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- Leading/owning the planning, development, architecting, release and alerting of a new search platform.- Technologies used: Java 21, Gradle, Springboot, AWS, SQS, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Helmfile, Localstack, Wiremock, Tilt, Github Actions.

- Lead Engineer on a Tiger Team to expedite the creation and release of a taxes and fees API.

- Developed/lead team to create a GraphQL/Kotlin/Mongo Atlas micro service hosted in Azure to provide the search experience on driveway.com/shop.

- Developed Kotlin microservices and data pipelines in Azure hydrating AppSearch/Elasticsearch to provide vehicles for driveway.com/shop search experience.

- Developed and deployed Scala based microservices and Typescript/Node.js AWS Lambdas operating on data streams to turn RFID signals into product data for global store inventory management.- Developed blue/green pipelines, signal collection and logging infrastructure to deploy, release, measure and alert on all our services 24hrs a day.- Co-lead the use of machine learning with Python/Flask/scikit-learn to predict audit failure with store inventory management data and models.

United States

- Wrote Go REST and gRPC API endpoints and the supporting Go/PostgreSQL backend for the Radarfirst.com SaaS product while integrating the API with the Angular frontend.- Wrote Java/Spring Boot command line tool to extract and transform customer privacy data and load it into Radar.- Developed dev/test/deploy cycle using Docker containers and AWS ECS.

United States

- Developed/supported Java/Javascript Bitbucket plugins, Jenkins plugins, Java Alexa bots, and build reporting tools.- Developed/supported an analytics collection platform built with Java/collectd/Signal Fx; AWS services (SQS, SNS, Java Lamdas, Kinesis, EC2) and open source Cerberus to collect analytics on Spring boot and Netflix Java microservices of Nike.com.

- Squad lead and engineer on Agile team responsible for developing, engineering and maintaining a CD and CI Java infrastructure using Jenkins, Linux, AWS services (Cloudformation, s3, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, EC2, ELB, VPC, EFS, EBS, Autoscaling, Route53, Lambda, Direct Connect, IAM). Additional tools included packer, masterless puppet, Docker, NewRelic, Splunk, couchbase, groovy, Python, Elasticsearch, Angular and 140 open source tools for 47 plus software development teams at Nike.- Squad lead and a developer on the SonarMentor team, a Groovy tool automating and modeling SonarQube scans and pitesting on all of Nike’s source code while collecting data in Elasticsearch cluster creating information to help measure team performance.- Member of a team that created, developed and maintained a Java Selenium auto-scaling grid hosted and managed using AWS services (Cloudformation, EC2, Route53, CloudWatch, Autoscaling, ELB).

Porland, Oregon Area

- Integrated QA functional test automation with my Build Automation and the installers to automate build, release and test of the all their applications.- Wrote an client server tool to build and release of all Extensis products on standardized CM Servers using Java, Tomcat, MySQL and Axis web services with a Tapestry web interface.- Wrote and mainted Mac and Windows installers.

Dulles, Virginia

Invented and Co-developed P.E.R.L., client/server, build automation tool for Configuration Management and Release Management of AOL to automate build processes increasing productivity of a 5 person team 800% by allowing the team to support 130+ products, which included the AOL Client, AIM Client, WinAmp and AOL Explorer. Created, developed and supported Client Configuration Management and Release Management policy. Integrated P.E.R.L., client/server, with existing Configuration Management and Release Management systems.

Roy, Utah

-Trained, supported and help co-workers and OEMs functionally test Zip line of products at Apple, NEC, Compaq and at Iomega. -Created QA reliability and quality tests for Iomega's Zip line of products. -Wrote Internet interface for Iomega's HipZip QA field testing.