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<h1 id="craig-buchek">Craig Buchek</h1>
<p>craig@boochtek.com</p>
<p>314-374-5780</p>
<hr>
<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<ul>
<li>Software engineer with 15+ years of experience, with 10+
years additional IT experience.</li>
<li>Agile player-coach with a proven track record of mentoring
and cultivating talent, transforming teams and team members
into the best versions of themselves.</li>
<li>Experienced Ruby on Rails web developer with strong devops
skills.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="highlights">Highlights</h2>
<ul>
<li>Continuously improving how teams work - including
processes, technical practices, and automation.</li>
<li>Mentored developers in Agile methodologies and Java
programming.</li>
<li>Active member of developer community, frequently speaking
at conferences and local user groups.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="professional-experience">Professional Experience</h2>
<p><strong>Staff Software Engineer</strong> at DebtBook (2022 -
2024)</p>
<ul>
<li>Built web app to manage financial accounting for local
governments.
<ul>
<li>Maintained and built functionality for management of
public debt, leases, and software subscriptions.</li>
<li>Ensured compliance with government accounting standards
(GASB, FASB).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Transformed engineering practices to meet the needs of a
quickly growing startup.
<ul>
<li>Focused on building maintainable, reliable, scalable,
and performant code.</li>
<li>Improved processes, workflow, and automation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Promoted advanced technical practices among the engineering
team.
<ul>
<li>Provided code reviews, ensuring quality and providing
learning opportunities.</li>
<li>Mentored junior developers.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Led several large projects, making design and architectural
decisions.</li>
<li>Grew team from 4 to 25 developers in 18 months.
<ul>
<li>Interviewed and assessed candidates.</li>
<li>Streamlined, documented, and automated onboarding
process.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, Sidekiq, JavaScript, React, Docker
Compose, Bash shell, PostgreSQL, GitLab</p>
<p><strong>Staff Software Engineer</strong> at True Link
Financial (2022)</p>
<ul>
<li>Built web app to manage financial services.
<ul>
<li>Management of restrictions on pre-paid debit
cards.</li>
<li>Investment tracking for pooled special-needs
trusts.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Promoted advanced technical practices among the development
team.
<ul>
<li>Presentation on how to improve testing.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Resolved issues with receiving duplicate transaction
notifications.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, AWS, React</p>
<p><strong>Principal Software Engineer</strong> at Binary Noggin
(2019 - 2021)</p>
<ul>
<li>Built web back-end to manage electronic poll books and
aggregate data.</li>
<li>Guided development team to make improvements to processes
and technical practices.
<ul>
<li>Agile practices: retrospectives, TDD, pair programming,
Kanban.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Improved application performance, in preparation for
traffic spike due to presidential election.
<ul>
<li>Added telemetry/metrics to track performance.</li>
<li>Optimized MySQL queries and indexes.</li>
<li>Employed background jobs and batching.</li>
<li>Tuned Kubernetes settings for scaling pods to meet load
demands.</li>
<li>Implemented load shedding.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Upgraded application from Rails 4.2 to 6.0.</li>
<li>Automated infrastructure build-out.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, Sidekiq, RSpec, jQuery, Kubernetes,
AWS, Terraform</p>
<p><strong>Sr. Software Developer</strong> at Weedmaps (2019)</p>
<ul>
<li>Built web app for a retail marketplace in a fast-growing
industry.
<ul>
<li>Management of retailers and products.</li>
<li>Categorization and tagging of products.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Implemented and consumed APIs within a complex
service-oriented architecture.</li>
<li>Promoted Agile practices within team.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, Grape, RSpec, Sidekiq, CoffeeScript,
jQuery</p>
<p><strong>Sr. Software Developer</strong> at F5 Networks (2017 -
2019)</p>
<ul>
<li>Developed web app for network services (load balancers,
proxies, DDoS prevention).</li>
<li>Upgraded web app to Rails 5.0.</li>
<li>Promoted Agile practices within team.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, Ansible, Nginx, Sidekiq,
CoffeeScript, Vue.js</p>
<p><strong>Engineering Manager, Software Engineer</strong> at
CenturyLink Cloud (2015 - 2017)</p>
<ul>
<li>Managed a team of 6, implementing WordPress as a cloud
service.
<ul>
<li>Boosted team productivity from 17 to 60 "points".</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Managed a team of 14, deploying Cloud Foundry
clusters.</li>
<li>Built a monitoring system for cloud servers.</li>
<li>Promoted Agile practices within teams.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stack: Ruby, Sensu, Grape microservices, Docker, Ansible,
Nginx, Bash, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ</p>
<p><strong>Previous</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Designed, implemented, and deployed large-scale web
applications.
<ul>
<li>Social networking and data-gathering site for patients
with type 1 diabetes.
<ul>
<li>Provisioned load-balanced servers for 200,000
concurrent users.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Asset management system for a large company (12 million
digital assets).</li>
<li>Developed, maintained, and documented APIs for several
mobile client applications.</li>
<li>Contributed to rewrite of a hospital system's patient
portal.</li>
<li>Wrote application for patients to find doctors by
specialty.
<ul>
<li>Developed in 5 weeks, on time and on budget.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Reduced code size and complexity to simplify on-going
site maintenance.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Consulted at a large corporation (7000 employees) to teach
developers how to implement Agile practices.
<ul>
<li>Implemented pair programming, Kanban, TDD, refactoring,
continuous integration.</li>
<li>Mentored developers to improve their Java skills.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Guided companies in establishing technical and process
improvements.
<ul>
<li>Embedded within development teams as Agile
player-coach.</li>
<li>Promoted Agile/Lean methodologies to increase team
performance.
<ul>
<li>Instituted retrospectives, pair programming,
Kanban, TDD, BDD, acceptance testing, refactoring,
CI.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Built an internal cloud infrastructure, automating
deployment of Java applications.
<ul>
<li>Implemented web control panel in Python.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Designed and implemented web applications for small
businesses and non-profits.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Stacks: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Python, Bash shell,
JavaScript, jQuery, Java, HTML, HAML, CSS, SASS, F5 load
balancers, Capybara, Cucumber, Jasmine, Cucumber-JVM, Selenium,
Jenkins, JUnit, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Devise, CoffeeScript</p>
<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
<ul>
<li>Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) -
Computer Science major</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="community-involvement">Community Involvement</h2>
<ul>
<li>STL Tech Slack - Co-admin</li>
<li>STL Ruby - Co-organizer</li>
<li>STL Polyglots - Co-founder</li>
<li>This Agile Life podcast - Co-host (2013-2019)</li>
<li>Roy Clay Sr. Tech Impact program - Instructor, Mentor</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="conference-talks">Conference Talks</h3>
<ul>
<li>RubyConf - 2014, 2015, 2016</li>
<li>RailsConf - 2015, 2018, 2019</li>
<li>Agile Alliance Technical Conference - 2017</li>
<li>Madison+ Ruby - 2015</li>
</ul>
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