Kyle Ferris Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Richmond, Va, Us

-As Technical Lead, developed a high performing team through defining and instilling consistent development practices, resolving blockers, and incorporating input from all team members while continuing to contribute as an individual-Led team on design, development, testing, and operation of critical Kotlin microservices in a GCP Kubernetes environment for shared multi-product customer data-Architected a central system for registration across the suite of products that streamlines user experience and replace separate registration implementations per product-Successfully saw the team through multiple concurrent major migrations, including: an overhaul of the authentication system, extracting core identity functionality from the monolith to a microservice, and a payment processor migration-Established team expectations for ensuring quality through testing and also implemented a new smoke testing framework and pattern utilizing Cucumber-Executed on project to build and seamlessly transition to new step-up MFA functionality to prevent fraudulent authentication-Developed a monitoring and alerting pattern for event subscription processing failures, providing critical feedback to on-call engineers

Madison, Wi, Us

-Served as the Technical Lead of the Search and Analytics Team-Built and maintained Java microservices at enterprise scale in an AWS Kubernetes environment which supported searching across all customer site content quickly and easily-Successfully established the utilization of Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscalers-Utilized two separate Elasticsearch clusters in order to provide search and analytics capabilities-Successfully executed on three concurrent major migrations-Facilitated a culture shift to developers writing integration tests to support quality assurance efforts, which streamlined product delivery-Advocated for relevance sort capabilities to product leadership, eventually resulting in the introduction of new features to the core product leveraging this functionality

Stevens Point, Wi, Us

-Built and maintained Java web services-Core technology and tools utilized were J2EE, Hibernate, Ant, SQL Server, Tomcat, and Spring-Supported a Windows Service application (written in Java) that was a center-piece in Sentry's system-Took courses to learn more about Spring, Bootstrap, Unit Testing, and Personal Effectiveness- Attended No Fluff Just Stuff Conference (3/10/16-3/11/16)

Madison, Wi, Us

-Implemented an automated system to retrieve server configuration data from application delivery controllers, store the data in a SQL database, and supply well-developed reporting on the configuration data-Developed an innovation-focused presentation with a group of interns and presented it in front of leadership-Began the construction of a DNS modification web application that involved the use of ASP .NET and PowerShell functionality on the back end-

-Collaborated as co-teacher of a freshman orientation class-Improved ability to organize material and present it effectively-Developed leadership skills through discussion facilitation, enforcing accountability, and event coordination

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Managed the completion of multiple projects on a deadline both in groups and as an individual-Learned about networks and information security-Developed professional teamwork and public speaking through work on a project with a group of interns to improve internship recruitment and presenting it to company executives

-Studied learning that occurs in video game tutorials-Gained experience working on a team research project-Developed decision-making and leadership skills

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Psychology

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