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Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• From Sr. developer, learned all IT systems in months, taking ownership & responsibility, rapidly promoted to leadership, emerging as a change agent. System architect, product engineer, lead devops/platform engineer.
• With a $3M contract secured having independently designed and built an SaaS platform, spun off a multi-tenant clone, tripling the legacy client count as a recurring revenue stream.
• Increased development velocity 1500%, optimizing team productivity by redesigning legacy dev environments, modernizing to better implement containerization and CI/CD principles.
• Cut 90% of deployment time and effort, transforming deployment and maintenance via DevOps/GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines, eliminating 75% of the effort and risk in prod systems.
• Reduced cloud costs by 60% and optimized system reliability and security, by moving to multi-account AWS Organization, simplifying, isolating, and decoupling workloads and support.

Los Gatos, California, United States

• Led a cross-functional team in planning, designing, and building a greenfield redesign of the Netflix supplier onboarding app. Eliminated 99% of issues and invented new features.
• Accelerated supplier onboarding by 60%, eliminating 99% of system issues and streamlining the entire app and UI/API using React and Java Spring Boot.
• Improved production stability and ensured long-term system reliability by getting the legacy system working with the standardized Netflix “paved path” dev system and tooling.

Houghton, Michigan, United States

• Troubleshooting and correcting issues in data ingestion/dashboard displays for a nationwide solar panel fleet that had scaled exponentially, creating more data than naive solutions could handle.
• Boosted data ingestion speed by up to 500%, and enhanced system stability by 75% by diligent application of best practices and patterns, optimizing SQL queries and patterns.
• Implemented a modern BI system, over legacy ETL, ensuring seamless continued data sharing with new protocols, restoring the system’s impaired observability & maintainability.

Escanaba, Michigan, United States

Led end-to-end development on diverse client projects, devising inventive and novel tactics and processes to avoid obstacles and drive technical solutions that aligned with unique client needs.

• Maintained, improved, and added features to a sizable intranet, as well as a data-driven print to mail system beginning with name lists, ending with ready to ship bulk mail flats in the warehouse.
• Increased franchisee ZIP/mailer sales by 40% and franchisee engagement by 60% by allowing unlimited targeting level, in mailings, down to the individual envelope/address.
• Drove a 35% increase in ZIP/mailer sales, saving hundreds of staff hours, with operational benefits from a user-friendly self-service targeting/visualization GUI for mailers using Google Maps.