About

Eric Chazan is a highly skilled software developer, project manager, and functional manager with almost 19 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Kiswe, where he is responsible for all phases of software development lifecycle, including proposal, proof of concept, architecture, design, code, unit test, and integration. He is a collaborator who is constantly looking for a good team and an interesting set of problems to continue his career. Eric is a proficient programmer with extensive experience in a number of languages, including Python, C, C++, JAVA, Go (Golang), Linux/Unix Shell Scripting, MySQL, and CUDA GPU applications. He is also skilled in web development, including Django, J2EE, JSON, and RESTful API’s. He has worked extensively in virtual environments, including virtual employees, multi-site, and offshore environments, and has developed and tuned massively parallel applications using MPI framework (100+ processors). Eric has experience in managing hiring pipelines, including managing interviewees, building out a hiring process, interviewing job applicants, working with recruiters, and working with the team to select the right candidates. He has acted as a functional manager for a very small team (3-5 employees) and has worked in a dev-ops environment building out mechanisms to deploy components in cloud environments, including AWS. He has also worked on the AWS platform (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS) and has experience with virtualization technologies, including Docker, Vagrant, and VirtualBox. Eric has extensive data analysis experience to find and fix problems in complex software environments and has customized source control systems, including GIT, to generate the right SCM process for the task at hand. He is proficient in low latency (real-time) software systems of Multi-processor, multi-threaded applications, and shared memory applications. Eric has worked with several companies in the past, including Warner Bros. Digital Labs and Sungard. At Warner Bros. Digital Labs, he was responsible for maintaining and extending a generic streaming platform API, serving direct-to-consumer video streaming websites, including dramafever.com, moodica.com, warnerarchive.com, boomerang.com, and dcuniverse.com. He collaborated with the content team to reduce their time to deploy content to the website and simplified a complicated, error-prone, and very manual caching strategy. At Sungard, he was responsible for maintaining