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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Introduced Python microservice stack
• Introduced Confluent Kafka and Schema Registry – Python reference library – Schema migration validation at build time
• Designed, led implementation of new financial reconciliation system – AWS Pyspark+Airflow → Polars microservice in kubernetes
• Led build/buy evaluation of Sigma and Plotly for customer-facing dashboards backed by Databricks data
• Identified, classified, prioritized and led effort to fix quality issues with package tracking data

Austin, Texas, US

• Lead the adoption of TDD, low WIP, CI/CD, End-to-end testing
• Lead quarterly technical prioritization
• Currently leading Customer Input/Output initiative
• Lead technical contact managing 2 largest customers
• Repeatable, cacheable builds using Docker
• Full architecture security analysis for SOC 2

Charleston, South Carolina, US

• Reporting Feature - High-volume (3000+ msg/sec) Kafka data pipeline from legacy system
• Market Segmentation Feature - Design and build data pipeline from new platform (where market segments are created) back into legacy system (for use in email marketing campaigns)
• Created microservices architecture training course for all (~40) Blackbaud Austin engineers.
• Helped Design and Execute CI/CD Pipeline Build-out
• Content Management System Build/Buy Analysis

Austin, Texas, US

My first 6 months were spent on the CMS team, evaluating 3rd-party CMS solutions on which to base our new CMS product. The department was just starting a major transition from.Net to Java at the time. I helped design the Java engineer interview and bring in about 10 new Java engineers. Starting in October 2013, I was the Reward Checking team lead. The.

Jacksonville, FL, US

On the HPCC team, we are building a high volume audit and reporting system based on the HPCC parallel processing product from Lexis-Nexis. So far my main contribution has been a JUnit-based testing framework for HPCC clusters. It enables a HPCC developer to write tests purely in ECL (the programming language of HPCC), without having to touch Java. I have.

Working on many features of the Hoover's Online product, and some ETL work. The back-end software stack is Linux, Oracle/MySQL, Ibatis ORM, Java EE, Spring IOC and WebMVC running in JBoss. Front end is comprised of Velocity and JQuery. Hoover's is an agile shop, with two-week iterations and frequent releases. Extensive unit and integration testing is.

Implemented a Java-based logistics system for tracking active-RFID-tagged containers. Solution had handheld, desktop and server components, including a wizard framework for the GUI, SQLite3 for persistence, a customized open-source ORM, and a servlet running on Jetty for the handheld and desktop to report back to the server.

Managed the technical aspects of Realtour LLC, which provides online marketing products for the Real Estate industry. This included product development and testing on a LAMP stack, procuring and maintaining third-party software and hardware products, system administration, and end-user technical support. I typically had two or three employees report to me.

Converted several web applications from Perl to PHP. Built a reporting system for MLS data using Java and JFreeChart.

Austin, TX, US

Managed implementation efforts for the Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems under the direction of Dr. Suzanne Barber. Lead developer on several projects, most importantly the Sensible Agent Testbed - a distributed simulation environment for conducting experiments on multi-agent systems.

Master Of Science, Computer Engineering (Software Engineering Area)

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering Science (Electrical Concentration)