Senior Software Engineer Ii
Current- Lead Engineer on an early stage initiative to add support for Testnets for an internal tool for viewing the stability of Akamai networks and applications. This will significantly decrease troubleshooting time related to release and integration testing across Akamai. Designed the solution and iterated with Management stakeholders to implement the solution from initial PoC to a full release.- Lead Engineer on an internal next generation Continuous Testing solution remaking an outdated and unmaintained system that was crucial to the software release workflow into a modern DevOps tool running on top of GitLab and expanding it to support additional workflows. Guided development from an initial PoC to the current alpha release.- Lead Engineer and Scrum Manager for a team of 14 engineers on a high priority early stage project on open source and executive severe vulnerability scanning and analytics with company wide visibility. Led the effort to transition the team to a SAFe Agile based development process and helped other teams in the larger group also transition to SAFe. Also contributed to the long term Product Ownership planning and created and guided new software releases through production deployment as the primary Release Engineer.- Developed code and designs for an internal incident response system for visualizing cross company production changes from multiple data sources over time- Primary Engineer for an internal virtual integration testing environment system, guiding the project from early prototyping through stable production and general adoption across the company. This project allowed a developer to create a virtual testnet environment of hundreds of machines on demand. It also became the base for an internal Continuous Testing system used to dramatically increase productivity and ensure robust software releases for many of the teams at Akamai.- Mentored multiple junior developers- Owner/Maintainer of 20+ internal and 3rd party packages at Akamai