Todd Fritz Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

- Collaborate with CDOs across business units- Develop enterprise data structures and standards- Extend the cloud native Equifax Data Fabric with active data management and self-service capabilities- Build a semantic layer that is AI ready- Connect Equifax with leading industry data fabric / data mesh patterns- Act as a thought leader in Equifax’s business to ensure competitive advantage for our data- Design and drive optimal implementation of data acquisition, storage, access, and syndication to meet enterprise objectives- Act as a bridge between the data requirements of business units and technical analytic processes- Optimize end-to-end data environments for the enterprise data strategy – by simplifying, streamlining, and standardizing reusable data structures and flows where possible, including configuration and automation capabilities- Lead the design and documentation of enterprise capability requirements of key data fabric components (ingestion / data preparation, data maintenance, and identity / entity resolution), as well as the enterprise semantic layer and end-to-end data management capabilities that are augmented with automation and AI/ML (data fabric).- Design data domains, taxonomies, ontologies, metadata requirements, and other standards that are critical to ensuring that the meaning of data is precise and unambiguous, and that data is accessible and aligned with business purpose.- Work closely with IT, product, data & analytics, and business unit teams to align underlying physical sources with data domains, logical and conceptual models, authoritative sources, and access points across the enterprise – maximizing value and use, and minimizing data expense, technical debt, and remediation costs- Partner with IT and Product teams to ensure ongoing management of the data architecture through SDLC, IT, and other governance processes

Atlanta, Ga, Us

"Fellows are our most esteemed full-time employees, as recognized by Equifax and industry peers alike, for their expertise and success in pushing the boundaries of creativity, curiosity and collaboration within their domain. They were selected and vetted to meet strict requirements, submitted by the Senior Leadership Team, and approved by the Executive Steering Committee. The Fellows will represent Equifax in a number of ways throughout their tenure with the company. They will play key roles in strengthening Equifax’s market leadership, providing input on complex initiatives and partnering on highly selective and impactful work that will span internally and externally facing projects." -Bryson Koehler, (former) CTO/CPO/CAO/CDO Equifax

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Engineering leader involved with global technology architecture strategy (spanning GCP, AWS, Azure).• Collaborate with senior leaders from all divisions of the business to govern, define, evangelize, and achieve alignment across Product, Data, Analytics, Technology, Security, Finance and Legal. • Regularly review internal business cases for to enterprise strategy, technology reuse, and adherence to architecture best practices that directly affect customer satisfaction, gross margins, and future extensibility. • Support numerous initiatives to decommission legacy systems and data centers as part of Equifax’s transformation to the public cloud.• Guide and influence the technology used in Equifax’s estate, to align to business capabilities and customer requirements - from commercial software, to OSS, through in house generate IP. Including management of Equifax’s Engineering Handbook.• Advocate for automated, cloud native, modern software engineering approaches that are industry proven, event driven, serverless, and functional in nature - without losing sight that core use cases may not change (e.g. information sharing) but the delivery can and does. • Regularly search for and identify opportunities across the business to improve efficiency through self service, automation, capability coalescence, and modern technology.• Extensive technology exploration and research about new or emerging technology, including software engineering, MLOps, AIOps, document intelligence, RPA, genAI/LLMs, DevSecOps.

