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Greenville, Sc, Us

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Yubico is the world’s leading provider of hardware-based authentication devices and is a global leader in identity management. I was recruited to aid in the development of enterprise hardware key management software, develop training / mentoring programs, and to contribute to backend / platform development for the US team.

Greer, South Carolina, United States

Enlighten provides development, cybersecurity, and data analysis services to US agencies, particularly the Department of Defense. I was recruited to aid in the development of custom Golang command line tooling supporting moderately sized Kubernetes clusters providing data lake services to the Department of Defense and other military agencies.Project Highlights:- Created custom Kubernetes bootstrapping logic to optimize the memory and CPU usage of clusters resulting in a reduction of cost per cluster by 50%.- Improved cluster monitoring instrumentation to enable automated recovery of common failure situations.- Remediated application stack containers removing CVEs and conforming them to US military security standards.- Aided in development of proprietary, kubernetes-native PVC backup to S3 solution.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

IAG is a privately held insurance broker that is the largest provider of insurance benefits to the staffing industry in the US. I was hired to modernize IAG’s infrastructure and lead greenfield development for the PayrollPlans product as IAG targeted a new market, managing a seven-member team as a report to the CTO. During my tenure I have also hired four new staff.Project Highlights: - Mentored and guided day-to-day efforts of five developers, a DevOps specialist, and a systems administrator, with four reports receiving significant promotions in first two years in role.- Drove delivery of PayrollPlans, a new product built to expand IAG’s business model to include insurance for FTEs, with development in Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, and TypeScript. Managed the development team, set milestones, and led code review. The project was launched and delivered in under two years, and now includes several integrations with third party vendor systems. - Guided strategy and execution for infrastructure modernization efforts that included redesign of cloud infrastructure using a combination of AWS ELB, EC2, Route 53, S3, EKS, ECR, IAM, and CloudWatch.- Introduced monitoring with multiple tools (e.g. Perfino, Prometheus, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, New Relic) to provide observability across 100% of the infrastructure and applications. - Introduced CI/CD processes using Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins that reduced deployment time by 66% and enabled zero downtime deployments. - Rewrote and refactored algorithms powering a legacy enrollment system to correct a major performance issue, reducing processing time for a core enrollment API from 24 hours to ~40 minutes.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Over eight years I taught courses in Object-Oriented Programming, Systems Programming, Systems Engineering, Parallel Algorithm Design, Compiler Development, CS Theory, and Digital Livelihood, with average reviews of 4.5/5 across tenure. I also designed and taught a Digital Livelihood class that became a core liberal arts requirement for most students.Beyond my teaching responsibilities, I also established the CS department’s collaboration with GitHub Education to provide students free access to IDEs and version control software, becoming the first school in South Carolina to achieve full partnership status with GitHub Education. After our success I assisted two other schools to achieve partnership status.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

AFS Logistics is a leading logistics provider. I was recruited by former Transplace leadership after AFS acquired a Transplace division, and my work focused on building a modern rate estimation engine to provide near real time updates of contract information and enable account representatives to quickly select appropriate carriers.Project Highlights: - Co-designed and co-developed a new high-performance logistics rate estimation engine utilizing Java, Golang, and Vue.js. The project required gathering requirements from four separate teams with opposing timelines, and the engine consolidated four applications into one single application. - Improved efficiency of rating engine database logic to reduce execution time by 50%.- Co-implemented and maintained CI/CD processes using Gitlab and GCP infrastructure.- Maintained existing legacy applications written in C, C++, Assembly, and C# .NET.- Created new auditing applications based on direct feedback from internal users and customers.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Transplace is a logistics broker and 3PL that provides carrier negotiation services and access to a nationwide carrier network. I was hired as an intern during my sophomore year at Clemson and earned promotions to senior roles.Project Highlights: - Served as a key contributor to an internal JavaScript framework built to enable reactive UI updates (prior to Angular, React, and Vue). - Rewrote a core API system from scratch to improve its reliability and add additional functionality.- Developed high-performance logistics rate estimation system in C#.- Wrote low-level C interfaces to convert closed source system into a microservice, reducing costs by 200%+.- Designed feature to enable the company to pool carrier resources across clients reducing client costs by up to 33% per shipment.- Co-designed and refactored an advanced search system to allow searches to be saved and shared across users.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science