DeWitt Clinton résumé

Experience

Google, Inc.
Technical Lead/Manager, 2006 - present

• TBD... Focusing on developer ecosystems and APIs

A9.com, Inc. / Amazon.com, Inc.
Principal, Software Development, 2004 - 2006

• Directed software engineering team responsible for A9.com website, backend search services, and search syndication infrastructure

• Invented and maintained OpenSearch, the search syndication format used by A9.com, Amazon, Microsoft, Firefox, Google, and numerous search engines and clients

• Coordinated global OpenSearch development community; media trained to represent A9.com's search syndication initiatives to the public

• Designed and developed search applications, search services, and search APIs

• Established technical and strategic direction on senior management team, focusing on search partner relationships, search syndication, and search business development

Travelocity, Inc. / Sabre Holdings, Inc.
Senior Principal, Software Development, 2002 - 2004

• Designed and oversaw implementation of component-based and services-based architecture that ultimately replaced virtually all legacy Travelocity systems

• Designed dynamic travel packaging engine, dynamic hotel availability caching engine, and components of next-generation air availability and pricing engine

• Instructed developers company-wide on best practices for advanced software construction; wrote comprehensive software development handbook detailing architecture and development processes

• Directed multi-national architecture and services team with offices in Dallas, San Francisco, New York, India, and Australia

Site59, Inc.
Director, Software Development, 2001 - 2002

• Directed software engineering team responsible for consumer-facing online travel packaging applications and scalable backend systems

• Designed and oversaw implementation of dynamic hotel availability caching engine, also used as blueprint for new Travelocity architecture

• Established technical direction as senior management team member, culminating in acquisition by Travelocity, Inc.

Avacet, Inc.
Co-Founder and CTO, 2000 - 2001

• Led 15-person enterprise software company through incorporation, product development, product release, and reacquisition

• Designed and oversaw implementation of highly scalable framework for e-commerce applications, in part released as open source software

Eziba, Inc.
Director of Technology, 1999 - 2000

• Designed and oversaw implementation of scalable platform for online retail operations; spun off independent business based on technology

• Established technical direction on executive team, raising $70M in financing led by Amazon.com

Microsoft, Inc.
Program Manager, 1998 - 1999

• Designed application APIs for Visual Studio team in Developer Tools division

• Learned software construction best practices, project management techniques, and design methodologies in large-scale software development projects

Tripod, Inc.
Senior Software Engineer, 1996 - 1997

• Designed and implemented several of the first highly scalable web-based applications, servers, protocols, and clients, including the Homepage Builder, leading up to $58M acquisition by Lycos

Williams Students Online
Co-Founder, 1994 - 1998

• Created one of the first web sites offering homepage services, an online facebook, and a social platform for the college community

Education

• Williams College
  Bachelor of Arts, 1998
  Computer Science and Political Science

Skills

• Current technologies: scalable application design for search, travel, and e-commerce, Java, service-oriented architectures, component architectures, REST, RSS/Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol, OpenSearch, microformats, AJAX/JavaScript, and the Linux, MySQL, Perl/PHP stack

• Background in: C/C++, SOAP, J2EE, UML, refactoring, design patterns, OO design, and agile development