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https://www.geekwire.com/2014/social-media-analytics-company-visisble-technologies-acquired-raising-80m-vc/
Software Development Lead
Company NameVisible Technologies
Dates EmployedFeb 2010 – May 2012 Employment Duration2 yrs 4 mos
LocationBellevue, WA
Lead developer of team responsible for large-scale distributed platform enabling near-real-time search and analytics of social media content. Built on technologies including Hadoop, MapReduce, HBase, Lucene, Katta, Memcached, ZooKeeper, Linux, and Java.
Optimized Map Reduce jobs through improved algorithms and scalability, reducing memory consumption, and better utilization of cluster resources.
Designed and architected REST APIs for external consumption of enriched social media content and trends.
Independently prototyped, developed, and released a statistical n-gram language detection service for use with short and specialized social media content, such as Twitter feeds.
Improved throughput of content ingestion pipeline by 35x through new algorithms, data parallelism, reduced shared data contention, and architectural scalability.
Developed content enrichment services for classifying tone and relevance of social media content, based on an open-source adaptive boosting classifier. |