New York, Ny, Us

• Coordinate an integrated Enterprise Architecture practice with focus on Business Architecture leading design of Enterprise-wide HealthSource software platform to unify and reuse Assets across set of LoBs post-M&A; define organizational structure for EA and conduct several interviews. • Partner with internal leadership and consulting teams to integrate software development lifecycle; expand and grow EA practice across CIOX with senior leadership and stakeholder guidance.• Oversee definition of first EA charter and operating model, including key EA Value Measurements to quantify value of architecture with business context. • Direct creation of blueprints and roadmaps for platform and key assets to communicate future/current state status and progress to leadership.• Devise and introduce Architecture Review Board process to provide greater transparency into and knowledge about both legacy products and new initiatives.• Consult with stakeholders to provide technology recommendations and transitional plans to management.• Employ expertise with data platforms, Scaled Agile Framework, Enterprise Architecture, and emerging technologies to assist with transformative initiatives. • Drive future state, event-driven reactive models using Akka/Scala, Event Sourcing, CQRS, and contributed reference architectures where needed (microservices in AWS, service mesh, message driven architecture, use of streaming).• Environments: AWS - various SaaS components, On-Premises, Cloud Migration, polyglot, Java, .NET, C#, Angular, Microservices, Kafka, APIs, Rancher, Docker, CI/CD, Git, NLP, Machine Learning, and Jenkins.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• In scaled Agile Framework, served as Release Train Architect providing direction to four engineering deliver teams to build Cox Automotive cloud-native, enterprise data platform, fabric, in AWS; platform replaced an on-premises Hadoop deployment of almost 100 nodes with a “modern” Data Lake platform, including governance, used as foundation for both product applications and analytics across all business units.• Delivered guidance to both teams and Enterprise about Secure Architecture, development best practices, standards and protocols, and the Data Platform retains highly sensitive data. • Interacted with product and engineering leadership to define product requirements for Epics with features and direction to implementation teams to drive out Agile stories during Planning Increments.• Built numerous, innovative, cutting-edge architectures with supporting artifacts to drive development of modern data platform including business architecture, features, and transitional roadmaps, to support efforts to migrate from data centers into AWS.• Used knowledge of middleware and development of modern, reactive, event-driven, streaming, and Fast Data to build data platform in AWS such as Lightbend, Akka, Scala, Flink, Event Sourcing, CQRS.• Directed Scrum team including architect and technical product owner to build centralized data management hub to augment master data management by providing environmental metadata to fuel contextual, operational dashboards.• Functioned as participant in numerous meetings with prospective vendors to explore and vet new technologies including OTS or consulting.• Environment: Java, Scala, Python, DaaS, Java/JEE, API, Microservices, Big Data, Kafka, Spark, Akka, Docker, Cloud, AWS (Lambda, S3, Serverless, EC2, Beanstalk, Kinesis, Dynamo, and more), Fast Data, JSON, Hadoop (Cloudera), Docker, CI, CD, IaaC.

• Provide C2C consulting services as an independent consultant (the combined duration is 4-5 years).• Apply skills and knowledge to lead engineering of cutting edge, business-critical solutions for customers.

• Altisource Labs builds and incubates future state technology solutions to generate competitive advantage for Altisource Portfolio Solutions, leader in mortgage and real estate technology and services has more than 9,000 employees on annual revenue of $1B.• Managed design and engineering of REALFoundation® Platform as Service, PaaS, across globally distributed group with USA, Romania, India with six scrum teams and 70+ resources; guided Agile process for teams to build foundation SaaS components for the PaaS. • Assessed and incorporated new technology and design patterns to increase scalability, performance, maintainability, and reliability, including: microservices, service gateways, Docker, Spring Security, event Sourcing/CQRS, Distributed Caching, Camel (EIP), Akka.• Steered IAM security team to drive development of 15+ resources of Identity and Access management solution including, SAML, OAUTH, user management portal for multi-tenant, hybrid cloud, and xPaaS environment. • Formulated interfaces and contracts for hundreds of APIs, REST.• Supervised transition of ideas from Product Management and Business Analyst teams to Product Development teams; atrategic application of tactical "hands-on" technical skills to benefit teams.• Environment: Microservices, APIs, Docker, Spring, Activiti, Drools, Camel, Akka, Elastic (search), Security, OAUTH, SAML, Event Sourcing, CQRS, AWS, Hybrid-Cloud, Multi-tenancy, CI, CD, Bamboo, Nexus, Agile, Scrum, Maven.

• Commanded architecture and engineering to create first, cloud-enabled, AWS, secure, multi-tenant middleware and backend platform, “Secure Data Service” for education technology for school districts; platform unlocked cost-efficient interoperability for Ed Tech vendors, freed from proprietary data services, storage, and security management. • Led Scrum teams within an Agile/Kanban model using Domain Driven Design and worked with Product Owners to write epics, features, and stories. • Channeled architecture, analysis, and engineering for green-field development of centralized API gateway, secure data/API services, and various portals that comprised the application development platform backend through UI for use by external Education Technology vendors, PaaS.• Performed research on emerging technologies; added value to tech stack: Spring Boot, Spring XD, Vert.X, and more.• Developed multiple decoupled, in-memory components to mock various subsystems using OSS technology, such as an in-memory LDAP server with UnboundedID LDAP SDK.• Environment: AWS (800 nodes), Java, JEE, Spring, Spring, Microservices, Microservices, APIs, API Gateway, MongoDB, MySQL, EIP, Camel, ActiveMQ, Ruby, Rails, Cucumber, Gherkin, Maven, REST, LDAP, JSON, OAUTH2, SAML, maven.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

