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Rochester, Ny, Us

Rochester, Ny, Us

Rockville, Md, Us

Rochester, Ny, Us

- Designed new features, helping engineering teams prepare for the features being requested, by building POCs, detailing new Rest APIs, and creating new architecture documentation and diagrams- Spearheaded the use of Feature Flags, allowing for features to be released to customers independent of software releases, by designing a new microservice and admin UI, and advocating for their use in feature planning- Created a GraphQL application layer, enabling faster API requests with fewer backend changes, by running a POC and creating a CI/CD pipeline

Rochester, Ny, Us

- Refactored frontend app into Micro Frontend architecture, allowing for the monolithic app to be broken down into smaller independent, deployable apps, through research, selection, and implementation of single-spa- Built CI/CD pipeline for frontend apps, allowing for high confidence deployments of each app multiple times per day, by writing Jenkins jobs and advocating for the importance of well organized automated tests- Piloted the use of 3rd party products in the frontend application, allowing for a quick feasibility assessment and hands-on interaction by Product Owners, by building POCs with AWS Quicksight, Flexmonster and AG Grid- Established and ran a Frontend Guild, where frontend developers across teams could collaborate and establish best practices, by facilitating meetings, sharing knowledge, and starting living documents

- Rapid go to market delivery, attaining first paying customers within one month of inception and grown to roughly $4K MRR, by quickly releasing features to users and iterating on feedback- Designed and implemented a completely serverless application, resulting in AWS costs of <$100 per month, by utilizing serverless AWS technologies

Rochester, Ny, Us

- Optimized CI/CD process, allowing for quicker releases with fewer merge conflicts, by using a trunk-based Git strategy, automated testing, and post-merge code reviews- Established Scrum practices leading to notably increased organization, accountability, and predictability by reviewing best practices with the team and leading sprint ceremony meetings

Rochester, Ny, Us

- Spearheaded a migration plan to replace all backend generated pages with a SPA by assembling a plan and garnering feedback from team- Modernized frontend application resulting in full adoption from the team, by implementing new features in React and reviewing with team- Refactored monolith application file storage to cloud-native by refactoring to allow file storage in S3 instead of local filesystem though configuration

Toronto, On, Ca

- Provided technical direction for a legal form assembly revitalization project, giving customers much more flexibility in how they answered questions, by building a JS based rules processor and a graph based data model- Organized and lead a team of more than 20 developers in delivering a major release of a Canadian tax law research and news product, releasing on time and under budget with no major bugs- Established a bug fix support team that brought a backlog of more than 500 high priority bugs down to under 50, by introducing a daily triage, training developers, and building relationships with other teams around the org- Spearheaded an evaluation of potential eCommerce platforms, resulting in a team being able to pick up and run with my POC implementation, by providing documentation, best practices and hands-on assistance

- Improved data query performance from minutes to seconds by replacing flat file scans with relational DB queries- Optimized trading research process from 4 hours to 2 hours by adding saved datasets and the ability to transition to other tools with those datasets- Created a series of automated trading algorithms, producing significant profits (2009 $182K, 2010 $385K, 2011 $228K), through trial of ideas tested via paper trading

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

- Spearheaded a replacement application platform, allowing the organization to discontinue use of BroadVision, by running a POC of several popular industry solutions- Produced a plan for a future SSO solution, allowing the organization to benefit from a decentralized service, through evaluation of popular industry solutions

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

- Implemented SEO changes that increased the number of top 10 results for targeted keywords from 758 to 952, accomplished by adding page meta info to the HTML and adding URL rewriting as a service- Championed a change to Agile from Waterfall, resulting in a reduction of rework across teams, by sharing knowledge and leading by example

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

- Enabled use of complex Xerox billing rules in the BroadVision eCommerce platform by implementing a custom pricing component that could be integrated into that platform- Improved data integration process, bringing daily Oracle load times from 8+ hours to under 30 minutes, by refactoring and following Oracle bulk data loading best practices

Ms, Software Development And Management

Bs, Computer Science