Greater Boston
I am a technology-agnostic developer - I will try to use whatever tool or language is best for the job. Always eager to learn to get better at what I do -whether from a technical or soft skill standpoint- I am a jack of all trades, pretty good at a few. These days my string suits are Java, Python and Salesforce, and getting better at .NET and cybersecurity. I have given several talks at local Meetup (Salesforce, Python, Cybersecurity) as well as a talk at Dreamforce. Certified Salesforce Administrator and Developer since 2011
Working as part of the Integration team on supporting and improving the Trino clients accessing Starburst, whether through Python, the JDBC driver, the Metabase connector, a Salesforce client connector (in development) and others. Improvements include performance improvements, support for extra authentication mechanisms or new functionalities.
Working on building on a Data Mesh as part of the company's own development platform, allowing developers on that platform to declaratively setup ETL pipelines to process their data.
Have been working as part of the analytics team on a Business Intelligence solution which provides our customer with a better view of their supply chain. This involved implementing a Data Lake, building the application on top of it and finding ways to improve performance with limited horizontal scaling when the Data Lake is processing tens of millions of events every day.
Supporting Sitefinity, an ASP.NET-based Content Management System (CMS). Providing technical assistance to customers during the customization, development, deployment and post-deployment phase. Interfacing with engineering. Debugging using the product source code if need be (IIS, Visual Studio, C# environment). Mentoring some of the new recruits.
Building Progress Technical Support Business Intelligence capabilities from scratch on a shoestring budget, providing the relevant information to tech support engineers, tech support managers and other parts of the organizations. Wrote several business intelligence tools including a universal business language. I am now involved in the implementation of some custom reports and applications in Salesforce (VisualForce + Apex code). I also made a presentation at Dreamforce 2012 (best practices in knowledge management on Salesforce) Was involved in the SCP Certification of Progresss Technical Support - all the reporting aspect, or 40 elements out of 103. In 2010, Progress achieved "one of the highest first-time certification score" in the history of SCP (according to the auditor)
Supporting Rollbase, a Java-based development environment. Providing technical assistance to customers, interfacing with engineering, debugging the product when need be (Java and Tomcat)
Manager of the ObjectStore Server team inside eXcelon's Technical Support organization. Providing technical assistance during the implementation and (mostly) deployment of an ObjectStore application. Making sure the team has a deep knowledge of the ObjectStore Server internals. In parallel, implementing reporting capability for eXcelon Tech Support and other departments, mostly based on Clarify, the CRM system used by Tech Support.