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Louisville, Co, Us

New Plymouth, Id, Us

Solution Architects at Truckstop.com are the technical leaders for our development organization. Our architects possess an understanding and expertise from the foundational data layers in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL, across our Kubernetes hosted microservice layer in Kafka, .NET, and Hasura, to our client front-end with RESTful APIs and Angular based user interfaces. They also work closely with Product Owners and Development teams to ensure the right technology and processes are in place to support feature-driven development and delivery. Quickly became the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a subsidiary's suite of software offerings. Provides technical leadership and guidance to the product's development teams while acting as a mentor to the engineers. Beyond daily support and assistance, continuously seeks opportunities to improve and modernize this mix of public facing web apps and back end automations. Accomplishments include:- Conducted a deep dive into the system to identify obstacles preventing cloud migration. Coordinated with engineering and infrastructure teams to implement the required changes, successfully porting the system to Azure with minimal business disruption.- Designed and built a feature flag system that allowed changes to be dynamically enabled and disabled; facilitating iterative rollouts and better monetization of system features.- Collaborated closely with key business stakeholders to implement a new integration with a 3rd party API. This integration automated a previously large-scale manual process improving both accuracy and scalability.- Designed and championed the transition from a system dependent on Windows Scheduled Tasks to an event-based architecture leveraging Kafka. Doing so vastly improves system responsiveness and enables asynchronous data ingestion from outside the system's monolithic database. Worked with multiple teams to see its implementation.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Leading the technical vision for medium to large website, webstore, and intranet builds using the Microsoft stack with C# and JavaScript. Integrating creative designs and user experience (UX) functionality into sites built with the Kentico content management system (CMS). Building packages and deploying software to integration environments such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).Assigning work to a small team of Web Developers who are working on several projects simultaneously.Contributing to an agile project team consisting of Designers, UX/UI Developers, Web Developers, Solution Leads, Projects Managers, and Strategists to help understand and document client requirements, estimate work, develop new solutions, and enhance existing solutions. Providing clear guidance and recommendations to clients on technical solutions to optimize value and foster trust.Actively conducting code reviews.Mentoring Web Developers to grow their technical skills. Building and maintaining internal tools to streamline our development process and enhance productivity. Promoting and collaborating on our development and coding best practices.

Houston, Texas, Us

Drive evolution in the company's cloud-based .NET Core services which underpin its flagship e-sports tournament software. Responsible for database schema, RESTful API, and top-level architecture designs & implementations. Creates extensible and easily testable APIs that integrate completely with other layers of the application. Collaborates with other team members increasing developer productivity at all levels. Ensuring best practices and standards are followed by all developers across the distributed team.Improved speed and reliability of feature delivery by building a yml based CI/CD Azure DevOps pipeline for the company's suite of services. Increased developer productivity by merging related services where appropriate and conducting training in advanced C# and Angular techniques. Improved security by implementing standards compliant Duende Identity Server BFF pattern.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

Working to integrate existing software products into a new cohesive software suite using a .NET Core microservices architecture fronted by an Angular 10 SPA UX. Azure DevOps CI/CD & Agile sprint management. Built automated synchronization pipeline between SalesForce and internal systems.Led a team that integrated a 3rd party data analytics suite into the main line of business application. Integration provided seamless single sign on between the cloud based analytics suite and self hosted SAS application.Reviewed pull requests for both domestic and off-shore resources. Collaborated with architecture on design decisions and helped communicate those throughout the department. Implemented various scripts and codebase improvements that improved developer productivity. Conducted tech screens and evaluated code submissions for prospective hires.

Lanham, Md, Us

Principal Engineer tasked with improving the security and reliability of a long lived suite of SAS applications while also setting technical direction for the next generation of company offerings. Collaborates with leadership, product, infrastructure, and engineering stakeholders to deliver software solutions that meet business goals.Security improvements include evaluations of the current full framework .NET product against common vulnerabilities and putting together a plan to address them. Increased reliability was achieved by working with infrastructure so both IIS apps and Windows Services appropriately take advantage of a multi-server infrastructure. Automated deployment of the entire suite using Octopus dramatically reduced risk and increased how quickly features could be delivered.The next generation of applications leverages .NET Core and RabbitMQ on the server while providing an Angular 7 UX for users. An OIDC complaint IdentityServer4 implementation handles authentication at all levels. Automated unit tests (Jasmine and xUnit) verify functionality and quality throughout the stack.

