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Los Angeles, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

1-Month Contract supporting migration of systems and services from GCP to AWS- Evaluate software architecture on AWS and deployment system on Vercel to identify areas for improvement in robustness under production load, cost and efficiency, and security- Work with AWS Systems architect or other similar assigned personnel to review setup- Software observability improvements across the backend and frontend implementations, to assist Aclima engineering team in best effort delivery of product

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Managed a globally distributed, Enterprise focused team of 5-7 engineers building foundational integrations with third party systems in a Ruby on Rails platform.• Delivered an integration with Bullhorn CRM responsible for keeping millions of entity data records synchronized across users, companies and job requisition data. The solution allowed for a 370% increase in scheduled interviews in the first month, and a 457% increase in the second month compared to the average number of scheduled interviews in the preceding 4 month period. The solution also saw a 231% increase in fill rates (placing candidates in our customer’s roles), and an over 50% decrease in time to fill.• Managed additional integration projects with Salesforce, Greenhouse, Workday, SAP Successfactors and SAP Fieldglass.• Foster an atmosphere of professional development and team wellness through servant leadership and career growth management. • Managed relations with third party vendors (The Cloud Connectors, SAP and Newbury Partners) to ensure projects remained on track.• Led production deployments on a CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions and Jenkins.Coached senior engineers in Architectural and Technical Design documentation and approaches.• Estimated sprint velocity based on prototypes, Product Requirements Documents, Technical Design Documents, Agile methods, and available engineering resources.• Interfaced with stakeholders and leadership on future timelines and demoed completed deliverables.• Collaborated with Product managers to analyze user needs, scope work and translate into software solutions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Designed and developed a RESTful API in Ruby on Rails and a MySQL schema approach for integrating The Mom Project with external Applicant Tracking Systems to replace a manual process of data synchronization with automation. • Designed and implemented an extension of The Mom Project's JWT library (Rails gem) wrapper to allow for authentication of external API requests.

Portland, Oregon, Us

• Technical lead of new features and bug fixes for billing systems at Customer.io.• Managed Stripe (stripe.com) RESTful API integrations and webhook event streams for Billing, Payments and Subscriptions in a Go (Golang) environment.• Maintained new and existing UI interactions between our backend services & Stripe• Maintained our Internal tooling integration (Retool) enabling account management to create and manage billing/subscriptions for their customers without engineering assistance• Created a business development facing billing audit tool (using Mode) for visualizing customer data.• Improved our existing MySQL database schema management approach with an easier, more understandable system including version control and real-time migration capabilities in multiple environments (leveraging skeema.io).• Productionized an enhancement to User permissions, providing more granular control of a user’s permission level within a customer account.

Berlin, Deutschland (Deu), De

• Led a six member team in designing and building a React front-end, Node.js back-end solution to manage public transit fare catalog updates, transitioning this task from an engineering production release cycle task to an auditable process that account managers can perform in real time.• Managed an engineering intern, fostering their growth and identifying goals they could set to position themselves as a solid candidate for full-time hire.

Berlin, Deutschland (Deu), De

• Transitioned a management system for transit agency fare catalogs requiring manual updates of static JSON objects to a Node.js microservices and MySQL backed solution that prepared time-based fare catalogs dynamically and leveraged Redis for caching API responses.

New York City, New York, Us

• Supported an international job and volunteer listings web application written in Python/Flask with 30,000+ daily users bringing in over $7 million annually• Provided feature development for monolithic server-side rendering web application and supporting microservices architecture• Created and maintained automated reports to reflect the success of business ventures and campaigns.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Developed libraries using C# for an automated test environment in a pair programming environment- Wrote test scripts in VBScript utilizing those libraries to test Wi-Fi hardware and software

Portland, Oregon, Us

Converted a proof of concept search application (mostly written in PHP and Java) to a production environment (CentOS/Python/PostGreSQL). Metadata was created via hybrid of curated and automated extraction from a large database of scientific data. The web based application returned ranked results (using the metadata) in real-time to combined geospatial and temporal search criteria. Results were shown using text / Google Mashup.

Portland, Or, Us

Develop and maintain software tools to test vehicle electronic systems at time of production, primarily for final validation. Develop and maintain web based tools to display test results with detailed and specific views for corporate groups, manufacturing plant managers and test operators.

Portland, Or, Us