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Seasoned technology leader focused on delivering high-quality, mission-critical systems with a passion for modern software development practices, DevOps principles, high availability/scalable architectures, project management, product ownership, and people management.Full-time management/leadership roles in recent years, but two decades of hands-on coding experience have informed my core beliefs: write code with support in mind, plan for failure scenarios, monitor effectively, refactor to keep code DRY, understand the pros and cons of choices, take calculated risks, automate everything, and deploy frequently.Ability to plan and drive product roadmaps in collaboration with business stakeholders, set priorities, provide a clear product vision, manage multiple projects, and recruit/motivate high-performance teams.Possess extensive experience in the financial services industry (i.e., Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Capital One) and the intelligence community.Specialties:Engineering organization leadership- Multiple teams/projects/budgets- Performance/talent management- Manager of managersArchitecture/Design- Microservices- APIs (REST/Swagger) and Streaming data- SOLID principles/Circuit breakers/DRY code- AWS multi-region deploymentsDatabase design- Relational/NoSQL - Query plan optimizations - Expand/Contract patternsAgile project management - Scrum/Kanban/XP/SAFe - JIRA/Confluence - Roadmaps/PrioritizationDevOps and Release Management- CI/CD- Blue/Green – zero downtime deployments- GitHub reviews and branching strategies- Code coverage/Checkstyle/PyLint/PMD/FindBugsProduction Monitoring/Support- DataDog/New Relic/CloudWatch- ELK/Splunk- PagerDuty