Nikolaus Brauer Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I lead identity architecture for Expedia Group as part of a small team of software architects with a large team of talented engineers on 4 continents. Core responsibilities include defining architecture and technical roadmap, guiding implementation decisions, and coordinating with other architects to create a cohesive vision for authentication and authorization. Focus Areas: Architecture, Standards Based Auth (OIDC/OAuth2, WebAuthn, JWT, etc), Security (OWASP), Everything is an API

Technical team lead for Homeaway brand of Expedia Group. Lead a ~12 person team of full-stack engineers responsible for human user login, API access, and workload identity. Primary focus involved implementing a modern, modal based login experience, and accompanying microservices for both travelers and property owners on Homeaway. Responsible for the identity platform driving the developer experience at Homeaway and tier one services at the core of the business.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for creating a cloud platform that delivers the Watson APIs publicly available through bluemix.net• Delivered a cloud native, micro-services based platform enabling fast time-to-market of over 20 Watson cognitive services. • Built on Softlayer, shortly after acquisition by IBM. We built out the underlying cloud architecture starting at zero. • Platform handles web-scale loads, provides high-availability, fault tolerance and is scaling with increasing customer volume. • Took on variety of roles including, SRE, developer, and team lead in my tenure • Lead team responsible for edge routing, service discovery, authentication, and Cloud Foundry integration.• Technologies: Java, NodeJS, Ansible, Docker

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Team lead with members in Texas, Massachusetts, China, and India. Responsible for mission critical serviceability functionality in a major enterprise IBM middle ware product suite (Notes, Domino, and SmartCloud Notes).• Focused on improving reliability and improving consumability of tools to diagnose issues, from low level memory leaks to database deadlocks. Diagnostic data was instrumented and collected from native code running on a diverse set of platforms (Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris, OSX, AS400) and the JVM on each respective platform. • Distributed reporting system aggregated data across clients and servers in customer deployments.• Implemented features with C, C++, and shell script using Agile methods. Derived expertise from large codebase (>20 million LOC).• Worked on hundreds of customer issues. Utilized problem solving techniques to drive customer reported defects to resolution. Traveled to customer sites when needed for critical issues. • Mentored junior engineers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Technical team lead with members in Texas, Massachusetts, India, and Japan. This was a customer facing role, with a focus on hands-on development and debugging.• Supported diverse set of APIs in Java, C/C++, XML, Javascript, LotusScript, Formula Language, and Domino Database Design. • Debugged and delivered fixes for customer reported defects. Resolved long running and critical customer issues. Implemented new product functionality. • Authored technical documentation and delivered conference presentations on Java, Eclipse, and JUnit. Mentored junior engineers .

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Provided direct customer facing support for IBM application development tools and supporting programming languages (Notes and Domino). • Utilized source code debugging techniques in C, C++, and Java to determine the source of customer reported defects prior to escalation.• Enabled team members in the use of product source code for troubleshooting issues and increased product understanding.• Technical area expert in Domino Java API and Java Virtual Machine troubleshooting. Delivered six week course on the Java programming language.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Provided direct customer facing support for an IBM enterprise mail server product (Domino), in areas such as e-mail routing, server administration, and server configuration.• Applied knowledge of network troubleshooting. Applied knowledge of Internet protocols and standards such as MIME, SMTP, DNS, SSL, IMAP and POP3 to solve customer issues. • Debugged product source code written in C, C++, and Java for increased product understanding and problem isolation. Authored technical documentation and delivered education on new product functionality.

• Work is entirely volunteer based, with a team of exceptional people. I work professionally at IBM and perform these duties for fun• Full stack web developer and chief technology adviser for a non-profit focusing on the arts. Implemented and maintained web applications for a non-profit corporation to showcase events, manage registrations, and process payments. • Centerpiece is hotrhythmholiday.com, which implements a registration system for an annual educational event, which attracts hundreds of attendees from around North America and abroad.• Responsibilities include front-end design, back-end programming, devops, payment processing, identifying technology opportunities for 501(c)3 non-profits, and customer support (e.g. everything and the kitchen sink).• I tackle this project with cloud principles in mind. Deployed live web applications on Digital Ocean, Modulus.io, and currently Google Cloud Platform.• Technologies: NodeJs, KeystoneJS, SASS, Bootstrap, and MongoDB.

• Work is entirely volunteer based. I worked professionally at IBM and performed these duties for fun.• Co-founded a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting and supporting local jazz music and dancing.• Primary mission of the organization is an educational event called Hot Rhythm Holiday which attracts hundreds of attendees from North America and abroad. • Successfully drove the federal 501(c)3 application process over a 2 year period. • As a team we established a sustainable business model that is in practice today• Streamlined state and federal income tax filing process for the organization.

Master Of Science In Engineering, Computer And Electrical Engineering (Focus In Software Engineering)

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science