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Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Developed a new message-driven service to provide an internal REST api for querying lender credit offers using functional Scala and Akka Streams.• Enhanced and refactored internal research and data warehouse service to support multiple lender integrations and reduce complexity of future changes by implementing an internal DSL for message processing rules.• Contributed to definition and implementation of Vyze’s future-state architecture based on an event sourcing model using Akka, Lagom and Kafka.

Austin, Texas Area

• Developed REST-based services in Scala to manage the deployment and execution lifecycle of customer IoT applications running on a containerized JVM and OSGi platform.• Built a system using Scala and SBT to discover and provision runtime dependencies for customer applications during deployment, enabling high availability for a developer-centric hosted IoT platform.• Participated in hiring and mentoring developers.• Led design and implementation of DevOps tools and procedures for continuous integration and deployment of multiple cloud-hosted applications, including ELK-based monitoring and alerting, resulting in nearly 100% uptime of production environment.

Austin, Texas Area

• Guided a team of ten developers to successfully deliver multiple SaaS products through close collaboration with customers, product marketing, product management, client services, and customer support.• Created a new web application architecture and technology stack and validated it through ground-up design and implementation of the Socialware Sync product. Adopted this successful approach for future web application development and reimplementation of the core product’s user interface.• Drove backend evolution from monolithic n-tier application to REST-based distributed services, resulting in a more flexible and efficient multi-team agile development process.• Designed and implemented a session management solution for ICAP proxy-based services, providing seamless single-sign-on across multiple third-party websites with fully pluggable authentication implementations.

Austin, Texas Area

• Directed architecture, technology selection, design and implementation for an advanced Usenet client desktop application built with Java technologies and the Qt user interface library, successfully delivering GA-ready release candidate on time and within budget.• Built a new application development team, managing candidate searches, offer negotiation, technical interviewing, and recruiter engagements.• Mentored technical staff members and conducted code reviews as well as design and architecture reviews.• Implemented key application components including NNTP protocol layer, asynchronous task execution framework, binary content identification system, and PAR2 (raid-like data recovery) encoding and decoding module.

Austin, Texas Area

• Gathered requirements for and carried out design and implementation of large project involving close two-way integration between the emergency notification product and a third-party portal and content management platform.• Designed and implemented an extensible web reporting system based on Jasper Reports.• Developed modern Ajax UI components and back-end service layer for both the portal application and the core AlertFind product using Ext JS and DWR.

Austin, Texas Area

• Completed architectural analysis of large, complex legacy enterprise software application developed in Java, C++ and Informix 4GL.• Created and documented future-state architecture to meet goals of lowering total cost of development, improving quality and supporting long-term product road map.• Authored and maintained a detailed technical road map incorporating application modernization, internal and external quality improvements and feature development.

Austin, Texas Area

• Successfully led development of software, hardware, firmware and 3D animation components of commercial product from early concept stage through architecture definition, functional specification, design and implementation, resulting in delivery of six consecutive product releases within 10% of initial time estimates.• Researched and implemented an inverse kinematics algorithm for human figure animation to improve golf swing visualization.• Developed mathematical algorithms for analog sensor calibration and inertial navigation using Mathcad, Java and C.• Accountable for intellectual property technical strategy; listed inventor on multiple full and provisional patent filings.

Austin, Texas Area

• Defined and maintained architecture for a J2EE based application with support for synchronization with offline software clients.• Led meetings with executive team and customers to define and refine new and existing product requirements, resulting in a high level of customer satisfaction.• Provided technical leadership to a team of 13 developers. • Built an XML and Java based database schema definition framework and query language, effectively reducing component development cost by 50% and increasing overall product flexibility and performance.• Designed and implemented a functional proof-of-concept application for fundraising that was pivotal in raising $3M in first-round financing.

Austin, Texas Area

Boulder, Co

Computer Science Engineering

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