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Led technical architecture of new generalized reporting solution to replace product-specific systems.• Architected and delivered a new reporting solution that leverages internal Apache Flink, ElasticSearch, and GraphQL data platform to support a new frontend for back-to-school.• Diagrammed event flow between stateful functions and across systems, documented decisions and data contracts, then presented system design to engineering department for feedback. • Coordinated multiple development teams from project inception to production rollout, screened and onboarded developers, and hosted meetings to discuss and overcome challenges.• Collaborated with frontend team to define GraphQL endpoint contracts so frontend visual components could be developed concurrently with backend data processing.• Implemented first GraphQL endpoint and ElasticSearch queries to establish pattern for the supplemental reporting teams working on usage and growth reports.• Initiated development of a .NET batch job to aggregate usage for students and organizations, then shared code and lessons learned with team developing a batch job to aggregate scores.• Designed a multi-stage process to sync metadata between the old and new reporting systems by reading from files, uploaded to a CMS, triggering a webhook, then sending events to a queue.• Implemented many features in stateful functions including grading questions, determining the overall score, and converting from the state model to the index model used in ElasticSearch.• Created an internal tool to generate sequences of events to enable debugging and automated testing, including the setup of students, organizations, and metadata needed for scoring.• Created the first unit and integration tests as examples for the team to follow, added tests for important edge cases, and maintained the test data used for the integration tests.

Supervised a full-stack team, set technical direction, planned epics, developed backend services, designed frontend components, reviewed merge requests, and coordinated with other leaders.• Oversaw creation of a multi-source read abstraction in a NodeJS REST API to enable the strategic transition to a new customer asset management system prior to the holiday season.• Refactored a .NET Core add-to-cart orchestration service to adapt to merchandising changes.• Updated NodeJS event handler to transfer more customer data types for queued login events.• Expanded and improved features in a React-based editor prototype optimized for mobile users.• Coached team members and created ways for them to learn new skills and mentor others.

Managed supply chain applications, mentored developers, and evaluated static code analysis vendors.• Developed a cloud native batch process to pull millions of directory records from the Microsoft Graph API each day and then upload data files to Google Cloud Storage for import into data lake.

Integrated backend services, automated deployments, and updated components for branded websites.• Modernized search results, rating, and review features using ASP.NET and Vue components.• Designed and implemented multiple REST API integrations using C# and Swagger tools.• Orchestrated builds, tests, deployments, and releases with Jenkins and Artifactory.• Created Groovy scripts to measure website performance, publish a custom deploy event to application performance monitoring system, and submit requests for static code analysis.

Oversaw software development across the organization and led the developer community.• Recognized with long-term incentive award for outstanding performance after implementing new API integrations urgently needed by key partner responsible for majority of new policies.• Architected an intranet application backed by microservices, partnered with front-end developer to prototype a single-page application, and supervised development of initial features to provide keyword-based search and replace a manual process with instant reinstatement decisions.• Refactored the internal framework shared by all applications to increase startup performance, reduce memory usage, improve security, update dependencies, and remove obsolete code.• Restructured complex dependency chain to expedite migrating an internal payment processing integration off a deprecated vendor endpoint to prevent disruption of premium payments.• Supervised the DevOps team, advised senior leaders regarding vendor solutions, and oversaw upgrade to a new CI/CD system that required redesigning the build pipelines.• Hosted meeting series to discuss insights from The DevOps Handbook within the IT department.

Completed implementation and supported the delivery of a massive data model transformation project.• Guided the completion of a two-year project to transform how customer data was stored in the core system saving over 10 million dollars each year from reduced handle times.

Developed Windows application to manage policy data and integrated Web API services with vendors.• Automated the creation of web services by defining a set of project templates, then completing a tool to copy and customize them so they could be immediately compiled, run, and tested.

Developed ASP.NET web pages, WCF services, and Silverlight applications for ecommerce websites.• Unified how product pages and event articles were searched, sorted, and filtered.• Implemented a secure password reset to enable self-service and reduce support calls.

Architected fuel tax suite, designed ASP.NET controls, and developed WCF services.

Trained colleagues and designed software to support a third-party document management system.

Retrieved prices from websites and generated data files for Google ads and marketing affiliates.• Pioneered bulk data processing techniques to generate unique ad copy for millions of products.• Refactored batch process logic for parsing XML files and HTML pages to improve accuracy.