Ralph Marchildon Email & Phone Number

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

As a Staff Software Engineer at Workiva I participated in all parts of the Software Development Life Cycle while collaborating with various groups across our Engineering organization.* Routinely participated in product discovery activities with customers and stakeholders alongside Product Owners, validating feasibility, cost and scaling concerns.* Communicated complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, written and verbally, in office and remotely as part of a distributed team.* Continuously collaborated with architecture and other tech leads to scope out and deliver technical solutions for complex problems across multiple groups and diverse tech-stacks.* Routinely designed, estimated, implemented, tested, delivered and documented team and group level technical solutions in a multi-cloud, multi-language, distributed, microservice platform.* Frequently mentor and supervise junior engineers through one-on-one code reviews, software pattern discussions, architecture reviews, planning & estimation reviews, evaluating progress and discussions of challenges.Currently I am leading the planning, development, testing, deploying & documentation efforts of our customer facing API platform using modern technologies such as OpenAPI and AWS API Gateway and are backed by microservices running on Kubernetes and AWS Lambda, written in a mix of Java and Go with additional tooling written in Python.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

* Participated in migrating components from a legacy monolith GAE Python 2.7 into microservices running on AWS written in Python and Go.* Tech Lead for the implementation of a structured logging, analytics and telemetry pipeline using Kinesis & Lambda.* Tech Lead for the design and implementation of a content ingestion pipeline to populate an AWS Elasticsearch Domain to power a full-text search platform component.* Tech Lead for the design and implementation of the initial public API platform. Coordinated with Architecture to establish a process for planning, developing, testing and deploying of APIs. Worked with internal teams to help expose their APIs in a consistent, stable, well-documented manner.

Saskatchewan, Canada

As the lead developer I was responsible for requirements gathering, estimation, building and maintaining a variety of solutions for a number of small businesses across the country. Development was primarily done using Python & Postgres, hosted on Linux.Other responsibilities included regular client communication, market research, invoicing, accounting and taxes.

Saskatchewan, Canada

As a mobile app developer at zu I worked with a team of developers, designers and product owners to create iPhone & iPad enterprise applications and the backend web-services that supported them. I did so using Agile methodologies and TDD to iteratively deliver software within client timeline and budget constraints.

Saskatchewan, Canada

As a Staff Software Engineer at Workiva I participated in all parts of the Software Development Life Cycle while collaborating with various groups across our Engineering organization.* Routinely participated in product discovery activities with customers and stakeholders alongside Product Owners, validating feasibility, cost and scaling concerns.* Communicated complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, written and verbally, in office and remotely as part of a distributed team.* Continuously collaborated with architecture and other to tech leads to scope out and deliver technical solutions for complex problems across multiple groups and diverse tech-stacks.* Routinely designed, estimated, implemented, tested, delivered and documented team and group level technical solutions in a multi-cloud, multi-language, distributed, microservice platform.* I frequently mentor and supervise junior engineers through 1-1 code reviews, software pattern discussions, architecture reviews, planning & estimation reviews, evaluating progress and discussions of challenges.Currently I am leading the planning, development, testing, deploying & documentation efforts of our customer facing API platform using modern technologies such as OpenAPI and AWS API Gateway and are backed by microservices running on Kubernetes and AWS Lambda.

* Managed and maintained multiple company websites* Managed and ran online advertising campaigns* Managed and ran online email advertising campaigns

* Developed software for a new Internet kiosk product.* Maintained existing software for website product search