Steve Oliver Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for leading the development of standardized development processes and environments, shifting security and compliance left to ensure a secure and reliable software supply chain, and bringing enterprise observability to the applications and systems that power our customer and partner-facing services.

San Diego, California, Us

Led Guild Mortgage Company's Retail Sales Product (Development) Team to deliver a complete re-platforming of Guild Mortgage's Customer Point-of-Sale (POS) solution.Primary contributions include:* Connecting the dots between business, technology, old, and new to produce forward-looking solutions given current constraints* Vendor evaluations and technical contract reviews* Project management support as technical subject matter expert (SME)* Team development and personal mentorship* DevOps enablement.Major outcomes include:* Progressive release of a newly integrated (third-party developed) POS solution alongside the existing POS solution, to branches and loan officers nationwide* Establishment of new core services utilizing cloud-native, event-based, and industry standards-compliant approaches and technologies* Migration of customer Identity Provider (IdP)* Introduction of best-of-breed Observability capabilities

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for the design, development and support of PHP based APIs and back-end web services powering external websites, native mobile applications, and internal loan origination and servicing platforms, I help the company innovate digital products and optimize software development operations by promoting the adoption of test-driven development, continuous integration and structured design, improving the reliability and performance of new and legacy code bases.

Led the design, development, and support of several large members-only sites featuring paid access management, content scheduling, and e-commerce integration, with high quality object-oriented back-end modules and front-end components implemented in React, Redux, and JSON API.Deployed multi-store e-commerce platform for physical and digital product sales, event scheduling, registration and reporting; replaced various ad-hoc systems with a new Drupal 8 / Commerce 2-based platform that optimizes critical workflows and unblocks opportunities for business growth. Developed the necessary vendor integrations and advanced upstream features for the project.Introduced continuous integration, automated testing and coding/workflow standards; developed software installation profiles with contributed and custom modules, streamlining the operations of the web production team.Primary responsibilities:• Drupal module development• Drupal installation profile development• Third-party integration• Internal and legacy system integrationTools & technologies:• Services oriented architecture• REST API development• Object Oriented Programming• Drupal 8 APIs• Drupal Commerce 2 APIs• Unit and integration testing• ReactJS, RiotJS, AngularJS• JIRA, Scrum, Git Flow

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

Developed a configurable finance-traffic monetization platform for content publishers and finance providers; Developed consumer automotive websites featuring research tools, inventory, and dealer location functionality; Implemented continuous integration, cloud hosting, and software development workflows to support the production operations of the company's platforms and products.Tools, technologies and skills used:• Git (flow)• JIRA• Features• Panels• Installation profiles• Custom module development• Custom theme development

Full-service web design, development, and support—primarily Drupal 7 and 8 site building, custom back-end module development and third-party integration. Through client projects and volunteer time, contributed to the following projects:• Drupal Core (Twig initiative)• Drupal Commerce 2.x• Commerce Avatax• Commerce Product Bundle• Commerce Stock• Commerce Vantiv• Relation• Relation Select

Print and graphic design plus web development services for small and start-up businesses. Working primarily with Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, HTML, and CSS for corporate identity, graphic design, print collateral and static web sites.