John Bindel Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Chief Logic is an Austin-based technology consulting firm. We help software companies succeed.• Envision: Platform architecture• Grow: Scale and optimize• Accelerate: Release more often, safelyAt Chief Logic, we accelerate your roadmap through software excellence. We navigate around the problems that slow teams down, and advise company leaders and teams to deliver value faster.

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

Full Stack Software Architect overseeing the work of the Web, iOS, Android and API/Services teams and responsible for helping company move faster at scale.• Responsible for architecture of Retail 2017 Project (shopping cart, discounts, taxes, payments) for 60K+ clients and 30M+ consumers• Responsible for architecture of Mindbody's integration with Stripe• Established security measures for PCI-compliant logging• Planned strategy for microservices architecture, cloud, container and workflow orchestration• Analyzed Service Fabric vs. Kubernetes for service orchestration• Analyzed transport protocols for service-to-service communication• Performed code reviews (Junior Dev - Architect)• Mentored developers in quality and scalability

Dallas, Texas, Us

Lead engineer working on photos, billing & payments, marketing, customer care tools and internal tools. Worked with Apache Kafka, ASP.NET Web API, WCF, TPL Dataflow, Reactive Extensions (Rx), SQL Server.• Built photo decision engine to analyze, approve and crop every photo uploaded to Match- 100,000s of images per day and will easily scale orders of magnitude higher• Built rules engine to support flexible rules for each of the Match Group's sites and work with a variety of image classifier services including Microsoft Cognitive Services and Google Cloud Vision• Decreased mean time for photo approval to seconds by using Rx Observables and TPL Dataflow• Established Billing and Payment microservices; implemented PayPal as a payment gateway• Ensured PCI-compliance and security of payments subsystem• Built Jobs system with sagas and developed billing jobs for credit card settlement, chargebacks, chargeback disputes, and refunds for multiple processors• Responsible for Marketing data collection, transformation and aggregation services (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.)• Mentored and assisted multiple teams with detailed design, distributed messaging, and concurrency in .NET• Mentored Brazilian Java-based team in .NET and the Match platform (working proficiency of Brazilian Portuguese)

Served as Interim Director of 16 resources across four development teams (each with Dev, QA and Automation) at a Loan Origination / Financial Services company.• Established team leads for each and mentored developers• Rolled out program to improve estimation accuracy, improve quality and reduce rework cycles• Changed the way the company communicates to reduce 80% of email chatter with structured team rooms and integrations in Slack• Quote from the CEO: "[John] made a lasting impact on our company."• Microsoft Azure, ASP.NET MVC, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch, SQL Server, NHibernate, Dapper

Manager and led a four-person development team focused on improving speed, quality and repeatability for an AWS-based SaaS integration platform, while maintaining uptime SLAs 24x7.Leadership• Responsible for technical roadmap planning• Mentored and grew the careers of my direct reports• Migrated from SVN to TFS 2013 for source control and Application Lifecycle Management• Educated teams across the company on Scrum• Responsible for deployment, monitoring, reporting, and server and database administration• Responsible for AWS PaaS/IaaS technology selection and resource management• Established automated build and unit testing with gated check-in using MSBuildDevelopment• Led major application refactoring project to create simple, testable, maintainable API-based system to increase speed and quality of development• Migrated from ASMX web services to Web API 2.2• Optimized SQL Server database performance by over 300%• Added error management features to the application and established a cohesive logging solution• Created an internal tools web application to enable support teams to help customers• Established QA environment to improve quality

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Senior engineer on a four-person team developing a membership web application serving 150,000+ users worldwide.• Established ASP.NET Server Controls as the standard to be reusable across multiple web applications• Introduced Test-Driven Development and Mock-based tests• Influenced the adoption of Agile/Scrum practices• Upgraded to TFS 2012 and customized Work Item Template to integrate with Active Directory• Established CI/CD pipeline with TFS Build

SolutionWerx• Led team to improve the user experience of the web application (ASP.NET Web Forms MVC)• Integral part of the company's transition to AgileUltramain Systems• Developed J2EE application for aircraft maintenance touchscreen devices (EFBs)• Designed aspects of the new UI framework• Developed visual tool for log correlation and filtering for logs across multiple aircraft computers for timeline-based distributed troubleshooting• Developed SOAP web services and automated build processesHetDex• Integrated platform to provide Google Earth with information about constellations, nebulas, and galaxies (PHP)• Integrated video across Astronomy websitesMcAfee• 200% increased productivity on the 15-person enterprise security remediation team by optimizing the top two daily-use internal applications• Performance analysis and optimization of VB6 and C# applications and migration from VB6 to C#

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for architecture to development of:• Learning Management System (LMS) for 50,000+ association members• ASP.NET Shopping Cart Suite with support for a variety of databases: SQL, MySQL, Oracle• Active virtual disk encryption service (Windows Service)