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Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Helping software teams ship faster with confidence.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Expanded the scope of my engineering responsibilities after being promoted to Engineering Manager.Oversaw all of engineering for the Marketplace product, consisting of 10-15 engineers across two teams. Was responsible for scaling the teams, maintaining team culture, measuring and defining development processes, and overseeing engineers' career development. Resided over the platform's $500m+ of Marketplace app sales and directly improved the lives of the global Atlassian third-party developer community.Drove the Marketplace's long-term technical vision and ensured that ongoing and upcoming projects moved the product toward that direction. Intimately familiar with the development, operation, architecture, and management of the Atlassian Marketplace (both on marketplace.atlassian.com and in-product). Upheld high operational excellence standards across the teams' services. Well-trained in efficient and effective incident management and response.Worked closely with engineering, product, design, marketing, and business leaders within the team and across the extended organization to achieve maximized success.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Took on project- and personnel-management responsibilities after being promoted to Development Team Lead. Managed a team of ~5 engineers. Was responsible for leading the successful delivery of the team's projects while also completing my own engineering tasks. Additionally, I handled my engineers' people management needs and oversaw their career development. Was involved in anything and everything relating to the development, operation, and management of the Atlassian Marketplace (both on marketplace.atlassian.com and in-product) and the Marketplace engineering team. Used technologies and methodologies such as but not limited to: Scala, Java, Javascript, functional programming, Git, React, Backbone.js, Soy templates, Amazon Web Services, and Scrum.Presented at AtlasCamp 2016 in Barcelona, Spain while in this role.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Took on additional technical leadership responsibilities after being promoted to Senior Software Engineer.Full-stack development on the Atlassian Marketplace (both on marketplace.atlassian.com and in-product), a storefront where third-party developers can build and sell their own applications on top of Atlassian's platform.Worked primarily in Java and JavaScript with a little Scala as well. Used Git, Maven, Spring, and OSGi tools and frameworks on a daily basis. Managed and maintained project progress and health through Jira (issue tracker), Confluence (wiki docs), Bitbucket (code hosting + code review), Bamboo (continuous integration) and more. Presented at AtlasCamp 2012 in Wiesbaden, Germany while in this role.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Developed cross-product solutions for Atlassian's suite of development and collaboration products (including Jira, Confluence, and more), such as the Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) and Activity Streams.Full-stack development on the Atlassian Marketplace (both on marketplace.atlassian.com and in-product), a storefront where third-party developers can build and sell their own applications on top of Atlassian's platform.Worked primarily in Java and JavaScript with a little Scala as well. Used Git, Maven, Spring, and OSGi tools and frameworks on a daily basis. Collaborated daily with my teammates through Jira (issue tracker), Confluence (wiki docs), Bitbucket (code hosting + code review), Bamboo (continuous integration) and more. Presented at AtlasCamp 2011 in Half Moon Bay, CA while in this role.

Olathe, Ks, Us

Designed, developed, and tested the Garmin Connect fitness website: https://connect.garmin.comImplemented the server-side code and database schema for all search capabilities. Authored many web services. Implemented several complex algorithms for geospatial analysis and data corrections. Installed and configured code quality tools such as Clover to improve code-base quality.Worked primarily in Java, with large amounts of Oracle, SQL, and PL/SQL to support the application. Used and learned EJB3, Hibernate, Oracle Spatial, Oracle Text, RESTful Web Services, Enunciate, Maven, Subversion, Eclipse, SQL Developer, Hudson, OAuth, Google Maps API, XStream, and more. Focused primarily on back-end code but also dabbled a little in client-side JavaScript. Used Agile development processes and cycles.

Designed and developed a suite of applications to assist in prostate issue detection research. Visualized prostate tissue scans through varying methods. Patent pending for my software development efforts.Worked primarily in C++. Used and learned OpenGL, GLUT, GLUI, Qt, and MFC.

Designed, developed, tested, and deployed a financial web application. Partnered with Intuit in accordance with degree specifications.Worked primarily in Java. Progressed through the entire Software Lifecycle with a team of engineers while working towards our bachelor's degrees. Fall quarter included designing the entire application, writing a complete SRS and use cases, and prototyping technologies and ideas. Winter quarter involved implementing and testing the application in an Agile fashion. In the Spring quarter my team fixed bugs in patch releases while continuing development on the latest version.During the requirements phase I maintained the integrity and consistency of our use cases and prototyped several technologies. During development I served as both the Project Manager and a developer. I set up the build environment, kept my team on track, and developed portions of the system. In the Spring quarter I fixed numerous bugs and helped maintain the multiple versions of our application in source control.

Designed and developed a web application to monitor the system's status. Added geospatial data manipulation capabilities to a proprietary mapping client.Worked as a part-time Software Engineer while finishing up my bachelor's degree. Worked primarily in Java. Developed key teamwork skills. Used and learned ANT, XML, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat, HTML, and Google Web Toolkit.