David A. Kosiba

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OBJECTIVE:

A seasoned and thoughtful change leader looking to lead and contribute to the strategy and development of innovative cutting-edge fintech products for an organization with a vision of the future who is making a measurable difference to the lives of millions of people today.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Hands on leader of Business Requirements, Roadmaps, Architecture, Development through Operational Support

Over 20 years in Enterprise Software Development across a variety of diverse business domains

Over 16 years in 24/7/365 Operational Support of Enterprise Applications

18 years at Director level or above building teams, managing direct reports, coaching, motivating, mentoring

Over 6 years of Fintech experience with recent focus on Bill Pay and Payments

Significant experience transforming monolithic applications to REST-based microservice architectures

Experience leading transformations from on-premises to the cloud

Managing offshore/nearshore/outsourced Development and Operations

Strategic planning, budgeting, build vs. buy, RFP process, vendor management

Experience in highly regulated environments and technologies (PCI and SOX)

Experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban, Lean principles, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Waterfall and Hybrid SDLC

Technologies Managed: AWS EC2/Lambda, Kubernetes, Golang, Java J2EE, C++, C#, .NET, Oracle, Aerospike, Cassandra, SQL Server, DynamoDB, AWS ELB, NGINX, DropWizard, Apache/Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sezzle, Inc. Minneapolis, MN (Remote)

Sezzle’s mission is to financially empower the next generation. The Sezzle Buy Now Pay Later suite of products helps you achieve financial freedom and take control over your finances so you can build your future.

Director Engineering – Payments and Order Management 11/2022 – 12/2023

-Delivered high-value products and features on time with high quality

-Built strategic Payments Roadmap looking multiple quarters into the future

-Served as the Payments subject matter expert within the organization

-Enabled and fostered the transition from startup to mature software development processes

-Drove application improvements to support Business optimization using configuration over coding

-Drove architectural improvements with flexibility and future extension in mind

-Partnered across Engineering and Product Management to foster a collaborative developer environment

-Led core teams responsible for Virtual Card issuance through order management and loan repayment

-Delivered multiple lower-cost card processor integrations replacing legacy higher-cost integrations

-Enabled the Sezzle Anywhere product through enhanced capabilities on the Sezzle Issuing platform

-Turned around a struggling ISO-8583 Issuing partner integration project

BillGO, Inc. Fort Collins, CO (Remote)

BillGO is bringing consumers, billers, and banks/fintechs together to make bill pay simple. BillGO’s award-winning real-time bill management & payments platform transforms the dreaded necessity of managing & paying bills into an opportunity for financial well-being.

Director Engineering – Payments Automation 11/2021 – 11/2022

-Delivered high-value products and features on time with high quality

-Enabled and fostered the transition from startup to mature software development processes

-Delivered an Email Payment Gateway enabling enterprise customers to offer bill pay via email

-Established a Batch Operations team to drive for the highest possible payment success rate

-Drove application improvements to support rapid customer onboarding (configuration over coding)

-Drove architectural improvements in scale/performance/reliability and moving towards cloud-native

-Decoupled a legacy monolithic application in to new modern microservices

-Delivered ISO-8583 card issuing platform with a direct integration to VISA

-Collaborated across the organization to define the next-generation BillGO Platform architecture

Alteryx, Inc. Broomfield, CO (Remote)

Alteryx is a leader in Analytic Process Automation (APA™). The Alteryx APA platform unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one easy-to-use platform to accelerate digital transformation. With the Alteryx platform, every data worker, regardless of technical acumen, can find and understand what information is at their disposal, analyze data from more sources and easily deliver business insights.

