Jeff Ramsdale Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, US

Tallinn, Estonia, EE

• Manager
• Led engineering team that designed and built AWS cloud migration process for physical security components rolled out to 400+ locations in 50+ countries
• Managed engineers and architects, supporting career development and providing technical guidance
• Interviewed prospective architects and developers for team fit and validated technical capabilities using pair programming
• Led team implementing best practices across account and consulted on implementation of SRE practicesArchitect
• Architected cloud-deployed applications for global cloud leader

• Client: Global Search & Cloud Technology Leader
• Managed multiple teams implementing cloud solutions for client's customers on GCP
• Mentored junior team members in consulting practices
• Served in sales engineering capacity, determining client needs and proposing technical and process solutions

• Client: Global Travel Leader
• Architected global pricing and lodging inventory event processing platform on AWS and managed multiple teams implementing it; client presented solution at AWS re:Invent conference
• Implemented solution impacting 70% of client's business as launch customer for both Kinesis and Aurora
• Solution reduced web pricing lag from 4 hours to 2 minutes and saved over $700,000 annually over previous solutionOther
• Presented at Seattle Java Users Group (SeaJUG) on Amazon Alexa and IoT
• Presented at AWS HQ on event pipeline architecture

• Implemented data pipeline using Kafka, Storm, and Spring Social to retrieve and process 3rd party user data for display in lifelogging mobile app
• Assisted in design of RESTful API architecture to support internet-scale mobile app, replacing relational db-backed RPC API
• Refactored legacy Java code to remove obsolete bits and replace custom code with open source alternatives
• Guided team in improved use of Agile processes, git/Github, Maven, Spring, logging, unit testing, Joda, Jackson, and more

San Francisco, California, US

• Developed and maintained software performing NLP and indexing functions on millions of documents across hundreds of machines in a highly distributed Jini cluster
• Used JRuby and Node.js to develop scalable services in support of well-reviewed iPad-based topical news reader
• Simplified and corrected convoluted legacy build thereby supporting faster, more repeatable builds
• Saved struggling team with chaotic process and limited delivery by serving as Scrum Master, introducing process structure and focusing on continuous delivery

Seattle, US

• Implemented fake data tier to allow downstream testing when production db wasn’t complete, saving from failure a major year-long project for an external client
• Introduced REST server to existing internal systems, exposing capabilities to an entirely new class of clients and laying the framework for the next-generation application
• Led major refactoring efforts to introduce open source libraries and to reduce dependence on internal proprietary code of inadequate quality and/or utility
• Designed and developed multithreaded data extraction system to build caches of database-sourced content to improve application speed by several orders of magnitude
• Simplified complex set of Maven poms, improving maintainability and reducing dependency collisions
• Coached semi-successful Scrum team in conversion to full Scrum and high productivity

Redmond, WA, US

• Thinkronize – Architect/Team Lead
• Built site for 4 million+ users using Lucene, Solr, Eclipse, Maven, JUnit and HtmlUnit
• Integrated FreeMarker, Restlet, and MySQL to build Java web app backed by RESTful services
• Hired, trained, and coached Agile dev teamExpedia, Inc. – Developer
• Spiked data-grid/service-grid based high-performance web backend
• Implemented dynamically resizing distributed cache using Tangasol/Oracle Coherence and Jini/Rio

• Served on a high-performance XP development team writing Java n-tiered application for county tax assessment
• Led web UI integration effort after researching web app frameworks to convert from existing Swing UI
• Assisted in setting up team development environment including IDE, CVS, and Tomcat 5.0 to speed development cycle

• Developed XML-RPC server software for TINI Java-powered microcontrollers to report energy consumption of servers in data centers
• Interfaced with Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire sensors attached to bus for data acquisition
• Wrote compact logging package for constrained Java devices

• Taught computer science, math, history, and liberal arts to middle school students at private K-8 school
• Planned curriculum and led weekly field trips to museums and other activities of educational interest
• Installed school Mac/Windows network including extensive cabling
• Served as primary support person for computers, network, and phone systems

Muncie, IN, US

• Coded, reviewed and tested major components of #1 receivables management system (FACS), used by Fortune 500 companies, in InterSystems Caché post-relational database language
• Served as sole technical instructional designer and trainer for $50 million software firm
• Mentored new developers, reviewing their work and coaching their progress
• Polled Development Department (70+ persons) for training needs; organized all training on their behalf; taught technical classes to most of my peers
• Developed system tools for debugging in Caché