As a product owner, I've provided strong leadership, guiding teams in strategic planning and execution to maintain and enhance the IoT backend cloud infrastructure. This leadership has been instrumental in achieving alignment with our business objectives and delivering successful outcomes.I spearheaded the secure deployment of multiple RESTful microservices on AWS, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and integrating them into our CI/CD pipeline, ensuring efficient large-scale software deployments.Orchestrated a seamless migration of a mission-critical server, hosting a Django application, from on-premises to Heroku and AWS. This involved significant application upgrades to meet new hosting environment requirements while minimizing downtime and ensuring security compliance.Designed and deployed data engineering pipelines for AWS Glue and SageMaker, integrated with New Relic for monitoring and alerts. Led major codebase upgrades to harness new capabilities and adhere to rigorous security standards.Played a pivotal role in the hiring process, interviewing software engineering candidates during preliminary and technical design phases. I also mentored junior developers, fostering their growth in Python and AWS CDK development, conducting design and code reviews, and enhancing overall team performance.

Orchestrated and managed Kubernetes clusters, enabling the deployment of machine learning ecosystems for government and academic collaboration. These ecosystems spanned various platforms, including local cloud networks, high-performance computing clusters, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.Contributed significantly to designing and developing a machine learning ecosystem that aimed to enhance efficiency and collaboration between government entities, academia, and independent researchers.Led the design and development of database backends, logical data models, and a suite of RESTful microservices. These services covered a wide range of functionalities, including workflow management, scheduling, Docker container orchestration, and Kubernetes deployment.Machine Learning Proficiency: Developed machine learning models adhering to the Model Integration Software Tool Kit (MISTK) API, leveraging PyTorch and Tensorflow Keras to achieve compliance and efficiency.Designed and developed various components of DARPA's Orbit Outlook Data Archive (OODA) system, overseeing their development to meet new customer requirements. Upgraded the distributed data framework to enhance performance, reliability, and extensibility. Provided invaluable systems integration and testing support, successfully resolving various customer issues that arose during project execution.Actively mentored and coached junior engineers, ensuring their adherence to industry best practices and rigorous security standards.

Conceptualized and developed an extensible graphical user interface for training simulation software using the OSGI framework and Agile software development methodology.Collaborated closely with stakeholders to define project specifications and delivered technology solutions that not only met but often exceeded performance expectations.Conducted in-depth systems analysis of both simulation and field data, particularly geospatial telemetry data, employing Matlab to enhance tracking system precision and performance.Collaborated effectively with team leads and managers to devise staffing plans, allocate program budgets, and create project planning documentation for projects spanning 1-3 years.

Designed and implemented new functionality for commercial web services that facilitated communication between SQL databases and client side web applications. Also implemented changes to the database architecture in order to fulfill changing business requirements. Development was done in Java, PL/SQL, and Struts2.Worked with cross departmental teams to design and develop new features and functionality to existing web applications that are fundamental for online ordering of products and services offered by the company. Development was done in Java, Google Web Toolkit, and C#.Implemented automated testing of web services and web sites using JUnit, SoapUI, and Selenium.

Designed and implemented web pages for internal company website to monitor industrial manufacturing and packaging rates, processes, and equipment statuses. Development was done in ASP.Net.Migrated and updated web servers and databases to resolve conflicts created by upgrade from Oracle 9 to Oracle 10g. Assisted in deployment and testing of Oracle upgrade to client workstations.

Designed and implemented updates to proprietary automated testing software to improve efficiency, add capabilities to test new services created by other developers, and incorporate the use of NHibernate for object relational mapping with a SQL database. Software was written in Java and C#.Performed quality assurance testing of new services added to Webster’s banking software. Responsible for analyzing the results of regression testing and informing developers about any bugs caused by new services.Worked in a team to design and implement software capabilities for XML parsing of a non-schema based XML files that extracted specific information and generated Java objects in order to test specialized bank services using Java and XML Beans.