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    Barney Govan

    Barney Govan

    Engineering leader with extensive experience building large, distributed ML systems, and building successful teams from scratch.

    Expertise is in the intersection of Software, Machine Learning, and Statistics.

    Software Engineer San Francisco Texas A&M University '14
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    Experience
    boomtrain
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    boomtrain
    Director of Personalization 2016 - Present (almost 11 years)
    Brigade
    Brigade
    Sr. Director of Engineering 2015 - 2016 (6 months)
    Set Media
    Set Media
    Director of Engineering 2013 - 2014 (9 months)
    Quantcast
    Quantcast
    Director of Engineering 2010 - 2013 (over 2 years)
    Yahoo
    Yahoo
    Principal Engineer 2008 - 2010 (over 2 years)
    Advertising.com
    Exit
    Advertising.com
    Senior Project Engineer 2004 - 2008 (about 4 years)
    Sony BPRL
    Sony BPRL
    R&D Engineer 2000 - 2003 (over 2 years)
    BAE Systems
    BAE Systems
    Software Engineer 1999 - 2000 (over 1 year)
    Center for Global Atmospheric Modeling
    Center for Global Atmospheric Modeling
    Research Assistant 1996 - 1998 (almost 2 years)
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    Quantcast, boomtrain, Yahoo, Brigade, Advertising.com, BAE Systems, Set Media, Center for Global Atmospheric Modeling, Sony BPRL
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    Built a fully automated set of data processing pipelines, based on Hadoop, that produced Quantcast's prediction products from petabytes of data. Making it an automated, message-driven system reduced the model and campaign startup time from approximately 2 weeks to less than 2 days. It also increased the number of concurrent models being processed by more than five-fold without increasing the number of human operators needed to run it.

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    Java C++ Machine Learning Python Big Data Statistics Distributed Systems Advertising Display Advertising REST APIs Agile Software Develoment Agile Project Management Erlang Software Engineering Software Development Team Leadership Hadoop Hadoop
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