Bob Balaban Email & Phone Number

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Software architecture and development consulting for distributed, "serverless" and cloud deployments. Experts in software development process, cybersecurity and "inter-cloud" applications.

Occasional expert witness/consultant to legal teams working on patent infringement cases, especially using my deep experience with Lotus Notes and Domino

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Skills I have developed/enhanced in this role: Java, IntelliJ, Gitlab, Terraform, Jira. I go in-depth on AWS cloud architectures with Java and node.js implementations, serverless architecture, micro- and macro-services, Terraform, New Relic APM, JSON. Learning Python for fun.

Dundalk, County Louth, Ie

Working in the UnOps team to improve application and system monitoring, alerting and trending across all Cimpress business units. Architect cloud-based services/microservices for other teams to consume. Focus on tools for packaging/deploying functional tech stacks for MAT (AWS, node.js, ruby)

RedisLabs is the sponsor and commercializer of the Redis open source database. RedisLabs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC) adds easy management, deployability and scalability to the Redis db engine. As Solutions Architect, I was a technical resource for pre-sales and post-sales customer engagement, covering several territories. Also acted as Redis and RLEC evangelist via meet-ups, conferences, and articles. I teamed with Account Managers to develop and close sales of RedisLabs Enterprise Cluster. This was a customer-facing role, conducting demos, onsite training, installations, troubleshooting, and data modeling. I planned and led customer proof-of-concept projects, building cloud based (AWS) sample architectures

Lowell, Ma, Us

Lead software architect for the WorkforceReady Cloud/SaaS product. Oversaw development and improvement of all technologies related to distributed processing, database access, security, API level integration, test automation and performance. Worked across geographies with development and QA teams to implement current best-practices, create development processes (e.g., code reviews, sprint planning) and monitor code quality. Designed and led implementation of public REST API. Evaluated, deployed and evangelized APM tools. Responded to customer RFPs.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Architected, designed and implemented REST API for next generation SaaS/cloud product offering. Designed distributed services breakdown and architecture/interfaces for a geographically distributed bot-net for testing performance and availability of commercial websites. Keys to the architecture were cross-product functionality, co-existence with core infrastructure, scale to terabyte-volume performance, with disaster resilience.Lead cross-product architect, ensuring appropriate adoption of common processes and code sharing. Collaborate with other architects and data scientists to craft a high volume, high availability SaaS product that supports resilient data flows and reliable disaster recovery. Major hands-on coding (Java, Tomcat, Jackson, JDBC, Jersey...) and definition of best practices and coding standards. Agile team guidance and research. Lead security architect. Some experience de-Springifying code.

San Jose, California, Us

Developer in the Acquisitions team for OnCommand/Insight product (formerly known as SANScreen), data center management tools. Design and write module to interrogate data center components (storage, switch, VM) for inventory and performance data.

Product architect for “Connected” PC backup server. Led re-architecture and implementation of “cloud” solution for enterprise auto-backup of individual computing devices. Re-design and re-implement legacy codebase as modern .NET/C# hosted server: high availability, mirrored, multi-process and multi-threaded, transacted data stores, etc. Invented enterprise-grade file sync mechanism. ScrumMaster. Promoted to Technical Lead after 3 months. Significant experience with performance profiling of SQLServer and cloud backup/archiving systems

Successfully deliver custom mission-critical software architecture consulting and components (.NET, Java, C++) to worldwide customer base on time and under budget. Developing custom software improvements in collaboration, business processes and infrastructure performance. Customers include IBM, Microsoft, others.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Small consulting/product company, New Jersey. Researched and strategized a Notes to Microsoft SharePoint application converter (C#, C++). Designed, coded, and shipped a Notes-to-Google Apps migration solution (C#). Developed product, documentation, and marketing strategies for analysis, estimation, and migration technologies. Identified product enhancements, conducted problem triages and code reviews. Represented company as expert speaker at worldwide technical conferences and events. Integral contributor to company transition from services orientation to product orientation.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Determined technical direction for the next generation of Notes/Domino application development, and revitalized application development aspects of the Domino platform. Focused on making the Domino Web application infrastructure more open and transparent. Operated a Design Partner Program for application development, researching development priorities and testing new product features. Collected feedback and evangelized new product functionality by speaking at partner and customer events, conducting briefings, writing articles, and hosting a blog on Notes/Domino programmability. Led architecture and implementation of “Notes access for SAP solutions” (NaSs) template (LotusScript). Managed a team that successfully shipped two product releases in 2006, and a third in the first quarter of 2007. The product successfully prevent $40 million worth of Notes business from being lost to Microsoft, and was influential in 3 Fortune-100 customers’ technology decisions in favor of IBM.

Managed a consulting and custom software development firm with an international client base. Created and marketed software products such as SnappShot (Sametime IM chat recorder, C++), ScriptExpander (LotusScript programmability plug-in, C++), and Dogwood Site Publisher (capture Domino and other Web sites as local HTML files, Java). Developed custom software solutions and training for small and large clients (government, insurance, banking, travel). Major customers included: IBM, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Reinsurance, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and HP.

Us

Notes/Domino, 1993-97: Designed and implemented the object APIs for market-leading collaboration platform Lotus Notes ("Notes back-end classes") for LotusScript and Java (C++, Java). This API is now considered core developer functionality in the product. Invented the LSX (Lotus Software Extension) plug-in architecture on which Notes objects are implemented. Lead architect for Notes Agent Manager (server task to schedule and execute user “agent” programs, with full multitasking, resource throttling, and OLE embedding support, C++). Participated in converting codebase to support international character sets. Shipped several major releases of Notes in 1996 and 1997. 123/Windows, 1991-93: Lead architect and developer for the Version Manager feature (collaborative, workgroup oriented scenario analysis tool) of 123/W Release 4 on Windows 3.1 (C, C++). Mentored and directed development team of 10 engineers and led the project from initial requirements through design and implementation. Wrote approximately one-third of the code. Introduced C++ to the development team.123/G (OS/2), 1988-90: Responsible for file format translations (import/export) and various cell engine features (C, ASM). Led development effort to support multiple character sets, including Kanji. Debugged OS/2 Kanji support.

Master'S Degree, Asian Studies (China)

Bachelor'S Degree, Asian Studies