» Responsible for delivering critical customer-facing financial software solutions» Deliver on architectural enhancements to enable scalability saving substantial cost and maximizing resource utilization» Solution architecture for DR implementation for customer-facing applications» Evangelize reactive programming across broader team» Perform proof of concepts ranging from async servers to containerization of existing applications» Implement advanced solutions such as asynchronous job initiation, circuit breaker pattern, and event-driven architectures» Design non-blocking protocol servers for low-latency high throughput network applications

» Database performance tuning and troubleshooting» Develop software components for scientific research using Spring Boot and Kotlin» Containerize scientific applications for deployment to ECS» Lead new software development initiatives in collaboration with domain experts» Develop scalable Kotlin/Java services for in-memory grid, interactive TV apps, and custom AWS project» Develop solutions using NoSQL solutions; (i) search, (ii) performance, (iii) in-memory cache» Build out AWS infrastructure to support aggregation of field device content» Create scalable ELK stack infrastructure for visualizing device data used by broader team

» Lead effort to troubleshoot performance issues related to Hadoop big data environment» Lead requirements gathering, tech design and implementation to bring crucial project back on schedule » Leverage Kafka for intra-service communication» Propose Kafka design, gain consensus and lead implementation for metrics collection strategy» Develop software Spring Boot components in Kotlin, Java» Troubleshoot complex defects and resolve» Advanced AOP development in order to obtain distributed metrics collection» Develop and demonstrate new approach to building micro services using Kotlin» Present systems design to leadership team in order to positively affect architecture changes» Mentor junior staff on devops, application performance and software development

» Lead technology initiatives to modernize and redesign legacy software stack to micro-service architecture» Designed and write new micro services using Kotlin/Java/Spring Boot» Architected solution for development of new web payment system using Kafka to mitigate perf issues and to enable increased online revenue capture» Used Consul for service discovery and remote configuration» Support internal ERP migration/integration effort to Hybris by building cloud-native services» Enhance inventory product search capability by more than 300% to increase online revenue» Build tools such as search index maintenance, ReactJS sales tool and Slack chat bot in Golang» DevOps deployment, monitoring and management of cloud systems using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins» Systems consolidation for prod/dev environments to reduce costs by over $250k

» Lead new product direction by presenting innovative solutions and ideas to business stakeholders» Design event-driven applications in JEE and Swing-based applications» Lead design/development of JEE applications in Weblogic environment» Created highly efficient cross-platform application for bulk loading financial data» Designed ORM frameworks and event notification over MOM in support of decoupled client/server applications» Leverage TDD/prototyping for rapid proof-of-concept and design» Write software directly enabling business productivity and customer flexibility» Cost reduction by in-sourcing of replacement feed load product» Technical pre-sale engagements leading to new business» Optimization and tune applications and databases

Relocated from consulting team to work in development in support of Symantec performance monitoring product line. Primary product was J2EE application server monitoring tool providing sophisticated metrics to end users.

» Provided consulting leadership/expertise on n-tier, client/server, and database projects with major performance/functional problems for Pan-European Professional Services team » J2EE domain expert; helped clients find/redesign/tune performance problems in enterprise systems deployed on various architectures typically including J2EE servers, Messaging systems, and RDBMS servers E.g. Oracle, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, and MQSeries» Monitored, analyzed, and tuned Oracle databases using a variety of tools communicating findings to customer DBA, development, and management personnel» Presented findings to non-technical and technical customer audiences» Reviewed application design/code to provide solutions for improving performance/scalability » Designed/developed tools to leverage product » Find/analyze database performance problems in production environments» Trained customers on how to best leverage product suite and how to best design large scale J2EE environments