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<span class="name">Sef Kloninger</span><br>
<span class="subname">John Josef Kloninger (full name)</span>
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<td width="27%"><!-- addr --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
<br><a href="http://sef.kloninger.com/">sef.kloninger.com</a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/sefk">@sefk</a>
<br> <a href="http://github.com/sefk">github.com/sefk</a>
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<b>Hands-on engineering manager</b> who loves developing software and systems for the Internet.
My expertise is building, scaling, and operating distributed systems.
My roots are in backend/ops but I've dabbled in full stack.
I've led teams of large teams 100+ at Akamai and VMware, and teams of 5-25 at Google, Ning,
and Stanford.
I built and launched an open-source online learning platform in eleven weeks.
My 2012
<a href="https://sef.kloninger.com/posts/201205engineering-culture-litmus-tests/">blog post</a>
was the top post on Hacker News for a day.
BS Computer Science, Stanford.
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<td class="company">Google</td>
<td class="city">Mountain View, CA</td>
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<td class="job">Engineering Manager</td>
<td>(9/2015-present)</td>
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<b>Search</b>. Managed teams delivering the largest and most used datasets in the
Search Data Warehouse. Processed all user activity of billions of users of Search
and Assistant. Delivered a new system to scale out datasets for every team in Search.
<p>
<b>Google Cloud</b> (2018-21).
Managed development for core authorization services,
<a href="https://cloud.google.com/iam">Cloud IAM</a> (1P) and
<a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules">Firebase Rules</a> (3P).
Fail-close dependency for every Cloud service, met stringent performance and availability SLO's.
Lead teams of developers and managers teams of up to 25.
Owned Google's <a href="https://github.com/google/cel-go">Common Expression Language (CEL)</a>,
a small embedded policy langugage for fast and safe evaluation.
<p>
<b>YouTube</b> (2015-18).
Scaled up and added key features to the central Data Warehouse of telemetry from
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html">over a billion active users</a>.
Owned systems providing big data processing services, collaborating across
teams and locations.
Ran thousands of ETL pipelines daily.
Primary decision maker on warehouse operations, resource management, capacity
planning, and security.
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<td class="company">Wavefront</td>
<td class="city">Palo Alto, CA</td>
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<td class="job">VP Engineering</td>
<td>(9/2014-3/2015)</td>
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<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
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Led a small team of engineers building a pre-launch service for monitoring infrastructure at scale.
Developed backend features in Java and frontend features in JavaScript (Bootstrap, FlightJS, Require).
Operated sizable Amazon Web Services deployment with Chef; cleaned up security groups and IAM roles.
Cut infrastructure costs by 50%.
Went on to be acquired by VMware.
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<td class="company">Stanford Online</td>
<td class="city">Palo Alto, CA</td>
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<td class="job">Head of Engineering, Open Source Platform</td>
<td>(6/2012-8/2014)</td>
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Engineering manager and developer on <a href="http://class.stanford.edu/">Open edX</a>,
Stanford's open-source platform for Massive Open On-Line Courses (MOOC's).
Senior technical member of the Stanford's new Online Education effort,
developing strategy and presenting to senior leaders and trustees.
Reported to the Vice Provost for Online Learning.
Over Summer 2012
<a href="https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/class2go-online-platform-091212.html"></a>built and launched Class2Go</a>,
the first open-source MOOC platform.
Ran successfully for 200k students until merged with edX in April 2013.
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<b>Engineering Manager</b>: Line managed small engineering team.
Ran agile process with weekly sprints and demos; established code review and releases.
Hired three engineers and many students.
Set up
<a href="http://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go">GitHub</a>,
<a href="http://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go/issues">GitHub Issues</a>,
Huboard and Google Docs.
Established <i>just enough</i> process.
</li>
<li>
<b>Dev/Ops and Release</b>: architect of the run-time system built on AWS (EC2, S3,
RDS, SES), ansible/chef, and celery/SQS.
Lived and breathed Git.
Managed all releases.
Owned capacity and costs, fixed production and security issues.
</li>
<li>
<b>Core Engineer</b>: core app features: queueing, oAuth integration, and operations tools.
</li>
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<td class="company">Ning</td>
<td class="city">Palo Alto, CA</td>
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<td class="job">VP Infrastructure Engineering and Operations</td>
<td>(12/2010-4/2012)</td>
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<div class="jobdesc">
<b>Operations.</b>
Oversaw the team running a medium-sized platform: 100K sites,
300M requests/day, 60M uniques/month, 240TB of user-generated content.
Maintained four nines of availability.
Established set of core technical metrics: incidents, availability,
and performance.
Built a mini-NOC.
Defeneded againt DDoS attacks by choosing protection service provider
after build vs. buy analysis.
<p class="continue">
<b>Infrastructure.</b>
Line managed senior engineers on the core Ning platform: relational
and key/value content, blob storage, messaging, service discovery,
mail, activity, and API's.
~50 RESTful Java services.
Ran project to convert Oracle to sharded MySQL.
Improved performance by restructuring JS and CSS and targeted
rewrites.
Responsible for development and support of the
<a href="http://developer.ning.com/">Ning API</a>.
<p class="continue">Left shortly after Glam Media acquisition (12/2011).
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<td class="company">VMware</td>
<td class="city">Palo Alto, CA</td>
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<td></td>
<td class="job">Senior Director, Desktop Virtualization Engineering</td>
<td>(5/2008-12/2010)</td>
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<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Delivered server and client virtualization enterprise software to improve
how corporate Windows desktops are deployed and managed.
