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Worked on a unified dental office platform that would handle Marketing, Communications, Supplies andRepairs.• Assisted in building and maintaining an auto-scaling and serverless AWS cloud environment for our different PHP7/8, Laravel 7/8 and Node.js projects.• Built out internal development environments initially based on Laravel Homestead and then later transitioned to Docker.• Setup an AWS Client VPN for the developers that worked with AWS IAM and IDP through Google single sign-on.• Helped setup CI/CD pipelines through GitLab and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to ease development, testing and deployment of our Laravel 7/8 applications.• Setup sentry.io for logging and monitoring of our Laravel applications.• Implemented a scalable cron and queueing system based on AWS Lamba, AWS EventBridge, Laravel Horizon and Redis.• Wrote Lambda Node.js and DynamoDB scripts that ingested, transformed and standardized data that was used for our marketing and sales software.• Built integrations that communicated with multiple SOAP and REST APIs that would interface with our internal back end, accounting and marketing platforms.

Inherited a patient self-scheduling and discharge solutions platform designed to enhance healthcare provider strategies around patient acquisition, retention, and satisfaction.• Helped architect and transition the existing platform to a SOC-2 and HIPAA compliant and scalable AWS cloud stack.• Setup AWS VPC Public/Private subnets across multiple AZs hosting serverless Aurora RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Redis and other AWS resources.• Inherited and maintained a Kubernetes cluster that ran a custom Analytics software.• Architected and implemented the Disaster Recovery plan (DRP) and setup AWS fail-over cross region VPCs and databases.• Setup AWS backup and worked with the compliance teams to meet all retention requirements.• Inherited and maintained a CircleCI CI/CD pipeline for the Ruby on Rails scheduling platform.• Setup New Relic infrastructure, synthetics and APM monitoring to alert our PagerDuty and Slack based on call schedule.• Worked with the team to build integrations into Cerner, Epic, NextGen, eClinicalWorks and other EHR systems.• Setup monitoring and processes to achieve 99.5% availability.• Developed integrations and webhooks to send our data in a compliant manner to a variety of different systems.• Helped reduce Cloud spend through AWS Billing by setting up reserved instances, reducing cross data consumption and monitoring IOPS.• Built ER diagrams and requirement documents that gave an overview of each system.

Worked on a small engineering team in developing a unified communications platform for a Fortune 1000 company who was looking to consolidate disparate platforms into one. Transitioned to DevOps Lead to architect and build a HIPAA compliant, highly available and auto-scalable AWS cloud-based system.• Developed a unified communications platform based on PHP7, Angular 1.5, Twilio, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js and AWS stack.• Setup AWS VPC Public/Private subnets across multiple AZs hosting Aurora RDS, Redis and other AWS resources.• Worked on a central REST API that different systems used to communicate to our AWS Aurora database.• Helped architect and transition the existing platform from Rackspace to a HIPAA & PCI compliant AWS cloud stack.• Helped setup internal security and networking systems based on Cisco Meraki and Cisco Meraki MDM.

Worked as senior developer on a small development team that developed and maintained numerousapplications that assisted the university staff and the student body.• Developed a multimedia management system and video streaming solution that hosted over 1000+ university videos, images and audio files. Highlights of the system include uploading of multiple videos and audio files at a time; a custom built-in closed caption editor for videos as well as mobile- friendly encoding/decoding pipeline and playback frontend for videos and audio files. Built on PHP7 with CakePHP 3, Foundation 6 and MySQL as well as AWS S3, Cloudfront CDN, Elastic Transcoder, SQS, DynamoDB and Video.js for playback and Google Analytics for statistics and analytics.• Developed a content management system for professors and instructional designers that allowed real time development of syllabus and course overview pages. Built with CakePHP 1.3, MS SQL Server and a custom written JavaScript/Html5/WYSIWYG frontend that interfaced with AWS S3 and Google REST APIs.• Created a REST API that allowed the various applications to communicate with the university’s LDAP server.• Deployed and maintained an internal GIT source versioning server that leveraged GitLab.• Deployed and maintained multiple LAMP stacks that ranged from PHP 5 to PHP 7 and MySQLdatabases to MS SQL databases.• Created multiple application use cases, test cases, ER diagrams and requirement documents. Alsowrote GIT training material and server migration documents.

Worked as the lead developer on the company’s internal & external websites, backend administrationsystems and email marketing/campaign systems.• Coded & retooled company’s Internet Explorer specific backend website administration system into cross-browser, standards compliant PHP/Javascript-jQuery/XHTML/CSS.• Redesigned and implemented company’s external and internal websites.• Created compelling website & email designs that increased clients click counts and nameacquisitions campaigns.

Worked as a developer & designer on multiple websites for a variety of clients.• Created compelling web and print designs for various clients.• Converted multiple PSD designs to standard compliant PHP/JavaScript/XHTML/CSS web sites.

Worked on a team that developed custom solutions to maintain and analyze the company's database of routes and rates to various countries; also worked on the company's internal IT staff maintaining all PC and networking equipment.• Developed and maintained 3 internal programs to increase efficiency in analyzing the company's routes and rates database.• Helped maintain the company's PC and networking equipment daily.