#Glen Takahashi
email: [contact@glentaka.com](mailto:contact@glentaka.com)  
website: [glentaka.com](https://glentaka.com)  
github: [github.com/glentakahashi](https://github.com/glentakahashi)  
linkedin: [linkedin.com/in/glentakahashi](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**  
B.S. in Computer Science  
2011 - 2015  
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