Resume for Stig S. Bakken
Work Experience
This is an outline, further details are available on request.
Database Senior Architect
Work includes:
- Huawei Cloud managed database offerings, especially ClickHouse
Principal Software Engineer
Primary focus on data engineering for enabling efficient machine
learning workflows for fraud detectection.
Work included:
- Designed and led team implementing internal data replication service
- Cloud architecture for data warehouse / analytics workloads for financial services
- Tech/tools involved: Java, Kotlin, Python, Oracle, MySQL, ClickHouse, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes
May 2009-Nov 2019: Zedge
Chief Technology Officer / Principal Engineer
Work included:
- Introducing SCRUM
- Modernized existing (PHP) codebase, introducing code reviews
- Containers / cloud migration, initially Mesos/Marathon, later Google Cloud / Kubernetes
- Continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) with Jenkins and Mesos/Marathon (2013-2017)
- Continuous deployment / GitOps with GitLab and Kubernetes (2017-)
- Internal tools for Continuous Experimentation
- Mentoring/coaching technical staff, helping with all kinds of troubleshooting
- Hiring - interviews, talks and meetups
- Overall architecture and internal dev productivity / collaboration tools and processes
- Data engineering - led team builing an event pipeline / analytics system with focus on developer productivity (DX) and automation. This solution is mostly Open Source and available here.
Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure and Search Properties)
Work included:
- Config-driven search (making it easier to repurpose core search)
- System for elastically scaling a search cluster based on predicted traffic
- Training data labeling system for Google News article category prediction
- Updated Google Alerts UI
- Recruiting - interviews and various talks around Europe
Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Image Search (2005-2006)
Technical lead, Yahoo! Multimedia Search (2003-2004)
Some early contributions to in-house search platform called Vespa which has later
been open sourced.
Integrated FAST and AltaVista Multimedia Search products
1999-2003: Fast Search & Transfer (aquisition, has since been acquired by Microsoft)
- Multimedia Search technical lead (2002-2003)
- part of alltheweb.com frontend team (2001-2002)
- built first FAST/Lycos Multimedia Search (1999)
- maintained FAST FTP Search (1999-2003)
- built and maintained FAST/Lycos MP3 Search (1999-2002)
- contributed to improving PHP performance and functionality for FAST products
1996-1998: Co-founded Guardian Networks
- main product 1: Hardened Linux distribution for firewalls (Guardian Networks Secure Linux)
- main product 2: Web publishing platform
- consulting work, including Unix sysadmin, Oracle, web development and building an academic Linux distribution
1995-1996: BIBSYS (Norwegian academic library database)
- Unix systems engineer
- Unix resource during port of BIBSYS application from VM/ESA to AIX
- System administration and automation
1994-1995: NTNU IT department
- internal Unix/networking training
- built NTNU’s first centralized Unix account database
- maintained heterogenous Unix software distribution system (Store)
1993: NTNU Institute for Petroleum Technology
- summer internship installing AIX student lab
Publications
- PHP 5 Power Programming (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series)
Prentice Hall 2004, 720 pages ISBN 0-13-147149-X (Published translations: Polish, German, Russian, Italian, Czech)
Internet / Open Source “claims to fame”
- 1994: Implemented first web interface to MS160 Archie, later known as FTP Search
- 1996-2003: Active member of the PHP Group, contributed support for Oracle, XML, DocBook-based documentation framework, Unix build system, some ODBC variants, *printf and much more
- 1999-2002: Held various PHP-related talks and workshops at PHP/Apache/Linux conferences in Europe/US
- 2001-2004: Founded PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) and built the initial infrastructure - later retired and handed off the project to The PEAR Group
- Apache Software Foundation Emeritus
Nominations and Awards
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