George Fairbanks

About George Fairbanks

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT. Designed and implemented a Hadoop system for a big data analytics firm. Designed and implemented a scripted continuous deployment process using Jenkins, Puppet, and Amazon Web Services. Recently written code in Java, Scala, Pig, Python, Puppet, bash, etc.ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT. Architect positions at 3 NYC banks, advisor to CTOs on architecture strategy.MANAGER. Managed a team of 15 developers across 7 time zones on a big data Hadoop project.ACADEMIC. Ph.D. in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Chair positions in two architecture conferences (SATURN and WICSA).EDUCATOR. Taught classes at NASA, Yahoo, and telecom firms since 1998.AUTHOR. Author of the well-received book Just Enough Software Architecture. Being translated into Chinese for publication in 2013.Specialties: Software architecture, object-oriented analysis and design, software frameworks, training, consulting, big-data architectures, Hadoop

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Google

   Apr 2013 — Present

   Technical lead for several projects on the Google Ad Exchange (AdX) and supply chain teams.

Education

• University of Virginia

  B.S., Computer Science

  1988 — 1993

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Ph.D., Software Engineering

  2001 — 2007

• University of Colorado Boulder

  M.S., Computer Science

  1997 — 1998

Skills

• Object Oriented Design
• Framework Design
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Design
• Design Patterns
• Software Engineering
• Application Architecture
• Software Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Big Data
• Ooad
• Hadoop
• Architecture
• Agile
• Architecture Patterns