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Winter Park, Florida, Us

Working on bringing my hackathon game to tech companies around the world that are interested in giving their employees a fun team bonding upskilling event that will leave an impression. https://dragon.rentals/

Austin, Texas, Us

* Help cut costs in subscriptions that were being overpaid and under utilize* Strengthened the company’s legal B2B contracts, ensuring robust and compliant agreements.* Spearheaded a new consulting direction that would help them achieve their new target revenue goals.* Led a diverse department of approximately 40 engineers, including Fullstack, Backend, Frontend, QA, and Design teams.* Developed and implemented KPIs for a complex, augmented business structure.* Enhanced customer relations with both new and existing clients, fostering long-term partnerships.* Boosted engineering morale and collaboration through strategic initiatives.* Established and organized engineering departments for Backend, Frontend, QA, and Design.* Facilitated the migration from JIRA to ClickUp, creating and optimizing new processes.* Created Statements of Work (SOW) and provided accurate estimates for new projects.* Identified and addressed pain points and performance issues within the engineering team, providing actionable insights.* Reduced costs by eliminating overpaid and underutilized subscriptions.Note: Laid off due to unforeseen circumstances

Orlando, Florida, Us

* Led and managed Backend Engineering, DevOps, and IT departments, ensuring seamless collaboration and operational efficiency.* Negotiated and secured large contracts, significantly reducing operational costs.* Expanded departmental staff, fostering a culture of growth and continuous improvement.* Achieved HIPAA and PCI compliance as the Security Officer, ensuring robust data protection and regulatory adherence.* Developed and implemented new hiring standards, enhancing the quality of the candidate pool.* Introduced Product Ownership, distributing responsibility and control over key services to improve accountability and performance.* Enhanced company observability by creating comprehensive reports, charts, and collecting new data points.

Orlando, Florida, Us

* Led and managed Backend Engineering, DevOps, and IT departments, ensuring seamless collaboration and operational efficiency.* Automated DevOps deployment flows using GitLab, streamlining processes and increasing productivity.* Redesigned AWS network architecture, resulting in significant cost reductions, lower latency, and scalable infrastructure to meet high demand.* Developed a microservice architecture encompassing over 10 highly optimized services written in Node.js.* Migrated and optimized big data from MongoDB to ScyllaDB, reducing latency from seconds to microseconds.* Created a robust frontend architecture, quadrupling SEO ratings, reducing costs, and simplifying development complexity.* Implemented Cloudflare to optimize edge response times with serverless architecture, mitigate bot activity, and enhance overall security.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Custom software and hardware solutions bringing innovative ideas to life.

* Optimized the existing Node.js backend to enhance performance and ensure production readiness.* Developed and released open-source tools for load testing and benchmarking, such as “Wasp With Bazookas.”* Led initiatives to establish best practices for Node.js and AWS infrastructure, ensuring compliance with SLAs and concurrency requirements.* Engineered the fastest open-source API Gateway, featuring dynamic user/group/permission-based routing. This solution is highly scalable and leverages technologies like Node.js (Fastify), PostgreSQL, and Redis, achieving over 9000 RPS for full round-trip routing.

Oviedo, Fl, Us

GD LTEC:* Embedded Developer, RF Engineer, Hardware Engineer, PCB Designer, Mechanical Engineer which engineered three successful military-grade products, comprising eight unique PCB designs.CPM CITA, TIGR & ATF Projects: Full-Stack Developer (2 years):* Trained team members on Angular, JavaScript, folder structure, testing, and web standards.* Developed the Angular 1 application architecture for the CTIA framework.* Introduced internationalization (i18n) translation standards.* Transitioned CTIA from Kendo UI components to cost-effective, open-source solutions.* Created reusable Polymer components for CTIA UI Angular 1.* Resolved numerous issues within the CTIA backend and frontend.* Developed the first version of the TaaS frontend and backend.* Rewrote TIGR’s rendering side (TIGRNext), achieving over 10x speed improvements.* Architected ATFv2, a complete rewrite of v1, introducing microservices and modern technologies (Client-side: Polymer, Backend: Node.js).* Developed 10 generic, reusable microservices for various projects

Winter Park, Florida, Us

* Developed a robust chat server for www.gotchosen.com using MongoDB, DynamoDB, and MySQL.* Engineered the server to support thousands of users on a single AWS micro instance.* Integrated technologies such as Open Graph API, oEmbed, and emojis.* Contributed to various frontend pages, including newsfeed, channels, and chat, all built with AngularJS.

Heathrow, Florida, Us

* Engaged as a contractor to work on AAA.com projects, utilizing technologies such as JBoss, JSF, EJB, REST, JavaEE, C#, and PHP.* Led the re-architecture of the entire AAA.com backend stack.* Achieved significant improvements in speed and memory efficiency.* Implemented a universal memory cache and inter-process communication (IPC) system.

San Jose, Ca, Us

* Developed two in-house programs for the corporation, utilizing JavaFX, HTML5, JavaScript, and Node.js.* Designed and engineered both projects independently.

Manchester, Nh, Us

Worked on there CDDB Offline implementation on "The DJxStation" written in C++.

Chicago, Il, Us

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Computer Information Systems

Associates Of Science (As), Animation And Graphic Game Programming