Brent Hoover Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

• Enhanced platform stability and speed through platform simplification and optimization. Reduced downtime to nearly zero• Expanded the team from 2 to 12, handling all hiring, onboarding, and performance management, resulting in a 20% productivity improvement in just 8 months• Implemented goal-setting and performance management frameworks for two engineering teams, improving delivery predictability and career development clarity, resulting in 100% retention• Built innovative integration process, slashing integration costs by 80% while reducingimplementation time from 12 to 2 weeks

London , Gb

• Employed Domain-Driven Design principles and Event Storming workshops to collaborate with stakeholders, identify key business domains, and establish a shared understanding of system requirements• Architected and led development for Frasers Loyalty platform supporting 500K+ daily customer transactions, implementing Kafka and EventBridge integration to achieve 99.99% processing reliability with <100ms average latency across Sports Direct, House of Fraser, and Flannels brands all within 6 months

• Led team of 5 engineers in successful migration of SportsDirect subsidiary from Demandware to Reaction Commerce, completing in six months and saving $250k annually• Engineered robust ETL infrastructure for seamless PIM/ERP data transfers using AWSLambda and Kafka• Led cross-functional team to successfully rewrite the project in place, converting it from Meteor to Node.js, resulting in a 200% increase in build performance, which significantly improved the overall developer experience.

Culver City, California, Us

Designed and developed backend systems for high-volume restaurant order-taking platform.

Design and develop server-based infrastructure for a location-based mobile application.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Developing the Enterprise applications that power the Grindr/Blendr mobile platform in Python, Java, and Erlang.

Building web-based management tools in Python for a catalog that runs in the Millions.

Los Angeles, Us

Helping them build out their hybrid Flash/Django platform. Site at: http://www.anti-aginggames.com

Sherman Oaks, Ca, Us

Building a unique eCommerce/Marketing platform to meet the tight deadlines, strict discipline, and creative chaos these all bring. Having a blast doing it. Code now, Sleep later.

Us

Do all tasks related to building and maintaining the website including writing code, writing content, writing marketing copy, managing marketing efforts (Adwords, SEO, Pricegrabber), Plus I maintain our sophisticated internal network. And I sleep little.

Ca

Hired on at AST, and stayed on when the company became Vault.

Westlake, Texas, Us

Headed up special projects division handing things like the NT 4.0 rollout.

Westlake, Texas, Us

Wrote internal applications to support the support staff which had to manage a large amount of diverse applications over 1000's of desktops.

Houston, Texas, Us

Created the desktop software builds for all consumer machines (Presarios) that shipped during this time.

Helped build the company from 5 employees to nearly 40. Started out entering orders on our one PC, and ended up managing a sophisticated automated order processing system.