Summary
Full-time remote software developer and consultant specializing in Java-based enterprise web applications. With 10+ years’ industry experience and a proven track record of delivering value to clients and customers, I am eager to get to work for you or your company.
Remote worker based in Austin, TX
Skills
Memberships and Certifications
Languages
- Java
- SQL
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript/jQuery
- Bash/Shell
- Python
- JSF
Frameworks
- Spring/Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- JBoss Seam
- Dropwizard
- JEE
- Maven/Gradle
- JUnit, TestNG
Technologies
-
Amazon Web Services
(AWS)
- Apache SOLR
- Apache Kafka
- MongoDB
- JSON/XML
- JBoss/Wildfly
- Tomcat
Concepts
- REST API
- Agile
- Automated Testing (Unit Tests. Integration Tests)
- Code Review/Mentorship
Professional Timeline
International Trip Planning Services
Senior Engineer / Project Lead
Full-Time: May 2010 – Sep 2013
Part-Time: Sep 2013 – Present
Primary developer for enterprise Java application used by trip planning agency.
Duties
- Feature development
- Bug fixing
- Code reviews
- Writing unit and integration tests
- Application roadmapping
- Feature planning and prioritization
Major Accomplishments
- Robust “requesting” framework for automating permitting and customs requirements
for international flights- Dramatically reduced man-hours required by operations staff involved in permitting operations
- Implementation of REST API used by custom iPad application
- Increasing test coverage from 0 lines to 17,000 (60%)
- Migration of application from JBoss AS6 to Wildfly 8
- Seam 2.2 to 2.3, Hibernate 3 to 4, RichFaces 3 to 4
Anthem, Inc
Java Architect / Solution Lead
May 2020 – Sep 2020
Provided high level architectural guidance for features related to a Java-based web application used to search for medical providers. Communicated across scrum teams to scope and prioritize issues and manage performance testing.
Duties
- Provided solutions for scrum teams to implement with high level guidance
- Required scoping, sizing, and time/complexity estimations
- Compiling and managing testing data used for performance testing during bi-weekly releases
Major Accomplishments
- Worked with external teams to implement an asynchronous reporting mechanism utilizing their exposed REST API
- Communicated with external team to compile requirements and bridge gap with developers
- Deep dive into implementation of Apache Solr in Java-based search application to identify areas for improvement and ideas for enhancement
- Targeted indexing
- Data configuration
Priceline
Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2018 – May 2020
Developed and maintained a suite of internal web applications to support Priceline’s hotel booking and airfare shopping systems.
Duties
- Feature development
- Bug fixing
- Code reviews
- Responding to and diagnosing system outages
Major Accomplishments
- Brought several web applications from 0% test coverage to 60%+
- Project lead on greenfield Spring Boot application querying several different REST and SOAP APIs containing airfare itinerary and pricing information
- Extensive use of multithreading to achieve necessary throughput of searches and
storing of results
- Extensive use of multithreading to achieve necessary throughput of searches and
Mitratech
Software Engineer IV
Dec 2017 – Aug 2018
Senior technical resource for a team of engineers developing and maintaining customer-facing web application.
Duties
- Feature development
- Bug fixing
- Code reviews
- Mentoring junior developers
- Writing unit and integration tests
Major Accomplishments
- Architected and developed new REST endpoint for application, including database
models, remote objects, and business logic to consume and transmit information
Apptio
Software Engineer II
Apr 2016 – Nov 2017
Member of five-person team developing for ancillary application used by Apptio customers to procure data into Apptio’s flagship application.
Duties
- Feature development
- Bug fixing
- Code reviews
- Writing unit and integration tests
- Application support and interacting with customers to diagnose issues
Major Accomplishments
- Implemented customer authentication with Amazon Web Services (AWS) via role
delegation/assumption, in keeping with suggested best practices and supplanting
existing method of requiring users to provide access/secret keys- Provided clear, concise documentation to customers for configuring their AWS
accounts to allow for role delegation/assumption
- Provided clear, concise documentation to customers for configuring their AWS
- Architected and wrote several “connectors” to seamlessly pull customers’ AWS billing
data and cloud instance usage into Apptio’s flagship application for analysis- Immediate benefit to customers seeking greater insight into their cloud-based
operations and how it fits into their larger business strategy - Required architectural design discussions and cross-team coordination
- Immediate benefit to customers seeking greater insight into their cloud-based
Apptio
Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2014 – Apr 2016
Member of four-person “Site Reliability” team tasked with developing solutions related to instance access and uptime
Duties
- Application development of internal tools
- Infrastructure management
Major Accomplishments
- End-to-end development of LDAP-integrated security application guarding access to customer instances
- Reversed-engineered existing orphaned, undocumented application
- Benefited company by providing robust tools for auditing which employees had access to customer instances, and when
- End-to-end development of Dropwizard application to aggregate availability metrics for customer instances
- Integration with Pindgom, JIRA, and internal APIs
- Used by operations staff to pinpoint and diagnose customer outages and calculate impact on SLA
- Provided charts and summaries for VP-level executives surfacing trends and
highlighting problematic customers/instances for targeting - Required frequent cross-team collaboration with support and operations to
determine which data were important and how to classify them
Apptio
Engineering Services
Sep 2013 – Oct 2014
Member of four-person Engineering Services team tasked with developing and maintaining engineering infrastructure
Duties
- Maintenance of VCS (Git, Mercurial), build pipeline (Sonatype Nexus, TeamCity)
- Development/support, automated testing, QA for internal deployment tool
Education
Rice University (May 2010)
Personal
Private Pilot (Instrument-rated)
