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New Hartford, Ny, Us

Brink point of sales cloud-based software targeting fast casual restaurants which runs on multiple third-party hardware solutions. The software itself had two main areas, in-store and above-store and employs a SaaS model. Tasked with modernizing the existing monolithic system.Responsible for leading a team of 8 to transform a monolithic SaaS PoS system to a cloud-based micro services architecture utilizing AWS Lambda, EKS, ASP.NET Core, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, DynamoDb, S3, Redis, and Aurora Postgres while stabilizing, scaling, and of course modernizing the existing legacy system.Serve as one of two primary lead architects responsible for designing and implementing a .net Microservices platform focusing on scalability, team isolation, and iterative replacement of existing system, this utilized both server less and containers.Play both a strategic and hands on role, leveraging over six years of evolving techniques, practices, and ultimately getting changes into production to transform the existing monolithic system while balancing enablement of the product roadmap.Bring new-to-company architectural approaches like Microservices, legacy strangulation, true CI/CD with a multi-honed testing strategy utilizing automated unit, integration, and functional testing across multiple environments, enabling event driven and loosely coupled, distributed systems.Provide technical leadership, team mentorship in best practices, and champion adoption of modern day software practices to transform a small team of developers to a large, co-located development team.Aid in Data Lake initiative which synchronizes in-store state into the cloud utilizing S3, Kinesis, Lambdas, and the outbox pattern as well as migrating a historical data system to RDBMS/JSON hybrid model while being 100% backwards compatible.

Genomics-based company creating the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of whole genome, phenotype and clinical data. HLI is developing and applying large scale computing and machine learning to make novel discoveries to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Worked on the workflow platform which orchestrated bioinformatic tools, quality controls, and notifications.Maintain and enhance a batch-based, 100% cloud compute platform built around EC2 instances, spot pricing, S3 data persistence, SQL and NoSQL DBs focusing on utilizing the best technologies regardless of programming language, including .Net, Node.js, and Python.Create custom event-based workflows handling thousands of compute nodes, spanning tens of hours utilizing the latest genomic analysis tools with real-time feedback based on accuracy while minimizing resampling.

Chicago, Il, Us

Consulting company that specializes in utilizing the best technology to meet the needs of the business with technology experts in .net, rails, mobile. They also focus on Agile project methodology offering strictly coaching and inception/transformation services. Performed a Software Architect role working on multiple projects/teams at different clients with different technologies. Most projects utilized an alternate .NET stack and were service based.

CenterPost was acquired by West, where I continued as director of software engineering for the Chicago branch which continued it's communications development.

Director of Software Engineering for a company specializing in self service, proactive messaging with a team of 8 developers. Created an internal software platform that hosted applications which utilized its messaging services. Led professional services delivery, ensuring quality as well as growing the platform to handle evolving product demands.

A consulting company that specializes in automotive financing and business extranets. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider all projects worked with the latest in Microsoft technology. Worked as a consultant that filled development, architecture, and tech lead roles. I was involved with one web-based system at a large scale client for almost three years.

Web development shop where I worked as a Developer/Consultant.

Lincoln, Rhode Island, Us

A fortune 500 company that is a major player in the business software market including network management and monitoring. I worked as a product specialist for the Ingres line of databases.