Position Overview: The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for guiding a team of developers in the design, development, and implementation of software solutions. This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and meet high-quality standards.Key Responsibilities:Team Leadership:Mentor and coach team members, providing technical guidance and support.Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.Conduct regular team meetings to review progress and address challenges.Software Development:Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software applications.Review code for accuracy and adherence to best practices.Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment.Architecture and Design:Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and project scope.Develop software architecture and design patterns that align with business goals.Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to improve efficiency.Project Management:Assist in project planning and scheduling, ensuring timely delivery of software products.Monitor project progress and provide regular updates to management.Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies.Collaboration:Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals.Engage with cross-functional teams to integrate software solutions with existing systems.Continuous Improvement:Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.Implement best practices in software development and agile methodologies.Encourage team members to pursue professional development opportunities.

Back-end developer working on designing, implementing, and maintaining RESTful APIs in Php using the Zend and Laravel frameworks. Front-end development of customer facing and internal sites in AngularJS. Participated in the strategic redesign of the application from a single monolithic application to one of micro-services.

• Built an Amazon Alexa API that answers questions about the timeline events of the Butterfleye camera• Successfully designed & implemented scaling architecture supporting back-end application for camera and iOS app• Used Kafka queuing to implement stateless architecture on Amazon Cloud• Implemented transcoding algorithm for converting videos from camera to Apple HLS playlist• Migrated entire codebase from Python to Java• Designed API’s for app and camera using Restful services• Deployment of codebase to production on Amazon EC2 instances using Auto Scaling group• Skilled in AWS services: EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Cloud Front, Load balancers, NFS

Software Backend Engineer in the Hotwire Car Search Team- Responsible for supply, search, pricing, and sort for renting cars- Designed, developed, and iterated on features to improve inventory, speed, and conversion for both internal and partner API's like Kayak- Notable projects:- Spearheaded team onboarding-Implemented Redis cache optimization logic to get speed and cache hit rate gains- Implemented an efficient way to call our 3rd party GDS system for local searches which reduced the number of calls to GDS by 1/3 and gave speed improvement by 1.2 secs- Built new REST endpoint for a new micro-service for location resolution which would resolve anything on autocompleteTechnologies: Java, Docker, Spring Boot framework, Dropwizard Framework, RESTful Architecture, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS, Maven, Jenkins, Splunk, Docker

• Collaborated with Bing team to produce research report for ETW events for IE features• Authored technical test spec for IE features.• Maintained, managed, and serviced down-level test cases for previous versions of IE.• Delivered solid and smooth, high quality user experience for all IE features integrated with Windows• Created end-to-end test scenarios (UI Testing, API testing, Localization testing)• Collaborated with Developers and Program Managers to add end-to-end integration scenariosand identified gaps• Identified areas of dependencies and overlap with other teams and disciplines• Authored technical test spec to assist and automate development of tests using BrowserCommon Library.• Drove bug bashes for my features• Collaborated remotely with China Team in China to deliver EUPP feature.• Organized team wide brown bags for technical areas for IE.• Delivered solid features on touch devices including Surface.• Worked with internal partner teams to identify coverage test gaps and integration test cases.

Worked with Professor Wolber on OpenCampaigns.comThis was done in Ruby on Rails , Postgresql. The website is live and active at www.opencampaigns.com

• Key member of the modernization technical team responsible for designing new architecture and developing new applications using Java/J2EE technologies.• Developed new Java applications to address several design issues and increase maintainability, scalability, and extensibility.• Introduced Spring MVC and ExtJS (JavaScript) framework to replace the legacy web technology.• Assisted in the compilation of Java coding standards.