John Strong Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

San Carlos, California, Us

Led a team of 3 engineers, aligning strategies with the CTO for project success.Responsible for day-to-day standups, SCRUM processes, and sprint planning in JIRAProactively addressed blockers, streamlined processes, and contributed to successfulproject implementationsOrchestrated the end-to-end design and development of an AI Simulator WebApplication.Led the transformation of ad-hoc data science Python scripts into robust Airflowpipelines for model building and deployments.Oversaw the implementation of CI/CD builds and deployments using TeamCity,ensuring a smooth and efficient development lifecycle.Led the implemenation of custom table versioning into our DynamoDB tablesConducted customer meetings to personally oversee onboarding and discuss customintegrations, ensuring a seamless system integration process.

San Carlos, California, Us

Rewrote the company's data ingestion system, increasing performance from 15Krecords in 20 minutes to 600K records in 5 minutes.Architected airflow pipeline to automate model deployment, replacing manualdeployments from an ad-hoc Python script.Architected airflow pipeline to automate categorization of data from data lake formodel feature generation.Architected a new ingestion system for loan officers, automating processes using HRfiles to eliminate manual labor, preventing data duplication, and consolidating datainto a single entry pointDeployed Kafka cluster in an EC2 server for real-time ingestion streaming.Built data anonymizer system utilizing SHA256 hashing to obfuscate PIIReplaced RDS-based database with a Redshift data warehouse for analytics andmodel building.Wrote a data sanitization system to handle badly formatted emails, phone numbers,and other data.Integrated data ingestion systems for new lead management systemsBuilt Spark integration on AWS EMR on EKS

San Carlos, California, Us

Built a batch processing system capable of generating lead rankings, handling up to60,000 records in under 10 seconds.Developed a new recommendation engine for lead providers, generating leadrankings per each potential lenderImplemented an OAuth authentication system to secure access into ourrecommendation APIWrote integration code for new model features and new AI products.Developed the mapping microservice, a critical component in standardizing leaddata and categorizing model features for our recommendation API.Built a Redis cache to manage computationally heavy tasks and model loading,ensuring the rapid delivery of lead rankings in under 1 second.Built CloudFormation templates for deployment of serverless stacks.Implemented a custom internal email reporting system using AWS SES and Pug for htmlrendering.Established logging systems for the recommendation API for insightful performanceevaluation of machine learning models.Integrated Athena for efficient data loading from S3Contributed to the implementation of an automated dynamic binning system, pivotalfor continuously optimizing our model configuration.Created a custom shared pip library, standardizing internal functions for global useacross all codebases.

San Carlos, California, Us

Designed and Developed the AI Simulator Web Application, utilizing React.js, Zustandfor state management, and React-Query for API requests. Integrated AWS Amplifyand Cognito for user security.Developed an internal admin console from the ground up using React.js and Reduxfor state management. Implemented a dynamic table with advanced features,including dynamic filtering and fast in-memory searchingCrafted a marketing demo page for showcasing an AI product, incorporatingreal-time animations using React Flip Move to enhance user interaction andpresentation.Implemented marketing designs into a fully functional website in less than a week,employing core UI/UX design principles including UI comp

Project: EEBOS• Technologies used: HTML5, CSS3, Photoshop, JavaScript, BootStrap, jQuery, PostGreSQL, Ruby on Rails.• Project Description: EEBOS is an LMS (Learning Management System) designed for health and safety administrators with integrated e-commerce functionality, a complex privilege system and course administration functions that allow for repackaging and redistribution of courses by sub-distributors. The system allows these sub-distributors to easily ‘brand’ the LMS with their own personalized design. • Duties: o Created HTML pages and CSS style sheets from scratch.o Ensured compatibility with IE8+.o Debugged existing style sheets and other front-end bugs.o Added simple UI functionality, such as interactive popups with attractive eye candy to improve user experience.o Coded some simple backend functionality such as a search engine features.Project: OleCart.• Technologies Used: HTML5, CSS3, Photoshop, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails• Description: Integration of shopping cart (located on a separate website) with EEBOS• Duties:o Created all HTML pages and CSS style sheets for the website from scratcho Debugged problems as they arose

• Technologies Used: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Flash • Description: SERTOMA (Service to Mankind) is a charity organization in Austin, Texas that raises millions of dollars for children with disabilities. Every year they sponsor a large “rubber duck race” on Lake Austin. Anyone can "adopt" a duck for a small amount of money, and if the adopted duck wins the owner is awarded a prize.• Duties:Front-end designWalking duck animations in Flash Action Script that walk across the bottom of the screen

• Technologies Used: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator. • Description: Arcalife is a website for securing and managing your family history. The website’s core is a Flash application for building family trees meant to compete with Geni (http://www.geni.com), but Arcalife takes the family tree concept to a new level by integrating it with social networking and by being the first genealogy website to use the FamilySearch API, an API that allows access to hundreds of thousands of family history records and documents, including death and birth certificates. Arcalife also allows you to import and recreate family tree structures with over 50 thousand people from GEDCOM files. Once you’ve created a Family Tree from GEDCOM, you can then extend the family tree by adding your own information, images and videos, and then share your family history in the “Arcalife Network” or on other popular social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, through a variety of RIA applications, including a Timeline, Scrapbook and variety of interactive “gallery viewers”.• Duties:Did the HTML work for the marketing page