Customer - TechNews.ioWorked with the CEO to define and prioritize the product vision, roadmap, and KPIs. Implemented agile development processes, a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, and incremental product releases. Hardened security through implementing containerized deployments and AWS best practices for VPC networking. Increased uptime through use of blue-green deployments, proactive monitoring and alerting, and service redundancy for failover. Led initiatives to implement industry best practices such as OpenID Connect, DMARC compliance, and payments processing with the Stripe API.

Customer - Turnitin, Platform Services GroupHired and onboarded a complete team of remote developers (Frontend / Backend / QA). Implemented agile development practices (sprint reviews, product demos, daily status calls). Helped product owners to define engineering requirements. Organized face-to-face meetups for team-building. Managed budgeting, payroll and customer invoicing. Reported to the VP of Engineering.

Customer: Turnitin, Authorship ProductImplemented backend APIs for a cutting edge product based on forensic linguistics and machine learning. Designed and implemented an ETL process to import massive amounts of data from external systems.

Customers: Lincare, St. Leo University, Vodaphone, College of American Pathologists, Allegis GroupSubject matter expert in application integration and message-oriented middleware. Helped enterprise customers to create and implement best practices for their application integration projects.

Transformed a monolithic J2EE webapp into a modern, microservices-based architecture with multiple user-facing web applications, a RESTful API, and a reactive event-driven worker application. Implemented industry-standard authentication and single sign-on using JWTs. Maximized performance by using a load-balanced elastic container service and priority queues on AWS. Improved search performance and reliability by migrating from Solr to a hosted ElasticSearch. Integrated disparate front-end technologies into a single user interface.

Designed and developed a J2EE web application with Spring Security. Implemented a robust, standalone search engine with Apache Solr. Added Web 2.0 functionality to the UI using jQuery and Bootstrap. Created sysadmin tools for managing AWS servers (EC2), databases (RDS), and nightly backups.

As a key contributor to the open source project which later became MuleSoft, I was one of 3 founding developers hired by the CTO to start the company and grow the product from a volunteer-based project to a best-of-breed platform for application integration. The first 5 years of the company were a time of rapid growth where my contributions went beyond software development into sales engagements, customer support, creation of marketing content, and conference speaking.Java, JMS, ActiveMQ, WebsphereMQ, AMQP, RabbitMQ, SOAP, REST/JSON, CXF, JDBC, jBPM, SAML, Linuxhttps://blogs.mulesoft.com/author/tcarlson/

Technical lead for Application Integration at a large telecommunications provider for Latin America. Worked with functional analysts to integrate new applications, improve and extend the existing EAI software, and provide operational support for internal customers.Java, Mule ESB, jBPM, JMS, SOAP, PL/SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, AS/400, Solaris (UNIX)

Developed client-server systems for customers in Europe specializing in GIS/GPS technologies.Delphi, Visual C++, Oracle, Windows

Developed embedded software for digital PBX (telephony) systems.C++, Perl, Solaris (UNIX)