John Buffington Email & Phone Number

Starkville, Ms, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

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• Implemented application features using the MEAN stack, Docker, and Kubernetes+Rancher.• Led team of two fellow MEAN stack developers, enforcing usage of code reviews and peer programming in an Agile/Scrum environment.

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• Led 15+ member technical team composed of MEAN stack, Kafka, and Camunda developers, a database administrator, a QA team, and a support team in an Agile/Scrum environment.• Successfully navigated through complex release cycles and parallel work streams; analyzed tradeoffs concerning client needs, technical debt, and end-user satisfaction.• Coordinated and led efforts to integrate SonarQube, Veracode, Twistlock, DataDog and SendGrid.• Responsible for overall architectural concerns of the system.

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• Developed application features and enhancements for stakeholders using Domain-Driven Design, microservices, the MEAN stack, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure DevOps.• Managed overall development operations on a 10+ person dev team. Established and enforced process improvements including coding standards, code reviews, and the Gitflow branching model.• Refactored application error handling and logging which improved bug traceability and resulted in an improved issue resolution time by a minimum of 100%. Used Splunk, Rancher and DataDog for debugging and root-cause analysis.• Implemented feature-flagging functionality which effectually enabled complex, multiple work streams to exist in parallel as part of the application's release cadence.

Starkville, Ms, Us

• Worked across the full stack to build public reporting dashboards with Angular, Typescript, NgRx, Webpack, Sass, and D3.js for the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.• Coordinated with fellow team member to implement a REST API for dashboards using Spring Boot.• Updated outdated administrator interface of Java EE Workforce Investment Network Global System (WINGS) application using a mobile-first approach with Bootstrap 4, Webpack.• Maintained seven Wordpress websites in parallel.

Starkville, Ms, Us

• Designed, implemented and maintained seven content-heavy Wordpress websites created primarily for various Mississippi government agencies and similar organizations.• Prototyped and designed each site from inception and developing them into beautiful mobile-friendly, WCAG 2.0-compliant results. • Utilized Git for version control and the standard Software Development Lifecycle to manage each projects' overall cadence.

Mississippi State, Ms, Us

• Commissioned by the Department of Sociology to map food deserts and indicators of food insecurity in Mississippi using data from the USDA Food Environment Atlas database.• Researched and analyzed multiple disparate datasets from the USDA to ensure all indicators of food insecurity are taken into account (such as the distance to fresh produce for various locations within the state).• Used Python to clean, transform and combine datasets.• Built web application displaying finalized data using the Google Maps API, CoffeeScript, and Sass.

Starkville, Mississippi, Us

Innovative Data Laboratory• Designed and implemented a multi-page survey featuring skip logic using Python+Django, PostgreSQL.• Worked with team members to develop the initial version of the Tobacco Reporting and Progress System (TRAPS), a large-scale record entry system built with Meteor.js and MongoDB.