Robert Berger
Chief Architect & Head of Platform Team at Informed.IQ
Robert Berger
Chief Architect & Head of Platform Team at Informed.IQ
Saratoga, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Architect & Head of Platform Team
2022 - Current
Informed.IQ is a Machine Learning B2B2C SaaS that automates verifications of consumer credit applications in real-time for an ecosystem of Lenders and their clients - "Turns Documents and Data into Decisions". - Facilitate the evolution of the next generation MLOps Serverless architecture
Owner / Principal
1996
Consulting firm to assist start-ups, venture capital firms and enterprises, to understand, develop and utilize Internet technology / infrastructure and Open Source. Previous onsulting and advisory positions have include Informed.IQ, ExperienceFLow, Intel, Visa, Ascend, Cisco, IDG World Expo, NEA, Athena Tech Ventures, iAsiaWorks, Ipsilon, Firstpoint Communications, Stardust Forums, iPass, Conxion, Sentient, OKI, Kiwi Networks, and AsiaQuest, PepLink (Muni-wireless CPE), Wavion (smart antennas), Camp Ventures, Covad, LinuxWorld , CTO Forum, Interop, Class Data Systems, Alteon, AboveNet, Privada (Confidential Net Access), Xspeed (DSL CPE), Cosine Communications, Qala Communications (Singapore DSL CLEC), Reactive Networks (Anti-DDOS equipment), Vpacket (VoIP IAD), COM21, BizFinity (Web based accounting service), Proxinet (Enable Cell Phones and PDA to better access web content), Jetstream (VoIP DSL), Rainmaker Tech (Wavelet PHY layer), Pulsent (Video delivery), Sandpiper / Digital Island and others.
Advisor
2004
Netenrich offers IT infrastructure management and optimization services including end-to-end NOC based management framework that enables complete remote visibility and management of a multi site infrastructure from core network components to desktops. They have developed a set of hardware, software and remote services that enable afordable and secure access & compliance for IT infrastructure monitoring and management. These services include: * IT Infrastructure Remote Monitoring Management and Alerting * Remote DBA * Desktops & Laptops Management * IT Infrastructure Optimization * Application Maintenance, Application Tone, IT Production Support and Sustenance Engineering * Outsourcing of Technical Support Partnering Services for Mission-Critical IT Products http://www.netenrich.com/ Contributions include product architecture, experience with ISP infrastructure, Devops, and remote management as well as supporting their sales and funding efforts.
CTO / SVP Engineering / Co-Founder
2016 - 2022
Omnyway offers a Live Streaming Commerce platform (https://www.visx.live) that allows retailers to create one to many sales events and one to one live VIP sales consultations. The big difference is that VISX enables the shopper to buy the products being shown without leaving the live video stream. It also enables the retailer to fulfill from their physical stores or e-commerce sites. Oversaw all aspects of OmnyPay's engineering effort. Architect the long term system design and implementation. Build and manage the engineering team both in the US and off-shore. Architected various software and cloud deployments. Directed AWS Cloud, Serverless infrastructure, Continuous Integration, a variety of payment systems, e-commerce fulfillment, analytics, etc. Hands on experience with the implementation of Live Streaming using webRTC, AWS IVS, AWS Chime and other technologies. UX/UI design and implementation with Clojurscript, Reagent, Re-Frame and React.
Cloud Architect
2014 - 2016
Investigated, defined, designed the overall cloud infrastructure for real time acquisition, machine learning and monitoring of network devices and services. Created and implemented the DevOps process centered around Continuous Integration and automated deployment. The Kafka and Storm Microservices stack was deployed and maintained using Chef Provisioning on AWS. Defined and implemented a 2nd generation deployment scheme based on CircleCI, Mesos, Docker, Storm and custom stream processing services written in Clojure, Python and Go.
Principal
2013 - 2014
Consulting / Training Service in the realms of DevOps, Big Data / Cloud / Internet Infrastructure. Focus includes: * DevOps Process Development and Integration * Continuous Delivery Pipelines * Cloud / On Premise Migrations * Monitoring / Metrics / Alerting * Hadoop Ecosystem * Configuration Management and Orchestration
Principal Instructor / CTO / Co-Founder
2014 - 2014
Co-founder and CTO of Stealth Startup to train sysadmins, ops and devs in the realms of Big Data and Hadoop.
CTO / Co-Founder
2007 - 2013
SaaS for online merchants that increases conversion of Website shoppers to buyers and dramatically increasing profit for the merchants. Runa delivers personalized Dynamic Promotions for each product to each shopper on the merchant’s site to close the sale and thus increase online revenues. The Promotion is optimized based on the consumer’s behavior and context, along with real-time analytics and business rules set by the merchants. Built and led the initial engineering team. Architected the horizontaly scalable Runa stack of Hadoop/HBase, RabbitMQ, Clojure Runtime, Redis, and other components on the AWS Cloud. Oversees the infrastructure and automated deployment, monitoring and management using Opscode Chef, Ironfan, Graphite, and Sensu. Implemented the Runa Merchant Integration for PHP, Mivascript, Magento and several custom deployments.
Technical Advisory Board Member
2005 - 2011
Panorama Capital invests in early and mid-stage Internet, Networking, Biotech startups. http://www.panoramacapital.com/ As a member of their Technical Advisory Board I introduce opportunities, offer due diligence services and help to refine key investment themes, assess technical, product and market risks in new deals, and provide post-investment input.
Advisor
2005 - 2010
Support-Intelligence "data mines" Internet Infrastructure and huge volumes of SPAM from various sources to discover compromised hosts and other normally anonymous threats on the Internet. The company was founded on the premise that malicious network activity can best be controlled by applying modern machine learning algorithms to large volumes of aggregated traffic data. http://www.support-intelligence.com/ I am helping them with funding, market focus, partnering and technology.
Education
(Not a degree program)
1980 - 1980