Nick Scheiblauer
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Summary
Education
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Experience
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Linden Lab (Sansar)
San Fr., CA (Remote)
Senior Development Director
Oct 2018– present
- Responsible for staff of two dozen engineers from interns to principal engineers, and a multimillion dollar budget.
- Led Sansar's Technical Operations, Data Engineering, Build Engineering, Client UI, Backend, and Web teams.
- Coached managers and team leads on transitioning to agile development using Kanban based project management methods.
- Responsible for key vendor relationships, notably AWS. Loads of experience managing AWS costs via reserved and spot instances, lambdas, etc.
- Taught Machine Learning techniques to Data Engineering staff: train, test, cross validation, scaling, regularization, regression vs classification, etc.
- Modernized C++ development workflow by optimizing for Continuous Integration.
- Moved a 2.4 terabyte Perforce repository to Git LFS and GitHub, unifying version control practices across all engineering teams.
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Linden Lab (Second Life/Sansar/Tilia)
San Fr., CA (Remote)
Development Director
Jul 2015– Oct 2018
- Set technical direction for application development and QA teams supporting Technical and Business Operations.
- Managed projects for complexity and interdependency rather than fragile estimation based scheduling.
- Built a learning/teaching culture with my teams and accelerated adoption of new technologies and practices.
- Encouraged direct reports to blog and contribute to Open Source projects.
- Drove the adoption of Continuous Integration, Deployment, and Delivery with extensive test automation.
- Transitioned staff from traditional QA tester roles to a Software Development Engineers in Test.
- Responsible for several key initiatives related to the secure information management of customer data, including GDPR.
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Linden Lab (Second Life)
San Fr., CA (Remote)
Engineering Manager
Sep 2013– Jun 2015
- Managed teams responsible for Payments, Virtual Currency, Internal Tools, and more.
- Hired great engineers and built out several wonderful teams.
- Modernized our development workflows with Golang, Github, Docker, Drone, Jenkins, and AWS.
- Architected RESTful web services including an RFC-compliant OAuth 2.0 provider.
- Collaborated closely with Compliance, Fraud, Accounting, and Finance teams to ensure we built safe and secure systems.
- Intimately acquainted with the business operations impact of the following acronyms: PCI-DSS, FINCEN, PII, KYC, CIP, OFAC.
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Linden Lab (Second Life)
M.View, CA (Remote)
Technical Lead, Payments
Nov 2008– Sep 2013
- Practiced agile methodology and test driven development with a focus on building excellent teams.
- Mentored engineers, fostering their growth as skilled technicians and communicators.
- Led the integration of several new payment services providers into our payments architecture.
- Regularly assigned to successfully complete projects that were behind schedule, improperly scoped, and/or lacked robustness.
- Implemented several major projects in just a few months, rapidly expanding skills as needed.
- Advocated for standards-compliant engineering, better client and server side performance, and strong security strategies.
- Held public office hours to maintain open, positive communication with our users and hear concerns regarding our services.
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Michigan House of Representatives
Lansing, MI
Communications Analyst
Jan 2006– Nov 2008
- Led the development of a secure Intranet with tools for content management using PHP and MySQL.
- Led the development of a custom search engine and document categorization system using cosine similarity and k-means clustering.
- Directed all non-design aspects of the public websites for the Democratic Caucus, each Democratic Representative, the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, and several issue-based sites, including RSS feeds, podcasts, web video, photo galleries, and email newsletters.
- Enforced validation of XHTML and CSS and adherence to web accessibility standards Section 508 and W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines with a WAI-AA rating.
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Washtenaw Community College
Ann Arbor, MI
Web Programmer II
Jun 2000– Jan 2005
- Developed and maintained employee Intranet featuring a broad suite of data-driven tools for managing news, calendars, and internal file storage using Oracle, MySQL, and PHP.
- Developed and maintained a variety of student-facing sites, including the course catalog and schedule for both credit and non-credit courses.
- Responsible for maintaining legacy applications written in Perl.
- Integrated Microsoft Access applications into a MySQL/PHP framework.
- Addressed security concerns using industry-standard practices, such as encrypting traffic with SSL, requiring strong user passwords, form input validation, and sanitization.
- Coordinated project needs with ITS department.
- Created department-wide programming and design standards.
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GE Med. Systems Healthcare Solutions
Santa Cruz, CA
Lead Information Systems Specialist
Nov 1997– Apr 2000
- Integration of hospital patient and financial data with VB, SQL Server, ADO.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained data migration tools with Visual FoxPro.
- Designed and implemented modular software components for submitting ORYX measurement results to the Joint Commission on HealthCare Accreditation.
- Built strong relationships between hospital IS departments and GEMSHS.
- Undertook routine systems administration tasks including user administration, file system maintenance, and system backups.
- Improved the quality of software products through development of test automation and rigorous bug testing.
- Authored technical reference manuals.