Seva Safris

Worked for Pano AI, the company that installs HD cameras at high-risk wildfire areas (in the USA and Australia) to provide government and private entities with AI-empowered systems to detect, monitor, combat, and manage wildfire incidents. Delivered Pano AI's software to production, allowing Pano AI to secure its Series A round of investment. Acted as the first software engineering hire at Pano AI. Conceptualized, architected, and developed the entire software platform. Interviewed and hired software development staff, including developers, DevOps engineers, designers, and managers. Contributed to this company, which was selected as one of Fast Company's 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence in 2023", with OpenAI's ChatGPT in the same list.

Created and managed the SpecialAgent, an open-source agent for zero-config tracing of Java applications. Implemented instrumentation integrations for more than 60 3rd-party libraries, including Akka, AWS, Elasticsearch, gRPC, Java Concurrency API, JDBC, JMS, JAX-RS, Kafka, Lettuce, MongoDB, Netty, Play, RabbitMQ, Reactor, RxJava, and many Spring technologies. Contributed to OpenTracing API specification development. Helped develop the OpenTelemetry project, providing input for Java agent technologies to companies such as Microsoft, Google, Datadog, and Dynatrace.

Developed and directed a technology roadmap from product conceptualization to production in five months. Managed all facets of product and software development. Architected all tiers and facets of the application stack. Implemented full development infrastructure, including development tools, team-working, and collaboration tools. Implemented fully containerized, scalable production infrastructure. Led all development meetings, managed projects, prioritized responsibilities, and allocated resources for optimal operational results. Developed the entire back end for the Splash Mining platform.

Architected a complex data processing pipeline capable of processing a scale of 800 million messages per day. Implemented a custom, distributed Kafka message consumer using Apache Storm, which was responsible for feeding the message processing pipeline. Integrated Stackdriver system monitoring and alerting for production support. Contributed to the development of a Scala Play-based, highly distributed Kubernetes-containerized application running in GCP. Implemented numerous features and resolved numerous issues intended to improve and expand the functionality of the system. Participated in data model architecture and implementation on GCP's Bigtable and BigQuery platforms.

Led the technical aspects of a project that mediated and facilitated the discovery and communication amongst investors, analysis, and CIOs regarding topics, features, products, and companies (dimensions of the facility) in technology markets. Managed a software team distributed across the USA's West and East coasts. Was responsible for product architecture and development.

Supported, fixed bugs, and developed new features for an existing Ionic hybrid mobile application in the fashion retail space. Integrated video capture and replay capabilities into the mobile application, supporting both iOS and Android platforms. Upgraded Ionic to the most current revision, requiring subsequent upgrades to connected APIs (Facebook, Google, and Instagram). Implemented OAuth support for Facebook, Google, and Instagram, as well as direct email. Aided in the resolution of issues on the back end (Java, Spring, Hibernate).

Revised an outdated 32-bit codebase to 64-bit architecture for both iOS and Android implementations of a mobile application in the music entertainment space (streaming radio). Resolved all outstanding platform incompatibility issues with Android Lollipop OS. Upgraded Media APIs in both iOS and Android versions of the application, implemented in the Xamarin cross-platform architecture. Implemented cross-platform logic in Xamarin C# and platform-specific integrations in iOS Objective-C and Android Java. Completed all outstanding platform issues for the application successfully.

Developed and directed a technology roadmap for a consumer-facing product in the music entertainment space. Managed product development in several technology stack verticals. Architected all facets of the web application stack and iOS application stack. Implemented full development infrastructure, including development tools, team-working, and collaboration tools. Implemented full containerized, scalable production infrastructure. Led all development meetings, managed projects, prioritized responsibilities, and allocated resources for optimal operational results.

Implemented new features to an existing Flex/AIR application in the medical practice management space. Resolved numerous outstanding bugs and usability inconsistencies. Implemented various auxiliary modules in JavaScript to integrate seamlessly in all browsers. Participated in scrum meetings, helping prioritize development resources. Resolved all outstanding issues and new feature requests

Architected and developed the flagship flight-control product for the company, currently revolutionizing the world’s perception of personal airplanes as a viable option for private transport. Directed flight-control product development to ensure the high standard of technology required for SmartPlane's success. Provided strategic and tactical technological direction for the early-stage startup in the aerospace marketplace. Advised product management efforts. Contributed in a hands-on manner in order to develop solutions for the most challenging and critical modules comprising the SmartPlane flight-control application. Achieved real-time performance, 100% fault tolerance, and enforcement of impeccable coding practices, utilizing the means of both technological choices and engineering policy directives.