Director Engineering – Alteryx Platform 10/2019 – 11/2021

-Partnered across the organization to establish long-term Alteryx Platform product roadmap

-Led current and next-generation server platform applications across Alteryx ecosystem

-Successfully led teams to GA of next-generation Server platform – the Alteryx Analytics Hub

-Was responsible for managing teams spanning two continents and three countries with 50+ FTEs

-Was a change leader to modernize the development team SDLC processes with focus on Lean principles

-Led the change from a monolithic application stack to a modern domain-based services platform to enable Alteryx capability deployments beyond just the Analytics Hub application

-Effectively structured teams and leadership across globally distributed teams and areas of focus

Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation Network) San Diego, CA

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PlayStation brand is recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation Network provides the back-end capabilities for the entire PlayStation ecosystem, and the Commerce Platform is the heart of the PlayStation Network’s eCommerce system that processes transactions at a scale seen only by a few top Technology companies in the world.

Sr. Director Engineering – Commerce Platform 7/2015 – 9/2019

-Successfully partnered with Product Management and Architects for the creation and delivery of a multi-year Commerce Platform strategy and roadmap

-Owned all ecommerce domains of the platform including order management, pricing and offers, subscriptions, payments, taxation and fraud

-Successfully led the commerce platform in a migration from an on-premises datacenter into the cloud

-Led the change from a monolithic application stack to a modern microservices eCommerce platform while balancing business needs against technical roadmap

-Was responsible for 7/24/365 operations of the eCommerce platform supporting the PlayStation store

-Was responsible for managing on-shore and off-shore teams managing core vs. context development

-Expanded Commerce Platform team from 30+ to over 65 FTEs as Business needs expanded

-Successfully reduced operational outages of the commerce platform by 30%-50% YOY

-Was responsible for overall Commerce Engineering budget of over $20M

Omnitracs LLC / QUALCOMM Enterprise Services San Diego, CA

Omnitracs is THE source for private and for-hire fleets seeking fleet management solutions, including software applications, platforms and information services. Omnitracs technologies include solutions for safety and compliance, driver retention, GPS fleet tracking, and fleet maintenance software. With thousands of trucking customers across the Americas, Omnitracs leads the way for fleet management solutions.

Sr. Director Engineering – Platform Applications Lead 6/2014 – 7/2015

-Assumed leadership of all platform application teams within Omnitracs

-Rebuilt team after significant attrition resulting from Omnitracs division acquisition

-Was responsible for hiring and training new entry-level engineers across multiple locations

-Backfilled critical positions with consultants until could gain experience with new engineers

-Provided SME and customer face of Omnitracs host applications to management and customers

-Was responsible for overall host application team budget of over $10M

Sr. Director Engineering – Hours of Service Team Lead 2/2011 – 7/2015

-As overall team lead and individual contributor and SME, provided key System Engineering support to various Hours of Service (HOS) releases

-Turned around struggling team to become the model of development productivity, quality, and support within the Omnitracs division

-Increased stability of the HOS application to be one of the most reliable in the Omnitracs SaaS portfolio

-Provided HOS SME and HOS team face to the customer and to and executives within Omnitracs

-Diverted development resources to kick start test automation tool development with (projected) significant test time and resource reduction

-Was responsible for team engineering budget over $3M

QUALCOMM FLO Technologies (MFT) San Diego, CA

MFT is the FLO R&D division within QUALCOMM. MFT provides the platform upon which FLO TV offers Mobile TV service to Verizon and AT&T. In addition, MFT provides significant engineering resources to FLO TV to support the deployment of FLO TV devices/products in a new direct to consumer initiative.

Sr. Director Engineering 4/2009 – 2/2011

-As individual contributor and SME, provided key System Engineering support to various FLO projects

-Led Security Advocate within MFT and primary interface to QUALCOMM Product Security team ensuring that MFT products properly address necessary software and System security requirements

-Led Engineer responsible for defining and managing security provisioning of embedded hardware

-Led Project Engineer for an upcoming international deployment of FLO technology, responsible for all engineering aspects of the international deployment

-Actively worked with FLO TV Content, Programming and Legal teams to educate and provide security guidance and support with Content Provider negotiations

FLO TV, A QUALCOMM Company San Diego, CA

FLO TV is a leader in Mobile Television applications and services. FLO TV provides the Verizon VCast TV Service and the AT&T Mobile TV Service. In addition, FLO TV has deployed their own PTV and automotive products in a new Direct to Consumer (D2C) initiative.

