Robert J. Email & Phone Number

United States

Remote

Remote

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

- Worked + helped architect financial data platform designed to enable customer data ownership and governance.- Developed API management service for transparency on service/product calls for transparent billing (external/internal clients).- Worked with DevOps to migrate state data from RDBMS to graph database, reducing read times by 50% (included refactoring of microservices to query graph database).- Implemented service mesh architecture for secure communication between services and transparent billing.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Houston, Tx, United States

- Develop distributed ETL pipelines using Spark (Python and Scala) and various SQL implementations.- Refactored 5 pre-existing pipelines to better utilize parallelization across machines, resulting in a 20-30% decrease in e2e ETL processes.- Developed API to create EMR jobs based on parameters including amount of data and number of features, reducing AWS EMR spend by $20,000 per month (Python + Airflow).- Developed internal RPC APIs leveraging gRPC for inter-service communication (Go).- Developed in-house version of AWS Cloudwatch (replicated ~75% of functionality), saving between $1500 and $3000 per month

Houston, Texas, United States

- Developed and debugged modules for Learn.co educational platform. - Rewrote 4 microservices (from Java to Go) reducing average memory usage by 50% and latency by 40% (on average).- Developed pipeline for HR benefits analysis and employee performance metrics (Python + Go).