Career Profile
Creative software engineer with 15+ years of experience. Previous accomplishments include designing and developing services and applications that exceeded performance and business requirements, and mentored teams to be more efficient through improving development processes to deliver high transactional distributed systems. Contributed to industry specifications and open-source projects. Hands-on architect that goes the extra mile to get projects delivered and enjoys learning from and helping customers achieve success through products.
Experiences
Lead team members in technical, design and system directions; contribute to requirements with product management; technical leadership and design; develop solutions that work with multiple acquisitions; evaluate new technologies and how to integrate with applications; design data distribution aspects of the application and systems.
- Streamline core platform to run in a highscale environment
- Founding team to design and build out innovative customer 360 cloud integration solution which speed up integration of new product lines.
- Engineered modern cloud infrastructure to support machine learning platform for service recommendations
- Architected and led chatbot system for Live Agent / customer messaging
- Led a team to redesign and redevelop an sms servicing platform as part of the Live Message Platform
- Worked across acquired teams to integrate product lines
Desk.com
- Led team in architecting and development of bi-directional data synchronization service between Desk and Salesforce (Desk Connect)
- Spearheaded design and development of merge cases / split cases functionality
- Extended platform with API endpoints to support mobile and new web UI functionality
- Worked with team to improve database performance and design
- Troubleshooted search related issues with elastic search
Do.com
- Designed and built out project / deal template functionality and API
- Implemented billing integration and increased subscription processings through third-party integration
- Architected and created android mobile app with an actionable feed functionality
- Worked with customers on product feature requests
- Implemented database designs and migrations
- Designed and implemented platform integration, administration and expansion for identity and permissions
- Established plan for long term identity management and connected apps in the platform
- Developed OAuth functionality, SCIM implementation and maintained existing SAML functionality
- Designed and prototyped network automation application for building out a scalable datacenter solution
- Worked with customers on scaling solutions
Mentored team members in technical, design and system directions; worked with product and technology teams to innovate and evolve roadmap priorties; built systems in an every changing environment.
- Drove design and implementation of a semantic health recommendation and search platform
- Worked across teams to implement web platform for medical research
- Go to expert in system design and delivery
Devops/Operations
- Managed devops team delivering various web properties including: doctoroz.com, curiosity.discovery.com, howstuffworksinternational
- Designed and implemented business continuity and operations strategy across teams
- Documented and planned requirements for scaling application environment
- Drived design of auto scaling and delivery cloud platform using aws, puppet and ci systems
- Worked with teams to migrate existing projects to a cloud infrastructure
Mentored teams in technical and design directions; drove design of various product transformations; worked with product teams to build out and evolve priorties; improved team, build process, and integration strategies of platform applications including version strategy, team communication and tooling support; coordinated on delivery schedule and release plans as well as business continuty and operation strategies;
- Responsible for design and technical strategy on loyalty/rewards fulfillment and decisioning platform
- Rolled up sleeves and built out drop shipment integration with legacy systems
- Created best practices for hardware and network configurations
- Evolved white labeling framework from prepaid platform to support loyalty catalog and fulfillment
- Project(s) included dynamic decisioning, reward processing system, administration, consumer catalog site(s), insights, and data warehouse
- Worked across teams to design and develop card and payment processing systems with a focus on high-throughput (no downtime and better than industry performance according to VISA)
- Contributed to platform’s business direction and discussions
- Designed and developed online web architecture and framework to facilitate convention based development and support white labeling of consumer management sites
- Responsible for scalability of overall platform and application environment
- Innovated the parallel and distributed aspects of the platform
- Standardized business activity monitoring to improve checks and balances of the payment systems
- Implemented analytic and olap environment with database team
- Project(s) included administration of customers, client APIs, authorization and payment processing system, business activity monitoring, consumer web application, and analytics/data warehouse
Led and mentored team in technical and design directions; contributed to company product direction and strategy discussions; responsible for vendor integration strategies and technical due diligence; coordinated on delivery schedule and release plans.
Clinical Trial Platform
- Defined product features and growth direction
- Designed and developed metric calculation desktop application for clinical trial management
- Designed and developed online decision aiding application for clinical trials
- Extended platform with prediction and simulation features
My Life - Social Network
- Designed and developed online multi-media (online video recording, image manipulation, timeline correlation, etc…) social network platform
- Contributed to and architect overall co-location and scalability environment
- Built out devops strategy
- Led a technical due diligence project for a pre-startup initiative
- Architected solution for real-time analytics and business intelligence service
- Designed and developed decisioning and modeling API for service
- Worked with stakeholders to establish product direction
- Established deployment strategy and process
- Led team members in technical and design directions
- Designed BPM modeling tool Caliber Define IT architecture including JBoss and Eclipse GMF/EMF front-end
- Contributed to various ALM (application lifecycle management) initiatives and notational discussions
- Organized team and build process to accomplish sprint goals
- Responsible for eclipse and J2EE integration strategies to produce an Application Simulator Engine including a BPM based modeling tool and a SaaS service
Company was acquired by RSA Security.
- Led team members in Menlo Park and Dublin, Ireland with technical and design directions to accomplish product deliverables
- Designed applications for management of the Adaptive Authentication platform including policy management and data management
- Developed API, rules engine, and fraud detection engine as part of a product suite shipped to clients
- Facilitate process and design improvements to the core product line including API and services
- Responsible for tuning performance of consumer scale security API
- Worked with customers on product direction
- Drove a 5 year payments strategy and system architecture that included multiple teams
- Worked across teams to build concensus and presented architecture vision(s) to executive teams
- Defined service standards and governance approach
- Architected multi-million dollar projects including a enterprise payment system interacting with legacy systems, SOA infrastructure, online customer portal, large-scale reporting infrastructure, service testing tools, production monitoring systems, 2 factor authentication solution, document management system, and SSO/SAML solution between applications
- Contributed to overall security architecture for online facing applications including infrastructure security
- Designed an overall reference architecture for Portal and SOA roadmaps
- Led developers in open-source technologies, vendor integration and evaluations
- Incorporated and introduced Agile principles in the SDLC lifecycle
Skills & Proficiency
Ruby on Rails
Java
Python
Go
Kotlin
SQL
Javascript
React
Typescript
HTML5 & CSS
sass
Rust
Istio & Envoy
Kubernetes & Docker
Postgres & Oracle
Web Components
Mysql
Rabbit MQ
LDAP
Redis
Mongo Db
Jboss & Tomcat & Jetty
git
lucene
EC2 & S3
Dynamo DB
Sagemaker
Industry Contributions
Speaking
- USG Interact (2018) - presenter “Not all services are micro”
- Athens developer meetup (2017) - presenter “Sea of Data”
- IASA Atlanta (2006) – panelist for topic “Outsourced and Distributed Teams”
Patents
Standard Contributions
- Oasis SOA Blueprints – voting member and main contributor
- Oasis WS-Notifications – non-voting member, contributing architectural diagrams
- Oasis WS-Transaction – voting member and contributor
- Oasis WS-CAF – voting member and contributor