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Chicago, Il, Us

Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

- Built continuous integration pipelines with GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, and Sonar SonarQube to automate builds, deployments, and static code analysis, increasing developer productivity by eliminating manual tasks.- Migrated over 700 repositories from legacy Team Foundation Server instance to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, utilizing PowerShell customizations to preserve complete commit history.- Reduced the deployment time of .NET automations by an average of 2 minutes by integrating .NET assemblies into PowerShell scripts, optimizing the processing of application archives.- Engaged in interviewing entry-level .NET Software Engineers, enhancing technical onboarding and contributing to a reduction in software defects within the first six months of onboarding.

Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

- Introduced Microservice Architecture to the Merchandising Platform, decoupling monolithic Product Attribution and User Maintenance services for ease of maintenance and flexibility.- Architected .NET Web Services to centralize the consumption of Merchandising Master Data across Warehouse and Retail Platforms, streamlining data integration and optimizing engineering efficiency.- Managed hybrid cross-functional teams, leveraging time zone differences to maintain continuous project momentum while increasing deliverable output.- Coordinated with Senior Leadership on project resource allocations, budget management, and removal of engineering impediments, resulting in efficient project delivery.

- Owned and managed the New Product Onboarding System used daily by over 6,000 vendors, integrating across Warehouse, Retail, and E-Commerce Platforms.- Oversaw platform adherence to Enterprise Engineering standards by engaging in comprehensive code reviews for the Merchandising Team, improving platform maintainability.- Automated 25% of Merchandising production support for product data and images by building utility .NET applications, reducing offshore labor utilization.- Optimized the validation of over 5,000 stagnant inflight products by implementing .NET background jobs, significantly improving data synchronization

Oak Brook , Il

- Extended .NET Applications as a Full Stack .NET Resource for New Product Onboarding and Product Attribution Systems within the Merchandising Platform. - Consistently resolved 5 .NET software defects per financial quarter on the Merchandising System Platform, exceeding the standard expectation of 3. - System Owner of the Merchandising Product Attribution System of Record: Informatica Product 360. - Worked closely with Product Content Analysts to validate the accuracy of product data flowing through integration points to Warehouse, Retail, and E-commerce Platforms.

Oak Brook, Illinois

- Refactored internal .NET web applications to increase their data processing efficiency. - Collaborated with database administrators to optimize SQL queries leveraged by .NET applications to decrease query execution time. - Pair programmed with senior engineering resources on agile projects to contribute to active sprints. - Participated in the testing of proposed software defect resolutions with the quality assurance team to ensure all functionality met specifications.

Oak Brook, Illinois

- Designed entity relationship visualizations of critical retail database systems to enhance engineering team visibility. - Implemented SQL Server tables, views, and stored procedures based on requirements from agile project teams in non-production environments. - Performance-tuned over 7 SQL Server stored procedures by interpreting execution plans to apply indexes and refactor join clauses. - Created reports identifying redundant objects and their dependencies within SQL Server to highlight refactoring opportunities.

Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Software Engineering

Concentration in Software Architecture

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President of S.W.AT. (Students Working to Advance Technology) , Vice President of Python Club & Java Programming.

Associate’S Degree, Computer Science

High School Diploma