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Cary, Nc, Us

I make the back-end services supporting Epic Games Store work and help keep them working.

Cary, Nc, Us

Managed the workloads, processes, schedules, and feature quality for my assigned teams while coordinating with others to deliver meaningful updates at the world-class pace expected by Fortnite players.Teams included Unreal Engine (UE) developer tooling, Fortnite patching, Fortnite's Verse language, and the automation frameworks across both Fortnite and UE.Additionally, oversaw the company-wide process that evaluated the legality of including third party software in each of Epic's products--e.g. development libraries for online services, fonts in Fortnite, 3D models used in UE demos, and more.

Cary, Nc, Us

Agile development for the back-end of SAS's online store, as well as all integrations with internal and external systems related to customer order fulfillment.Solutions were mainly in the form of Java Spring Boot microservices deployed to either Cloud Foundry or WebLogic, backed by a variety of relational databases. Used ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ message brokers to pass shipments between fulfillment systems and used REST APIs for the lookup and storage of data shared among those systems.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Full-stack, Agile web development for WebAssign, a customizable online instructional system used to deploy assignments and assess students.Created single-page, AngularJS web applications backed by Node.js services that interfaced with both MySQL and MongoDB databases.Also maintained and refactored legacy Perl web applications to a lesser extent.

Boston, Ma, Us

Full-stack web development for Fidelity's "Plan Sponsor WebStation" application used by businesses to manage the stock plans, retirement contributions, and health benefits of their employees.Built custom JavaScript widgets using Dojo Toolkit and Flot served up by an SDL Tridion content management system to contribute to a complete redesign of the application landing page.Replaced front-end of legacy report-building web application using Dojo Toolkit and Oracle Business Intelligence web services.Spent first six months in Fidelity's "boot camp" training program for recent college graduates, covering front-end web development, web application architecture, database design, and general software development processes.

Boston, Ma, Us

Refactored Java web applications from Apache Struts onto Spring Framework to facilitate switching server platforms from WebSphere to Apache Tomcat. Internship resulted in job offer upon graduation.