Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos

• Wrote product or system development code.
• Reviewed code developed by other engineers and provided feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contributed to existing documentation or educational content and adapted content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triaged product or system issues and debugged/tracked/resolved by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participated in, and lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 · 11 mos · Hybrid

• Wrote product or system development code.
• Reviewed code developed by other engineers and provided feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contributed to existing documentation or educational content and adapted content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triaged product or system issues and debugged/tracked/resolved by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participated in, and lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos

• Committed code to add validated_decryption functions to terminal transactional gateways.
• Used the AWS CLI to allocate resources accordingly.
• Added code functionality to API payment and terminal gateways.
• Built, modified and made adjustments to core payment backend systems.
• Deployed and maintained infrastructure hosted in the public cloud.
• Worked with Git as a version control system.
• Used the AWS CLI to allocate resources accordingly.
• Added code functionality to API payment and terminal gateways.
• Added decryption table functionality to payment gateways using JavaScript and PHP.
• Reviewed code in Ruby for chef scripts to be deployed on aws opsworks.
• Built new API endpoints and modified terminal, import device_bdk, and decryption processes on the Fortress API.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Golden, Colorado, United States

• Wrote scalable, modularized code for backend distributed systems in Python and JavaScript.
• AWS CI/CD pipelines for web applications a in the public cloud.
• Used Terraform to model the AWS infrastructure.
• Created, updated and versioned Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure using Terraform.
• Utilized AWS CloudWatch to easily monitor all applications and to associate relevant data in logs, metrics, and events in one central location.
• Leveraged the capabilities and features of Terraform to build
• API based ingestion processes into AWS.
• Built integrations between services to create fully automated processes.
• Maintaining and improving the functionality of automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment.
• Optimizing current CI/CD processes and streamlining automation efforts for server provisioning, deployment, latency monitoring, & log analysis.
• Writing and deploying explicit code by making code commits to Bitbucket in JavaScript.
• Scaling all Jenkins pipelines from the S3 bucket, thereby automating processes while building a repository of JavaScript and Python libraries for reuse.
• Using Sumo Logic to parse data sources for log analysis.
• Implementing world-class DevOps practices for all the product development teams at AbsenceSoft.
• Ensuring software development best practices are evangelized and followed.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across all of infrastructure with a special focus on AWS containerization using AWS EKS.

Feb 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Westminster, Colorado, United States

• Delivered strong time management skills to iterate on and create new technical solutions in SQL for automation.
• Was passionate about expertly contributing to the ins and outs of an exciting, customer-focused ecosystem.
• Built relationships with key stakeholders by learning and solving their challenges.
• Managed internal resources, customer resources, and third parties to automate customer and internal processes.
• Configured systems for onboard marketers and developers in template and campaign set up, technical integrations, A/B testing, reporting, and regular onboarding meetings.
• Used SQL to resolve workflow and platform issues.
• Analyzed data normalization scripts using T-SQL to ensure accurate collection of data.
• Utilized and developed SQL normalization scripts when needed to provide support for all functions of customer data configuration.
• Configured new product modules based on customer workflows, such as the creation of derived attributes that would utilize a SQL norm script for a direct or dynamic purpose on the platform.
• Developed solutions for customers and solved complex technical platform issues by completing workflow tickets.
• Became a product expert and provided creative solutions with SQL and C# to meet customer needs.
• Gathered functional requirements across Enterprise customers and iteratively configured Tracegains software to exceed customer expectations.
• Achievements:
• ▪︎Migrated data using SSIS and ETL of 10+ legacy accounts to Azure Cloud, allowing for CI/CD of their data.
• ▪︎Collaborated with system architects to create an enhancement to a backend feature to have it's machine read functionality be provided with better embedded functions.
• ▪︎Built a SQL derived script to automate 10+ customer processes.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · On-site

• Collaborated closely with software engineering teams to ensure quality deliverables and provided clean and efficient code.
• Took responsibility for technical problem solving, including establishing development best practices.
• Interacted with teammates in variety of roles to accomplish specific goals.
• Identified and initiated investigations of new technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate designs that delivered an exceptional user experience.
• Created various test pipelines and edge cases needed for evaluation results.
• Ran programs via interfaces and integrated API's to confirm functionality.
• Executed QA testing and logged reports of results.
• Identified continuous improvement opportunities to augment efficiency, quality, and effectivity.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs · Remote, Denver, CO

• Wrote product or system development code.
• Reviewed code developed by other engineers and provided feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contributed to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triaged product or system issues and debugged/tracked/resolved by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participated in, and lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Philadelphia

• Led 20+ REST API integration projects from testing phase to production go-live.
• Developed API's for various data driven systems.
• Wrote tested, robust code that was extensible enough to be quickly moved into production.
• Analyzed internal server logs using PaperTrail.
• Troubleshooted API requests written in JavaScript & Python using the request library.
• Used data to understand the availability, reliability, and sustainability of the systems infrastructure.
• Responded to the needs of users and of other developers at Odessa.
• Worked closely with other teams from across the organization.
• Built and deployed large, complex distributed systems with an eye toward reliability working with MongoDB and Node.js to assist in the maintenance of data infrastructure build.
• Proficiently utilized Go, JavaScript, & Python to assist in production design and deployment of new features.
• Top Achievements:
• ▪︎Developed a log analytics solution to provide logging-as-a-service that hosted multiple internal applications based on open source solutions.
• ▪︎Built continuous delivery pipelines to manage and automate the lifecycle of the different platform components for all API integrations, allowing for seamless continuous deployment.