Software and IT Portfolio

dpStudio, a SaaS low-code automation platform that enabled customers to go live in minutes with blueprint library solutions on Kubernetes in the Cloud. The service is cloud-native and automated, offering pre-architected Data Engineering Platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. An ‘Architecture as a Service delivered via SaaS model. They can reduce their Development Cycle, free up resources and focus on what matters!

• Data Platforms for Moving, Ingesting, Transforming, Processing, Storing, and Analyzing data on Kubernetes.
• Development Platforms for containerized applications and Microservices on Kubernetes.

We built a SaaS-based UI to create, monitor, and manage instances of architecture blueprints deployed in a customer's AWS, Azure, or GCP target environment. Each blueprint stack was based on a well-thought-out architecture, with sensible default settings for all the applications in the stack. The GUI-based configuration screens enabled easy customization.

Architecture as a Service (AaaS) - snapblocs defined it as delivering well-architected, self-service data platforms from a catalog of architectural blueprints to accelerate delivery. AaaS accelerates the delivery of data platform infrastructure. 

PeopleConnect's various People Search products enable searching public records for reuniting with friends, background checks for someone new, or monitoring your online reputation. PeopleConnects' US database was not purchased or rented but created from many disparate sources. 

• Turning fragmented data into >350M US profile data records with machine learning & parallel processing.

Classmates.com is one of the oldest social networking sites. Search old yearbooks, find school friends, and reconnect with your past. It is based on the Social Networking model of an engagement flywheel, where the customer is the product. Site interaction creates content that is "fanned out" to others in their social network, which drives more engagement. A positive coefficient is a good thing in this case.

• Crunching 85M users producing 50M daily social activity events, and creating 6B total social fanout data points plus 10M targeted emails.

Multiple SaaS platforms and 2M panelists; one used by the professional service team for use with clients and a separate public SaaS product for self-service surveys. Both used a meta data driven survey generator generating advanced analytics based on consumer research best practices.

• 1.4M average and 3.6M peak surveys invites per day
• 3.5M average and 6.3M peak page views per day

Classmates created a new product called MemorLane, offering nostalgic media content on a subscription model. A heroic effort by the engineering team, who launched it nine months after conception but unfortunately, it was not a commercial success.

• Hundreds of thousands of songs, movies, magazines, yearbooks, video, and images.
  

Human Concepts' main product was a leading desktop software for creating and managing corporate organizational charts. Also in the works at the time was making a SaaS version. 

EM3 Systems

Sole developer on a SaaS Java/Web based Knowledge Management product – Acquired by BMC in 2005

EM3 Systems

Teamsync was a SaaS-based online Task and Project management application primarily designed for IT teams. It was based on learnings from my days at Corel managing our projects and releases. 

At the time Perot systems was a 6,000+ employee IT services company. My role was leading the a practice for application development. The long term goal was to create some reusable frameworks for the Industry verticals.

• Four locations
• Team of 260

Ventura Publisher was the first popular desktop publishing software for the IBM PC Platform and was owned by Xerox until Corel purchased it and subsequently released it as Corel Ventura. 

Fun tidbit: A box of disks was dumped on my desk. It contained code for Ventura Publisher which was originally written for DOS/GEM then ported to WINDOWS. None of the dev team came with the acquisition. As a result, Corel became one of the first onshore application development engagements by India's Wipro Limited.

• First Corel release (V4.2) sold over 100,000 copies increasing market share from 7% to 18%.
• Subsequent versions went from last place to winning many 1st and 2nd place magazine reviews.

CorelDraw has long been a primary option for most graphic designers. Unless you have been away from the earth over the last two decades, you have heard someone mention the name CorelDraw. It’s a long-standing vector-based program for graphics and illustration famed for a wide range of advanced features and options that allow artists to create masterpieces. It was originally created by Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne. More info

Visi was a Hair Salon Imaging system that enabled customers to try on alternate virtual hairstyles quickly. The computer's camera took a picture of the client and then showed images of them with new hairstyles from the catalog of styles.

• Designed and built custom video capture hardware
• Built custom hardware for image processing using an innovative parallel computing CPU called the Inmos transputer.
• Image processing algorithms were written Occam for the Transputer.
• Custom GUI built on DOS using 'C' language.

Since the time when mobile phones mattered, most places I have worked have created Native Mobile apps or, more often, mobile responsive websites or both. 

This page mostly talks about products and services. Still, at all the places I have worked, I have often been responsible for the IT infrastructure, including BackOffice systems, IT Helpdesk, Data Centers, analytics and reporting systems, CRM, Marketing systems, and eCommerce etc.