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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

- Configure and maintain the production ElasticSearch cluster to make it more fault tolerant & allow it to handle increased traffic.- Designed & implemented an ingestion framework & pipeline for fast daytime updates of Elasticsearch data.- Wrote elastic search query building code to make it easy to add new endpoints efficiently and with limited Elastic search knowledge.- Designed, Implemented & maintained a Kotlin Search API/backend that utilizes ElasticSearch that powers the favor consumer application.- Serve as a source of knowledge to guide other developers to more effectively contribute.- Help Favor identify performance bottlenecks and advise them on viable solutions.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Developed and maintained a python application used to index content into elastic search.- Update docker infrastructure/developer tools to run on M1(ARM64) developer computers . - Develop software processes to compare values from a legacy system and new data source as part of migrating to that new data source..- Perform code reviews and provide feedback.- Review and provide feedback on designs and infrastructure.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Team Lead for a platform focused team. - Provided oversight & vision on the search api that utilized Elasticsearch powering the application.- Provide oversight and vision on their ingestion pipeline.- Architecture for my team & other teams to enable them to deliver their projects.- Develop and provide on-going support for VertX applications written in Java.- Develop and provide on-going support for Spring boot applications.- Develop applications that use Amazon Kinesis and SQS for processing large data sets through streaming data ingestion.- Provide guidance, knowledge, and support for dev work throughout the organization.- Help product managers understand how features work and provide insight into what work is required to meet a project goal.- Design, maintain, and guide the product direction of our search ecosystem that allows customers to query a large ES cluster with document count in the billions. - Designed ACL system to control access to Elastic search documents.

Austin, Texas Area

- Team Lead for a platform focused team. - Providing mentoring, prioritization, design, and vision for future product direction.- Architecture for my team & other teams to enable them to deliver their projects.- Develop and provide on-going support for VertX applications written in Java.- Develop and provide on-going support for Spring boot applications.- Develop applications that use Amazon Kinesis and SQS for processing large data sets through streaming.- Provide guidance, knowledge, and support for dev work throughout the organization.- Help product managers understand how features work and provide insight into what work is required to meet a project goal.- Design, maintain, and guide the direction of our search ecosystem that allows customers to query a large ES cluster with document count in the billions. - Designed ACL system to control access to Elastic search documents.- Designed & implemented many foundational pieces of software that allow the Cision to provide its media monitoring services.

Austin, Texas Area

- Provide ongoing support for a Spring,Jersey, Ext JS application- Help optimize existing code base to handle load with use of cache, queues, and async workers.- Add new customer features to existing application as required.- Migrated our code base from using Facebook 1 FQL to Graph 2.0 api calls and added support for Facebook login.- Designed and implemented micro service to bridge communication between our legacy software and Proofpoint after we were acquired.- Built multiple prototypes to demonstrate alternative techniques and technology stacks to the team.- Updated local developer environment to run on Docker containers to make setup/maintenance easier and faster.

Austin, Texas Area

- Developed a system level test client used to test Graphics cards and CPUs. (Java/OSGI)- Architected and implemented a remote agent for executing diagnostics on a system under test. (c++)- Enhanced a hardware abstraction and monitoring layer for system testing. (c++)- Architected and implemented a framework to share business logic across projects. This reduced overlapping code and also the number of developer hours required to bring up new products. (ruby/swig/c++)- Developed build infrastructure for internal software projects. (Scons, Gradle, Python, Bamboo)- Developed install scripts to install our software onto test systems. (python/bash)- Mentored co-op’s and junior developers on proper software architecture and best practices.- Developed a dashboard for displaying aggregated build status and product bringup metrics.- Developed application to aggregate build results, code coverage, and code defects to help determine software health. (Spring framework/MVC/Rest, Quartz, LevelDB, Redis, embedded jetty )- Introduced Docker and utilized it for deploying java/ruby application to production servers.

Mcallen, Texas Area

- Developed an online attendance application utilized by professors for financial aid attendance tracking. (Java struts)- Developed an online application for the nursing/emt department. Allowed students to apply for admission, verify their eligibility, and calculate their ranking within minutes. This replaced a manual paper form process and reduced staff workload from hours per student to minutes. (java struts)- Planned, implemented, and managed the university cashiering system.- Installed and configured payment gateway software to facilitate taking online payments for student tuition. - Served as liaison between the information systems group and the staff members to help determine their needs.- Implemented software to provide self service kiosks for student/faculty use. (Html,Javascript,CSS, Flash)- Performed system administration on Windows & Linux Servers that hosted our applications.- Provided application support to students, faculty, and staff.