David Braley Email & Phone Number

Ypsilanti, Mi, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As a Senior Software Developer on the Infrastructure Devops Team, maintained and innovated the CI/CD pipelines, standard engineering development environment configuration, and a handful of tools dedicated to improving engineer velocity and code quality. Participated in multiple cross team guilds and learning groups, promoted best agile and DevOps practices inside and external to the team, and helped modernize use of GCP Platform.- Helped set best practices with microservice architecture and go programming- Wrote and maintained framework for running multiple microservices on development machines, with a focus on visibility and transparency- Updated open source linting tool golangci-lint to allow custom linters, providing documentation, examples, and training on the use of this new feature, aiding in writing the ~30 custom linters Khan Academy uses- Architected, wrote, and actively maintain REPL based tooling to make prod support and new service spikes easier, with an emphasis reusability and transparency- Encapsulated services in containers and introduced framework to run those containers in kubernetes to make development environment more predictable and eventually more consistent with staging and production environments- Helped lead major Infrastructure as Code initiatives, making it easier to reliably modify prod and staging environments, roll back as necessary, and create new environments when desired- Participated in multiple cross-team feature development projects to improve understanding of how tooling is used, better understand platform, and maintain low-barrier communication patterns with product engineers- Architected Rust based Fastly Compute@Edge WASM code base transition away from VCL and make CDN services able more testable and usable in other environments- Participated in a small voluntary team of 24/7 prod support personnel

New York, Ny, Us

As a Senior Software Developer, worked to quickly add features and solve problems to the platform. Tasked with setting an example for junior developers, improving cross-team communication, and promoting best agile and DevOps practices. The web site is now hosted in AWS as a microservice platform, with a large number of technologies backing it.• Aided in a seamless transition to the new microservices platform.• Worked to maintain and improve a Hadoop-based content ingest system.• Spearheaded an effort to convert batch ingest system into an on demand queue-based distributed workflow system that more readily supported the needs of clients and reduced operational and testing costs.• Created a full stack publisher portal site to improve the process of publishing content to the website.• Aided in seamlessly moving the backend authentication data store and authorization methods from an unreliable 3rd-party hosted solution to an internally owned high uptime distributed solution.• Participated in internal hackathons to develop new features with low failure cost• Lead an effort to improve comfort with development best practices, Test Driven Development, and pair programming across all development teams by running an optional bi-weekly coding kata for the last 5 years.

New York, Ny, Us

Served as a Software Developer on the website jstor.org. Development was done in Java 6 supported by maven and cvs, running within a 3rd party Spring based framework and Oracle database.• Worked to maintain a monolithic backend service largely running on customized 3rd party software while preparing for a migration to a cloud hosted microservice platform • Full Stack development of Java backend, HTML/Javascript front end, with XSLT middleware • Worked with 3rd party provider to negotiate responsibility over feature changes and bug fixes • Personally responsible for a number of quarterly trunk merges, which involved merging multiples teams codebases from both git and svn• Quickly tracked down problems as they came up, identify solutions, and when necessary coordinate across teams and with the 3rd party company to implement said solutions.• Helped complete a large initiative to add a new content format to the platform.• Took initiative in improving practices around communication patterns to improve productivity. • Lead multiple Lunch & Learn sessions • Participated as team lead in release-day war room ceremonies • Physically modified team space to promote better communication patterns • Began Blameless Post Mortem Style analysis meetings before company wide adoption

Millersville, Md, Us

Served as a Video Engineer for the transition to future technologies in the cable industry, with a focus on planning the Switch Digital Video (SDV) implementation for Xfinity service. Upgrade projects followed a life cycle very similar to most Agile SDLCs.Analyzed current hardware with a focus on upgrade path priorities.Actively reconfigured system settings on both test and live systems with a goal of transitioning to Next Generation technology, while focusing on creating a rapid, uniform process for future site transitions.Quickly learned new technologies and was able to understand, apply, and teach other employees that knowledge.Automated a process for generating large scale channel reports, reducing manual overhead from 10+ hours down to less than one.

Served as the Scrum Master for a team responsible for designing and maintaining servers to protect against IP theft and catastrophic failure events. Group was also responsible for setting up and maintaining environments to aid developers and testers of company products.

Aided the development of the commercial versions of multiple products developed in agile methodology (Scrum). Products were developed in Java under Eclipse with use of MySQL for database work; also used Spring OSGi and Hibernate. Spent 4 months as Scrum Master for a team.

Worked on a small team that pioneered the use of model-based prototyping within CCAD to prototype a future product. This included reviewing the specification and testing the units' interactions with other system components. Developed using Rhapsody in C++, a UML editor/compiler.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Richfield, Minnesota, Us