As technical director core-tech I thrive to reduce friction in game teams every day work.My work is to understand their goals and how core-tech can help them achieve those goals better and faster. We provide them with shared services and tools ensuring observability, security, scalability, reliability, self-service and performanceI coach and mentor members of the core-tech team.I'm hands-on and design, develop cross-cutting concerns like observability, security and reliability.

Software architect working on AWS java back-end components managing all aspects of World Series Of Poker social poker game. Led the transition from Monolith using servlet and jetty to micro-services architecture using reactive web with spring-boot (2.x), spring-cloud-xxx components including spring-cloud-gateway. Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), RightScale Micro-services: spring-cloud-gateway, spring-cloud-eureka, spring-cloud-config, spring-boot Messaging: Kafka Data store: S3, DynamoDB, Elasticache (Redis and Memcached) Build: Maven, Teamcity Network: AWS VPC, Route53, ELB v2 (NLB and ALB) Security: AWS Security Groups, spring-security, OAuth2 Devops: Docker, Kubernetes, Graylog, Pagerduty, Ansible Monitoring: Grafana, Graylog, Micrometer Development: spring webflux, reactor, REST, Servlet 3, Embedded Jetty, Guice, Vavr, Websockets, JSON, JSON Web Token, JSON Web Encryption, Junit

2 main responsibilities:- Team lead: Manages 3 front-end javascript developers and handle all back-end design and implementations.- System wide application security lead (OAuth2 security, encryption, application security best practices).Architecture:Big Data, Lambda Architectures, micro services, application security, OAuth2, strong encryption, HTML5 real-time data visualization. Functional programming.Technologies available on demand.

Technical lead and architect on large scale, cloud computing, (2000+ servers in multiple data centers) server side speech recognition applications as multi-tenant Saas.Define solution architecture to meet 99.999% up time requirement and performance SLAs.Security expert; integration of latest authentication and authorization standards in cloud applications.Introduced Maven build system with Artifactory.Started Continuous Integration practice by installing the first instances of Bamboo and Fisheye/Crucible. Technologies available on demand.

I was architect and tech-lead on an Ajax web project built on Hibernate (3.2), Spring (2.5), ZK (java AJAX framework).- Designed the architecture of a resource planning product for airline companies.- Was technical lead of a 10+ developers team. - Chose the libraries, the frameworks used in infrastructure of the product.- Interviewed hiring candidates.- Conducted performance analysis and build plan to resolve the eventual issues.- Introduced and taught Agile development practices; Test Driven Development, continuous integration.- Participated in the implementation of SCRUM Agile process.- Performed code and design reviews.Technologies available on demand.

- Defined and documented software and system architecture using UML .- Participated in the definition of the development process.- Participated in pre-contract development estimates and ensured the feasibility of the solutions sold to the client. - Wrote pre-contract technical requirements documents.- Interviewed hiring candidates.- Coached junior programmers and taught standards “Design Patterns” and their usage.- Developed R&D proof of concepts.- Brought use of standard open-source frameworks; Struts (1.2), Spring, Hibernate and libraries (jakarta-commons, log4j…)- Introduced unit testing with Junit and frameworks like JunitEE and HttpUnit.Technologies available on demand.

1997 to 2004 Junior to intermediate developer experiences available on demand