Sr. Director Engineering 7/2006 – 4/2009

-Key contributor launching Verizon VCast TV Service as founding member of the FLO TV Engineering team

-Led System and Project Engineer for defining, integrating and launching AT&T Mobile TV Service

-Worked with FLO Technologies Systems, development and test teams to define, integrate, test and deploy new features of the MFT FLO media distribution platform

-Worked with third-party conditional access (CA) vendors to define, select, integrate and deploy third-party CA System as a part of the commercial FLO TV broadcast platform

-Worked with third-party merchandising system vendors to define, select, integrate and deploy third-party merchandising as a part of the commercial FLO TV broadcast platform

-Built new FLO TV engineering team from the ground up including System Engineers (wireless device and server platform), Project Engineers, and Integration and Test Engineers to enable FLO TV to be independent system integrator and service operator

-Established credibility as new Director within FLO TV and other departments within QUALCOMM

-Grew team to 25 engineers plus additional matrixed functional reports and 10-15 consultants before entire team got absorbed into MFT

-My FLO TV engineering team played critical role in launching the FLO TV Direct to Consumer platform

-Created and established System Integration and Deployment processes within FLO TV

-Worked with FLO TV Operations and FLO Technologies System Engineering to define architectures and deployment solutions for FLO TV Mobile TV Services

-Worked with QUALCOMM IP attorneys for protecting Qualcomm IP against competitors as well reviewing and submitting new IP

PacketVideo Network Solutions, an Alcatel Company (PVNS) and PacketVideo (PV) San Diego, CA

PacketVideo Network Solutions and PacketVideo are world leaders in the development and deployment of wireless multimedia software providing complete solutions for mobile telecommunications service providers, media programming providers and application developers.

Director Engineering (PVNS) 1/2005 – 7/2006

Principal Member Technical Staff – System Engineering Office (PV/PVNS) 06/2002 – 01/2005

Senior Member Technical Staff – Advanced Architecture Group (PV) 06/2001 – 06/2002

Member Technical Staff – Core Engineering Group (PV) 02/2000 – 06/2001

RELEVANT SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES:

Cloud: AWS S3, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Route53, SSM, NGINX, Cloudwatch, VPCs/Security Groups, Redshift, EC2, ELB

Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP/IP (Unicast/Multicast), RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP

Standards: PC DSSI, ISO 8583, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ISMA, OMA, MPEG, IETF

Tools: Grafana/Redash, DataDog, Splunk, Jira, Rally, Visio, Wireshark (Ethereal), Word, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint

Languages: Golang, C/C++/C#, Java, SQL, JNI, HTML, XML, JSON, SOAP, REST

EDUCATION:

The Pennsylvania State University 5/1993 – 12/1998

Work towards Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering – All But Dissertation

GPA 3.94/4.0

Drexel University 8/1991 – 1/1992

Graduate work in Electrical and Computer Engineering

GPA 4.0/4.0

The Pennsylvania State University 8/1987 – 5/1991

B.S. Electrical Engineering

GPA 3.72/4.0

PATENTS and PUBLICATIONS:

Patent Application Filed, System and Method for Effecting Playlist Seeking with Respect to Digital Multimedia Content from a Network Node, D. KOSIBA

Alcatel Patent Disclosure, Client Independent Rate Adaptation, D. KOSIBA, B. Wallace.

Alcatel Patent Disclosure, Rate Controlled Download, D. KOSIBA.

Alcatel Patent Disclosure, Playlist Engine Independence – a mechanism for Out of Band Playlist Navigation, D. KOSIBA, M. Severa, B. Wallace, S. Wilson, M. Foster,

Patent Application Filed (2), A Method of Extending A Streaming Server and Client With Playlist Seeking Capabilities, T. Zeng, W. Wu, D. KOSIBA, W. Jiang, M. Severa, M. Foster, G.P. Sherwood, and C. Chan.

Patent Application Filed, Pub. No. US 2003/0221014 A1, Nov.27, 2003, Guaranteed Delivery of Multimedia Content Based on Terminal Capabilities, D. KOSIBA and I. Sodagar.

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