🦦Greg B. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

- Managed an internal platform team of seven software and data engineers; including conducting 1:1s, quarterly reviews, and code reviews- Worked directly with Product, Design, and Stakeholders to drive the vision and strategy of an internal platform product- Led development on an internal platform REST micro-service built with TypeScript, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL that supports the data pipeline serving 50M+ requests per day- Managed the migration of a 40 TB PostgreSQL AWS RDS database to Google Cloud SQL with less than 4 hours of downtime- Maintained Python and TypeScript internal SDKs used by the technology organization and other parts of the business to access an internal data management platform service- Implemented and maintained a React app that allowed internal users to create their own data contracts defined with json-schema- Integrated OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics into an internal platform service- Worked closely with Designers and Product to decrease time to publish internal specifications- Coordinated and facilitated a 40 person, three day, team-building offsite summit for improving project efficiencies and intra group communication- Grew team by 2x in 4 months

Chicago, Il, Us

Co-Leader and Dev Team Lead of Walk the Walk USA (www.WalkTheWalkUSA.org) -- an all-volunteer initiative that raises funds and awards grants / directs investments to support strategic voter empowerment in key geographies and strengthen democracy. With a growing network of 8,000+ donors / activists in all 50 states, we've moved over $8 million to power strategic grassroots civic engagement initiatives supporting historically disenfranchised communities in the most competitive geographies in the nation. In 2020 and 2022, Walk the Walk USA's grassroots partners played pivotal roles in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, among other states.

Santa Monica, California, Us

- Designed and implemented a SQL schema, custom report UI, and backend automated report infrastructure for professional services that supported projects worth $1M+/year by allowing custom labeling of 1.3M+ ads/year- Led the development on a data pipeline that used AWS API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, S3, and EC2 instances to process 5M+ ad occurrences per day- Developed and maintained an ASP.NET API for a Chrome extension that served up to 4.5M+ requests/day- Managed relationship with 3rd party data suppliers, while gathering requirements, designing, and implementing the system to ingest the data- Maintained daily data pipeline written in C# that processed 4TB+ of data- Developed and managed recurring custom client reports that delivered up to 15GB of data- Parallelized NUnit3 Selenium tests which reduced the runtime by 50%- Implemented an advanced search UI in SQL, ASP.NET, Razor, and jQuery used by the ad identification team to review and identify 15K+ ads/day- Mentored an employee to transition from Data Ops into a Software Engineering role- Investigated the market, selected, and oversaw migrating the company from HipChat to Slack, served as the Slack administrator/trainer- Spearheaded the migration of 12 Mercurial repositories hosted on BitBucket to GitHub while preserving repository history- Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines on self-hosted instances of TeamCity and Octopus

Santa Monica, California, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Worked directly with the CTO on all software projects- Developed an automated real-time routing algorithm in Lua to batch orders and route delivery drivers to customers from a distribution kitchen using Redis to process 500K+ calculations per second- Designed and developed custom role-based authentication and a corresponding UI in AngularJS to manage internal user roles- Created a system to automate the collection of metrics for the operations team, including statistics on driver performance and customer order behavior- Developed and optimized a proof-of-concept app for the drivers/operations team, and a customer facing app using Iconic/Cordova- Designed and developed a REST API for the end-user app and operations dashboard- Separated the monolithic NodeJS project into multiple micro-services using Docker, allowing less downtime and easier deployments across the entire stack

Chicago, Il, Us

- Developed a cross-browser image viewer using JavaScript and C# which allowed end-users to use the product on a greater variety of platforms- Worked with Microsoft C++ COM objects and C# to allow the end-user to modify how Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio render field codes when printed- Optimized image viewer performance and improved load time by up to 50%- Served as interim tech lead on a multi-team project- Performed regression testing for future releases- Worked on a team of 10 people, including engineers, QA, product managers, and scrum team coordinators- Onboarded new pod team members

Chicago, Il, Us

- Created a proof of concept application for exporting different types of documents to HTML using Oracle's Outside In Technologies- Created a proof of concept image viewer using HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. The POC allowed users to create, re-size, move, rotate, and delete rectangles on the canvas.

- Core development team member (One of three) using Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript,and PostGreSQL on end-user website- Implemented site features and bug fixes while adhering to agile methodologies- Wrote comprehensive test suite in Ruby on Rails for the web application

Madison, Wi, Us

- Built a web application using VB.NET, MVC3, and MEF- Integrated the newly developed web application with a legacy application that isused by hundreds of employees everyday to gather information about CreditUnions- Provided each end-user with an individualized consolidated view depending ontheir security role- Integral member of the team for the full life-cycle application development processincluding obtaining the requirements from the end-users, designing andprogramming the application, piloting and testing with the end-users, and finalimplementation

Madison, Wi, Us

- Built a web application using ASP .NET and VB .NET to display statistics of asystem having over 50,000 transactions per day.- Merged documents from Lotus Notes to SharePoint Notes

- Coordinated lifeguard rotations and basic operation of the pool- Assisted the counselors with evening activities of campers

- Pool deck maintenance, prepared pool for the classes, responded to members' questions- Taught private and group swim lessons to children

- Resolved computer network and desktop issues throughout the school