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Seattle, Wa, Us

Back End Dev | Managed Streaming Kafka- Develop and Maintain Managed Kafka Connect Infrastructure for global customers

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full Stack Dev | Undisclosed/Unreleased Digital Content Marketplace Solution- Designed and led implementation effort for highly available customer facing web server and server side rendered ui.- Provided key insights and leadership during multiple iterations of the ui, driven by product changes.- Lead effort to ensure operational readiness of owned services prior to product launch.- Invented new methodology for page priming of aforementioned web server in order to optimize latency and reduce page load times significantly.- Oversaw effort to gracefully decommission owned services after its org wide cancellation in Jan 2024.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full Stack Dev | Intelligent Customer Targeted Marketing Solution- Develop systems to provide targeted advertising content to amazon customers.- Dynamic advertising content resolution backed by intelligent algorithms, past purchase history, customer segments.- Implement major features for front end React based web application used for internal campaign configuration.- Developed self service and automated campaign creation workflow to optimize campaign configuration for internal marketing teams.- Managed customer data Spark/Airflow Jobs and associated data pipelines to ensure continuous data ingestion.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Associate Tools for Amazon Go, Amazon Fresh and Amazon Books- Deliver mobile enabled front end JS applications to enable store associate work streams- Facilitate front end JS Applications with back end server APIs and data layers- Deployed software to support store operations in Amazon Go, Amazon Books, Amazon 4 Star, and Amazon Fresh physical stores worldwide.- If you see an Electronic Shelf Label in any Amazon Physical retail store format, I personally helped enable that technology.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Software Development Engineer on Mobile Platforms - Relevant Frameworks: Android, React-Native, iOS - Relevant Languages: Java, Javascript, Groovy/GradleCI and Jenkins Integrations for mobile platform build distribution - HockeyApp Beta Builds - Customized customer builds

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Senior Design Capstone Project - Mobile Single Sign on Solution- Produced a Native Mobile Single Sign On Solution in conjunction with Virginia Tech IT Services.- Experience configuring an open source authentication server for API Access Token Generation.- Developed an Identity Proxy Android Application for use with Third Party Virginia Tech Applications.- Voted winning project at the ECE Senior Design Showcase

Mclean, Virginia, Us

- Participated in an Agile Scrum development team that utilized a daily standup, JIRA Agile board and ticketing system, and end of sprint retrospectives.- Performed bi-weekly coding sprints that required peer code reviews and product owner reviews.- Developed and implement multiple features and improvements to existing Android code base.- Wrote multiple Test Plans and JUnit Robotium UI tests to support regression testing and quality.- Practiced in continuous integration by merging features to Appian master upon completion.

London, England, Gb

- Worked on the Chrysler Uconnect Vehicle Entertainment System, supported issue tracking, management and software release via software supplier- Developed a proof of concept embedded Java application that had the potential of being integrated with the full Chrylser Uconnect Entertainment system in 2015- Created a new test plan for the Chrysler Uconnect Entertainment system that the team and myself used for testing and validation of new software releases

Cascade, Md, Us

- Full time counselor for a bunk of 12-15 children ages 10-12- Oversaw daily activities including, eating, sleeping, playing

Louisville, Ky, Us

- Full overhaul of LCD State Matrix software testing system - Responsible for Black Box testing new LCD software releases- Developed Serial Port Profile (SPP) Bluetooth device for debugging software- Schematic, PCB, and BOM designed with Cadence 16.2/16.3- Developed physical “Flat Fridge” testing environment for refrigerator loads and harnesses - Assisted in ALT testing of loads, harnesses, and PCBs for manufacturing validation