Todd Outten

Summary

Serial entrepreneur and hands-on technical executive with a strong interest in developing and implementing new technologies and business models with start-ups and mature organizations looking to innovate. Currently working as a Distinguished Engineer in Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Infrastructure and Edge Compute. Interested in the intersection of content, commerce and technology as it relates to new pull distribution models for digital and physical products and services. Start-up experience from conception through prototype to business modeling, market launch and customer adoption. Additional expertise in identifying, pitching and raising capital (angel, venture, strategic). Over seventeen years experience in designing, prototyping and launching technical architectures for digital media creation and distribution, ad networks, and financial systems. Over ten years experience in running production workloads in public and hybrid cloud (largely AWS). Hands-on AWS developer and architect, including: DevOps, design patterns, security (IAM/RBAC/VPC), big data, and high-level services. Teach AWS classes (intro and advanced). Primary inventor on patents for Digital Rights Management, Distributed Content Delivery and Caching, Consumer Intelligence Marketing and Advertising, and Direct Marketing. Hands-on expertise in: C, Ruby Rails 3.x, Java, ASP.NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SMS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Resque, icinga, nginx, REST, XML-RPC, Soap, Amazon (EC2, Cloud Front), Akamai, Heroku, Engine Yard, New Relic, Selenium, Virtual Currencies, Agile / Scrum. Technologist/Architect for digital media, visual effects, CGI and animation on film and TV projects: ABC News, Air Force One, American President, Casper, CBS Sports, Clear & Present Danger, Contact, Dragon Heart, Godzilla, James & The Giant Peach, Jumanji, Lord of the Rings, NBS News, Speed, Spiderman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Stuart Little, TimeCop, Twister, Weather Channel, WWE.