Conceptualized, architected, and developed the flagship application for the pre-IPO medical practice management software company. Successfully launched the product to local practitioners in the SF Bay Area. Blueprinted the product roadmap, managed project operations as well as tactical and strategic direction, and delivered the product to completion. Successfully launched the product to remote practitioners in Singapore and Malaysia. Led a team of local engineers, engaged with individual practitioners for sales, interacted with clients for production support, and gathered feedback for future improvements. Evolved the product to support customer-requested features. Led a team of remote engineers for the development of front-end HTML and JavaScript components, providing technical architecture for all products. Delivered numerous auxiliary components intended to drive exposure and interest for the product. Implemented all security considerations with utmost scrutiny, taking into account the legal regulation of medical software applications—a challenging and complex facet of technology in the medical space.

Architected and developed a revolutionary Flex/Java workflow designer application with projected revenues of $2 million in 2012. Designed and implemented all UI/UX, live workflow validation algorithms, and failsafe state preservation patterns. Architected and developed a macOS Finder plugin to visualize version information of files and folders, with a projected added benefit revenue of $500,000 in 2012. Implemented a full product with support for macOS 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6. Led a team of engineers for the retrofit of a Zoom versioning application to interface with the plugin based on yielded specs. Owned UI and presentation design of all Evolphin products. Led the implementation of key user interfaces for superior user experience. Directed efforts to extend and retrofit existing components in lieu of client feedback. Oversaw tactical solutions to quickly meet the gap of missing functionality for clients' needs. Directed evaluation and consideration of time to market vs. technical debt vs. team workload to ensure confidence in developed products and security in client investments. Spearheaded all efforts to encourage high coding standards for the insurance of value in yielded intellectual property. Managed project and bug-tracking tools, mediated code reviews, and promoted or vetoed design decisions when deemed necessary.

Conceptualized, architected, and developed applications for scientific portfolio management, directly reporting to the portfolio management team. Led a team of senior engineers to deliver industry-leading scientific market analysis solutions for portfolio managers. Implemented numerous systems, modules, and applications used by portfolio managers to drive their investment decisions. Developed strategic and tactical solutions to achieve cross-functional business objectives with an impeccable ability to prioritize engineering efforts in order to achieve the most efficient and effective time to market. Architected a scalable Java platform for applications intended to transition from a former Perl-based codebase, starting a new chapter in quality, usability, and productivity of tools used by portfolio managers daily. Spearheaded full cycle development in the creation of key scientific investment tools used daily by portfolio managers. Held educational training sessions for new innovations, tools, and applications available to scientific portfolio managers at BlackRock/BGI. Directed efforts to minimize operational risk due to possible and actual failure of key components in the portfolio management application chain. Developed regular failover tests to ensure rapid recovery in the event of unexpected failures. Led the evaluation of interfaces with 3rd parties (banks, securities lenders, prime brokers, and custodians) to detect high-risk points and propose failover solutions.

Consulted on product conceptualization and PRSD formulation for consumer-facing bond trading and management application Consolers. The product was outsourced for contract-based development in 2008. Consulted on product conceptualization, PRSD formulation, and design, and spurred implementation efforts for a wine and food enthusiast web portal called Cooking with Us. Consulted on product design and implementation of a sports enthusiasts' web portal for Wasserman Media Group. Architected and developed a large-scale enterprise security management system for Exobox Technologies. Designed and implemented an eCommerce website for the client-facing interface for Alphaenco.

Specialized in performance analysis and scalability, taking responsibility for the system performance of PCXPlus, a distributed options trading system for Pacific Exchange. Preserved and mitigated the risk of business functionality and SEC compliance in lieu of performance enhancement efforts. Curated all system and component testing of PCXPlus, ensuring compliant functionality under high-load volumes. Developed strategies for aftermarket trade floor testing to simulate real-world deployments and system interaction. Designed and implemented innovative testing strategies for superior insight into obscure process paths in order to detect bottlenecks and investigate hypotheses.

Architected and led the Liberty Alliance Project (LAP) initiative at AOL Time Warner. Spearheaded project development, managed implementation direction, and represented AOL Time Warner at interoperability events hosted by Sun Microsystems. Curated product development and professional services (consulting, training, and support) with specific regard to LAP. Engaged LAP draft specification committee to contend for specification changes in lieu of AOL Time Warner's functional requirements. Represented AOL Time Warner at the 2003 RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.

Engineered web application services for online games at ea.com. Developed applications for online cross-game integration. Performed load and performance testing of web services and products. Implemented customer billing and customer service interfaces for ea.com and pogo.com. Led product interface design for integration with 3rd-party service providers.