Role: Design and build high-volume, real-time event streaming systems to deliver product, price and inventory data for HBC's banners, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Hudson's Bay. Relevant keywords: Scala (particularly functional programming with Cats, FS2 Streams, Http4s, Circe), Python, Node.js, Java, Go, Bash, Infra as Code, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Terraform, AWS (esp. CodeBuild, CodePipeline, EC2, Kinesis, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Batch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache, KMS, ECS, ECR, EKS), Redis, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ArgoCD, Docker, Kafka, Avro, Git, Github, Travis.

- Lead developer for Sparta's cloud Quality Management System offerings in an agile, test-driven, continuous integration environment.- Full-stack development experience from enterprise-level backends, RESTful web services to modern JavaScript-based web clients. - Creation and enhancement of build pipelines, and improvements to test and analysis tooling.- Backlog refinement support, additional requirements gathering. Coordination with BA, Architecture, QA and DevOps to ensure alignment on broader requirements, identifying challenges and sequencing of work. - Drive our technical interview process, and provide mentorship of new and junior hires.- Evaluation and promotion of new technologies via proof-of-concepts, knowledge sharing sessions and justification/prioritization with business.- Author of HoldMail, Sparta's first sponsored Open Source project, which facilitates the automation of email testing.

- Design, prototyping and development of an Android app for graph dashboard monitoring. - The development of a Java API to support the app, which is planned for a separate release.- Integration of third party payment, metric and logging systems into the primary web application.

- Lead developer for several customer-specific projects with complex workflows, involving J2EE business logic with custom web functionality. - Collaborated with the software configuration manager on the specification and configuration of our Weblogic, Tomcat, Apache and Oracle DB servers. - Led the migration of several core CrefoSystem components from Java 1.4 to 1.5, including migration from Weblogic 8 to 10. - Lead technical role on the “CrefoSystem 2.0” project, using Oracle's Application Developer Framework to deliver Creditreform’s newest generation of business information. - Created a proof-of-concept app (yFiles/AJAX) for visualizing company hierarchy information. This application will be used to replace the legacy applet-based solution, thus vastly simplifying our client's minimum system requirements. - Lead role on web-based dynamic reporting application, using Eclipse BIRT. - Developed a Single Sign-On solution for linking sessions across separate application servers.

- Consulted with YGIB on the day-to-day technical affairs of the company's online presence.- Provided instruction/supervision of junior developers.- Led the overhaul of the on-line store and tag registration system.- Designed and prototyped the 'print your own' tag system (iText PDF generation).- Created the proof-of-concept J2ME implementation of the 'mobile superhero' protection software.- Oversaw struts/mysql/tomcat/apache/linux configuration, as well as the rollout of upgrades.

- Lead developer for of many core modules of the ‘Site Manager’ product. - Simplified provisioning for many of our larger customers through the introduction of LDAP integration. - Introduced proper source control, project structure, and build policies, cutting developer environment setup time in half. - Designed a more efficient publishing system, resulting in significant savings in publish time. - Project manager for a year-long project for one of our largest customers, replacing two separate legacy systems with a single web application. - Designed and developed installation, upgrade and licensing modules which completely changed how our product was delivered to the customer, resulting in huge time savings for both us and the client. - Supported in-house and customer-based technical staff with the development with our APIs as well as with deployment issues.

- Supported several customers with system, configuration and deployment issues. - Installed and maintained both internal and on-site equipment. - Designed and developed custom perl and java-based web applications for customers. - Wrote a significant amount of technical documentation for our intranet.

- Provided first and second level technical support to both residential and business customers. - Trained and supervised new support employees. - Updated and provided new material for the support intranet.