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Asheville, NC, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Developed and maintained ETL pipelines utilizing Python, SQL, pandas, and PySpark on AWS (EMR, Redshift, ECS, ECR, Secrets Manager) with Bitbucket Pipelines for CI/CD, Airflow for orchestration, Docker, unit testing.
• Managed AWS EMR cluster configurations using Terraform and AWS CLI.
• Refactored and re-implemented an ML model data connector from R to Python using pandas, SQLAlchemy, SQL Server, and pytest.

Jersey City, NJ, US

* Developed ETL processes utilizing Jupyter Lab, AWS (EMR, Step Functions, Transfer Service), Spark, SQL Server, NLTK, Docker, Melissa Data, Black Knight, and Databricks.* Developed and deployed machine learning models for roof age estimation/classification using Python, Jupyter, PySpark, scikit-learn, pandas, MLflow, Databricks, H2O.ai, AutoML, and.

Asheville, North Carolina, US

* Trained and deployed deep learning object detection and facial recognition models for video monitoring applications. Frameworks and tools used included Python, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, OpenCV, Docker, AWS (EC2/S3), Anaconda, SQL, NVIDIA Transfer Learning Toolkit, and git. Models used include YOLO, SSD, DetectNet, Faster R-CNN.

* Developed an open source suite of commonly used climate indices such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The final code is written in Python (numpy/pandas/scipy), and the development effort also involved plenty of Java, Fortran, C, Matlab.

Palo Alto, CA, US

* Designed and developed the Lifecycle Manager service for managing Sun Cloud Storage components. This service is used for the registration, installation, deployment, and upgrade of the hosts and services comprising Sun's Cloud Computing product. Implemented this service using Spring, Hibernate, XML/JDOM, Apache Tomcat, Xen virtualization, ActiveMQ, Bash.

Irving, Texas, US

* Developed RESTful web services for the Diagnostic Benefits Manager application. Implemented these web services using Java, XML, HiveMind, Hibernate, Oracle, Lucene, and Jetty Web Server.* Developed and maintained data models with Oracle, Hibernate, Liquibase, testing frameworks with JUnit, DbUnit, and FIT, a business rules processor with HiveMind and.

Palo Alto, CA, US

* Developed RESTful web services for the Sun Connection inventory registration and management application. Implemented these web services using Java, JAXB, JAX-WS, XML, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, and Sun Java Web Server.* Developed custom Servlet Filters for authentication and validation of HTTP requests using JAXB, Java Security Framework, and Sun.

* Designed and developed RESTful web services and a corresponding web application to provide an administrative console for SparkEngine mail server clusters. Implemented this application and its corresponding web services using Java, Spring MVC, XML, JDOM, JSP, Hibernate, JUnit, Ant, Tomcat, Apache Commons Logging, Castor, JRobin, MySQL, and Oracle.*.

* Designed and developed J2EE web applications for the verification of Web Services used in VOIP provisioning systems. Implemented these applications using Spring MVC, Hibernate, EJBs, Servlets, JSP, Eclipse, Oracle, and WebLogic.* Developed a test suite for testing the functionality of components of a VOIP provisioning system using Spring Framework.

* Designed and developed an indication management middleware server using JBoss, EJBs, Servlets, JMX, JMS, JDBC, JNDI, JSP, Oracle, Hibernate, Spring, JBossCache, Eclipse, JUnit, FIX Protocol, Ant, and CVS. The server manages indications of interest (IOIs) for an equities trading engine.* Deployed the above application in a clustered JBoss configuration on.

* Designed and developed, from inception to deployment, a predictive global ionosphere model using Visual C++, UML diagrams, CVS, and Rational Quantify performance analyzer.* Developed the prototype of an ASP web services interface for the ionosphere model using Visual C++.NET managed extensions,.NET Web Matrix, and HTML.

Boulder, Colorado, US

* Developed and maintained a web application to present visualizations of atmospheric chemistry datasets using a MVC architecture, Apache Tomcat, Java Servlets and Applets, JSPs with custom tag libraries, UML (Rational Rose), XML, JavaScript, CVS, log4j, and HTML on a Linux platform.* Installed and maintained a MySQL database and developed Java/JDBC/SQL.

Amsterdam, NH, NL

* Developed electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) web application software using Java/J2EE (Servlets, JavaBeans, and JDBC), Oracle, LDAP, XML, and ATG Dynamo Application Server.* Designed and implemented an administrative interface to provide low-level access of back-end data and related services for administrative users. * Designed and.

* Developed a MVC web application to access astronomical datasets, graphics, and animations using Java Servlets, JSPs, JDBC, MySQL, and Apache Tomcat. * Installed and administered a MySQL database, which involved modeling astronomical data as well as configuring and normalizing database tables for optimal performance.* Developed programs using Java, C++.

Boulder, Colorado, US

* Developed image processing applications using C++, Java, and Perl for the visualization and animation of predictive global climate model datasets.* Developed software using C++ and Perl for creating high resolution images from USGS topography datasets for use in IMAX format visualizations.* Provided comprehensive UNIX system administration for a network.