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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Software Engineering consultant services. Specializing in high scalability and high availability architectures.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Built infrastructure facing and developer facing tools and services and librariesRefactored, simplified the architecture and enhanced the performance of aging codebase for our image resizing platformWorked as an integral part of a self directed agile teamBuilt multiple shared libraries that were popular and used across teamsIntroduced Jenkins Pipelines to our team cutting down on the overhead for our 12 weekly deployed applications.Established and contributed to team patterns for testing javascript and selenium automation, functional and unit tests.Defined and executed R&D tasks to evaluate technologies and architectures for incoming work.Active participant in planning and architecture discussions.Employed Pair programming, TDD, Kanban and Continuous delivery We evaluated and adopted a wide range of tools and technologies Some technologies we used:jenkins pipelines, groovy, java, spring, spock, gradle, selenium, jasmine, nodejs, RabbitMQ, JPA, Oracle, AWS, S3, openshift, docker, OAuth2 and plenty more.

Greater Seattle Area

Richfield, Minnesota

Built REST services at web scale in an Agile environment. Employed TDD, Pair programming, Continuous Integration, Functional Test Automation, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud Infrastructure to build horizontally scalable, robust services quickly and with high quality.-Vocal and Impactful in the design of applications-Advocated and practiced effective TDD-Introduced improvements to Integration test process-Dove deep into multiple persistent issues and delivered solutions and improvements-Compulsively simplified process, design and code to remove extraneous complication-Maintained an intimate knowledge of the many applications owned by our team-Supported on-boarding of new members of the team

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Investigated and fixed root cause of software defects.Consulted with product owner to design and Implemented new product features.Implemented features that spanned significant and complicated parts of the existing codebase.Upgraded major library versions involving non trivial changes across a large codebase.Implemented and supported client specific software customizations.

Gathered and refined requirements from Business Expert. Provided technical feasibility/level of effort given costs and context. Implemented complex features in a SAAS environment with limited flexibility.

I started as a Software tester and moved in to a development role.As a tester I worked on manually testing Mediabeacon software, and also automated testing with jmeter.As a Software Engineer I worked on bug fixes, feature implementations, and a customization of the software for a client.