Exceptional and versatile developer with a passion for Java and learning new technologies.
Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash
Linux/Unix (CentOS & AIX), Eclipse, Jira/Confluence, Jenkins/Bamboo/GitHub Actions, Git, Subversion, Visual Studio, OwnCloud, ServiceNow, FreeIPA
Spring, JAX-WS, JAX-RS (Jersey), Hibernate, Junit 4/5
React, Svelte, Vue, Node.js, TestCafe
Glassfish, Tomcat, Weblogic
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 (7 months)
- Initiated & completed a project to migration message brokers reducing PaaS costs by $150K year- over-year.
- Implemented cloud observability and tracing into all microservices.
- Worked with leadership to refine the scope and deliverables for a commerce plugin. Worked with the team to deliver the plugin.
- Work with management architect and leadership to identify and refine project scope.
- Support and maintain a drop in web component (JS library) which facilitates payment capture in a PCI compliant manner.
- Implement new features in a timely manner.
May 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year)
- Provide support of a hybrid monolith & microservices environment.
- Feature development in a legacy environment with an emphasis on providing feature parity within 3 competing UI frameworks
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 (1 year 4 months)
- Identified and resolved major risks with key business goal by assuming product leader role
- Reduced support costs by identifying and deprecating value loss applications & services
- Reduced number of production bugs by intervening and escalating during code review phase
- Provide support and leadership to a team consisting of primarily junior developers
- Documenting/improving software development processes
- Collaborating with product owner and team members to define project scopes and timelines (both scrum and through ad hoc meetings)
- Work with senior technical leadership (architects, departement managers) in order ensure continual improvement
- Work with senior technical leadership to define best practices or areas for improvement
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 11 months)
- Reduced onboarding overhead by documenting the onboarding process and developing scripts to allow automated onboarding of new developers
- Reduced delivery costs by negating the removal of features not requested by business/customers (nice to have)
- Identified and documented resolution of a long outstanding infrastructural bug which caused persistent HTTP connections to be dropped
- Worked with test developers to identify, remove, and replace flaky tests by defining and implementing more robust unit testing strategy by ensuring units of code had a consistent contract
- Support more than 17 microservices including 11+ production applications & 6+ test applications
- Maintain, support, and document legacy applications
- Provide proactive feedback to team from design through code review and deployment in order to ensure high-quality, stable consistent releases.
May 2012 - Oct 2016 (4 years 6 months)
- Deployed a continuous integration environment and streamlined the build process reducing production deployment times from 8 hours to 1 hour (Jenkins w/Maven & Ant)
- Developed a unit testing processing reducing test windows from 1 week to 2 days.
- Deployed a centralized logging system to increase visibility into business critical systems
- Architected a functional web service security policy for senior IT leadership at Tervita
- Supported various applications in a heterogeneous environment (AIX, Windows, Linux)
- Developed and maintained legacy applications written in C# .NET, new applications written in Java, and Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA applications
- Collaborated with business analysts and product owners to identify and develop new functionality including sections of a customer facing portal
- Participated in scrums, sprint planning, retrospectives as part of an agile team
- Maintained various build tools (Jenkins/Sonatype Nexus/Maven/Ant)
- Provided and facilitated knowledge transfer among team members
- Coordinated and facilitated support with third party contractors/consultants
- Built and maintained environment templates for each of the applications supported
- Documented and coordinated changes across multiple teams
2011 - 2011 (1 year)
Designing and developing a new Financial Management System to replace the legacy OpenVMS based FMS.
2009 - 2011
2011 - 2012