Sheen A

Platform Engineering Supercomputing Platform Software Platform Storage Data centers

Lead the design and deployment of a fully integrated modular platform to accelerate machine learning at scale. The platform included a flexible compute and data ingestion pipeline with data coming from multiple aviation products including the Airbus A350 test fleet, Vahana, Wayfinder's flying lab, and simulation platforms.

Helped create the global Infrastructure engineering team. Lead the design and deployment of a scalable platform to accelerate Bytons vehicle engineering pipeline. Helped structure the worldwide IT team and re-focus their efforts towards rapid growth and paying down tech debt. Lead efforts to consolidate engineering tools (scm/bugtracking/project management/engineering) to enable a truly global engineering workforce.

Lead the architecture, technology selection, end to end technology evaluation, datacenter design/deployment and standards for Tesla’s next generation machine learning platform for autopilot computer vision. Identified, developed and maintained relationships with industry disruptors to influence Tesla’s long-term technology direction. Part of the team that ran Tesla’s connected car services (on prem and on aws; including car connectivity, in-car entertainment features, map and firmware delivery etc). Lead security initiatives to significantly raise the bar for security. Lead the technology evaluation and design direction for a multi-site, multi-petabyte object storage solution for Tesla. Lead architecture of Tesla’s global identity, PKI and collaboration infrastructure. Lead Tesla's adoption of Office 365. Helped design and scale Tesla's MES, PLM and engineering tools platforms.

Cloud Computing evangelist within the company, final technical escalation point in the team. Define technical standards for software deployments, network configuration and architecture. Manage NOC engineers, ensure SLAs are met and business standards are adhered to. Lead the technology end of a successful company wide business transformation effort that took the business from a traditional service provider to an industry leading agile technology and services provider without adding or removing headcount. Developed the business case, architected and deployed the company’s first IAAS cloud service (Lexcloud.ca). The design was an extremely scalable Multi-Tenant service that included cross WAN Disaster Recovery with strict RTOs and RPOs.

Responsible for all technical escalations from the team, ensure that all teams (cross functional) work in synergy to bring out the best customer support experience. Substantially increased system-wide uptime by streamlining network monitoring systems that successfully measured/calculated trends, thereby enabling intelligent decision making. Created policies and procedures governing corporate security, email and Internet usage, access control, and incident response. Designed and deployed the systems infrastructure for a low latency, high frequency auto trading platform that interfaced with NASDAQ. Worked with a number of fabless semiconductor companies in the SF Bay area to help them with their entire development lifecycle from napkin to tape out.

Worked as a technical support engineer supporting clients of a major ISP in California. Recognized for quality of customer service with personal commendation from clients.

Worked as a technical support engineer supporting clients of a major ISP in the UK. In charge of testing a new project for floor readiness. Responsible for training new batches on a new project. Recognized for outstanding quality of customer service with customer-support awards and personal commendation from client representatives.