Caleb Jones

• Architect and lead efforts across the company to greater personalize products and experiences in a data-driven way.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from various business units to design data systems which can meet stakeholders' heterogeneous use cases and technology environments.
• Work with technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Cassandra, Titan DB, MongoDB, and cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud.
• Present to senior and VP leadership to discuss results of data efforts.
• Estimate program technology costs given current and anticipated technology use.

• Developed education curriculum with two other engineers to provide training for various NoSQL and Big Data backends including Mongo DB, Cassandra, Titan DB, and Elasticsearch.
• Developed a tool to capture semantic information and team discussion about various Disney data assets.
• Lead high-functioning agile team with development having a heavy emphasis on crisp delivery of the user stories created by the product owner and stake holders.
• Created Twitter social network analysis proof of concept using Hadoop, TitanDB, Gephi Toolkit, and D3 visualizations.
• Highlight and promote graph databases via presentations and training on technologies such as Titan DB, Tinkerpop, and Gephi for use cases such as social network analysis.

• Recipient of the Disney Technology Solutions & Services Gold Standard Award (June 2013).
• Back-end Java developer building RESTful APIs in front of different types of NoSQL storage engines.
• Integrated process into build system which auto-generates REST API documentation from source code improving API documentation quality and availability while reducing maintenance costs.
• Maintain high-quality of RESTful services guided by best practices found in the Richardson Maturity Model.
• Work closely with architect and clients to define and prioritize their use cases and iteratively develop APIs and architecture.
• Created authorship collaboration network analysis and visualization for Marvel comic book series using Gephi.

• Back-end Java developer for Smart Energy group. Worked with agile team in 1 week sprints to rapidly develop web services demonstrating output weekly to partners and incorporating feedback.
• Developed several REST web services supporting both XML and JSON to perform tasks such as remote thermostat and demand-response management. REST web services leveraged by both web and mobile applications.
• Architected and built foundation for analytics engine to intelligently analyze data around energy usage.
• Developed service-oriented architecture to integrate with 3rd party systems while maintaining loose coupling.
• Created maven archetypes for generating fully functional REST web services supporting both XML and JSON message transformation. Archetypes built on Spring 3.0 technology.
• Maintained high level of unit test coverage through test-driven development.

• Lead, back-end Java developer for FocalPoint enterprise video solution. 1 year concept to production.
• Coordinate efforts with offshore development team to ensure code quality by performing code reviews, team training, development standards documentation, and code refactoring to maintain quality standards.
• Mentored web services intern. Introduced intern to team best practices and technology such as unit tests (JUnit), AOP, interface-driven design, Spring framework, etc. Intern was able to quickly become a key contributor to team.
• Created general-purpose rules engine used to process logic for HTTP redirection service as well as XPath-based rules engeine API powering extensible software/firmware upgrade service.
• Involved in integration of three web services teams (Cisco, Pure Digital, & Pure Networks). Worked to unify teams on technologies used and software development practices and standards followed.

• Acquired by Cisco Systems in mid 2008
• Developed Customer Support Repository (CSR) which included database sharding to maximize performance and throughput.
• Created XML API powering a customer support tool enabling support agents to visualize details about customer's networks, a troubleshooting suggestion engine, and a VoiceXML prototype providing automated network troubleshooting via phone.
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• Worked on team which upgraded company website and built backend visitor tracking system.
• Key contributor to ecommerce team which upgraded company store from Elasticpath 4 to Elasticpath 6.

Presented on how recent technology is enabling graph technology today, general use cases for graphs, and how graphs can provide additional insight into data with insights on Titan and DataStax's Enterprise Graph.

Discussed how Spark and Tableau have been tactically incorporated into a heterogeneous, enterprise environment at Disney to improve time-to-insight.

Demonstrated how to use astronomical data, Gephi, NAViGaTOR, and Neo4j to simulate how to navigate our local interstellar neighborhood.

Discussed how Spark and Tableau have been tactically incorporated into a heterogeneous, enterprise environment at Disney to improve time-to-insight.

Highlight the hidden and high costs of bad data as well and introduce a tool I built and used at Disney to bring best practices from test-driven development, continuous integration, and reproducible analytics together in the world of data and Hadoop.