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Frederick, MD, US

Herndon, Virginia, US

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Created a team of Software Developers to transition the company into a software-first model.
• Led the Software Development team, including outsourced developers.
• Mentored my team and accelerated skills growth for Junior and Senior developers.
• Paired with team members to accelerate specific development tasks.
• Drove improvements in Developer Experience by implementing GitOps, declarative infrastructure, and the creation of an Internal Developer Platform.
• Contributed to individual microservices and deployments in Python, Java, C#, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Annapolis, Maryland, US

• Used Amazon AWS, Python, C, and Docker to create and deploy an application to protect data in the cloud.
• Created a methodology to translate sensor data into a noise-stream.
• Developed secure communication protocols utilizing new company technologies.
• Created and managed a DevOps pipeline on Microsoft Azure for all company-wide projects.
• Deployed research applications on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Used Docker to simplify application build processes.

Annapolis, Maryland, US

• Created novel solutions for data protection in C/C++, Java, and Swift utilizing cryptographicalgorithms.
• Translated cryptographic research papers to usable C code.
• Optimized cryptographic algorithms with single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions.
• Prototyped innovative usages of existing and new company technologies and algorithms.

San Jose, California, US

• Developed solutions combining Python, C/C++, Java, and C# development in a wide variety ofprojects, working alongside product engineering to deliver innovative features.
• Used Python to prototype and Java to create a highly reliable and accurate testing methodology for network bandwidth and implemented a rich front end Android application.
• Used Android NDK and Java to create a solution utilizing on-device image recognition and OCR to reliably automate Android devices.
• Ported Android OS to a new custom hardware platform, requiring deep changes to all aspects of the system, including the bootloader, Linux kernel, and Android UI to create a carrier-grade solution.
• Profiled and identified performance bottlenecks in legacy systems. Replaced legacy code with newly optimized algorithms in C# and C++ and new services in Go.
• Prototyped a new hardware product utilizing a Raspberry Pi.

San Jose, California, US

• Gained wide range of knowledge on audio and video processing algorithms, hardware/software interfaces, Windows UI programming, networking algorithms, databases, computer vision, and agile methodologies.
• Eliminated longstanding bugs in large C# codebases and implemented new features on 5 separate existing products.
• Introduced unit testing to existing products, increasing the quality of the code from the entire team.
• Developed web applications in C# to communicate between WPF desktop applications and SQL databases.
• Created Android clients to interact with web applications.

Frederick, MD, US

• Built a comprehensive solution in Python to dissect packet captures for analyzing packet streams alongside a rich desktop application front-end built with WPF.

California, Maryland, US

• Upgraded a flagship legacy product by improving it's performance greatly and modernizing the code using updated C++ features and standards.
• Contributed to a project to utilize neural networks for integrated data registration.

California, Maryland, US

• Developed mapping and graphical user interface for a centralized scenario generator program to design, build and test scenarios for use in distributed simulations.

Germantown, MD, US

• Utilized Perl to process and analyze log files to facilitate investigation.
• Built scripts to facilitate co-workers tasks in Excel.