Greater Chicago Area
I am driven by a passion for programming, system/network engineering, and technology in general. I take every opportunity to learn and expand my experience in the field both at work and at home. Fully understanding every aspect of an application or system I will be maintaining or developing is a task I thoroughly enjoy. I have been a core member of several teams responsible for migrating and implementing new systems to replace legacy services. Whether financial, tech debt, or loss of institutional knowledge is the hurdle, I enjoy the challenge, learning and team collaboration involved in supporting customers.
* Subject matter expert for Capital One and Discover Financial Services merger. * Migration of Discover products to Capital One infrastructure & service applications.
• Developed new Identity/Auth Go services reducing AWS cost and login times from 1-4s to less than 200ms • Developed real-time collaboration servers using Go and AWS GameLift for next generation highly scalable interactive classroom product • Identified security issues and developed features for SOC 2 compliance • Identified database load issues and optimized queries to reduce cost and service response times • Conducted A-B testing of tech stacks for data-driven architectural planning • Lead team in effective troubleshooting/debugging of outage, data, and customer impacting issues across all tech stacks used at MIND (PHP/Laravel, AWS ECS, Redis, MySQL/Aurora, AWS Lambda, Ubuntu, Docker)
• Developed product SSO integrations with Oauth2 and SAML providers in the Ed Tech Industry • Developed first solutions at the company for C.I. pipelines, unit testing, and deployment automation for other teams to learn and replicate • Lead team in data ingestion to produce individualized learning curriculums from industry assessment providers • Lead team developing assessment product using industry QTI standards • Lead team in maintaining legacy services while transition from Adobe Flash was being developed
• Maintained & updated decades old legacy Java/Spring back-end systems to modern Java standards • Maintained Abobe Flash based games • Lead teams in fixing significantly challenging infrastructure outages and introduced fixes and designs to increase stability
iOS game design, development & hobby. Focusing on open source, simple, and fun games for kids and families. - Developed custom multiplayer board game engine (Go, Websockets) - Shipped 2 games on iOS. Notebook Zombies & Pixelfarm
• Backend java developer for team that successfully implemented OCR + template system to automate, cut costs and accelerate processing time of student transcripts • Implemented Java backend services for template creation Web UI • Created several sets of training data for Tesseract OCR • Maintained several legacy PHP applications obtained through acquisitions
Acquisition of Edline. Maintained Datacenter for several web products