RC has been a leader in the design and construction of high scale web applications for the last ten years. Currently he’s the Director of Engineering for WP Engine and his team’s platform is responsible for hosting over 120,000 domains running WordPress, and sees over 30 Million unique users every day. Prior to that RC founded the Bazaarvoice New York City office building a 10 person Engineering team focused on the Connections business which has brought thousands of new clients onto the Bazaarvoice platform. Originally, RC was a software developer writing high scale web and big data applications in Java with backends based on Oracle, MySQL, and various search engines (Solr/Fast).