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Acorns

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2020 - June 2020

Prototype implementation of core infrastructure on AWS for handling financial transactions asynchronously and robustly at scale
Built out the CI/CD process for our team starting with Gradle, Github Actions, CircleCI, and AWS Codebuild
Leveraged AWS cloud services ECS, ECR, SQS, SNS, IAM, DynamoDb, QLDB, Kafka and Lambda in the building/running of our systems
Ensured all code was peer reviewed, unit tested, integration tested, and built out actual services to mock interactions where needed to exercise functionality not sufficiently provided by mocking frameworks
Developed open source commits on community built software to add functionality that my team needed when it was not available

Senior Software Engineer

April 2018 - January 2020

Built backend services for beneficiaries and trust banking products where I mainly focused on everything at the api gateway and beyond
Developed a set of Python scripts to facilitate the migration of hundreds of thousands of records from a legacy backend system to a newly created backend
Supported our banking production applications and performed bug fixes as needed through the life time of the products in my space

Senior Associate

Feb 2014 - April 2018

Engineered our systems to leverage distributed tracing with spring cloud sleuth and Zipkin
Leveraged CQRS patterns, Distributed Tracing with Zipkin, 12 factor application development, Kafka, Cassandra, and Spring State Machine to develop an in-house microservices framework
Lead training initiatives to develop engineer skillsets in Kafka software
Moved several CCB applications into an autonomous application architecture, driven by the decoupling nature of events on Kafka and data at the edge
Leveraged Cucumber to establish an automatic functional testing suite which became a major part of our CI/CD pipeline
Lead development on a new microservice which adhered to 12 Factor Application standards and was developed with Spring boot, Swagger, Mybatis, Hystrix, and log4j2
Lead development effort on security uplift. Architected and implemented new api security lever- aging spring security and ldap authentication
Lead Chief Development Office efforts on unit testing coverage uplift(Mockito, Junit, Power-mock), code promotion process(Git work flow, toll gate adherence), and mentored new team members on Java development best practices
Served as SME for one of our Hadoop Ingestion feature sets. Completed all bug fixes, documentation, and training on the usage of this application