Paul Bersch Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Architecting and building a new streaming-first Customer Data Platform using Java, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Architects technical solutions involving stream processing and event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka - Establishes technical best practices by leading technical discussions culminating in Architectural Decision Records - Builds tools and libraries to enable teams to better use Kafka in their PHP and Java projects

Chicago, Il, Us

- Managed up to 14 engineers on two teams, onboarded and trained 13 engineers and 2 product managers - Led technical and product roadmapping, agile processes and ceremonies - Architected technical solutions and data design for stream and batch processing workloads in the marketing automation processing, contact import, site tracking, and click/open tracking systems - Replaced two critical processing systems that handle millions of transactions an hour with zero downtime- Introduced practices for testing and tuning systems in production through an iterative, data-driven process - Helped establish career pathing and interview processes and interviewed over 100 engineers, engineering managers, and product managers - Mentored an engineer on my team through a stretch role into a permanent engineering manager role

Chicago, Il, Us

- Lead scaling and new feature work on ActiveCampaign's marketing automation platform, which processes over 110m transactions per day - Designed Java systems responsible for a 5x overall processing speed increase and 40x speed increase on key metrics despite multiple >100% YoY volume increases, without a major platform rewrite - Introduced unit testing, dependency injection, and feature flag frameworks into the legacy PHP application - Started the first product team on-call rotation with metrics, monitoring, and automated alerting - Set technical roadmap, worked directly with Product team on prioritization and planning - Trained and managed 8 engineers

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Built and extended systems for social-scale message publishing, storage, and retrieval with Java, MySQL, and Cassandra using the Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn realtime APIs - Built publishing APIs using Python, Django, MySQL, and ActiveMQ - Employed event-driven architectures using a distributed data bus and structured Thrift messages - Designed and built a Java system for scheduled parallel publishing of large video files to Facebook using an in-memory buffer to avoid downloading files to disk - Implemented the AWS Signature V4 algorithm in Python to upload video files directly to S3 from a front-end Javascript application - Maintained and extended stream processing applications built in Apache Storm

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Developed new features for the ParkWhiz platform (built in PHP + MySQL)- Designed a REST API for interaction with third parties and native mobile applications built using the Slim PHP framework- Integrated the ParkWhiz platform with automated parking management systems- Developed a rich Javascript parking search interface using the Google Maps API- Administered development and production Linux server environments

● Develop and maintain high-profile, high-traffic websites for major national brands● Build rich interactive interfaces in Javascript and HTML● Deploy and administer Linux environments, and provide back-up emergency assistance● Launched over a dozen Django sites, including sites that feature e-commerce and REST APIs● Managed the upgrade, redesign, and rebuild of a product information, image asset, and technical documentation management system for worldwide OEM bike manufacturers ● Built and administered system for two national social media promotional campaigns, including one featured in a Youtube front-page ad buy and massive member email blast● Maintains and updates legacy PHP sites

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Supervised five student web developers and managed several projects:- migration of static web pages to our CMS- development of a computer hardware tracking system- development of an internal portal for L&S IT employeesServed as the primary developer for an application that is used by L&S Administration to hire fixed-term teaching staff.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Provided advanced web application and computer services support to students and faculty over the phone, via email, and at the walk-in desk.

Tempe, Az, Us

Provided hardware and software support for IBM Thinkpad and Dell Latitude D-series laptops, maintained Hewlett-Packard networked laser printers. Also provided walk-in, email, and phone support for graduate business students.

Bba, Management Information Systems

Education record