Engineer Computer Science
Resume:
Matthias Eichstaedt, Ph.D.
408-***-**** - ********@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/eichstam
Objective:
Seeking a challenge in hands-on software engineering management.
Education:
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Hagen, Germany, 1999, Thesis:
“Generating and Matching Profiles in Large Scale Webcasting Systems”, graduated
with summa cum laude
BS in Economics, University of Hagen, Germany, 1997
MS in Computer Science, University of Hagen, Germany, GPA: 4.0, 1996
BS in Computer Science, University of Hagen, Germany, 1993
Professional Experience:
• Aug 2010 – present: Director of Engineering at Coupons Inc.
Led the consumer product development of company’s web properties with 10 Million
monthly users, including coupons.com, mobile apps (GroceryIQ.com), Facebook apps,
affiliate program (brandcaster.com) and the premium membership product
(couponsavingsclub.com).
- Re-architected the web application stack with cutting edge technologies while
continuing to deliver high quality of service. Delivered a re-designed website
(LAMP, Varnish, Memcached, A/B testing, colo redundancy) and improved the
page-load time by 10x.
- Grew the team from 5 to 40 engineers including the hiring of 5 hands-on
managers, managed performance objectives.
- Evaluate and decide on new technology solutions for the development and
production systems, for example MongoDB.
- Developed intellectual property and proposed 6 patent applications.
- Initiated and organized the first two Hack Days for the company with
overwhelming participation (50 developers/teams each event), productized the
winning Hacks.
- Hands-on development for critical production issues and operational problems.
• Nov 1998 – Aug 2010: Sr. Engineering Manager at Yahoo! Inc.
- Delivered Monitoring tools that cover systems monitoring, availability testing
and end-user performance measurements (developer.yahoo.com/yslow). The
team earned the “You Rock” award for innovation and flawless delivery.
Technology stack was LAMP and sharded MySQL.
- Led the design and development of a new Web Reputation Platform. The
challenges included the scale of the system to handle an overwhelming inflow of
user contributions. The reputation platform was used to assess email spam scores
and determining which users are more trustworthy than others.
- Architected and designed a Web property for personalized content delivery
(alerts.yahoo.com). The system serves over 8 Million users.
Matthias Eichstaedt, Ph.D.
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Apr 1996 – Oct 1998: Staff Software Engineer at IBM Almaden Research Center
- Led the development of a large-scale Webcasting system in Java, which allows
fine-grained, personalized content delivery in a variety of data formats. The
system was deployed on IBM’s developerWorks site (www.ibm.com/java).
- Led an engineering team of 3 developers to build a Web application in Java to
operate a scanning tunneling microscope over the Internet.
Certifications:
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MCSE, MCP + Internet
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• Java GUIs in JFC/Swing, San Francisco Bay Area Center for Advanced Technology
Book Publication:
Matthias Eichstaedt, “Internet Webcasting”, DUV, 1999, ISBN 3-8244-2125-9
Patents:
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“Pointing device for navigating a 3 dimensional GUI interface”, Matthias Eichstaedt,
Joshua Dobies, Qi Lu, US Patent US6822638
“System and method for dynamically limiting robot access to server data”, Matthias
Eichstaedt, Michael Emens, Reiner Kraft, US Patent US6662230
“Outbound information analysis for generating user interest profiles and improving
user productivity”, Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, US Patent
US6654735
“Cut and paste pen for pervasive computing devices”, Matthias Eichstaedt, Pete
Lazarus, Qi Lu, US Patent US6563494
“Method and system for the routing of requests using an automated classification
and profile matching in a networked environment”, Matthias Eichstaedt, Thomas
Kreulen, Vikas Krishna, Scott Spangler, Ray Strong, US Patent US6510431
“Automatic user interest profile generation from structured document access
information”, Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, US Patent US
US6385619
“System and method for personalized information filtering and alert generation”,
Matthias Eichstaedt, Ash Patel, Qi Lu, Udi Manber, Kristine Rudkin, US Patent
US6381594
“Integrated touch-skin notification system for wearable computing devices”,
Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, US Patent US6218958
“Collaborative team crawling:Large scale information gathering over the internet”,
Matthias Eichstaedt, Daniel Ford, Tobin Lehman, Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, US
Patent US6182085
“Method and apparatus for parallel profile matching in a large scale webcasting
system”, Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, US Patent US6169989
Matthias Eichstaedt, Ph.D.
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“Method and apparatus for efficient profile matching in a large scale webcasting
system”, Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, US Patent US6108645
“System and method for operating scientific instruments over wide area networks”,
Stefan Edlund, Matthias Eichstaedt, Don Eigler, Reiner Kraft, US Patent
US6085227, European Patent EP943992A2
“Parallel profile matching in a large scale webcasting system”, Matthias Eichstaedt,
Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, UK Patent GB2341700A
4 pending patents on Web applications
3 pending patents on user interfaces and GUI enhancements
2 pending patents in the area of handheld and wearable computing devices
Papers:
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Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, Shanghua Teng, “Parallel Profile Matching for Large
Scale Webcasting, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1457, pp. 17-28, 1998
Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, Daniel Ford, Udi Manber, “Outbound
Information Analysis for Profiling and Active Email”, WWW8, Toronto, 1999
Shanghua Teng, Qi Lu, Matthias Eichstaedt, Daniel Ford, Toby Lehman,
“Collaborative Web Crawling: Information Gathering/Processing over Internet”,
Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1999
Qi Lu, Reiner Kraft, Matthias Eichstaedt, Gabi Zodik, Ron Pinter, Daniel Ford, Dirk
Nicol, “jCentral: Search the Web for Java”, WWW8 Poster, Toronto, Canada, 1999
Qi Lu, Matthias Eichstaedt, Daniel Ford, “Efficient Profile Matching for Large Scale
Webcasting”, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (30), pp. 443-455, 1998
Reiner Kraft, Gabi Zodik, Daniel Alexander Ford, Ron Y. Pinter, Dirk Nicol, Qi Lu,
Matthias Eichstaedt: jCentral: Search the Web for Java. WebNet (1) 1999: 626-631
Personal Interests:
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Acquired a general contractor’s license (Class B 908781) in 2005. I enjoy fixing
things around the house.
Tinkering with hardware and built my own servers to run experimental websites
from my garage. Also implemented a VOIP phone network at home with the open
source Asterisk PBX.
Matthias Eichstaedt, Ph.D.
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