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Austin, Texas, Us

- Leadership responsibilities: leading team of 4 FTEs and one part time contractor. Performance reviews, goal setting, one on ones, engineering roadmaps, recruiting, continuous improvement and career advancement for engineers- Led successful rollout of Agile practices- Architect, engineer and scale Traject Data's infrastructure and services- Manage AWS resources and infrastructure including security and cost optimization- Engineered OpenAPI Python client- Bootstrapped and led cross team DevOps meetup- Zero downtime migration of high traffic domains from multiple DNS providers to Cloudflare- 5x gains in platform peak throughput and redundancy- Vendor relations, contracts and SLAs- Mentored Women in Computer Science and Engineering student

Gainesvillle, Florida, Us

Consistently make high level technical contributions (architecture, engineering, propose novel solutions, and recommend pivots), to encourage high standards through mentoring and by example. Prioritize unblocking junior developers when they need help over my personal productivity. Take on technically challenging or complex deliverables especially when time to delivery matters: successfully identified root causes and implemented solutions for critical performance improvements for multiple applications: large amount of indexes introduced, query optimizations, refactoring large datasets (including large migration), introduced jemalloc, tracked down and fixed difficult to find memory leaks, correct N+1 queries and API calls, cache expensive views, move expense operations to background jobs (introduced ActiveJob). Successfully convince stakeholders when architectural changes are required. Lead a large data migration from MongoDB to S3: zero downtime, 100% data migrated, logged and verified, advanced S3 features (replication, versioning, hard deletes for data retention policy), reduce technical debt during the process. Currently leading an effort to build a significant cryptographic product feature being built with Typescript, Webcrypto, PKI.js, and Vue.

Gainesvillle, Florida, Us

Assistant Director serving a combined staff off about 15, 2 development lead direct reports and a variable number of projects (2-4). Assisted with promotion decisions. Participated in hiring process including interviews. Promoted our team\tech\culture to all interviewees and interviewed them respectfully (regardless of whether you choose to hire an interviewee or not the impression made on them will be shared back to their peers in the development community). Participated in a mentorship with the University of Florida Women in Computer Science and Engineering. The mentorship involved guiding a college student to build a blockchain construction application (vue|bootstrap|web3|solidity|geth). Contributed engineering and technical decisions to a large microservice effort involving several applications (polymer, node js, code pipeline, lambda, S3). Recommended our department adopt vue js for our future frontend engineering.

Gainesvillle, Florida, Us

Development Lead serving four products (bidexpress.com, docexpress.com, appia.net, infotechexpress.com) with a total development staff of 12-16 engineers. This role was 50% management and 50% technical.Managerial: Attend a large number of project meetings\scrums. Regularly meet to participate in department wide leadership decisions and rollouts. Held regular one on ones with staff to listen to concerns, offer advice, and take action on any concerns or requests developers made. Interrupt driven to assist with any important decisions or help unblock situations. Helped write job descriptions. Made recommendations for salary adjustments and promotions.Technical: offered architecture advice to our senior technical staff. Successfully authored an important roadmap document to persuade upper management to green light a large many year re-architecture effort for one of our most financially important applications. Helped to facilitate large consensus based improvements (for example moving our entire department to github.com). Successfully architected and engineered a significant product enhancement (customer certificate renewals) against a hard deadline. Participated in a mentorship with the University of Florida Women in Computer Science and Engineering. The mentorship involved guiding a college student to build a video chat file sharing application (vue|parceljs|bulma|Twilio|webrtc|AWS S3\Cloudfront\Lambda).

Gainesvillle, Florida, Us

Architected and developed many challenging consumer-facing core product features of bidexpress.com and docexpress.com: drag & drop designer for user-defined forms, customizable document workflows, browser-based cryptography product integration (encryption\decryption\digital signatures, worked directly with the CTO to build this). Championed unit testing & quality: over 6 billion dollars of bids opened without data loss. Mentored junior developers: domain logic, rails, jQuery, tdd\bdd, OO, application security, empathy for end-user, pairing, fostered a positive team culture (gladly welcomed ideas from junior developers: they taught me some stuff too). Payment integration: stripe, paypal, google checkout. Service-Oriented Architecture rewrite\migration. Api design & use: oauth-based security, etag-based caching, REST\conventions, ActiveResource. Performance optimizations (server & browser). Consistently introduced technical improvements: stripe, Carrierwave, migrate from prototype to jQuery, object-oriented javascript, jasmine, Nokogiri, CanCan gem, strong parameters, spork, exception watcher, delayed job, nested attributes. I value my own productivity and if I see a way to improve things I take the initiative to introduce it. I mentored junior developers to encourage the same sense of initiative.

Gainesvillle, Florida, Us

Trained and paired with new developers\contractors. Made contributions in all application layers. Architected large\complex legacy data migration. Automated rewrite of large Fitnesse acceptance test suite.

Gainesvillle, Florida, Us

Successfully lead Estimator product annual releases (on time and under budget). Experienced with many native technologies: C\C++, Windows API, MFC, ODBC, COM, Crystal Reports. Designed and engineered rich UI features: undo\redo of all actions, cut\copy\paste of all entities, customization of native Windows controls. Complex domain logic & optimizations.