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Seattle, Wa, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Austin Tx

Austin, Texas Area

Working with Architecture team to advise and mentor all development teams.Technically leading a software development team responsible for the design, implementation, test and maintenance of multi-tenant SaaS pricing services.Mentoring team members and integrating state of the art concepts and tools into the team.Advocate for Continuous Delivery and DevOps across entire organization.Researching Linux containers for deployment automation, service resiliency and elasticity using Docker, Deis, and Mesos.Designed and implemented REST micro-service for pricing search using Dropwizard/Jetty and ElasticSearch search engine.Prototyped REST micro-service for graph search using Dropwizard/Jetty and Titan graph database. Designed and implemented Continuous Delivery deployment pipeline for several micro-service application teams using Jenkins, RunDeck, Artifactory, SonarQube and Chef. Support for private on premises infrastructure, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as deployment environments.Implemented deployment orchestration tooling using Apache JClouds to manage whole system life cycle for micro-services deployed in Amazon AWS.Introduced Configuration Management tooling into deployment architecture using Puppet. Migrated configuration to Chef.Introduced Vagrant for local workstations deployments on virtual machines.

Austin, Texas Area

Senior Technical Lead for Infrastructure and Pricing Analytics team.Responsibilities include technically leading a software development team responsible for the design, implementation, test and maintenance of core infrastructure components and pricing OLAP analytics.Technically mentoring team members and integrating state of the art concepts and tools into the team. Designed and implemented search indexing and retrieval for pricing domain model entities using Apache Solr.Converted legacy custom build system to Maven/Gradle and Continuous Integration builds using TeamCity.Implemented and maintained core libraries for pricing and revenue management applications.

Austin, Texas Area

Technical Lead for Infrastructure and Pricing Analytics team.Responsibilities include technically leading a software development team responsible for the design, implementation, test and maintenance of core infrastructure components and pricing OLAP analytics.Technically mentoring team members and integrating state of the art concepts and tools into the team. Designed and implemented dynamic RMI proxies and Java process management application to replace a legacy CORBA service infrastructure. Designed and implemented high performance scalable caching support for Analytics OLAP dimensions.Implemented a Configuration Repository component to manage application metadata via Java Content Repository and Java Annotations.Designed and implemented a management and monitoring application interface that supports adapters for JMX, SNMP and WS management protocols.Implemented and maintained application features for Pricing OLAP analytics application.

Austin, Texas Area

Senior Software Developer for Infrastructure team.Responsible for the design, implementation, test and maintenance of common infrastructure software components.Designed and implemented a high performance Java IPC message queue via multithreaded TCP client/server communication.Implemented a high performance Java data cache using BerkeleyDB for a persistence engine via JNI.Designed and implemented a high performance real time Revenue Management application integrated with Airline reservation systems.Implemented and maintained features for Pricing and Revenue Management applications.

Houston, Texas

Software Developer for Airline Revenue Management team.Responsible for the design, implementation, test and maintenance of Airline industry Revenue Management applications.Implemented concurrent work distribution framework to parallelize loading data into relational databases and parallelize forecasting and optimization algorithms for Revenue Management applications.Designed and implemented data structures and components for large volume data transformations on configurable sets of hierarchical data in Revenue Management applications.Designed and implemented a generic POJO state machine using Java reflection and XML metadata.Implemented and maintained Airline Revenue Management application features.

Houston, Texas Area

Software Developer for ITSS Architecture team.Responsible for the design, implementation, test and maintenance of core online transaction processing systems.Designed and implemented SNMP agents to monitor transaction processing in real time.Integrated custom SNMP agents into Unicenter TNG.Designed and implemented a pluggable component transaction message parsing application. The parsing application supported parsing and generating a variety of custom data representations via assembling pluggable components via configuration metadata.Integrated Tuxedo IPC framework into transaction processing infrastructure.

Houston, Texas Area

Software Developer for ITSS Data Communications team.Responsible for the development, testing and care of custom EDI interfaces to online transaction processing system.Development support for multiple WAN protocol handlers: TCP/IP, SNA, X.25, Decnet.Development support for custom data message format parsing and generation.

Houston, Texas Area

Technical Service Representative for ITSS Architecture team.Responsible for internal customer support, online systems support and entry level software development.Development support for offline data management utilities.Development of application to monitor the online transaction processing.Designed and implemented Visual C++ MFC application for managing internal support requests for the Architecture development team.

Houston, Texas Area

Online Technician for ITSS Online Systems team.Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the online transaction processing system.Position required knowledge of LAN/WAN production support, emergency resolutions, data continuity procedures, and enterprise wide customer service.Duties included WAN support for TCP/IP, X.25, SNA, DECNET; online data backups, offline data backups, first level support for all enterprise systems.