.
  • Improve user isolation of Google's internal production monitoring system by integrating with Google's internal rate limiting system.
  • Represent product users with development and product management teams when determining launch readiness of the Cloud Pub/Sub product.
  • Manage a team of eight engineers, overseeing their career development and performance management.
9/09 - 1/15
Senior Staff Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., Boulder, Colorado
  • Lead a team of three overseeing the integration of QuIC, Inc. open source features and code into the Maemo, MeeGo, WebOS, and Fire OS, and OpenWRT operating systems.
  • Lead a team of two implementing a Python-based system for measuring software product code maturity using repo, git, and Gerrit to measure week-over-week differences in lines of code changed.
  • Serve as Architect for QuIC, Inc's Continuous Integration and Release systems, overseeing scale increase by a factor of 75, designing and coordinating new features in Gerrit-based developer workflow and Electric-Commander-based integration, verification, and release automation systems to support change propagation, verification, and release across more than 100 actively developed Linux Operating System codelines.
  • Expand reach of QuIC Linux verification and release processes to other Qualcomm subsidiaries, creating a unified open source mobile operating system release process spanning several business organizations.
  • Rearchitect QuIC, Inc's Android software release process to allow for more rapid collaboration with handset OEMs.
  • Found and lead the QuIC Linux DevOps team, establishing charter and vision for the team, and career track and promotion guidelines for Linux DevOps engineers. Integrate the new team with QuIC Linux release management team and with QuIC Information Technology teams.
  • Manage a team of five engineers, overseeing their career development and performance management.
8/07 - 9/09
Senior Developer, Fidelus Technologies, New York, New York
  • Design, implement, test, and maintain a large scale, enterprise telephone hotelling system for 33,000 simultaneous users using a Windows service implemented in C#, a web service written in ASP.NET, and a storage backend consisting of Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Design and implement enterprise integration solutions for Cisco Unified IP Phones using the Cisco Unified Application Environment as well as using Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
10/06 - 7/07
Senior Software Engineer, Solekai Systems, Boulder, Colorado
  • Define an architecture for a next-generation, two-way, digital cable television tuner for Windows Vista PCs with Windows Media Center.
  • Participate in cable industry standards bodies and develop industry wide consensus for the two-way, PC, digital cable television tuner.
  • Implement a UPnP network stack in an embedded Linux environment. Implement a series of UPnP services that enable delivery of premium cable television content to a Windows Vista PC.
7/03 - 7/06
Firmware Engineering Manager, Digeo, Longmont, Colorado
  • Manage a team of 4-6 firmware engineers and testers tasked with designing and implementing DOCSIS 2.0 compliant embedded cable modem MAC, IP, and management firmware.
  • Manage relationships with DOCSIS testing laboratories to facilitate the eventual certification of Digeo's embedded cable modem implementation.
  • Design and implement low level system software for the initial bringup of a new, embedded, system-on-chip ASIC containing three MIPS-derived processor cores.
  • Design, implement, and test a complete, DOCSIS compliant, cable modem firmware implementation from the MAC layer through the IP layer.
9/00 - 4/03
Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Boulder, Colorado
  • Maintain a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) client, including kernel mode IPSec drivers, a user mode Internet Key Exchange (IKE) implementation, and a Qt graphical user interface on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
  • Maintain an embedded VPN codebase using a GNU GCC-based embedded toolchain.
1/00 - 9/00
Software Engineer, Evoke Communications, Louisville, Colorado
  • Design, implement, and test a UNIX-based network server program, written in C++, for a voice over IP web chat system, using industry standard protocols and codecs (e.g. SIP, H.323, G.723).
  • Maintain a Netscape plugin and an Internet Explorer ActiveX control for the client side of the web chat application including work on the GUI, network transport layer, and sound card interface layer.
  • Install and administer a large number of computers running Red Hat Linux 6.1 to host the server side of the web chat application.
7/99 - 1/00
Senior Consultant, Component Development Organization, BEA Systems, Boulder, Colorado
  • Design, implement, and test complete e-commerce solutions for Fortune 50 corporations using Java, WebLogic Server, and Enterprise JavaBeans.
9/97 - 5/99
Software Design Engineer, Windows User Experience Team, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
  • Maintain the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Shell, a large and rapidly evolving, COM and C++ based, multiplatform, multithreaded, graphical front end for the Microsoft Windows series of operating systems.
  • Design, implement, and maintain new features for the Windows 2000 Shell in C, C++, ATL, and DHTML/JavaScript.
  • Maintain several older, C-based Control Panel applets for the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 products.
1/95 - 9/97
Software Design Engineer, RPC Test Group, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
  • Coordinate the actions of a three-member team to verify the quality of Microsoft's MIDL compiler.
  • Maintain a large and evolving base of DCE RPC functional test code written in C and C++.
  • Coordinate and administer the regular compilation and execution of a large number (approximately 20,000) of RPC client/server tests.
  • Design, implement, and execute a test plan to verify the quality of MIDL-generated COM object interface marshaling code.

Education

1990-1994
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering