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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Providing day-to-day leadership, including task management, 1:1 meetings, and performance reviews for team of 6 engineers that owns company’s microscope image data. Mentoring team in writing clean, reliable code, introduced initiatives to streamline complexity and reliability. Designed and implementing migration from monolithic Golang application backed by MySQL to collection of microservices in Typescript, Golang, and Python backed by AWS Dynamo, GraphQL, and AWS SNS/SQS.Contributing to the architecture and design of additional microservices throughout the company's tech stack.

Created and integrated NestJS service for generating visually distinctive custom PDF reports for customer home inspection mold findings, improved performance and maintainability for deep learning pipeline, and refined pipeline management tools.

Officially took Technical Lead position for system control team; responsible for direct technical guidance, architectural decisions, codebase health and maintenance, and task management for team of 36 engineers.Overseeing development and deployment of event-driven microservices-based architecture using Docker and Apache Kafka.

Continued managing tasks for team of 20 engineers for team's largest contract. In addition, became direct technical lead for a team of 4 engineers, performing DevOps support for our own specialized section of the system monitoring software as well as providing front-line support for the larger software project.Began work with several other engineers on designing and developing a new microservice-based architecture using Docker, Apache Kafka, Influx, and Grafana.Took on Lead Architect position on the system control team and began assuming direct technical lead responsibilities for team of 25 engineers in September 2017.

Began working on specialized area of larger system-control application, involved in signal control and analysis. Participated in routine DevOps work. Also took on responsibilities for task management for team of 15 engineers for my team's largest contract.Designed and developed communication protocol for new intersystem messaging system which now forms an integral part of the company's overall system solution.

Worked on high-level system control application intended to support data-center style systems with an emphasis on constant uptime. Implemented UI features using C++ and Qt, also wrote back-end services that communicated with other software and provided data for the UI.Additionally began acting as point of contact and task manager for my team on a new contract. Responsible for managing tasks for myself and two other engineers.

Developed back-end middleware responsible for providing hardware abstraction layer to higher-level software systems and users. Implemented Google Protocol Buffers-based communication framework for the middleware to communicate both with its controlled hardware, and its higher-level software clients. Worked primarily in C++, with some support work in PHP.

Developing tools and programs for making life's small tasks easier. Also developing programs upon request for commercial organizations.

In charge of research on the MASnet platform. Research was on autonomous distributed formation control.

Worked on an online game known as TDZK Fleets. This position was mostly a hobby, but provided valuable experience.

Responsible for developing a PHP web application which uses a MySQL database backend.

Engineering assistant for R&D department. Participating in developing and implementing automation sensors and equipment.

Researching FPGA reliability methods.

Responsible for Oracle database administration, php web development, and Java development of foreign language teaching software.

Responsible for Oracle database administration, php web development, and Java development of foreign language teaching software.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Published a paper for the IFAC workshop on Networked Robotics 2009 (http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/40497.html) Received.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: DARPA Urban Challenge teamMinor in Computer Science