Scott Gasch
scott@gasch.org
http://wannabe.guru.org/scott
Objective:
Experienced engineer and leader seeking a job with great people working
on an interesting project with business impact and something to learn.
Employment History:
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead / Manager
Google
Kirkland, WA
December 2005 - present
Developer Infrastructure:
Leading an effort to make world class internal developer tools available to Google's cloud customers
and other Alphabet companies.
DoubleClick Search:
DoubleClick Search is the industry-leading SEM solution.
I led the DS backend, infrastructure and bid optimization teams, a group of ~twenty engineers.
I designed and implemented the data model, schema, storage and reporting stack for DS.
I designed and implementation a distributed task processing system and
scheduler, distributed locking system, and deferred bulk mutation system.
I designed and implemented several data ingress pipelines.
I've systematically measured and improved the latency of the DS reporting
system, a key competitive advantage for the product.
Codebase is C++, java, continuous processing, and mapreduce.
AdWords Optimization Frontend / Backend:
I was the Tech Lead of a project implemented by five engineers involving
computing actionable intelligence for advertisers. It involved large
scale data processing, indexing, segmentation, storage, and reporting.
Tech Lead for AdWords backend services involving keyword
semantic clustering and keyword generation and suggestion.
The keyword-related projects I was involved with were responsible
for hundreds of millions of USD of annual incremental revenue for
Google.
These projects were implemented in C++ and Java, some with mapreduce.
Miscellaneous:
Recipient of two Google Operating Committee awards (2008, 2009)
Recipient of one Google Citizenship award (2014).
DS was a top 10 company achievement in 2010.
Recipient of numerous peer bonuses, spot bonuses and kudos.
Heavily involved in the Google mentoring and hiring programs.
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
July 1998 - November 2005
Windows NT Kernel Test Team:
Windows architecture and win32 programming expert.
Wrote and maintained stress, functionality and regression test
code in C for the PE loader, process management system, thread dispatcher,
and memory management system.
Experience with user and kernel mode debugging; wrote several debugger
extensions for ntsd and kd.
Found hundreds of bugs in the Windows codebase.
Involved in team code review process and mentoring programs.
Helped to ship Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, XPSP2, WSSP1.
Also worked on Windows Vista.
Windows for Express Networks:
Implemented file sharing and Internet connection
sharing (via NAT) features on a fixed-function "server appliance".
Software Engineer Intern
Northern Telecom (Nortel)
Research Triangle Park, NC
Summer, 1997
Software Engineer Intern
International Business Machines (IBM)
Research Triangle Park, NC
Summer, 1996
Education:
B.S., Computer Science, 1998
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Computer Skills:
C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, parallel and distributed computing, continuous
processing pipelines, "big data", software optimization, team leadership.
Miscellaneous:
- Author of an International Master level, cross platform (Win32, FreeBSD, Linux, OSX) chess playing program.
- References available on request.
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