Glen Takahashi email: contact@glentaka.com website: https://glentaka.com github: https://github.com/glentakahashi linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/glentakahashi ################ # Employment # ################ Engineering Manager Nov 2018 - Sep 2019 TrialSpark - https://trialspark.com Forward Deployed Engineer Oct 2014 - Aug 2018 Palantir Technologies - https://palantir.com * Managed six engineers through their time at Palantir, helping them to navigate the organization, understand the business and its priorities, and to build a growth path to advance their skills * Tech lead of three deployments, one of which is the largest government deployment where I lead a team of 12 engineers to build an application designed around displaying large amounts of complex data in an intuitive but comprehensive UI * Built a new cross BD-PD team of three engineers to develop new technologies in the field including a tool for identifying bottlenecks in enterprise pipeline environments and a system for integrating data provenance of internal and external systems * Worked as lead technical counterpart in multiple successful customer outreach engagements in the US and EU * Contributed to development of plugin APIs for the top down analysis and object explorer tools. Built the initial suite of plugins for each of these applications * Created a new set of Spark tutorials and working guides to reduce misconceptions and improve performance for both internal engineers building on top of Spark and external customers using our pipeline tools Forward Deployed Engineer Intern Jun 2014 - Oct 2014 Palantir Technologies - https://palantir.com System Administrator & Developer Jan 2012 - Nov 2014 Simul8 Group - http://simul8group.org Software Engineering Intern Jun 2013 - Sept 2013 Palantir Technologies - https://palantir.com Software Engineering Intern June 2012 - Sept 2012 Adobe Systems Inc. - https://www.adobe.com ################ # Education # ################ University of California, Los Angeles 2011 - 2015 B.S. in Computer Science GPA: 3.38 / 4.0 * UCLA Investment Society - http://uclainvestmentsociety.com * Upsilon Pi Epsilon - http://upe.seas.ucla.edu ################ # Skills # ################ Note: Scores are out of 7 Programming Languages * Java: 7 * Typescript: 6 * CSS/Sass: 4 * Python: 3 Platforms * React: 6 * Redux: 4 * Dropwizard: 4 Technologies * Spark: 7 * YARN/Hadoop: 7 * Linux: 7 * Cassandra: 5 * PostgreSQL: 4 * Elasticsearch: 4