Resume

Senior Software Engineer (IC-5)

• Collaborate with teams across the company to implement features in a manner beneficial to everyone.
• Proactively identify areas of improvement, write RFCs, and get feedback from a larger audience.
• Take charge of major initiatives, plan and track their progress, and see them through to completion.
• Worked on internal framework (Bloks) that allows server-side definition of client application logic to enable developers to write client-agnostic interfaces that are updateable in real-time.
• Added internal framework used for client-side experimentation to Bloks enabling developers to use the same framework for experimentation within Bloks as they would for native application development.
• Handled Bloks-related infrastructure issues including build/migration scripts, schema changes/migrations, etc.
• Technologies used regularly: Hack/PHP, React (+HTML/CSS), Python, Markdown, along with several Meta internal technologies.

Software Architect - SRE

• Review, research, evaluate, and implement new and existing technologies, frameworks, principals, and standards.
• Design, review, and implement foundation of new projects to ensure maintainability, reliability, and scalability.
• Proactively identify problems, gaps, and opportunities for improvement and automation.
• Document applications and infrastructure to support future maintenance and expansion activities.
• Collaborate with internal team members, management, and vendors.
• Provide multi-tiered solutions to complex problems under tight schedules to mitigate issues that occur in production.
• Provide technical guidance during backlog grooming and planning.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using tools such as Terraform to ensure environments are setup consistently and reliably.
• Perform code reviews and give team members feedback for fixing issues and increasing code quality.
• Work regularly with .NET (5.0+), Python, Bash, PostgreSQL, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Redis, and ElasticSearch.
• Work with Linux distributions, both bare-metal and in Docker containers, including Debian, Ubuntu, and RHEL/CentOS.
• Regularly use Google Cloud technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Compute Engine (GCE), Cloud SQL, Cloud DNS, Cloud Functions, VPCs, and IAM.
• Occasionally use Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), VPCs, and IAM.

Lead Software Engineer

• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, best practices, security, and performance of new code.
• Provide technical guidance to team members on how to implement new features or fix bugs.
• Make technical notes on more complex or risky work items to address security, performance, or other architectural concerns.
• Function as a subject matter expert on all parts of the application and infrastructure.
• Mentor other software engineers to help their growth and to teach new ideas and concepts.
• Participate in normal Agile activities such as daily stand-ups, grooming sessions, commitments, and end-of-sprint demos.
• Track down difficult to find or reproduce problems via local debugging and/or logical analysis of application source code.
• Utilize ASP.NET Core MVC to create REST APIs. Frontend (Angular) is completely separate from backend (.NET Core) and
• APIs are used for all communication between the two.
• Utilize Atlassian products such as BitBucket (Stash), Jira, and Confluence to manage code, tickets, and information within our team and the company as a whole.
• Work daily with .NET Core (2.0-2.2), Angular (5-7), TypeScript, CSS (SASS), HTML, PostgreSQL, xUnit, and Git. Also
• work with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Bash, and Python on a regular basis. Occasionally work with Redis and ElasticSearch.

Senior Software Engineer

• Develop the Marketplace and Developer Experience for the Omni-channel Decision Support Platform.
• Participate in daily standups, grooming sessions, and quarterly planning.
• Perform code reviews to ensure standards and best practices are followed.
• Researched and implemented migration of applications to Docker containers.

Application Architect

• Create and implement technical design process to be used with major new features.

  • Allows all developers, QA, and stakeholders to be on the same page about what is to be developed.
  • Helped ensure that security, performance, and reusability concerns are addressed.
  • Also serves as documentation of the new feature to reference in the future.

• Led production support team consisting of two developers and one QA.

  • Ensure that the support needs of clients are met in a timely fashion.
  • Ensure that high-priority bugs are addressed in a timely manner as well as continuously working through the bug backlog.

• Oversee six additional development teams, two in the office and four offshore.
• Discuss requirements with stakeholders to ensure that the requirements are thoroughly understood as well as to clarify requirements.
• Design and document new features based on requirements, as well as give estimates based on the requirements and design.
• Diagnose and fix (or recommend potential fixes) for performance issues occurring in production.
• Introduced Angular 4 into application and led ongoing migration from Angular 1.x to Angular 4.
• Migrated TFS version control to Git, including migration of history and training the development team.

Technical Lead

• Led user interface redesign project. First phase included upgrading the shell of the application (including menus, page titles, breadcrumbs, user information, etc.) in Angular in a manner that allowed toggling between the old and new shell; this allowed the new shell to be developed and tested while still showing the old interface to normal users. Second phase included re-writing individual pages in Angular.
• Discuss requirements with stakeholders to ensure that the requirements are thoroughly understood as well as to clarify requirements.
• Design and document new features based on requirements, as well as give estimates based on the requirements and design.
• Led development team consisting of 5 developers and 2 QA.
• Ensured on-time delivery of scheduled work items.

Senior Software Engineer

• Rewrite backend of compensation appraisal calculations to allow a greater number of appraisals to be processed daily.
• Optimize various parts of the user interface to increase site responsiveness.
• Discuss requirements with stakeholders to ensure that the requirements are thoroughly understood as well as to clarify requirements.
• Design and document new features based on requirements, as well as give estimates based on the requirements and design.
• Introduced Angular 1.x and WebAPI into existing application to create a fast and responsive user interface.
• Developed frameworks to aid in integration between WebAPI and Angular as well as to define and manage Angular dependencies.

Implementation Team Lead

• Led development team consisting of two developers and two client success personnel.
• Ensure development is completed on schedule while also allowing last-minute or emergency work items to be addressed quickly.
• Create solutions based on client requirements that meet the needs of the client in addition to being reusable with the rest of our client base.
• Document solutions in a manner that both developers and the client can understand, including separate technical documentation if necessary.
• Estimate amount of time required for implementation of contracted features and provide an estimated release date to the client.
• Aided others in expanding their technical knowledge in general and with technologies and concepts used in our environment that they may not have known about.

Senior Software Engineer

• Solve problems in a high transaction volume environment that processes massive amounts of data daily, including but not limited to processing of call detail records, payment processing, commission calculations, tiered billing discounts, etc.
• Integrate with third-party systems such as carriers (Verizon, AT&T, etc.) and payment gateways (Authorize.Net, Stripe, etc.).
• Provide and consume APIs via SOAP or via REST using JSON.
• Debug code locally and remotely using Visual Studio’s built-in debugger.
• Understanding and configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in our DNS to improve email delivery.
• Subject matter expert for our internal applications as well as provisioning with third-party carriers and payment gateways.
• Working directly with other departments to solve problems in a collaborative and efficient manner.
• Write unit tests for new and existing code using NUnit and xUnit.
• Accurately estimating time required for development, testing, and QA of development items.
• Utilization of agile development methods to allow new features and other development items to be released early and often.
• Administration of third-party systems hosted in-house, such as Switchvox, Jira, Confluence, and Stash.
• Administration of Unix services such as MySQL, SSH, ISC DHCP Server, and TFTPD.
• Administration of Windows Server 2012 r2 as well as various Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS.

Software Engineer

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