Dave K. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

• Provided technical leadership, driving complex, large-scale initiatives from conception to successful execution for a software project with more than 300 developers. • Implemented various Java 8 features like Functional Interfaces, Stream API, Time API, Transaction Management, Exception Handling, Collection API and Lambda Expressions. • Led a 12 person development team in a new online process that enabled consumer accounts to be transferred into business accounts. • Implemented a custom development proxy using Node JS to enable local development of 6 Angular applications, integrating with Netflix Eureka and Kibana to enable fast environment switching and hierarchical Kibana call log analysis across nearly 200 micro services. • Designed and implemented Netflix Eureka Utility to create a mock environment copy which enabled live local debugging of a micro service dependency without the need to host the entire call stack of micro services. • Led Development Team to bring Jasmine / Karma Unit Testing into the angular Jenkins pipeline, with extensive e2e tests used to safeguard the complex checkout process. • Successfully maintained the quality and production readiness of work through automated tests, analysis, and informed feedback loops before release. • Worked with React developers to streamline logic and reduce UI code complexity, pushing complex logic to the micro service layer when possible, and reducing the number of API calls. • Building cloud Micro services and implemented back-end using Spring Boot, creating several micro services using Spring Boot to modularized code and implemented Rest API's • Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to streamline software development processes.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Designed and developed Angular UI, React, .NET Data Services, SQL Server, NetSuite Web Services integrated application for managing large food donations and their distribution to food banks. • Responsible for upgrading TFS 2008 to TFS 2018 and implemented automated CI/CD TFS Builds • Showcased strong communication skills, effectively describing and documenting complex technology concepts to business owners and colleagues for better understanding. • Implemented .Net Security features of Authentication and Authorization with Federated SSO using SAML, JWT and Azure Authentication. • Created SVG Data Driven documents using D3 to allow users to graph and map selected data points within the repository for trend analysis, organizational unit comparison and heat mapping of values • Significantly refactored SSRS reporting queries for both performance and drill down ability • Assisted with many external tasks and strategies related to data center migration, legacy .NET code performance tuning, debugging CORS scripting issues • Assisted and mentored staff developers with .NET, SQL, TFS, and Visual Studio practices

• Development Technical Lead on a $200M+ 5-year digital transformation program, to redesign and modernize HCSC’s claims and customer service platform that processes ~230M claims annually. • Technical Lead for 5 agile scrum teams (70 members) in-house and vendor partner team, spread across 7 offshore and onshore locations to design, develop and deliver the solution. • Designed and developed Angular UI, React, Spring Boot RESTful APIs, DB2 integrated application components for managing insurance claims and customer service. • Designed and developed an Angular UI, Reactive RxJS, Spring Boot RESTful APIs, DB2 integrated application components for managing insurance claims and customer service. • Mentored developers and business stakeholders to build common functionality into common components and agile stories to achieve maximum code re-usability AND application end user experience consistency. • Worked with integration of cloud applications hosted in Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure with mainframe, legacy and Salesforce applications leveraging IBM MQ, Mulesoft ESB and API gateway. • Coordinated with management, developers, QA and business representatives to properly group and assign stories for maximum development bandwidth. • Designed and implemented an Angular VS Code Workspace to facilitate real time cross package/git repository development, incuding Full Stack Debugging with Eclipse bases Java VS Code Plugin. • Customized portions of the Jenkins Test and Build Pipeline to enable pulling code from multiple git repositories with user definable mixed branch references into a single Angular application. • Automated git branching, merging, and tagging by developing custom Bash and Node.js scripts to facilitate better uniformity and maintenance time across 16 git repositories managing 4 release versions.