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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

At Living Security, our mission is to diminish the top cybersecurity threat for enterprises – human error. We achieve this through innovative, engaging, and tech-driven security awareness training.Team & Leadership:Grew the engineering team from a single developer to over 30 members, both onshore and offshore.Conduct regular 1:1s, monitoring team performance through KPIs and metrics.Represented the engineering department during $6M Series A and $14M Series B investment rounds.Product Development & Architecture:Spearheaded the complete SDLC for three distinct products, from architecture to implementation.Successfully transitioned a high-cost monolithic application to a more cost-effective serverless microservice architecture.Integrated HLS adaptive bit rate video streaming and developed a synchronized team-based training application.Process & Infrastructure Management:Orchestrated the build-out and security of our cloud infrastructure.Established the software development process from scratch, incorporating code reviews, testing, feature flags, and release management.Delivered enterprise identity management solutions, supporting SAML, OIDC, and SCIM.Stakeholder & Compliance Management:Collaborated directly with Fortune 500 IT departments, ensuring successful product delivery for end-users.Guided the engineering team through the successful attainment of both SOC Type I and SOC Type II certifications.Talent Acquisition & Growth:Introduced an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for holistic hiring across all company departments.Technical Expertise:Regular contributor to our code base.Proficient in AWS, Elasticsearch, Java, Python, React, Docker, Tableau, Serverless Framework, Microservices, Cloudformation.

Austin, Texas, Us

Spring, Texas, Us

A recognized Google and AWS Partner.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Product Leadership & Development: Played a pivotal role in leading and hands-on development of a real-time ad tech product. This entailed aggregating and normalizing brokered data to facilitate targeted ad buys for our diverse clientele.Data Management: Architected and managed intricate data ingestion pipelines. Further, spearheaded the design of a user-centric application that enabled clients to efficiently manage their ad buys.Technical Expertise: Developed scalable microservice applications harnessing a plethora of technologies, including but not limited to Golang, Node, Java, Python, ELK Stack, Vue.js, and Kubernetes.Reason for Departure: Transitioned to a Director of Engineering role at Living Security to embrace new challenges and expand my professional horizon.

As the sole proprietor of a dedicated AWS consulting and development business, I was entrusted with a diverse portfolio of responsibilities that spanned the gamut from strategic advisement to hands-on technical implementation.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Strategic Advisement: Fostered collaborations with a varied clientele that included startups, SMBs, and prestigious Fortune 1000 companies. Specialized in guiding these businesses in swiftly bringing their MVPs to market.AWS Expertise: Leveraged deep knowledge of Amazon Web Services to architect and implement tailored infrastructure solutions. Worked on a spectrum of projects that ranged from intricate big data workflows to robust mobile application back-end support.Full-stack Development: Engaged in end-to-end development ventures, often collaborating with distributed international teams. Successfully built and deployed applications using technologies such as NodeJS, React, React Native, Vue.js, Java, Python, MongoDB, and Postgres.

Orchard Park, New York, Us

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Serverless Architectures: Spearheaded the design and implementation of serverless architectures within AWS. These systems facilitated efficient data processing workflows for a suite of academic journals, supporting thousands of daily users.Service Modernization: Undertook the initiative to reengineer and transition existing services to more scalable and resilient multi-tier containerized solutions using Docker on AWS. This overhaul improved performance, flexibility, and system robustness.Technology Stack: Consistently employed a diverse array of technologies tailored to the unique needs of academic publishing, including AWS, Docker, Vue.js, Node.js, Python, MySQL, and MongoDB.

Burlington, Vt, Us

A custom software development firm catering to enterprise-level solutions.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Project Leadership: Directed and developed a diverse array of projects spanning multiple sectors, including healthcare, payroll, business reporting, industrial systems, and government research.Team Management: Orchestrated multiple development teams, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to the highest standards of quality and performance.Architectural Expertise: Entrusted with the responsibility of both designing the architecture and implementing robust solutions for complex enterprise challenges.Agile Advocacy: Initiated and championed agile processes, elevating project management efficiency and team productivity.Notable Projects:Engineered a mobile application for a prominent national healthcare provider, streamlining patient onboarding from diverse locations and seamlessly integrating with the provider's EHR system.Devised a high-throughput EHV data collection system, handling hundreds of events per vehicle every second.Created a real-time ETL pipeline for dynamic data analysis, channeling data to various dashboards and reporting modules.Developed a data collection application tailored for interfacing with Industrial Power Inverters over Modbus TCP/IP.Launched a React Native application focused on in-depth power quality engineering analytics.Innovated an onboard solution for network routers supporting OpenWRT, facilitating the remote control and management of designated IoT devices without disturbing standard routing functionalities.Technology Stack: Proficient in leveraging a wide array of technologies such as AWS, Python, Java, Angular, Node.js, React/React Native, Postgres, MongoDB, and Apache Spark to deliver tailored solutions.

Burlington, Vt, Us

Objective-C, PHP (Zend Framework), Node.JS, Postgres

Randolph Center, Vt, Us

Served as a key researcher/developer for the CubeSat technology spacecraft project in design of flight control software for the BasicLEO satellite.Teamed with students and staff for the first-ever CubeSat program using SPARK and Ada programming.C, Ada, SPARKReceived award from NASA for Outstanding Achievement

Drupal intern adding custom functionality to Drupal CMS for a now defunct but at the time large traditional publisher of wedding content in the North East, US.

Burlington, Vermont, Us

Creating custom functionality primarily for Wordpress sites for a marketing agency.

Software Engineering

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