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San Antonio, Texas, Us

Developed and maintained an insurance document system utilizing Kafka streams with a Spring Boot backend and over 100 RESTful microservices, 30 of which I worked on.Tech lead of a team of 5 on a rotational basis. Duties included tracking team progress, analyzing code reviews, facilitating technical discussions, and directing priorities.Championed team training and application of refactoring best practices as part of legacy code modernization effort. Taught SOLID principles and Object Oriented concepts. Worked within Agile teams following SAFe methodology and delivered high quality projects on time with both performance and localization requirements in mind. (SAFe Certified)Created CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to perform jobs such as security scans, unit tests, integration tests, SonarQube quality, and deployment to various Kubernetes environments.Performance tested to determine if the system met target requirements of one million documents daily using Artillery for stress testing, load testing, and scalability testing. Debugged issues using Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Splunk, and other alerting tools.Utilized AWS Lambda, GoLang, and Step Functions to create property risk assessments. Utilized AWS Lambda and Step Functions to create property risk assessments. Developed and supported a behavior based insurance product with a React/ Redux frontend and Java/ JBoss/ Spring backend within a network of microservices and APIs.Designed a React/ Redux / React Router frontend according to company standards and utilized a component library for UI cohesiveness. End product was a new member insurance quote. This was a greenfield full-stack project.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Developed and supported an app to track driving habits and reward discounts to safe drivers. The tech stack was a React/ Redux frontend and Java/ JBoss/ Spring Boot backend and utilized GitLab pipelines for CI/CD.Utilized Jasmine, JUnit, Jacoco, and piTest for automated unit testing with 100% code coverage on the front and back end. 100% mutation test coverage was also achieved.Created a developer tool to automate the process of creating test members which reduced the time it took developers to run manual tests from five minutes to less than a minute.

Plano, Texas, Us

Modernized and maintained new features for a financial close product called Cadency with an AngularJS frontend and Java/ Spring Boot/ Hibernate backend and used GitHub for source control. Migrate a project to Microsoft Azure in a proof of concept for executive leaders.Architected and prototyped a system to identify areas of code which were never used or minimally used by utilizing Java class loaders, class proxies, and asynchronous cloud logging. Utilized Jasmine, xUnit, JUnit and Selenium for automated unit testing and integration testing.Trained junior developers weekly on topics such as TDD, refactoring, and Java 8 streams. Greenfielded a financial reporting product utilizing C#, .NET, Entity Framework, and LINQ queries. This product consisted of 5 RESTful APIs which were divided by IDEALS.

Developed and maintained new features for the CancerGene website, on an Angular JS/ ASP.NET MVC5 frontend with a MVC5/Web API backend. Pioneered automated web testing with Selenium. The tests created a patient from scratch, and compared the Cancer Risk Assessment models between the improved website and the older version to find any discrepancies.The automated tests caught several large issues during development which prevented the issue from going to production.Developed and maintained report automation for our cancer risk assessment which illustrated the likelihood of getting cancer within a person's lifetime as well as recommended procedures.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Maintained and expanded a server center of over 3,000 servers. Built the servers to specification, activated them with custom software, customized BIOS settings, and installed the operating system for each customer.Achieved company record of 98 servers built in one day.Used a company custom built platform to install the operating system and bring the system online.