"To connect people to their passions, communities, and the world's knowledge." -- The first time I heard this former corporate mission statement, I realized that this is the best way to describe my own personal objective in life. I love helping people to find things they are passionate about and helping them grow and leverage those passions to do good. I love developing tools and experiences that help people to connect with their communities and loved ones in better and richer ways. I am passionate about teaching others and sharing my own knowledge and experience with my coworkers, colleagues, and contacts. I excel at creating out of the box ideas to solve challenging problems. Through all of these things, I impact my workplace, my personal life, and subsequently on the world as a whole. My experience ranges from being a lone engineer working in isolation on skunkworks projects to being the chief architect managing a large team of engineers. To highlight some of those achievements: I developed a site with ~700k page views/day in 2002; I also architected the PHP framework / coded a large chunk of a project with hundreds of millions of DAUs; and I further architected / developed another project collecting billions of data points from devices deployed in major retail stores and malls across the globe. I am confident in being able to handle a project of virtually any scale and can easily help deliver high performance results. I embody the term "full stack" developer to its fullest, covering from designing and building hardware, to systems work including kernel tuning / low level network stack / automation, up through scaling backend applications and services, and finally to user experience work on the web, TVs, and mobile. I have a proven track record of managing teams of various sizes and building upon the abilities of the team to lead them to success. I can equally handle teams of junior and senior developers, coaching and mentoring them to be the best they can be.