Hired to line-manage a small engineering team, grew to leading
engineering for the Desktop Business Unit with 140 engineers in the
US, UK, India, and China.
Managed managers, directors, and three principal engineers
(VMware's most senior technical role).
<p class="continue">
Delivered major releases that grew Desktop from $10M to $100M.
Owned engineering for enterprise products,
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/view/">VMware View</a>
remote virtual desktops and
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/">ThinApp</a>
Windows appplication virtualization;
personal virtualization with
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/">Workstation</a>
(Windows and Linux) and
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/">Fusion</a>
(Mac).
Technical sponsor of two strategic transactions: acquisition of RTO
Software for profile virtualization and OEM of Teradici's PCoIP
remote display protocol.
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<td class="company">Akamai Technologies</td>
<td class="city">San Mateo, CA (2007-08)</td>
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<td class="job">Senior Director, Service Performance (2005-08)</td>
<td class="city">Cambridge, MA (1999-07)</td>
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<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Founded the Service Performance group in Networks & Operations
for advanced ops and high-touch customer engagements.
Grew organization from six to 35 engineers and architects in US and India.
<p class="continue">
Improve service reliability by driving bulletproofing and
scaling initiatives.
Managed Akamai's incident response process.
Define and measure core platform quality metrics, presented quarterly to
CEO and Chief Scientist.
Owned high-touch customer escalations and events, including:
2006 Olympics, March Madness, Microsoft patch Tuesdays, Hulu's launch,
and Apple iPhone launch.
Designed a unique cache hierarchy setup for long-tail social
networking content.
</div>
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<td></td>
<td class="job" colspan="2" style="padding-top:1em;">
Director and Senior Director, Engineering (1999-05)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Engineering Manager of 20-50 engineers and managers.
Led technical hiring during company growth, then managed
transitions and motivated teams during staff reductions.
Mentor to other managers, senior engineers, and architects.
Established processes for development, QA, and release
engineering.
Oversaw technical integration of two acquired companies.
<p class="continue">
Hands-on technical leader of Akamai's core technology.
Handled many urgent service incidents; one of five crisis managers
called in for the big problems.
<table width="100%">
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<td width="35%">
<ul>
<li>Communication infra.</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td width="35%">
<ul>
<li>Security systems</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td width="30%">
<ul>
<li>HTTP and DNS</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Load balancing</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Coherence protocols</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Fault tolerance</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Linux kernel</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Operations tools</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Performance</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="job">Senior Software Engineer (1999)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Lead engineer on HTTP content server. Scaled technology and
features for rapid pre-IPO growth.
</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<hr>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="company">FarSight Financial Services</td>
<td class="city">Cambridge, MA (1998-99)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="job">Senior Performance Engineer</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Enhanced performance of a website for retail on-line stock trading.
Profiled systems, rewrote critical code paths (C++), and optimized
database queries and schemas (Sybase).
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- end Farsight -->
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<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="company">Venturcom</td>
<td class="city">Cambridge, MA (1996-98)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="job">Principal Software Engineer</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Principal architect, engineer, and team lead of Component
Integrator, a tool for customizing and embedding Windows NT and CE.
Product bought by Microsoft, later released as the
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xeconaboutwindowsxpembeddedstudio.asp">Windows
Embedded Studio</a>.
Venturcom eventually became Ardence, acquired by Citrix.
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- end Venturcom -->
<!-- ========================================================= -->
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="company">McKinsey & Company, IT</td>
<td class="city">Cambridge, MA (1993-96)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="job">Principal Software Engineer</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2">
<div class="jobdesc">
Led development of client/server human resource system for
internal use.
Enhanced and optimized custom database replication system (Oracle).
Attended week-long training sessions on communication skills,
writing, and problem solving.
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- end McKinsey -->
<!-- ========================================================= -->
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="company">Veritas Software</td>
<td class="city">Santa Clara, CA (1990-93)</td>
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<td class="job">Software Engineer (Part-Time)</td>
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Developed and tested Visual Administrator tool suite (C, Motif, Xt).
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<li> 2014-2018: <a href="http://www.peninsulaschool.org/">Peninsula School</a>
Board of Directors, Secretary and Executive Committee member.
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<li> 2016-current: <a href="http://bridgefoundry.org/advisory-board">Bridge Foundry</a>
Advisory Board member.
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<li> Content Delivery Network (CDN) Content Server Request Mechanism
With Metadata Framework Support
(<a href="https://www.google.com/patents/US7240100">US 7,240,100</a>
and
<a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US8122102">US 8,122,102</a>)
<li> Internet content delivery service with third party cache
interface support
(<a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US7010578">US 7,010,578</a>)
<li> Method and System For Providing Content Providers With
Information About How Their Users Access the Internet
(<a href="https://www.google.com/patents/WO2002017139A1">WO 2002/017139</a>)
<li> Enterprise Content Delivery Network Having a Central Controller
For Coordinating a Set Of Content Servers
(pending, <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US20040073596">US 2004/0073596</a>)
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<td class="section">Education</td>
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<b class="job">Stanford University, B.S. Computer Science, 1993</b>
<br>Research: "Verification of SCI Cache Coherence Protocol" under
Prof. David Dill.
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<p class="version">Nov 2022</p>
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