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Laguna Beach, CA, US

Copenhagen, DK

• Led the technical direction for a team responsible for the lifecycle management of shipping containers from port departure to deconsolidation into trailers, warehouses, and other endpoints. Contributed to the company's.
• Implemented Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Clean Architecture principles to ensure a robust and maintainable codebase.
• Developed scalable microservices for handling container tracking and event management in a cloud-based environment.
• Integrated Azure services and Apache Kafka to facilitate real-time event processing and data streaming.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align microservices with the larger architecture and business objectives.
• Ensured high availability and reliability of services through effective use of cloud infrastructure and best practices.

Irvine, California, US

• Recruited by the nation’s fifth largest retail mortgage lender to join the team working on core backend systems, enabling 11,000+ employees to service more than 27,000 customers per month.
• As part of the progress towards the goal of becoming the SME for Appraisals, led a team of Test Engineers (SDETs) in creation of end-to-end third-party testing framework/harness enabling observability, debugging.
• Utilizing the harness mentioned above, identified and fixed ongoing payment issues with Appraisal vendors, resulting in significant recurring savings of both money and critical industry reputation
• Work with business partners and project managers to maintain and enhance Enterprise Platform Services
• Transition existing monolith services into microservices; part of company-wide pilot project.

Newport Beach, California, US

• Recruited by pioneering Healthcare SaaS company to lead backend development of multi-tenant mobile offering.
• External RESTful api for consumption by mobile application
• Internal RESTful api for use by multiple internal consumers
• OAuth 2.0 server implementing JWT and built atop Microsoft Identity 2. Centralized authentication for various user sources
• Developer utility for consuming an http-based service using the Open Api definition. The result is an api-specific instance to manage the service requests, connection pooling, authentication, token lifetime and refresh.
• Developed algorithm enabling custom mobile broadcast functionality for Azure Notification Hub and Blob Storage

Dallas, TX, US

• Contracted by global banking leader to assist in kick-starting development of new internal LOB application.
• Established and implemented best practices for consumption of Angular 8 Data Stores communicating with a.NET Web API Data Service. The service provided both basic CRUD functionality and an entry point to complex.
• Design and documentation of cross-functional communications mechanism; including data, repository, domain and service layers. Guided by client's aversion to risk, current and new mechanism will co-exist enabling a.

Irvine, California, US

• Joined award-winning solutions provider to assist in building core functionality of new multi-tenant application for managing and supporting Kawasaki Motorcycles worldwide websites.
• Architected, wrote and implemented codebase and database infrastructure for multi-tenant capabilities, including feature management, multiple languages, website / user analytics and mapping functionality.
• Created custom HTML Helpers, Extension Methods, T4 Template customizations, and Editor Templates for common components — accelerating team efficiency and enhancing code reuse.
• Implemented ASP.NET Identity — enabling management of multi-tenant back-end administration users and front-end “My Kawasaki” users.
• Guided and mentored developers on software best practices and database design.

San Diego, California, US

• Contracted by provider of technically-advanced smart parking solutions to plan, design, and develop new SaaS product offering to support the organization’s new line of business.
• Built Web API-based solution for immediate adoption by an initial client while ensuring long-term scalability as other clients come online.

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

• Brought on by the world’s largest specialty nursing organization to enhance the submission and management functionality within the association’s existing website to incorporate all course requirements, presentation.
• Identified a fatal flaw in an existing critical business process — immediately re-architecting the solution and launching the enhancements in time for the original due date.
• Enhanced core code base by implementing Enums instead of strings by utilizing custom.NET Attributes, resulting in a code that was type-safe, compile-time checked, more robust and less error prone.

Newport Beach, CA, US

• Hired on as senior developer for the 150-year-old insurance provider’s App Development Department with full accountability for all development application requirements, software engineering, and quality assurance for.
• Transformed customer management of policy funds — upgrading it from an error-prone paper-based system to a streamlined online process that successfully reduced customer service calls by 90%. Recognized by CEO for.
• Deeply involved in the creation, enhancement, and maintenance of numerous websites and services — serving both external and internal clients.
• Team evangelist for the implementation of development best practices, spearheading major SOA initiative that centralized shared functionality and data access. Later, to accommodate division needs, the service was.

• Joined Tel Aviv-based lead referral service as direct report to the Head of Development with the mandate of streamlining and automating the process of funneling leads to colleges and universities.
• Led initiative to modernize and automate the company’s complex monthly billing process into an on-demand financial reporting system — delivering revenue visibility and insights at the click-of-a-button.
• Senior technical lead in the planning and implementation of numerous enhancements, ongoing maintenance, and an SEO overhaul for the existing lead generation site.

• Recruited into the role of Team Lead and Senior Engineer for boutique Microsoft-focused tech consultancy providing external support in the digital marketing of high-profile Microsoft products.
• Identified opportunity to centralize core site functionalities into a shared library — slashing development time for new sites while enabling code reuse and the enforcement of best practices.
• Led team of four developers in building the company’s next-gen virtual training platform — combining virtual machines, chat, forum, attendee management, and usage tracking into a single application to create a deeply.

• Brought on as key development team member by the leading real estate-focused website company — hosting 30,000+ sites while delivering comprehensive web, SEO, and digital property listing solutions.
• As Senior Engineer, played a key role in building the company’s next-generation custom site creation engine — enabling over 30,000 real estate agents to build and manage their real-estate websites.
• As Lead Engineer, led a team of five developers in planning, designing, developing and delivering a new real estate search engine for use by brokers and their clients — delivering inventory data for 3 million MLS.
• The projects helped position the organization for acquisition by Homes.com.

Irvine, CA, US

• Recruited by the executive leadership team of established OC-based printing and fulfillment services company to lead all aspects of development for its ahead-of-its-time migration into the digital sphere — transforming.
• Engineered revolutionary customer-facing technologies for online marketing material creation, direct digital printing, and ongoing streamlined fulfillment services.

• At the height of the dot.com boom, brought on as dev team hire #2 for Tel Aviv-based tech start up focused on legal precedent research — with the mandate of building the first-of-its-kind subscription-based tool for.
• The solution strategically positioned the company for acquisition.