GLEN TAKAHASHI

Employment

• TrialSpark

  Nov 2018 - Sep 2019

  Engineering Manager

  New York, NY
• Palantir Technologies

  Oct 2014 - Aug 2018

  Forward Deployed Engineer

  New York, NY

  • 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
• Palantir Technologies

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2014

  Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

  New York, NY
• Simul8 Group

  Jan 2012 - Nov 2014

  System Administrator & Developer

  Los Angeles, CA
• Palantir Technologies

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2013

  Software Engineering Intern

  Palo Alto, CA
• Adobe Systems Inc.

  June 2012 - Sept 2012

  Software Engineering Intern

  San Jose, CA

Education

• B.S. in Computer Science

  2011 - 2015

  University of California, Los Angeles

  GPA: 3.38 / 4.0

  • UCLA Investment Society
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon