John Cox

John Cox

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Director of Data Science and AI/Machine Learning at Equinix

  • Education

    • The Ohio State University

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  • Experience

    • Verizon

      Sept 2012 - Aug 2013
      System Analyst
    • Amdocs

      Sept 2013 - Dec 2014
      Senior System Analyst
    • Yahoo

      Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
      Senior Engineering Manager

      Yahoo's data systems process critical revenue events for online display advertising. The events arrive round the clock from various US and International locations. Data systems applications are responsible to process and deliver low-latency feeds back to reporting and budgeting applications. Yahoo's Data systems infrastructure consists of 1000's of Free BSD hosts writing and reading into Netapp storage (about 1 PB). The application consumes Billions of revenue events and is run 24X7 uptime. Senior Engineering Manager's responsibilities are to design, build, support and maintain a top-class applications infrastructure for Data systems to handle the large-scale incoming traffic. The role also consisted of ensuring the Data application had 99% uptime and the teams had the right tools (automation+monitoring) to maintain high uptime. Role also consisted of ensuring applications adhered to strict SOX standards and also involve in quarterly+annual reviews with external SOX auditors. Designed parallel hot-hot BCP data pipelines that had ability to execute BCP switchover in less than five minutes (having hot-hot BCP data pipeline allowed the application to have very low customer outage). The role also involved working with various partner teams (DEV,QE,Product) to ensure team goals were aligned to Yahoo!'s corporate goals. Also worked as Site-reliability engineer that processed large flat files and uploaded to Oracle Data bases (with complex daily DB indexes). Built the foundation of a Revenue Assurance team that monitored+analyzed revenue drops in the entire Panama applications infrastructure and presented monthly reports to VP's Show less

    • Intuit

      Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
      Senior Manager

      Lead team that provides solutions to Web based applications that process credit cards and other payments solutions. Lead applications through Continuous Integration and Continuous deployments. Drive solutions for PCI, improve hosting architecture using VM's and EC2. Build and expand the organization to adopt to growth.

    • Dubber

      Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
      Sr Engineering Manager, Data

      Data, Mobile+Social Games marketing products, Anomaly detection, ML platforms, Sentiment analysis, Product recommendation content using RNN, Image recognition alerts, Pricing optimization, Feature engineering, Multi-cloud data strategy (GCP+AWS) ,Mentoring and growing technology teams.Lead teams that build data ingestion, Near/Real time analytics, Scrape multiple Mobile marketing + Ad Vendor information , provide power users data tools and Data Visualization. Currently driving major effort to adopt and migrate to Google Cloud data technologies ( Dataflow, BIGQuery, PubSub,). Old pipelines are build using multiple programming languages and platforms : python,scribe,hadoop,c++, protobuf, html, django, json, mysql, JS, node.js. Show less

    • Equinix

      Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
      Senior Director of Data Science and AI/Machine Learning
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

      ISC2
    • Executive Data Science Specialization

      Coursera
    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      Project Management Institute
    • Cloudera Certified Data Scientist

      Cloudera
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

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