Avillach Lab, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Lead development of an OAuth 2 secured externally accessible API providing a high level of abstraction and orchestration over granular internal services. Drive development of internal systems toward multi-tenancy by encouraging tenant agnostic architecture.

Provide mentoring to junior developer. Participate in project planning, feature and technical design discussions. Work alongside product owners, quality assurance and a small team of developers to meet project goals and produce high quality software. Advocated for reduction of technical debt and more sustainable engineering practices. Formulated and validated disaster recovery plan for a proprietary high throughput ETL and processing pipeline migrated to the AWS cloud from internally managed hardware utilizing RDS, EC2, ELB. Acted as direct point of contact for external security audit of development environment and development practices following the COBIT 5 standard.

Work with a diverse team of developers, business analysts, project managers, quality assurance, and data analysts to deliver high quality software.

Directs, manages and participates in all aspects of the technological development of the organization including software development and maintenance, hardware configuration, system deployment, project management, data integration and systems administration. Charged with scaling the Department of Technical Operations as the company grows and evaluating new technologies as they affect the efficient operation of the organization.

Independently completed multiple third party API upgrades(Google AdWords API, Microsoft AdCenter). Independently converted large complex legacy codebase from make/ant scripted build to apache maven. Work with little or no guidance in a self organizing team setting on large high impact projects.

Developed validation processes and reports for a large scale distributed business and logistical operations simulation.

Maintained several MacOSx servers, 4 MacPro towers and about 20 Mac Mini workstations used for graphic design and 3D Modeling classes. Managed software and hardware installations. Some Java programming.