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As Principal Engineer in Cloud Engineering, my role is to lead several cloud engineering projects. I have built a very strong team around Kubernetes and we have successfully delivered the product for use to the development teams. The team is also working closely with the development teams to onboard and facillitate adoption of the new platform. The platform is 100% automated and provides significant efficiency gains and self service to the development teams while still providing very high… Show more As Principal Engineer in Cloud Engineering, my role is to lead several cloud engineering projects. I have built a very strong team around Kubernetes and we have successfully delivered the product for use to the development teams. The team is also working closely with the development teams to onboard and facillitate adoption of the new platform. The platform is 100% automated and provides significant efficiency gains and self service to the development teams while still providing very high levels of security, compliance and governance.In this role I am also responsible for team delivering a modernization of our CI/CD infrastructure. We have successfully rolled out a new CI/CD platform to the developer community and are working on additional projects to further enhance this environment for the developers. Show less

As Lead Architect, my role consisted of designing and leading the development teams on the implementation and roll out of the Zelle platform, a P2P payments system that interacts with the banks across the US. As of 2020, over $300 billion dollars move through the platform annually.In addition to Zelle, I was responsible for R&D activity related to an initial design of a Cloud Native platform for our orchestrating containers and a redesign of our CI/CD tools and processes. The… Show more As Lead Architect, my role consisted of designing and leading the development teams on the implementation and roll out of the Zelle platform, a P2P payments system that interacts with the banks across the US. As of 2020, over $300 billion dollars move through the platform annually.In addition to Zelle, I was responsible for R&D activity related to an initial design of a Cloud Native platform for our orchestrating containers and a redesign of our CI/CD tools and processes. The orchestration platform is based on kubernetes and the CI/CD platform is a modernization effort to move to Gitlab, Harness, upgrade our Artifactory and introduce enterprise vault to our environment. Show less

In this role, my responsibility was to lead a team of developers working on the Regulatory product line. This product line provided several applications to customers to search and verify assets for individuals applying for government benefits. We were able to provide new features and eliminate most of the technical debt on the system during my time on this project.