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Atlanta, Ga, Us

- Led 6-month cross-functional project to create a sandbox environment across 10 microservices with a team of 2-5 developers. Worked closely with DevOps, Product, UX, and Marketing teams to refine requirements. Delivered on time and satisfied all stakeholders.- Reduced logging storage costs by 95% by migrating from Cloudwatch Logs to a Fluentd + S3 solution, which also supports live streaming to help with troubleshooting.- Led a team of 4 non-Angular experts to build and deliver modern customer-facing UI, working closely with Product and UX to negotiate requirements and ensure we delivered on time in 1 month.- Migrated core data extraction service from AWS SWF to ECS. Performed DevOps work of Dockerizing the apps, Cloudforming ECS clusters, and creating the Jenkins pipeline to deploy Java and Serverless modules.- Lead developer on KMS-encrypted S3 credential store with cross-region replication, network separation, KMS keys, and IAM policies. Service has been running for 5 years securely storing credentials for all user-facing apps.- Lead developer on Kinesis abstraction library with a simple interface that encapsulates error handling and retry logic. Still in use in all production microservices after 7 years.- Mentored junior developers in-person and remote by training them on Spring Boot, design patterns, and deployments with Ansible, Jenkins and k8s.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

- Prototyped Cassandra and Spark solution in Scala that provided near-real time (sub-minute) responses for 1.2 TB of data during 4 months of research. Provisioned multiple clusters running Cassandra and Spark with bash scripts and Ansible.- Created a generic API simulator for integration testing that was configurable via a REST interface.- Mentored junior team members in best practices for database migrations and RESTful vs RPC API design.

Duluth, Georgia, Us

- Delivered a video streaming and catalog management application supporting 180,000 concurrent users. Withstood the load for each episode of Game of Thrones Season 5 in the Nordic region.- Designed and built a tool to conform the video catalog to the Xbox Bing XSD using XJC (schema to Java code generator). Implemented using the Abstract Factory pattern and heavily unit-tested.- Refactored account creation workflow to support new APIs with unit and integration tests. Unified multiple code paths used by account creation and login user flows.- Trained and mentored two new team members so that they were active contributors within a week.

Waldorf, De

Responsible for business requirements gathering and validation, functional and technical design, implementation, testing, and delivery of enhancements. Working in a cross-functional team with the client, other consultants, and functional resources with varying technical knowledge.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

• Communicating proper design, coding, and testing practices to mechanical engineers.• Merging SysML with Python API to create interactive demo for SysML standard.• Improved 10-year-old code base with interactive SVG models of simulation results.

Exton, Pa, Us

• Developed first release of astrophysics class library with 3 software engineers. • Delivered product 1 week early.• Modeled product’s software architecture and implemented design changes.• Created automated code analysis library to check for improper coding practices, insufficient documentation, and adherence to design decisions. • Consistently met deadlines ahead of schedule.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Created secure Windows LiveCD. Increased division’s visibility outside GTRI.• Developed network unattended Windows installation system for non-technical professionals.