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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Lehi, Utah, United States

Team lead managing microservices in the AWS cloud focused on scalability and performance. Led large-scale data migrations, participated in architectural panels, furnished technical guidance and mentorship, reviewed documents, plans, and estimates for 5 multi-milestone team projects. * Led the migration of 1.3 billion translation records from ElasticSearch to OpenSearch with zero downtime and zero data loss, improving p90 latency across all OpenSearch endpoints by 66%, from 2126ms to 712ms.* Collaborated with the data science team, leveraging 1.5 TB of translation data to build an AI / ML model for rating translations and determining human intervention needs by providing guidance on data models, architecture, and data dumps.* Served as a domain expert on an architecture panel redesigning the translation workflow from ingestion to delivery using state-of-the-art workflow technologies.Designed and led the on-time delivery of the first two milestones for team's component of the re-architecture.* Connected application to Amazon Translate's ACT engine, reducing MVP delivery from 52 to 12 weeks by addressing architectural bottlenecks, enabling quick customer experimentation and ROI determination.* Convinced management to upgrade team services from JDK 8 to 17 in 2023, enabling seamless compliance with Amazon's 2024 JDK upgrade mandate without sacrificing roadmap priorities. * Trained developers on new JDK 17 features.* Coached 3 engineers through leading first multi-milestone projects.* Initiated a semi-monthly team lunch and learn, covering technical and soft skills topics, leading to weekly customer spotlights, better log querying, and contributing to on-time project deliveries in 2024.* Overhauled operational metrics and dashboards, implementing request interceptors for 71 endpoints across 5 services, enhancing availability and scalability of cloud services.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Enhanced system security and access management capabilities across 5 microservices in a new application by heading the design of and integration with Open Policy Agent (OPA) for role-based access control. Unblocked authorization use-cases by developing OPA policy proof-of-concept for fine-grained access control.* Championed knowledge sharing and collaboration by organizing impromptu 'mob programming' sessions to accelerate the delivery of a behind-schedule database migration by 3 weeks.* Coordinated with product owner to extend backlog from 2 to 6 weeks, ensuring business alignment and delivering the next 2 projects ahead of schedule.* Revitalized team sprint planning and scrum processes by fostering collaboration and discussion on ticket estimates leading to more predictable delivery.

Lehi, Ut

Designed and implemented an enterprise-level identity and access management system for a greenfield microservice-oriented applicationLed a team of 8 remote engineers to design and deliver multiple new features for a custom forms applicationActing member of architecture team developing microservice standards and best practicesImplemented OAuth2 and OIDC flows across application (implicit, client-credentials, pkce, authorization code)Participated in the migration of a legacy Java application to the Google Cloud using a microservice architecture

Kirkland, Wa

Re-wrote the server backup and restore functionality of Tableau Server to use a configurable storage interface to interact with the file system, remote file store, or cloud storage. Created visualizations to help monitor and understand data organization within a server deployment.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Creating a healthcare cost and benefit analytics application. Transitioned data visualization library from JasperReports to Highcharts.js for more flexible charting. Cleaned bloated git repository and reduced repository size with git submodules.

Livermore, California

SUMMIT project (https://dhs-summit.us/). Assignments involved big data management, specifically using Hadoop with a focus on HDFS.

Build and style various parts of our client facing web application

Salt Lake City, Ut

Happy Fox Media is a media consulting company. I manage the development and support of software for clients. For more information see happyfoxmedia.com

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Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

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Activities and Societies: Student Body President, Theater, Jazz Band, Track and Field