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Pelham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Al, Us

Own the internal developer platform for a cross-platform mobile team. Enhance developer productivity and experience by providing tooling and automations to reduce overhead, speed up delivery, and improve quality. Provide technical leadership by selecting tools & technologies which fit business constraints. Delegate efforts by breaking work into small manageable tasks and mentoring junior developers. Additionally develop, maintain, monitor, and advocate for performance metrics and service level targets.Key Initiatives:Founded the mobile platform team and defined what mobile platform engineering “meant” at Fleetio.Led the company-wide adoption of feature flagging from research through design, vendor procurement, implementation, and adoption. Orchestrated the first-ever Mobile penetration test. Evaluated vendors, managed scheduling and oversaw remediation efforts.Revolutionized the mobile release process by adopting release management tool, Runway, saving an estimated 200+ hours annually.Led the adoption of Datadog from market research and negotiation through implementation by collaborating with legal, finance, and engineering leadership teams.Reduced CI/CD build times by 60%.Created robust reporting dashboards and performance monitoring alerts. Leading to a 2% improvement in crash-free rating and 0.35% increase in average app store rating. Automated the integration of GitHub, Jira, Firebase & app stores.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Worked within a cross-functional development team to deliver features from the design through delivery and support stages which impact 40,000+ daily users across a broad range of devices.Design and implement software features for a modern Android application with Kotlin, Jetpack-Compose, Retrofit, and Room.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Designed and implemented highly secure features for an Android app using reactive programming, paging, code based UIs, Material Design, and Mapbox. Reverse engineer Android apps using tools such as Apktool, Procyon, and JD-GUI.Produce reliable, extensible, and unit-tested code.

Fairfax, Va, Us

Created and maintained mission critical systems for submarines.Created GUI apps using Java, Swing, C++, Gtk, and NASA WorldWind.Lead an Agile software team to hit deadlines while prioritizing critical features and fixes.

Design, implement, and maintain military grade software in a secure environment. Create graphical applications for Linux using Java, Swing, C++, Gtk, and NASA WorldWind. Maintain software database with MySQL and Hibernate. Analyze and address software problems in a distributed architecture environment. Create unit testing frameworks using JUnit and Mockito.

Worked in an Agile team environment with continuous testing, integration and deployment Created REST based microservices in a Service Oriented Architecture with Spring, OAuth2, and Jetty.Utilized container deployment strategy with Docker and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Created a Python based API which manipulated and returned data from multiple sources including Google Analytics. Interpreted business requirements and created application features to meet those requirements.