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College Station, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Architected and managed Wedge Financial's backend infrastructure, resulting in a 20% increase in system reliability and a 15% reduction in server costs.
• Developed and implemented backend services using Django Rest Framework in an AWS ECS Fargate environment, resulting in a 25% decrease in server response times and a 10% increase in API uptime.
• Designed and implemented orchestration of AWS infrastructure using Terraform, resulting in a 20% increase in infrastructure scalability.
• Created docker files for local development and deployment to ECS Fargate clusters, resulting in a 40% reduction in development time and a 50% increase in deployment speed.
• Successfully integrated with many 3rd party APIs including lithic, plaid, alpaca, gemini, etc. resulting in a seamless user experience and an increase in user satisfaction.

San Francisco, US

• Re-architected existing code to scale for expected growth, resulting in a 50% increase in server response time and a 30% reduction in downtime.
• Implemented backend services using Django Rest Framework, including Celery tasks running data science algorithms, resulting in a 20% increase in system eciency.
• Designed and implemented orchestration of AWS infrastructure using CDK in Typescript and docker files for local and production images, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment time.
• Implemented many features including SMS notifications and Sagemaker endpoint integration, increasing customer satisfaction.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Provided technical assessments and software requirements resulting in on-time delivery of new client features.
• Implemented changes to the Django backend for medical document processing, adding new functionality for clients and resulting in increased revenue.
• Trained and implemented HIPAA and PHI compliance measures, resulting in compliance with legal requirements and increased client trust.
• Designed and developed POC microservices around FHIR document storage, resulting in a more efficient and scalable system.
• Deployed changes to AWS via Jenkins and Docker images, resulting in faster and more reliable deployments.

Austin, Texas, US

• Was instrumental in designing and implementing a microservices architecture to provide a SaaS for clients to deploy Kafka and other services.
• Transitioned the development process to Git Flow, increasing code quality and reducing production issues by 20%.
• Implemented new features and improvements to customer-facing web console sites using Vue.js, leading to a 15% increase in user engagement and a 10% decrease in customer churn.
• Deployed docker images via AWS using Jenkins to a kubernetes environment.

Austin, Texas, US

• Ensured timely delivery of technical assessments, architecture diagrams, and software requirements for several key projects with strict contract timelines.
• Successfully implemented AI technologies in collaboration with data scientists, resulting in quality deliverables within budget and on time.
• Interacted with numerous clients, ensuring their deadlines were met in a timely manner and delivering high-quality work.
• Leveraged a private colocation center using Rancher and Kubernetes, along with AWS for deployment platforms, to optimize infrastructure management and streamline deployment processes.

• Led an agile development team, resulting in faster delivery times and increased productivity.
• Architected and scaled the backend platform, resulting in improved performance and reliability for both web and mobile clients.
• Implemented a microservices-based architecture, which allowed for on-demand scientific calculations and faster results for clients.
• Utilized AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cloud Formation, and other tools, resulting in efficient deployment and cost savings.

Austin, Texas, US

• Transformed a traditional brick and mortar store into a modern digital storefront by leading the development of an API to service web and iOS platforms.
• Collaborated with development teams and management to design and implement an ecommerce backend API using Kafka to stream data from the POS, resulting in increased efficiency and accuracy.
• Integrated 3rd party software for customer purchasing, delivery, and rewards to enhance the user experience.
• Deployed the solution on AWS using CircleCI and Elastic Container Registry, resulting in improved scalability and reliability of the system.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led the development of a commercial real estate web application, scaling it from proof of concept to handling hundreds of connections per second with real users.
• Architected and developed an external REST API, optimizing it for scalability and meeting customer needs.
• Utilized modern front-end web technologies, such as AngularJS, Protractor, and webpack, to add features and improve the user experience.
• Mentored and managed a team of 6 developers, fostering collaboration and growth. Deployed via Google Cloud App Engine for efficient and reliable deployment.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led agile teams on multi-million dollar projects for well-known brands, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results.
• Built client CRM servers using Django and provided content to an iOS application used in classrooms across the United States, resulting in increased engagement and improved user experience.
• Provisioned sustainable environments for continued CI/CD development, enabling efficient and streamlined software delivery for clients.
• Architected, designed, and implemented automation software using Appium and Selenium Web Drivers, resulting in the ability for QA to run automated regression tests using simple Python scripts and reducing manual.

Dayton, MN, US

• Design, implement and deploy Enterprise systems to integrate their system with clients.
• Developed and maintained django application to backup and restore VMware virtual machines to clusters of ESXi servers.
• Designed and implemented a python library to access VMware's vSphere API and released it as an open source project.
• Designed and implemented a python library using cython, to access VMware's Vix Disk Develepment Kit and released it as an open source project.
• Utilized Celery (Distributed Task Queue) along with redis, memcache and Apache2 with WSGI.
• Used the python package boto to backup virtual servers to Amazon's S3 storage.

Colorado Springs, CO, US

• Lead the automation team in defining and implementing a test automation strategy within the Test Engineering department. Collaborated with development and test resources to design new frameworks and test tools. I was.
• Create Test Automation strategy
• Contribute to Xiotech High Level Design Documents
• Lead the US and India Test Automation group in the capacity of planning and organizing
• Collaborate with development and test teams to identify test requirements
• Design testing libraries, scripts, and programs

US

• Worked with a team to develop the user administration interface to the sidewinder firewall. Take a leading role in design and implementation planning. Execute on those plans and meet milestones based on release dates.
• Developed software on Windows XP and BSDi using wxPython toolkit.
• Extensive use of python and C++ modules to create a fast, and reusable widget library.
• Extensive unit testing on multiple versions, and communication channels.