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Full stack engineer, building out a banking platform for families from the ground up.

San Jose, Ca , Us

Fully changed technological focus to continue growing skill set, moving from Java (an object-oriented language) to Elixir (a functional language), along with vastly different infrastructure. Rapidly brought self up to speed on new stack, then worked with a small team to replace company's most critical system (the interface of issued Divvy cards with the credit card issuer) with an entirely new build.- Accepted as first challenge to rebuild, along with 3 other devs, Divvy’s entire card issuing and processing system to work with a new partner. Brought swipe authorization in-house and vastly increased revenue per transaction.- Championed and built Divvy’s funding lock system, allowing extreme loads of card authorizations to be accurately handled in milliseconds even when other systems around the company may be having issues, leading to unparalleled uptime.- Created comprehensive system of monitoring and alerting around Divvy’s card authorizer, further buttressing industry-best uptime and response time.- Provided POCs and led implementation of several new technologies for the engineering org, including our first implementation of Apache Flink (a Kafka connection for realtime data manipulation) and building our company-wide SQS library.- Designed and built full stack of company's first internal transaction dispute management app, bringing a third party process in-house with a custom-built interface exactly matching the team's needs.

Draper, Ut, Us

Lead engineer and technical strategist over Pluralsight's online marketing presence, overseeing all technical projects affecting www.pluralsight.com. Owned and maintained the site CMS (AEM) and all Adobe Marketing Cloud technologies used by the marketing team. Oversaw all external projects with contract agencies, reviewing code and clarifying direction.- Built reliable, efficient new sync tool automatically bringing hundreds of daily content updates from inside the Pluralsight app to the logged-out www experience.- Created promo management tool, allowing site-wide promo campaigns to be run that update and highlight all pricing occurrences with localized promo prices, adjust all checkout URLs, and display easily-created custom banners for each campaign. – Refactored AEM codebase, simplifying authoring toolbox from hundreds of confusing, custom components down to a handful of simpler, more powerful tools.– Managed deployments of DTM, Target, and Analytics on www.pluralsight.com– Oversaw external agency work on many new authoring tools

San Jose, Ca, Us

Manager over a team of developers and infrastructure specialists, while still fully involved in hands-on coding of each project. Excelled at designing and implementing the future of many of Adobe's marketing sites including Acrobat.com, EchoSign.com, Inspire.adobe.com, and promotional pages from throughout the company.– Managed internal team of developers, and oversaw all code development and technical strategy from both internal and external sources for our sites. Validated and, where possible, improved all critical code changes.– Coded thousands of improvements to overseen properties at every level, from bash scripts to CMS components to front-end customizations. Worked in both front-end (HTML, CSS, JQuery) and back end (JSP, Sightly, Sling, CRX, AEM, OSGi, Maven) web technologies– Lead development of the new Inspire.adobe.com, Adobe's online creative magazine; jointly coded brand new CMS for the site inside AEM, working together with developers from outside agency.– Managed the development of Offer Manager, a new internal CMS inside AEM that sped Adobe's Direct Marketing unit's per-page development cycle from weeks down to days.– Oversaw the technical implementation of the new EchoSign.com, interfacing with marketing teams, application developers, and external agencies to orchestrate a successful build and release.– Consulted for back-end refactoring of Adobe.com inside AEM, pushing for greater agility and self-publishing ability while maintaining IT control.

San Jose, Ca, Us

– Designed and implemented a low-cost, cloud-based EC2 infrastructure capable of handling Acrobat.com's up to 1 million views per day.– Spearheaded the rewrite and migration of all public Acrobat.com pages into Day CQ5, planned and prepared new environment and workflows.– Personally developed or oversaw all code-level changes to Acrobat.com marketing pages