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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Independence, Ohio, Us

Oversee Digital Identity and Fingerprinting services on the Sterling Platform

Independence, Ohio, Us

Engineering owner of Sterling's Digital Identity Verification and Fingerprinting APIs, and their associated workflows in the greater Sterling Platform ecosystem. Delivered key product, technology and business initiatives to support Sterling's global client base. Managed a top performing globally distributed team of full stack engineers building containerized .NET applications in AWS. Achieved AWS Solutions Architect Associate and AWS Developer Associate certifications.- Oversaw day-to-day engineering operations including design, implementation, code reviews, testing, release management and production support.- Operationalized processes to improve efficiency of our SDLC, production on-call support rotations and escalation policies, day-to-day communication and delivery cycles.- Maintained 99.9% service availability across high volume APIs hosted in AWS.- Improved monitoring and observability with proactive alerting through OpsGenie, Site24x7, CloudWatch and New Relic.- Assisted other teams with AWS infrastructure deployments and troubleshooting, and guided them on AWS best practices and standards.

Independence, Ohio, Us

Sole engineering owner of full stack platform dedicated to the volunteer and nonprofit industry, facilitating $14.5M/year in background screening services. Exceeded product and technology delivery goals while adapting to a changing environment. Executed on key product launches, including company first identity verification offering. Managed a globally distributed team of engineers with top retention across other teams at the company. - Led accelerated application and database migration from on-premise hosted infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to AWS utilizing CloudFormation, CDK, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS for SQL Server, CloudWatch and Web Application Firewall, completing in only 6 weeks.- Built blue-green production deployment pipelines to eliminate customer impact and downtime, increase release cadence for faster product delivery and allow the application to exceed 99.9% uptime SLA.- Migrated legacy, on-premises Jenkins pipelines to declarative, multi-branch pipelines using AWS ECR, Docker, PowerShell and AWS CDK to save cost, reduce on-premises footprint and increase pipeline performance, security and stability.- Managed platform budgets and drove cost-optimization efforts, resulting in $10K reduction in monthly AWS spend.- Strengthened platform monitoring by integrating New Relic APM and Alerts, Site 24x7 and OpsGenie, allowing engineering and internal support teams to rapidly intervene and resolve production issues while reducing customer impact.

Partner, co-founder and lead developer for a professional services firm specializing in full stack application development, data analytics and cloud services for customers in the healthcare, medical device security, and residential / commercial construction industries. Responsible for delivering scalable and innovative solutions using a cloud-first strategy with project, client and cost appropriate technology.- Led development of a full stack application built with Angular, .NET and AWS hosted services (API Gateway, Lambda, Elasticsearch, Cognito, and CloudFront) which became the the most complete and accurate source for dressage scoring and show results data for the United States Equestrian Federation recognized dressage shows. The application served over 40K users per month, housed over 2 million dressage scores, and served as the premier destination for dressage enthusiasts interested in researching scores and show results for horses, riders and trainers. - Developed a progressive web application using Ionic, Angular, TypeScript, Bootstrap and ChartIQ from the ground up, backed by AWS hosted services (API Gateway, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Kinesis, DynamoDB) that gave cryptocurrency traders and investors a decision-useful market intelligence and sentiment analysis platform, including a comprehensive research and reference database of digital assets with unique and proprietary market indicators.- Rearchitected, redesigned, reimplemented, and took ownership of a full stack .NET application with Angular, C# and SQL Server to assist healthcare systems and medical device manufacturers in understanding, analyzing and mitigating the security risks of their medical devices.- Built AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) task definitions and PowerShell scripts to automate, launch and scale cryptocurrency mining machines running on Docker containers during defined intervals with a focus on reducing AWS spend.

Reston, Va, Us

- Led ASP.NET development for the CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases to track Immunization Grants and Applications.- Primary point of contact for the customer’s technical environment in both staging and production.- Coordinated with federal and non-SAIC contractor employees for production security scans, deployments and maintenance.- Administered IIS, Apache and SQL servers, Kiln/Mercurial source control repositories, FogBugz defect tracking system and CruiseControl continuous integration environments.- Worked directly with usability analysts to prototype, design and implement rich user interfacesPlanned releases, patch deployments and managed technical resources.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Reston, Va, Us

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