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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

- Work with strategic partners to develop client projects using modern distributed technologies such as AWS, Redis, Fastly, Pusher, RDS, and Heroku to build distributed, scalable, responsive web services- Design payment systems and integrate nonprofit service APIsMaintain and support a reusable platform for developing distributed, high availability, multi-tenant solutions for fundraising and e-commerce- Coordinate efforts between clients and subcontractors to manage project resources and timelines, consistently delivering quality products on schedule and in budgetPROJECTS INCLUDEMomentus (Jan 2017 - Present)Momentus is a Giving Day donation platform for processing a high volume of transactions in a short period and managing life cycle, day of activities, financial reporting, and donor services for events. I designed and built the payments system which supports recurring and one time credit card, offline, and donor advised funds payments with real time updates of leaderboards and payment status. The json API runs jax-rs using Jersey Servlet in a Jetty container. The frontend is a React single page application with server side rendering of metadata tags. This year it raised $2M.Accelerist (Jan 2017 - May 2019)I worked with Accelerist’s founder to translate product vision to requirements bringing MVP to market inside six months. Accelerist used a proprietary match algorithm to connect nonprofits with corporate partners contributing to $1M+ partnerships and tens of millions in corporate funding. Fieldraiser (Feb 2016 - May 2019)Fieldraiser is a mobile canvassing application generating over $4M in donation revenue annually. Built using Cordova and PhoneGap with both iOS and Android releases, the phone app paired with a Knockout administrative console and React canvasser management dashboard. It integrated with Blackbaud and later Salesforce CRMs.

Austin, Texas, Us

- Led the deployment team for Oracle GraphQL service.- Conducted one on ones focusing on skill development and problem solving- Monitored and reported on team progress and allocated work for teamsatisfaction and efficiency- Developed a proof of concept Kubernetes implementation, and then organizedthe development of half a dozen helm charts for a multi-cluster environment- Organized and performed deployments using Terraform

- Responsible for voter registration and mail-in-ballot application embedded by over 100 partners, including the DNC’s official site, iwillvote.org. Supported over 1M voters in all 50 states- Performed load testing using Gatling and Flood.io. Optimized infrastructure to support traffic for the 2020 presidential debates (73M viewers)- Managed security audit including vendor selection, results analysis, triage, and exploit resolution- Developed APIs for Angular application, hosted services in Google Cloud API- Worked closely with Civitech’s data science team and party data sources tosolve novel problems around voter identification- Developed online BallotCure application to cure ballots in battleground states- Supported extensive mailing efforts for voter registration and ballot-by-mailwith 5M pieces mailed

Ithaca, New York, Us

- Developed core platform functionality for a high availability payment processing platform capable of transacting millions of dollars a day in tens of thousands of individual transactions. Server side implementation for this used Java, EJB3, SEAM, and Hibernate with a JSF administrative control panel, JSON API, and JavaScript client. - Led project to upgrade JBoss and refactor messaging system, eliminating significant causes of instability.- Designed and implemented comprehensive monitoring of our production environment allowing us to identify and resolve issues in a timely fashion- Added support for internationalization and multiple currencies- Load tested environment for acceptance testing- Collaborated with client side developers to design efficient and effective JSON API’s- Enhanced usability of complicated pledge, peer-to-peer fundraising, and registration workflows

Austin, Texas, Us

- Implemented features and bug fixes for a SaaS billing services product implemented with EJB3, Spring, Hibernate, and Wicket. - Created reusable UI components- Implemented a major overhaul of this application's look and feel, and designed and implemented customer skinning and templating functionality- Maintained JasperReports invoice templates

- Designed, implemented, and maintained a J2EE web application to track customer accounts and company assets (such as IP allocations, cable tracking, and power management), improving both performance and user experience compared to previous tools.- Created fast intuitive web interfaces with an emphasis on validation, UX, and standards compliance using Wicket and JavaScript.- Installed and configured a bug tracking system and oversaw application testing.- Implemented secure web applications with multiple roles and privileges using JAAS and developed a custom security realm for our Glassfish application server.- Integrated various tools and wrote various scripts and reports, including auditing tools to validate data against monitoring systems. - Administered a MySQL database, including backups and performance optimization.

Repaired software and hardware issues on laptops, desktops, and small electronics.