mackenna dsouza
Serial Entrepreneur | Electrical Engineer | Enterprise Architect | Principal Software Engineer | Data Engineering | Quantitative Developer | Machine Learning
…. in a professional capacity
Most recently as VP Engineering-Innowatts, Mackenna
– secured USD 4.5M ARR revenue, at risk due to service reliability issues through hands-on code changes (1.0),
– incrementally refactored software for reliability and cost reductions from USD 160k a month to USD 53k over a year (2.0)
– simultaneously conceptualized, designed, and built a distributed, cloud platform agnostic, scalable, AMI Analytics platform that allowed entry into the adjacent utilities vertical (3.0)
increasing company revenue from USD 6.5M (2019) to ~USD 18M(2020), making Innowatts profitable and meeting milestones for growth capital funding / Series C from strategic partners.
Prior efforts include …
- HomeAway / Expedia – Austin – Individual Contributor – Search, scoring, relevance, ranking, sorting for multiple HomeAway properties. Established feature engineering and ML Ops function around Data Science model development function. Built team of 5 around at scale data engineering and model serving contributions for global Homeaway properties before moving on to address larger problems around data engineering function within Expedia group (Orbitz, Hotels.com)
- GLG – Austin – Recommendation using Collaborative Filtering to increase accuracy of expert matching and graph theory-based compliance tool to enforce no call requests and prevent liability.
- Enron Online – Houston / London – Lead architect and project manager – Groundbreaking unilateral natural gas price discovery and trading platform for natural gas OTC, Bilateral and options on screen-based first of its kind price discovery platform for commodities at the heart of Enron Capital and Trades disruption of the natural gas OTC market. Additional markets in power, water, steel, iron ore and broadband capability.
- Overture / Google Ad words – Early contributor of dynamic pricing capability.
- HP Global Supply Chain IT – One of three lead architects focused on global supply chain configuration, pricing, inventory, logistics, warranty and returns leading multinational team of 273 personnel and oversight of USD 53 million budget.
- Raised a total of USD 5.6 million in seed capital at several ventures and managed additional capital of USD 1.7 million of personal funds in ongoing seed capital through family office.
- Several startup / intrapreneurial efforts – Siemens ( 1992 – S500 PLC ), Kodak (1996 – Document Imaging), Overture / Adwords ( 1998 – 2003 – Digital Marketing ), Exterprise ( 2000 – early RPA ), Pentasafe ( 2003 – Security / Cross platform user administration ), Merrill Lynch ( 2007 – 2010 – Financial Engineering / Debt Analytics / Index products / Structured Notes ), Martin Energy Trading / DRW Holdings ( 2012 – Greenfield financial natural gas risk quantification management ), E2log / Osclo ( 2019 – oversize cargo logistics procurement and tracking ), Recruvia ( 2021 – talent intelligence for law firms ).
- Hands on experience in front, mid and back office for natural gas, transmission and power trading. Retail energy and utility analytics. L48 + Canada + Mexico supply and demand analytics for power and natural gas. Financial engineering, Statistical Inference, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science proficiency applied to multiple domains. Hands on Data Engineering and ML Ops proficiency with current technologies.
- Current hands-on refactoring experience with legacy application lift and shift, refactoring and migration to microservices-based, decoupled cohesive lambda or kappa architectures enabling agile response of IT systems to business demands and evolution using a platform approach encouraging reusability affecting both top and bottom lines.
Worked in varied roles as …
Individual contributor (Energiewerks, Genscape, Goldfinch, Pentasafe, Exterprise), startup agile team lead (Martin Energy), technology consultant and developer at large firms (Merrill Lynch, BP, Hewlett Packard, Enron Corporation, Unisys), quantitative role (Genscape, Castleton Commodities, MLCI, Saracen Energy, Goldfinch), senior management (Innowatts, Expedia, GLG, E2log, OSCLO).