Nicholas Metzger Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Member of Adserver Delivery Team, focusing on advertisement impression-time concerns, such as ad personalization and ad rendering.• Designed and implemented a ground-up rewrite of dated integration (CI) testing framework for component used to aggregate data from numerous microservices. Utilized container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Helm, and Ansible for startup and teardown of test lanes. Reduced startup times and test suite executions by 67% and 50% respectively and moved local execution to remote EKS lanes.• Provided technical insight to product team and developer leadership in designing modern and streamlined Angular web service for client data table input.• Developed refactor of service designed to transform and load client data tables to a uniform, processable format for ad personalization. Utilized Couchbase NoSQL cloud database to significantly improve data retrieval performance. Became product owner and SME responsible for all related production issues.• Identified business-critical custom legacy Datalog script which completely lacked any documentation or understanding. Performed an exhaustive analysis of script codebase, authored in-depth documentation, and led comprehensive knowledge transfers to developers and management to enable seamless future development.

Greater Chicago Area

Member of Ad Server Team in the Ad Tech department, where my focus lies in improving the efficiency and intelligence of our brand-leading technology stack.• Integral team member of Adserver development team producing and maintaining software that builds complex consumer profiles and deliver millions of online ad space bids and personalized advertisements per second.• Developed Java and PostgreSQL code remediations for Adserver production issues, and delivered performance enhancements and feature capabilities, working in a large-scale code repository managed by Git and Maven.• Implemented enhancements to Scala and Kafka-based user-profile processor component to consolidate and streamline profile data to provide optimized handling and throughput.

Member of Application Development on the FAST (Fulfillment and Associate Support Technology) Team, working primarily on way-finding web application for use by both associates and customers in retail stores. Responsibilities and technologies include: Javascript, HTML5, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Sencha.

Evanston Il

Design lead and primary developer on multiple new websites for organizations associated with the City of Evanston. Worked directly with clients to gather requirements and implement solutions.

Evanston Il

Restructured and enhanced several Evanston websites and implemented new social media initiatives. Required strong communication skills. Gained experience in HTML5, CSS, Adobe Dreamweaver and Muse, WordPress, Movable Type, Google Ads, Formstack, and Wufoo form building.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering & Computer Sciences

Activities and Societies: Chi Phi Fraternity, Member of University of Wisconsin – Madison Chapter of The National Society of Leadership.

High School

Activities and Societies: World Wide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE), Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects (STEP), Program.