Bob Maidens Email & Phone Number

Durham, Nc, Us

Lead a team of 12 diverse developers with various specialties across the full development spectrumUpgraded several monolithic end of life systems into scalable high volume containerized servicesDesigned, built and maintained high-volume transactional systems, including domain intensive REST APIs Implemented cloud agnostic infrastructure as codeActively participated in architecture review discussionsExcelled at design documentationSupported the full deployment lifecycle of software releases into production Actively participated in mentorship programs for new hires and junior developersDeveloped large scale database management tools that were selected as proprietary trade secretsManaged teams locally and globally across time zonesParticipated in agile at scale, from quarterly cross team planning to day to day product ownershipCollaborated in for DevOps process around infrastructure, automation and sustainment engineeringWorked with both internal and external industry leaders and customers directly to address business and customer needs for product requirementsGrew the culture for all things automated - functional, integration, smoke, load and chaos testingImplemented policies and procedures to meet SOC I and SOC II compliance certification

Durham, Nc, Us

Durham, Nc, Us

Durham, Nc, Us

• Lead all technical and web development of the digital agency • Successfully managed a team of four developers of varying skill levels• Introduced agile practises• Managed multiple ongoing projects of variable sizes using the Kanban methodology• Encouraged team culture, motivating what was originally four individual engineers to create, develop and think as a team. • Assisted in the evaluation of potential candidates ultimately resulting in the hire of an additional developer• Introduced best practise development techniques such as git branching, testing and release procedures • Started multiple engineering initiatives including weekly learning sessions and annual hack days• Primary point of contact for all of the agency’s clients for all technical enquiries• Liaising with clients to gather business requirements to create optimal technical solutions

• Responsible for building, designing and maintaining the underlying technologies critical to Yahoo!’s core infrastructure.• Developed a dashboard for hundreds of packages to manage the version, release state, test coverage and overall status across multiple server clusters.• Worked closely with stakeholders of various different platforms including the video, sales and marketing teams.

Platform Engineer for spreets.com.au• Evolved a deals platform from a hastily developed start-up solution into a mature platform capable of supporting the first group buying / daily deals site in Australia with a mobile site, an iPhone app and an API for third party usage.• Balanced the high pace of the start-up industry with best practises to create a fast, stable and high transactional system.• Performed various roles within the team including but not limited to front-end, service and release engineering.• Collaborating with other teams to integrating existing Yahoo! technologies into the platform.• Mentor team members, driving them to grow and exceed key performance indicators.• Created tools that increased the productivity of the sales, editorial and support teams.• Took ownership of an at risk mobile project, leading to its successful launch. It later went on to be nominated for a 2012 ORIA award for ‘Best Mobile Commerce’.• Responsible for designing and architecting all solutions both independently and as a team member.• Engineered two separate third party email-sending integrations, sending out both transactional and daily EDMs to over 1 million users.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au