About Me
I am a dedicated software engineer with a focus on back-end technologies and some exposure to front-end technologies. I am willing and eager to learn new languages and frameworks. Passionate about projects assigned to me, and strive for code quality, correctness, testability, and readability. I work to keep up to date with new technologies and developments in cutting edge api, web, mobile, and game development. Quick learning and self starting; self taught Spring Framework, iOS development, and game development using Unity.
Experience with a large number of AWS technologies ranging from S3, to real time data streaming with Kinesis. Designed event driven architectures using Kinesis, SQS, SNS, Java services, and Python Lambda functions. A leader for adopting Elasticsearch as an application search backend. A Docker and Amazon Elastic Container Service champion. Always looking for the next problem to solve, and the best way to solve it.
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Experience
Fivetran
Staff Software Engineer • September 2023 to Now
Senior Software Engineer • March 2022 to September 2023
Rocketmiles
Staff Software Engineer • July 2021 to March 2022
Senior Software Engineer • September 2019 to June 2021
CarrierDirect
Senior Software Engineer • September 2018 to September 2019
Build transportation logistics applications focusing on Truck Load Shipment management and the shipment pipeline, from Load creation through delivery. Utilize JVM technologies to build APIs such as Java and Kotlin, with Spring Boot, Spring Web MVC, Spring Reactor, Spring Data, and Spring WebSockets. Use FaaS to provide extensible and scalable APIs for external integrations using Python and Amazon's Lambda functions and Serverless Framework. Migrate from a non-relational NoSQL Mongo based database (Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB) to PostgreSQL. Utilize React to build the front-end web client.
Take ownership over the whole project. Deliver solid and maintainable software. Act as a tech lead for the team and work with the Engineering Manager to form the technical vision and standards for the team, including but not limited to infrastructure, infrastructure cost, performance, scalability, and code quality.
Mentor more junior team members and provide guidance; pair program as needed.
Introduce DevOps culture to the company and work to improve build processes, reliability, and observability for all projects.
Introduce Kubernetes to the organization to enable resilient microservice development and deployment for client projects
Label Insight
Software Engineer • September 2016 to September 2018
Build and maintain scalable, decoupled, near real-time event driven solutions utilizing DynamoDB, DynamoDB Stream, ElasticSearch, and Kinesis. Reduce internal data team’s workload by over half, streamlining the data QA process as well as reducing customer workflow for SmartLabel page publication in hours compared to weeks via older solutions.
Design scalable event driven content management systems utilizing Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, Elasticsearch, DyanmoDB. Build new projects and configure existing projects to support Infrastructure As Code initiative using Terraform or Serverless Framework in support of Engineering’s DevOps goals.
Build and maintain a scalable, centralized logging service for all applications (Java, Python, Javascript/NodeJS) utilizing Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Kinesis Firehose, Elasticsearch for near-real time application performance and health monitoring, and general observability as well as S3, Google Bigtable, and Looker for historic application analytics.
Create and execute on decision matrix for Docker orchestration frameworks to best suit Engineering and the the company’s needs. Convert existing applications to docker containers for ECS with integrated secrets management for environment agnostic code.
Implement new Front End & Backend features with React, Spring Framework and Java or Serverless Framework and Python with Amazon API Gateway.
Maintain and develop features for existing projects using primarily Java and Spring Boot, Python, and Javascript/ NodeJS for back-end APIs, and services as well as front end work with React and Redux or AngularJS (1.x).
Column Technologies
Software Developer • September 2012 to September 2016
Architect and lead development on a Spring Framework-based proof of concept to replace an in-house defect and software development planning and management suite utilizing Spring Security, Data JPA, Web MVC, other extensions.
Re-architect application modules to improve compute efficiency by greater than 75%. Improved efficiency by reducing the number of trips to the database, the total working dataset, and the number of iterations required to finalize calculations. Architect and implement application modules from design and technical specifications, including a runtime data-driven configurable module to match and consolidate duplicate data without loss.
Manage support and maintenance for Java based Remedy plugins, such as a full text search engine, and Outlook calendar integration. Support and develop enterprise grade applications based on Column Case Management, supporting global corporations with thousands of active users and database tables with millions of records.
Knox College
Computer Center Helpdesk Support • 2008 to 2012
Physics Department Tutor • 2011 to 2011
Skills
Programming Languages
Cloud Stuff
Databases
Buzzwords
Other Tech
Operating Systems I'm Comfirtable With
Education
Knox College
B.A. in Physics with Computer Science and Mathematics minors • 2012
Major: Physics - Newtonian Mechanics, Statics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics/Statistical Mechanics
Minor: Computer Science - Mobile Application Development and Security, Databases, Information Management, Algorithm Design
Mathematics: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations
Originally planning to pursue a Mechanical Engineering degree with a 3-2 program (3 years at Knox and 2 years at a partner school), I feb in love with the Computer Science department, and my love of programming was born. As Knox is on a trimester schedule, in my last 5 terms since I had finished my physics major and nearly finished my mathematics minor, I attempted to cram a majority of CS courses. These courses ranged from learning data structures and algorithms, to creating projects for faculty and staff to evaluate for internal use at the college, to a computer science major capstone course in mobile security and mobile development.