• Suggested strategy, technology, and development plans to refactor a revenue-critical legacy system using industry standard technologies governed by an iterative, Agile methodology; acted as Product Owner to write epics, features, and user stories.• Fielded customer questions to quantify business impact of migrating from current state to future state technologies.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Interfaced with group of architects in Agile environment to design and implement an innovative, elastic Data Grid framework and toolkits for use by various revenue-critical, corporate product development teams; built platform around Oracle Coherence.• Environment: APIs, Microservices, API Gateway, Oracle Coherence, Distributed Computing, Cassandra, NoSQL, Zookeeper, Java, JEE, cloud.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Governed team of technical experts as Principal Consultant and Senior Architect through Solutions Architecture, systems analysis, and engineering leadership within an Agile/Scrum environment. • Orchestrated implementation of high-volume, MQTT-based middleware solution which acted as messaging backbone for a solution supporting up to 6M households, based on FuseMQ, AMQ.• Environment: Microservices, Java, APIs, API Gateway, REST, Spring, Service Discovery, Apache Karaf, Apache Aries Blueprint, Apache Camel, EIP, OSGi, SOA, CXF, MQTT, Spring, Gradle, JBoss, AMQ.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Headed architecture and development engineering in an Agile/Scrum environment to create a prototype first-generation data lake solution.• Acquired extensive hands-on experience of Sqoop, Hive, Java, JEE, Pig, Flume, HBase, HDFS, Avro, Zookeeper, Map-Reduce, EDA, CEP, EIP, Spring, Spring Hadoop, Spring Batch, Spring Integration.• Environment: Hadoop, Hive, Java, JEE, Sqoop, Pig, StreamBase, Zookeeper, Spring, EDA, CEP, Fast Data.

L-2163 Luxembourg, Lu

• Introduced technical design of next-generation, hybrid cloud, REALServicing® mortgage-servicing platform for technology company spun-off from Ocwen Financial, 10K employees in each company. • Arranged and led implementation of phase one of distributed, reactive, event-driven, high-volume data replication solution for use with legacy Progress database backend that serviced more than several hundred thousand mortgages per year; managed team of architects and senior developer resources and reported to CTO. • Environment: distributed caching and processing, Hazelcast, Spring (Core, Integration, JDBC), RabbitMQ, SonicMQ, Cloud, AWS, Java, J2EE, APIs, Service Discovery, HTTP/REST, Git, Maven, Progress, MySQL, Gradle, Groovy.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Led architecture and development engineering in an Agile/Scrum environment for InVision back office project to implement next-generation product catalog management system and distributed bill-pay - pricing, billing, partner invoicing engine, to process billions of gift card transactions per year, $10B in retail sales for 2009.• Built event-driven - reactive, real-time pricing and billing application that deployed to production in February 2010 and still in use; system generated more than $10B in invoices for vendors and partners, millions of invoices.• Enhanced performance of billing engine and domain model to process greater than 200M transactions on single node during peak holiday load in production without any issues; performance surpassed 2,000 complex transactions per second - average of 100 rules per transaction - on one node; end-end processing lifecycle including rules execution to DB commit was 11 milliseconds; almost all merchants were migrated to the new platform during tenure.• Environment: APIs, Distributed Computing, Message Driven, Java, J2EE, JBoss, REST, Esper, EDA, MDB, CEP, EIP, EhCache, Hibernate, Camel, Hazelcast, Spring, Fiorano, SOA, JMS, ActiveMQ, CI.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Interfaced with Enterprise Architecture and development teams to define future state strategy and reference implementations for production systems as a member of integration team; corporate topology distributed network of POS and back-office systems spanning 1,250+ store locations; use cases included sales, point of sale inventory, employee management, and time reporting.• Governed enterprise technology standards; purview included all web applications - Java/J2EE, middle-tier and messaging - SOAP, XML, REST, XFire, BigIP F5, EJB/MDBs, application servers, and backend systems.• Environment: APIs, API Gateway, Java/JEE, EIP, SOA, ESB, SOAP, REST, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, and Oracle.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Provided C2C consulting services as an independent consultant. • Applied skills and knowledge to lead engineering of cutting edge, business-critical solutions for customers.

Dallas, Tx, Us

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Overland Park, Kansas, Us

B.A., Quantitative Economics (Minor Concentration: Actuarial Science)

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