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Atlanta, Ga, Us

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• Consumer Goods & Materials Firm: Architect SME on a Generative AI strategy engagement delivering reference architectures, roadmaps and use-case prioritization leading into pilot phase kickoff.• Life Insurance: Architect SME on Gen AI customer service assistant leading to improved client service and serving as a pilot for other Gen AI use-cases with re-usable infrastructure and capabilities.• Electronics Distributor: Architect SME on an effort to automate the classification of 20M products using Gen AI infrastructure and extraction solutions, leading to $1.3M in annual cost savings.• Brokerage Firm: Architect on the cloud-native build of a tax processing platform on AWS for a leading financial services firm. The platform is provisioned on serverless infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines and scales to 3,000 transactions per second at market open.• Industrial Manufacturer: Architect/engineer on a foundational cloud estate for a Fortune 500 industrial manufacturer. Designed and deployed shared services, landing zones and application patterns. Deployed via CI/CD pipeline using Terraform.

• Architect on the migration of several high traffic online banking applications to a multi-regional cloud-native AWS architecture. Services include Route53, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch and others. Deployed via CI/CD pipeline using Terraform.• Architect/engineer on the replatforming of a B2B middleware platform using serverless and cloud-native architecture. The platform integrates numerous systems via HTTPS, SOAP, SFTP, S3, applying config-based validation and transformations. At peak, it processes 1,000 transaction types and 25+ transactions per second, 300,000 per day. Deployed via CI/CD pipeline using Terraform w/ blue/green and zero downtime.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Lead Architect on a 10m+ user digital entertainment franchise app and website. Responsibilities include AWS architecture design/buildout, Scrum team lead and contributor to several project-wide features including OIDC authentication, localization, personalization, etc. Stack: React, React Native, Node.js, JavaScript ES6, GraphQL on AWS (API GW, Cloudfront, ECS, Lambda, Cognito)• Architect/senior engineer on the replatforming project of a high-trafficked marketing website. Responsibilities include Google App Engine architecture buildout, Python Wagtail CMS integration, TDD and CI, performance tuning/cache setup, engineering/Scrum leadership. The site scaled well, reaching ~6,600 real-time users without degradation during launch.• Architect/backend engineer on a holiday wish list web app, launched with an aggressive timeline of 6 weeks. Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, on AWS (OpsWorks, EC2, ELB, RDS), TDD with CI via Jenkins/Rspec.• Evangelized various topics w/ presentations and project demos, including TDD and CI, CircleCI vs Jenkins, and Amazon Alexa Skill development.• Received Huge Tech’s 2016 Core Value award for Delivery

• Joined the Product/Engineering team as the 2nd engineer, promoted to team lead, and grew it to a size of 10. Since joining, we achieved exponential growth in transactions, user base, and venue locations.• Engineer: Lead Rails API engineer on various projects. Contributed to several architecture and performance optimizations (caching, sharding). Setup all components in AWS (EC2, ELB, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, VPC). Established CI and TDD practices using Jenkins, Docker, and Rspec. Paired with junior engineers to preach TDD, DRY, KISS, and other concepts. • Product: Brought about stability in all product streams. Mentored product managers in SCRUM, feature prioritization, user stories, roadmapping, and measurements/validation.• Management: Established team-wide roles, responsibilities, performance reviews and performed all aspects of engineer hiring.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Architect on a product marketing, customization and fulfillment website for a large consumer goods company. Built in less than 3 months using lean platforms, Scrum, TDD and CI. Stack: Node.js, Express, MySQL on AWS (EC2, ELB, RDS, SES). Deployments fully automated using Jenkins. Unit + integration tests; over 80% code coverage.• Architect on a prototype sales team automation app that tracks sales leads by data-mining email. The data is presented on a dashboard for reporting/maintenance with real-time updates pushed over websockets. Stack: Java/Spring, Neo4j Graph DB, Rabbit MQ, REST, Backbone.js, websockets.• Senior Engineer on a large enterprise replatforming project. Responsibilities include build out of core services, CMS integration, performance tuning, distributed cache implementation, and CDN optimizations. Stack: Java/Spring, Ehcache, SOAP, DB2• Lead Engineer on a CMS replatforming project. Responsibilities include work breakdown, task delegation, Service/DAO architecture, component design, dialog development, and templating/integration. Stack: Java, Adobe CQ (OSGI, Apache Sling, JCR), JSTL.

• iOS and Android development, design, UX• Scalable REST API architecture using Node.js, MongoDB on AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, CloudFront) along w/ Sendgrid, Apple Push

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