Technology Executive

JONATHAN G. KOWALSKI

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SUMMARY

Technology Executive successful with deep experience in complete product life cycle from ideation to deployment and sustenance for companies in industries such as fashion apparel, finance, operations, media and advertising. Well conversant in product requirement definition, roadmap planning, technical oversight and leadership, team building/mentoring, and system engineering. Managed multi-channel platforms such as eCommerce, retail and wholesale to offer true omni-channel solutions. Extensive hands-on experience in developing high performance, scalable, distributed application software systems within AWS and Google Cloud. Implements ERP and WMS systems, Web Commerce platforms and Retail Stores.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Full cycle product development: Strong experience in taking products from concept to customer accepted deliverables, with evolving expertise from coding to system architecture over the years.

• Architecting and technically directing development of component/services based, scalable, high performance distributed enterprise scale application software systems.

• Data driven Technical management: Technical management of software deliverables through objective metrics as guidance towards timely meeting of technical and quality goals.

• Empathetic Team Management: Building, mentoring and sustaining highly motivated and productive engineering teams focused on building/deploying/sustaining high quality products/solutions.

• Software Quality Assurance Strategy: Instituting processes and checkpoints to ensure quality of software under development.

• Project Management: leading cross functional teams to drive big/complex programs (consisting of multiple concurrent projects) from concept to completion, managing risk, escalations, and stakeholders’ expectations along the way.

• Working in a matrix organization, with diverse clients and teams spanned across the globe, particularly in the US, China, India, and Europe.

• Expertise in Python, Ruby, MySQL, DynamoDB, and REST APIs.

• Strong Experience in building analytics data pipelines using big data ecosystem (Google ML, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Apache Hadoop MR, Spark, etc.)

• Excellent familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Aliyun, Google Cloud)

• Masters Degree in Machine Learning, conceptual modeling TECHNOLOGY

• Python, Ruby on Rails, Angular and React, REST/JSON, MySQL

• Heroku, Netsuite, Adaptive Insights, Tableau, Radial WMS

• UPS, Fedex, Adyen, Authnet, Braintree, Algolia, Responsys, Zaius, Kibo

• Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, BigQuery, NoSQL(DynamoDb), Jenkins, Docker

• UML, Design Patterns, Microservices component based Architecture/multi-tier Web Architecture

• Git, Confluence, Jira, NewRelic

• Agile (product owner/scrum master), Incremental Development, Waterfall SDLC JONATHAN KOWALSKI

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Moda Operandi Vice President of Engineering July 2011 –

• Held multiple positions during my tenure - Senior Software Engineer, Manager of Software Development, Principal Engineer, Director of Platform Engineering, and my current role.

• Responsible for Retail Store Systems and eCommerce platforms for high luxury with revenues at 160MM.

• Created numerous reports to analyze business, customers and sales across Retail and eCommerce.

• Opened 3 new boutiques in New York, London and Dubai. Responsible for technical infrastructure and systems.

• Architected Moda’s proprietary product recommendation engine.

• Participate in the entire lifecycle of software development including requirements, definition, architecture and development specifications, coding, quality assurance testing, deployment, documentation and support.

Opentopic.com CTO 2010 – July 2011

• Analyzed site’s data processing for large-scale deployment.

• Prepared technical specifications documents (database, class and data flow/sequential diagrams).

• Analyzed user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing site.

• Created high-level architecture for multi-platform web-based system using Service Oriented Architecture to integrate back-end SQL-based database. Everycast LLC Founder 2007 – Jan 2013

• Conceived, architected and implemented an interactive, Internet-based video communications platform: www.everycast.com.

• Created ready-made communications interface that allows anyone to host online meetings and presentations and to archive those meetings for later viewing and pay-per-viewing. Active Response Group Software Engineer 2005 – 2008

• Architected and maintained an advertising email database of 100MM records.

• Created interactive banner ads in Flash and Javascript. Synergy6 Information Technology Support Engineer 2001 – 2005

• Maintained the IT infrastructure of a 75 person Internet advertising firm.

• Configured the hardware and designed and implemented the software for a daily email deduping application in MySQL.

EDUCATION

Georgia Tech 2014 – 2017

• M.S. in Computer Science

• Concentration in Machine Learning, Computational Perception & Robotics Vanderbilt University 1995 – 1999

• B.E., Computer Science / Mathematics, May, 1999

• Concentration in Algorithm Design, Networks, and Web Development

• Award for Outstanding Digital Artist

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