John Hume Email & Phone Number

Remote, Austin Tx

Remotely led software delivery teams, hands-on, in major architecture evolution projects impacting the “hot path” of payment processing. Served as Organization Technical Lead and “domain architect” for Merchant Identity & Experience org, leading technical aspects of problem- and solution-discovery. Served on Technical Leadership Team, setting direction and helping establish and improve an architecture review process. Coached and supported new technical leads on presenting designs for review and consensus-building. Ran “Product BTU,” a training series for new members of Product Engineering teams, including leading “How We Write Great Software.” Managed a seven-person team providing shared analytics data services and Airflow-based data ingestion, ETL, and reporting products. Mentored engineers on software design principles and patterns.

Remote

Built trader-facing web-based applications, mostly in Clojure.

New York, New York

Accepted Java back into my life, with JRuby to help me through the dark times. Just barely introduced Clojure to my day-job.

Worked with two- to fifty-person teams to deliver business value (via software) in spite of organizational obstacles. Escaped Java for Ruby. Learned like crazy.

Greater Boston Area

Waited for WebLogic to restart.

Learned a lot of Java. Assisted in a huge Broadvision-One-to-One-ectomy.

Learned ColdFusion, SQL, and JavaScript. Made private-label web sites. Sent individualized mass-email. Created e-postcards.