Aaron Drake

Experience

1. 

   Armada · Full-time

   • Engineering Manager - Cloud and Data Services

     Nov 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos·Bellevue, Washington, United States · Hybrid

     At Armada, I oversaw the design, deployment, and operation of our Azure cloud infrastructure and multi-region architecture. Spanning Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil, and Bellevue, I ensured our Kubernetes platforms remained fault-tolerant and highly available—powering our web services, management console, and Armada’s industry-leading hybrid edge computing platform. Skills: Kubernetes · Microsoft Azure · Cloud Computing · Executive Leadership

2. 

   The Trade Desk · Full-time

   • Manager, Solution Architecture

     Jan 2023 - Nov 2023 · 11 mos·Bellevue, Washington, United States · Hybrid

     Leading a world-class team of data scientists and software engineers, I created custom, client-enabling solutions which allowed customers to maximize advertising performance and spend on The Trade Desk’s global buy-side advertising platform. With team members in California, Denver, New York, Toronto and London I unlocked over $142 million per month in additional customer platform spend. Collaborating with account execs, TAMs and consulting I managed a pipeline of over $1.1 billion in custom, client focused, and value added solutions. Delivered high quality production ready solutions to both AWS and Azure for brands such as Walmart, Diageo, Mazda, Progressive, P&G, Disney, Apple, Unilevier, and agencies such as, Dentsu, Publicis, Omnicom Media, and Butler/Till. Managed over $200,000 in yearly AWS spend budget across 5 regions and 3 different accounts. Technologies include: Lambda, S3, EKS, Databricks, EMR, AWS Config and other management tools, etc.

3. 

   Esper · Full-time

   • Senior Engineering Manager

     Mar 2022 - Jan 2023 · 11 mos·Bellevue, Washington, United States

     As Sr. EM of the US engineering team we worked to transform existing SaaS architectures from Elastic Beanstalk, RDS and Lambda to Kubenetes utilizing Terraform and CI/CD automation workflows. With an international team we improved on site reliability policies and procedures resulting in improved operational efficiencies and downtime. Worked to introduced formal incident management processes, created platform management tools and solutions, and decreased downtime. With counterparts in India I built foundational level infrastructure for Esper's SaaS offering, improved stability and reliability across all metrics and supported on-call incident management for multi-tenant and single tenant deployments. Worked to build resilient systems across multiple geos and availability zones. Utilized domain driven design to build microservices on Kubernetes and break apart legacy python monoliths. Developed performance test frameworks with golang and python.

4. 

   Full-time · 2 yrs 4 mos

   • Director, Enterprise Architecture

     Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos·Bellevue, Washington, United States

     Led the transformation of the architecture team of ~35-40 to adopt modern customer focused technology patterns and practices to enable growth to 2.3M customers. Responsible for overseeing ownership of Symetra product, business and service architectures including AWS, on-prem and Mainframe services. Led a team of enterprise, business, infrastructure, and solution architects; including network engineering and operations to create a robust community capable of driving enterprise strategy.

   • Senior Manager Application Development

     Dec 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos·Bellevue, Washington, United States
5. 

   XUMO · Full-time

   • VP Mobile Product

     Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 · 11 mos·Greater Seattle Area

     Ownership, innovation, and development of multiple AVOD applications for Android and iOS. Including clients pre-installed on Metro PCS and T-Mobile devices.

6. 

   12 yrs 9 mos

   • Principal Architect & Sr. Manager of Product Technologies and Platforms, Corporate Strategy

     Jan 2016 - Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos

     Provided technical management, development, and innovation for MetroPlay and T-Play applications on Android. Partnered with business owners to support more than 75M customers across dozens of supported devices. Lead architect and technical director for AVOD solution; integrating a 3rd party CMS platform and multiple Android-based clients to provide video on demand services to more than a dozen Android devices. Technical management for a team of eight CMS and Android developers and technical implementation of UI/UX designs to enable pre-installation on customer devices and deployment through Google Play Store. Oversaw advertising growth from $3M in revenue to $20M over two years by leveraging the carrier pre-installation process in partnership with Google.

   • Senior Enterprise Architect, Technology Product Development

     Dec 2013 - Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

     Architected and provided technical leadership for cross-functional teams of up to 80 building the first party applications Visual Voicemail, T-Mobile MyAccount, T-Mobile Tuesdays. Managed development partner resource centers in Finland, Romania, and Taiwan in addition to T-Mobile resources to build Android apps and configure CMS backend platforms. Led the development and delivery of the T-Mobile and MetroPCS homepage for all Android devices, which increased advertising revenue by $50M year over year. Provided technical management of data science resources including Hadoop (Hive, Spark) experts to generate anonymized and privacy-friendly digital advertising segments and demographic info.

Education

1. 
   The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied ScienceMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Management & Business Administration
2. 
   University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
3. 
   UdacityAI for Business Leaders, Artificial Intelligence

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