Joseph Ware Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Contributed to the development of Promoboxx's retailer engagement and digital marketing platform, which enables a brand to provide digital marketing material to their independent retailers to post on social and ad channels.• Developed new complex features (independently and as a team), including gathering requirements, working with product managers, evaluating technical options, writing technical design plans, setting up cloud infrastructure, developing new code, improving and refactoring existing code, developing automated tests, manually testing, working with software testers and deploying software.• Recent work includes:o Developing and maintaining services in Ruby on Rails and Go, including developing REST APIs, modeling data objects in MySQL and PostgreSQL, and integrating with third party APIs, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to facilitate posting on social channels.o Creating an external REST API to communicate with our existing services, to allow customers to access and update internal data, using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, JavaScript and Terraform.o Modernizing multiple Rails applications by upgrading versions of Ruby and Rails, adding the ability to deploy Docker images of both new and old applications to allow for coordinated switch over, updating code and library dependencies, and managing testing and final deployment.o Upgrading the version of Sidekiq (Ruby async job framework), including implementing code to prevent and retry stuck jobs, auditing all jobs, rewriting jobs as needed to be faster, and ensuring idempotency to allow for rerunning of failed jobs.o Converting an unmaintained Node.js application which scrapes data from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to Rails, while adding features, fixing existing bugs, and refactoring code to improve readability and maintainability.o Implementing code to use the Instagram API to allow posting of content to Instagram.o Decomposing monolithic Ruby on Rails application into Go microservices.

Seattle, Wa, Us

MichelangeloContributed to the development of Michelangelo, a software as a service product offering report generation to non-technical users, consisting of a multi-page website, server, database, and Elasticsearch data store.• Developed a multi-page website using JavaScript and AngularJS to allow users to create datasets, configure data mappings, input filter parameters, execute queries and create data reports. Learned JavaScript and AngularJS from scratch. Implemented undo capabilities. Refactored and streamlined login and registration process. Reviewed and refactored existing JavaScript as needed. Developed unit tests with Jasmine and Mocha.• Architected and developed a RESTful web service using JavaScript, Node.JS and Strongloop Loopback to provide access to metadata in MongoDB and to compose ElasticSearch queries to filter and retrieve data from ElasticSearch indices containing user data. Designed database schemas. Used AWS SDK for S3 file storage and SQS message queueing.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Report Tools TeamContributed to the development of Report Builder applications, to support analysts in creating, updating, versioning, and deploying report packages, excel templates and data flow graphs. • Designed and developed a Java library for management of report packages, including database CRUD operations for metadata, versions and deployment tags, and file storage in Amazon S3. Wrote design documents. Designed public API. Developed Java code, using Hibernate for object relational mapping, and AWS SDK for file storage. Designed database schema. Developed unit and integration tests. Some experience with Spring.• Developed RESTful web services to provide access to metadata and file resources.• Contributed to the development of a Java Swing application. Developed new features.• Contributed to the development of a .NET C# WPF Excel add-in. Debugged and fixed issues. Cleaned up and refactored existing code.• Participated in agile development using scrum, kanban, and pair programming.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), 2008 – 2011Contributed to the testing of WCF 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5.• Maintained existing tests for transport layer features (HTTP, HTTPS, authentication, certificates) in .NET 3.0 and 3.5. Investigated test failures by debugging test and product code. Fixed test issues.• Tested new product features in .NET 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5. Analyzed test bed coverage. Designed, coded and maintained test cases. Created test plans and test matrices of relevant configurations. Requested test runs and investigated test failures by debugging test and product code. Fixed test issues.• Such features include: Extended Protection/Channel Binding Token support in .NET 3.5 and 4.0 which shipped as a major update to Windows XP, Vista and Win7; support for internationalized domain names (IDN) in .NET 4.5.Servicing - WCF, 2011 – 2013Servicing - Entity Framework, WCF RIA Services, WCF Silverlight, 2012 – 2013Owned complete testing of all hotfixes and product updates for supported versions of released products. • Created test plans. Requested test runs and investigated test failures. Created bug reproes. Completed ad hoc testing of patches and worked with developers to fix issues. Created functional tests for patches. Completed setup testing of patch packages. Consistently met service level agreements for each phase of testing.• Created and maintained wikis and other documents for vendor support, setup testing guidelines, etc.

Arlington, Va, Us

737 Airborne Early Warning and Control, Mission Computing SystemContributed to the development of the Mission Computing System of UNIX and CORBA based distributed applications embedded on board 737 AEW&C aircraft and in 737 AEW&C ground support facilities.• Designed and developed playback library, infrastructure, distributed applications and graphical user interfaces, to support playback of recorded mission data on various ground systems. Wrote design documents. Designed public API. Developed C++ code, IDL code, and UNIX shell scripts.• Lead effort to complete each distributed applications’ usage of playback infrastructure by performing integration in development and test environments, writing problem reports, monitoring problem resolution, providing support to application developers, and fixing coding errors in application code.• Reviewed application designs and code for performance and memory leak issues. Collected performance and memory leak data in test environments. Updated designs and developed code for issues found.• Created and maintained development tutorials, operational procedures, regression testing documents and troubleshooting documents for all playback systems in development, test and production environments.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computational And Applied Mathematics