Michael Gajda Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Somerville, Ma, Us

Focused on DevOps enablement projects at a top tier investment bank. Both provide technical solutions and advocate for best practices throughout a cross-functional team. Projects that I've owned through ideation, development and maintenance include:• Upshift of existing applications to OpenShift• A Node-based cache and scheduler for a legacy system, with a React frontend and Swagger REST API documentation• A Docker Swarm-based testing platform with a React frontend and Spring backend• Jenkins plugins used bank-wide to speed development and deployment lifecycles• Authorization and authentication scheme for a dockerized ElasticSearch/Kibana cluster• Canonical examples for development and deployment of applications to internal/public cloud through Jenkins and OpenShiftIn addition to this, I contribute to Galatea directly in the following ways:• Serve as the Project Manager and developer for our Java and JavaScript starter applications which serve as examples for all projects at Galatea• Mentor new Associates on best consulting and development practices• Organize a JavaScript/TypeScript working group

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Built a generic, React-based dashboard from scratch, end-to-end• Designed React components to present data to users (graphs, charts, etc.)• Extended an existing Spring-based Java backend to interact with internal and external REST APIs• Created alert emails to monitor the performance of SmarterTravel’s advertisements across Facebook, Google and Yahoo

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Created a Scala-based email tool to communicate important information with clients (market performance updates, pasword resets, etc.)• Used Akka to implement an actor model system to make email sending highly performant and asynchronous• Built a cloud-based email templating solution with MongoDB, Thymeleaf and a third-party email provider

Quincy, Ma, Us

Contributed to a Ruby on Rails-based presentation application for use in K-12 schools• Developed community presentation gallery• Implemented a “like” system for presentations backed by a Postgres Database• Ported drawing/painting code from iOS to the web in JavaScript• Developed an import workflow to convert legacy presentation format to modern format using Ruby and JavaScript

Us

Developed a schema-agnostic data validation tool using Apache Spark and Scala• Facilitated the transfer of data from a legacy system to • Deployed this to Optum’s internal cloud• Made a fully portable version to bring onsite for data-sensitive customers• Selected to present to company COO on project

Boston, Ma, Us

Research Assistant in Dr. Esther Bullitt’s Lab• Analyzed tomographic data from electron microscope images of Shigella bacteria, with the goal of developing a vaccine by disrupting bacterial binding• Ran batch scripts on Boston University’s supercomputer to make tomogram analysis quicker and more fault tolerant

Houston, Tx, Us

Worked on building a trading model based on news data• Implemented a data ingestion and cleaning system• Developed clustering, vectorization and feature extraction techniques using Word2Vec, PCA, and other NLP techniques• Developed a distributed, custom K-Means solution• Delivered research updates, presentations and dashboards to senior management on a weekly basis

New York, New York, Us

I solved problems originating from Citibank’s network of ATMs around the world. I analyzed large amounts of data to find inefficiencies specifically in North America, made reports complete with recommend courses of action, and presented these reports to senior management.I worked at Citi during three specific intervals: - June 2013 to August 2013 - November 2013 to February 2014 - June 2014 to August 2014

I helped prepare myRoadways, a startup company based out of the Harvard Innovation Lab, for its launch in the fall of 2012 by contacting potential clients, editing marketing materials and managing emails.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

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