Senior engineer on the EPF team responsible for building a foundational UX application framework built upon Sencha's Ext-JS library. Worked with stakeholders and designers to create reusable controls and interfaces in a highly regulated industry. Framework quality and functionality was verified via a suite of Jenkins CI tests that ran across multiple browsers and clients.Member of a team that leverages a typical Scrum process: Standups, Backlog Grooming, and Story Decomposition that was then iteratively developed and released in defined sprints.

Sussex, Wisconsin, Us

Providing technical leadership for a distributed team of engineers who are tasked with modernizing the enterprise's primary B2B customer portal. Architecting and building a web standards based secure application that can seamlessly share user experience across multiple individual sites. Primary development stack is in C# .NET. Data access is done against multiple back end data stores (SQL Server, ORACLE, MongoDB, Sybase) via a REST style api. Front-end is served up via Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC with a jQuery and CSS foundation.Duties include: - Research and development into the frameworks and patterns leveraged in the construction of the application. - Balancing technical desires with business needs. Communicating those technical desires with stakeholders and IT leadership. - Collaborating with team members and delegating tasks for completion. - Providing technical and professional guidance to junior team members. - Iterative development of requested features in accordance to specifications provided by business stakeholders.

Sussex, Wisconsin, Us

Responsible for setting technical direction for a team of senior engineers who are re-writing an existing piece of direct marketing software. Helping integrate this acquired team into the culture and infrastructure of the larger enterprise. Provided day to day local leadership and was tasked with technical evaluation of development staff.Architected and implemented a multi-tier application that leveraged Sencha Ext-Js on the client which called into a RESTful ASP.NET MVC 5 api in the middle to pull data from a load-balanced WCF service farm that used Entity Framework to access data from a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. MVC and WCF layers communicated to data crunching windows services via ActiveMQ messaging framework.

Sussex, Wisconsin, Us

Technical Lead for the company’s Software Infrastructure team. Responsible for establishing best practices and building application foundation used by the enterprise’s ~ 200 developers. Worked with IT executives and other business stakeholders to ensure the technical direction of the aligned with business goals. Conducted technical interviews to prospective department hires. Evaluated 3rd party tools and packages for compatibility with the enterprise’s environment. Designed and conducted bi-annual training sessions for department’s new hires. These courses taught interns and recent college grads the company’s tech stack and processes. Coordinated and at times presented at the department’s lunch and learn sessions on new and interesting technologies.Led Implementation of an enterprise-wide application data caching tool built with MongoDB. This implementation provided measurable performance improvements when accessing frequently used data and greatly reduced load on the legacy systems that housed them.

Sussex, Wisconsin, Us

Designed and implemented department wide suite of tools on top of ASP.NET MVC that allowed other teams to build more reliable and consistent web based business applications. These tools included a cookie-based authentication scheme, domain object validation, jQuery plug-ins, and Data Access via iBATIS object mapping.Worked closely with servers, networks, and DBA teams to ensure developed applications integrated well with established hardware infrastructure.Designed and implemented enterprise a Key Business Metrics Dashboard. This dashboard integrated ASP.NET MVC with a Data Warehouse via SSRS reports to display critical business information summaries at the executive level.Designed and implemented company’s main suite of customer facing online tools using open source Monorail ASP.NET framework. Suite integrated ASP.NET applications, SSRS Reports, legacy Java WebSphere pages, MVC applications, and 3rd Party packaged software into one integrated toolset.Performed application design and code reviews. Provided guidance and support for over 200 department team members. Ensured code consistency and web standards were followed. Go-to resource for web development questions.

Sussex, Wisconsin, Us

Worked in a team environment to provide software solutions for the Sales, Estimating, and Human Resources departments. Collaborated with estimators, sales reps, human resources representatives, and other developers to turn business requirements into software. Oversaw tasks to their completion to meet aggressive project deadlines. Mentored junior team members. Participated in team support rotation fielding calls from the business.Implemented enhancements to the legacy PowerBuilder Order Entry and Project Cost Estimating client/server tools.Rebuilt legacy suite of intranet Human Resources tools into Java WebSphere J2EE applications. Shared in 24x7 support and administration of the Java WebSphere cluster.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

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