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I help teams deliver more effectively with coaching, training classes, consultation on teamwork, configuration management related issue, and software development. Also available for fractional work bootstrapping startups and developing MVPs.

Lead Backend Engineer for early-stage startup focused on cardiac health. Developed APIs and workflows for cardiac health applications in Go, led tooling effort for FDA Validation documentation related to submission. • Led development of Temporal Workflow Framework for managing patient care.• Automated aspects of FDA validation process, including testing and vulnerability analysis• Worked with other DevOps oriented engineers to improve build and test automation.

Hands-On Technical lead of integrations/data delivery team. Work within the team and cross organization to improve engineering processes and remove barriers to delivery and robust operation. In addition to application coding, led development of testing and deployment frameworks. Mentored team members.

Regular contributor to Techwell Insights. Have also written for Agile Connection and CM Crossroads. Articles: https://www.techwell.com/users/steve-berczuk

Developed backend applications for a Solr based B2B search engine for Sales Enablement.

Voatz is a startup building a mobile elections platform. I developed tools to simplify client on-boarding and improved development process, including Scrum and CI. Developed applications in Scala and Python, set up CI and Automated Testing for APIs and improved build process for Scala and Web applications (Jenkins Pipelines,Postman, SBT, Akka).

Principal engineer/ team lead for a product team developing a campaign scheduling system for digital out of home advertising (billboards). Led adoption and implementation of API Testing approach (using Postman, Jenkins plugins, Docker, Spinnaker, ReportPortal). Team lead and developer for backend services (Java 9+, Gradle, Jenkins libraries). Share Scrum Master responsibilities for team.

Senior Software Engineer, Scrum Master for startup building laboratory informatics applications. Developed NodeJS application deployed on AW. Led initial Scrum adoption, leading to the team successfully meeting a delivery deadline. Lead Scrum Training sessions as team adopted Scrum.

Founder and Manager of a 4 person enabling team of software engineers with an affinity for automation with a goal of changing the company approach from doing automated UI Testing after development to incorporating testing more tightly into each sprint. This team worked closely with development teams to improve their ability to test by developing frameworks, tools, and by coaching and training

Formed the Boston office of Fitbit and as the first developer and team and technical lead for the Commerce team. Grew the Boston Based eCommerce Team from 1 person to 10, and helped build the office to over 100 people across multiple teams, application and Mobile, QA, and Firmware teams.Developed code using Java, Spring, and MySQL, Python and Groovy in addition to significant PostgresSQL and database design work.Responsible for the design and delivery of a new eCommerce platform that enabled Fitbit to sell and support its products in multiple markets (including the US, EU, and Canada). during a critical growth phase. I developed and improved our team's Scrum process and worked with the company PMO to train and mentor Boston-based teams and employees on using Scrum effectively. I also led the development of an improved hiring framework that led to more effective engineering interviews across Fitbit.

I built analytics applications and tools for processing and loading clinical data for a next-generation SaaS-based clinical informatics company.I was the lead developer for data pipeline (tracking and loading) tools and developed automated deployment processes for internal applications. I also served as Scrum Master on various projects and led project retrospectives. I advised other departments on the use of agile project management methods.As one of the first members of the engineering team, I helped set up our build and software development processes, and I helped maintain build, developer test, and CI and repository processes and tools in addition to building our analtyics application.The tools were done using a variety of languages, technologies and frameworks, including GWT, Flex, Dojo, Grails, Groovy, Spring, Spring-Batch, and Java. All applications used an Oracle database.

Agile project leadership using Scrum and XP, Agile software development, and Agile software development coaching and training.Managed Boston team and Boston client relationships.

Technical lead, maanger, and ScrumMaster for search applications team.

Develop software for Digital Archive products.

Part of a 3 person team developing an interface to configure the database for an IVR system for clinical trials. Developed in Java using J2EE technologies, including Struts and Tiles using an iterative/agile approach with weekly releases.

Developed software and managed projects for a telephone and web based bill presentment and payment system using Java, J2EE technologies, Tomcat Servlet engine and the Eclipse IDE.· Led the development of the telephone (VXML) interface to the bill payment application. Managed a 3 person core team. Maintained and extended VXML for a voice application under development, including quickly understanding an existing code base.· Developed and introduced a testing infrastructure for the voice and web applications using Cactus, StrutsTestCase,JUnit,, XMLUnit,and HTTPUnit).· Developed components to implement a bill payment system with a web and telephone interface. Code was written using Java, J2EE technologies (JSP, Taglibs), Jakarta Struts, VXML. The work included implementing interfaces to an Oracle database and an XML over HTTP web service interface. I led the effort to incorporate Struts into the application.

Developed tooling for automated integration testing in Python, and a framework for automating the customization of search result presentation for clients.

Team lead, helping to develop a CRM application that analyzed customer behavior.

Lead developer for a client-server port of an existing desktop-based network design tool.

Worked on interfaces for customer reservation systems and tooling to automate reporting and operations work.

Designed and implemented software to monitor scientific instruments, and analyze scientific data for the Rossi-XTE satellite.

Worked on an early consumer digital printing and composition station.