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Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Leading a team developing a low latency, streaming data pipeline to collect and integrate student data from a variety of university systems with Confluent Kafka and Apache NiFi.• Simplified identification of client systems and data extraction specifications by designing and implementing a DSL with ANTLR 4.• Removed need for VPN by implementing custom, HTTP-based proxy using Netty.

Dublin 2, Ie

Served as a consulting architect for Accenture on the IMPACT Modernization project at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. Identified and fixed architectural issues in the technical Angular, JEE on WebSphere, and Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition design preventing project success. Contributed new and revised architectural components and rewrote the Maven build for consistent, reproducible results.

Austin, Texas, Us

Aggregated public oil and gas data using Java (Spring Boot, Spring Batch) and PHP. Used ElasticSearch and Mapbox for unified text and geographic search. Deployed using Docker Compose for development and AWS for production: PHP with CodeIgniter on ECS, data import and ElasticSearch on custom EC2 images, and PostgreSQL managed by RDS.

Austin, Tx, Us

Responsible for all aspects of development and deployment of the TrustRadius website, built using Bootstrap, Backbone.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and ElasticSearch and deployed on AWS via Heroku.• Enhanced content discoverability with ElasticSearch.• Implemented efficient computation of 100s of millions of data points using the MongoDB aggregation pipeline:– Precomputed ratings for every date in the history for a product on the TrustRadius segmented by company size, industry, and other facets for efficient display of visualizations.– Improved average rating computation by including rating type, estimated trust, and recency.– Designed and implemented custom internal analytics for product “research frequency.”.• Implemented dynamic visualizations using D3.js.

Austin, Texas, Us

Developed a compact framework for communicating via standard protocols (SOAP, RTP, etc.) over proprietary, high latency, low bandwidth channels. Utilized Netty for low-latency network communications and OSGi to provide isolated loading of multiple protocols with conflicting dependencies. Implemented multi-platform JNI-wrapping of key compression libraries for platform-agnostic deployment.

Plano, Tx, Us

Led a small team of engineers, starting as the first employee, designing Internet video solutions for retailers and manufacturers using JEE technologies including Grails, JEE, Ruby, MongoDB, and MySQL running on Linux in the Amazon Web Services Cloud (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, etc.) including:• Designed and implemented the Invodo Video Player (Flash with HTML5 fallback) and JavaScript embedding API allowing businesses with minimal technical knowledge to easily add Invodo video to their websites with retail-focused analytics.• Created a REST-based API allowing easy integration of Invodo video product offerings into existing e-commerce platforms.• Constructed a toolset with Puppet and Capistrano that was used to easily and consistently manage dozens of EC2 instances and related services.• Achieved uptime better than that of AWS in 2011 (100% uptime for customer video) by creating a fully static system for consumer-facing components delivered via a CDN.• Created a web-based video CMS allowing a small team of administrators to easily manage video uploaded from customers and produced internally.• Interviewed and helped hire more than 15 developers, product managers and the current CTO.

Designed and implemented a rating and review system for HomeAway using Grails running on Linux and Microsoft SQL Server.• Completed the initial version released to the public in just 9 weeks.• Increased immediately and dramatically both the number and quality of vacationer reviews.

Dublin 2, Ie

Led a team of 40 developers building the child welfare SHINES application for the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services based on the TX IMPACT application described below using Sun Java System Application Server and Oracle running on Solaris.• Designed a stateless technology stack maximizing reuse of the TX application and simplifying development by eliminating boiler-plate code such as EJB lookups and JDBC resource management.• Led the translation of 471,183 lines of business logic written in C and more than 200,000 lines of SQL wrapped with ProC bindings into Java classes using DAO’s implemented with Spring and Hibernate.– Mentored team of 7 developers with little or no C experience dedicated to code translation.– Developed rules for a third party code translation company to reduce manual work by at least half.– Finished translation effort in only 5 months, on schedule for the project kick-off.• Designed web service based interface architecture using XFire and Spring with emphasis on reuse of existing code.• Responsible for software engineering components including SCM, build processes, testing, automated installer, and development tools.

Dublin 2, Ie

Designed and implemented a mobile extension of the existing IMPACT application for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services using JBoss and iAnywhere on Windows XP Tablet PCs to synchronize data from the existing JEE application, built with Weblogic Server and Tuxedo using Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

Irvine, California, Us

Designed and developed a network appliance using Java and embedded Linux for autonomous network management.• Architected a pluggable driver framework for structured interaction with network device command line interfaces.• Identified and resolved performance and reliability issues crucial for long-term unattended operation.Designed and developed a management server using Spring, Tomcat, Axis Web Services, Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and Linux for central data collection from, and management and configuration of Uplogix network appliances.

Dublin 2, Ie

Implemented components of the IMPACT application used by 7,000 employees at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services with BEA Weblogic Server and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition running on HP-UX.• Doubled transaction throughput in 1 day by identifying key performance issues and developing a mix of simple architectural changes and automated code changes that could be applied with minimal effort.• Designed and implemented a diagnostic framework for performance monitoring using AspectJ.• Drove consistency in testing by using personal time to design and implement a custom integration testing framework.

Austin, Tx, Us

Responsible for requirements gathering, design, implementation, data translation, systems interfaces, and user training for the Trilogy Automotive Master Dictionary, part of an automotive configuration project for Ford Motor Company.