Ron Hockman
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Dillon Gorsen
I have worked with Ron for the last 9 months at Amazon Web Services. This is my first job after graduating college, and the learning curve has been tremendous. Ron has always been extremely helpful whenever I have questions, and he always takes the time to throughly divulge his knowledge to me in an easy to digest manner. Even when he doesn’t know the answer off the top of his head, he points me in the right direction to where I can find it. He has taught me a lot about both AWS and generic software development best practices, and always provides helpful critiques to our team’s development processes. He introduced swimlanes into our development planning process which is directly correlated to a 52% improvement in velocity in the four sprints following, in comparison to the four sprints prior. Ron is always up for taking on challenging projects - owning and developing core software components with as much or little help as he is given. His knowledge of ruby and the ruby on rails framework are unparalleled on our team, and he is extremely talented at designing easy-to-use and aesthetically pleasing UX. With that said, his frontend development prowess takes nothing away from his backend development experience. He produces efficient and maintainable code anywhere and everywhere in our tech stack. Above all, he is a pleasure to be around, always joking around and lightening the mood when things get stressful. I look up to him as a developer, and appreciate the hard work he has put in to our team, as well as my own development. He will surely be missed at AWS.
Dillon Gorsen
I have worked with Ron for the last 9 months at Amazon Web Services. This is my first job after graduating college, and the learning curve has been tremendous. Ron has always been extremely helpful whenever I have questions, and he always takes the time to throughly divulge his knowledge to me in an easy to digest manner. Even when he doesn’t know the answer off the top of his head, he points me in the right direction to where I can find it. He has taught me a lot about both AWS and generic software development best practices, and always provides helpful critiques to our team’s development processes. He introduced swimlanes into our development planning process which is directly correlated to a 52% improvement in velocity in the four sprints following, in comparison to the four sprints prior. Ron is always up for taking on challenging projects - owning and developing core software components with as much or little help as he is given. His knowledge of ruby and the ruby on rails framework are unparalleled on our team, and he is extremely talented at designing easy-to-use and aesthetically pleasing UX. With that said, his frontend development prowess takes nothing away from his backend development experience. He produces efficient and maintainable code anywhere and everywhere in our tech stack. Above all, he is a pleasure to be around, always joking around and lightening the mood when things get stressful. I look up to him as a developer, and appreciate the hard work he has put in to our team, as well as my own development. He will surely be missed at AWS.
Dillon Gorsen
I have worked with Ron for the last 9 months at Amazon Web Services. This is my first job after graduating college, and the learning curve has been tremendous. Ron has always been extremely helpful whenever I have questions, and he always takes the time to throughly divulge his knowledge to me in an easy to digest manner. Even when he doesn’t know the answer off the top of his head, he points me in the right direction to where I can find it. He has taught me a lot about both AWS and generic software development best practices, and always provides helpful critiques to our team’s development processes. He introduced swimlanes into our development planning process which is directly correlated to a 52% improvement in velocity in the four sprints following, in comparison to the four sprints prior. Ron is always up for taking on challenging projects - owning and developing core software components with as much or little help as he is given. His knowledge of ruby and the ruby on rails framework are unparalleled on our team, and he is extremely talented at designing easy-to-use and aesthetically pleasing UX. With that said, his frontend development prowess takes nothing away from his backend development experience. He produces efficient and maintainable code anywhere and everywhere in our tech stack. Above all, he is a pleasure to be around, always joking around and lightening the mood when things get stressful. I look up to him as a developer, and appreciate the hard work he has put in to our team, as well as my own development. He will surely be missed at AWS.
Dillon Gorsen
I have worked with Ron for the last 9 months at Amazon Web Services. This is my first job after graduating college, and the learning curve has been tremendous. Ron has always been extremely helpful whenever I have questions, and he always takes the time to throughly divulge his knowledge to me in an easy to digest manner. Even when he doesn’t know the answer off the top of his head, he points me in the right direction to where I can find it. He has taught me a lot about both AWS and generic software development best practices, and always provides helpful critiques to our team’s development processes. He introduced swimlanes into our development planning process which is directly correlated to a 52% improvement in velocity in the four sprints following, in comparison to the four sprints prior. Ron is always up for taking on challenging projects - owning and developing core software components with as much or little help as he is given. His knowledge of ruby and the ruby on rails framework are unparalleled on our team, and he is extremely talented at designing easy-to-use and aesthetically pleasing UX. With that said, his frontend development prowess takes nothing away from his backend development experience. He produces efficient and maintainable code anywhere and everywhere in our tech stack. Above all, he is a pleasure to be around, always joking around and lightening the mood when things get stressful. I look up to him as a developer, and appreciate the hard work he has put in to our team, as well as my own development. He will surely be missed at AWS.
Credentials
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Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Web Developer 4
Microsoft
Experience
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Salesforce
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Architect, Systems Engineering
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Aug 2023 - Present
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Principal Software Engineer
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May 2021 - Aug 2023
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Lead Member Of Technical Staff
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Aug 2019 - May 2021
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Senior Member Of Technical Staff
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Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
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Amazon
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Engineer II
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Jul 2013 - Dec 2017
Government & New Regions Organization - Key Engineer in a distributed Dynamic Configuration propagation product -- Designed and lead implementation of the roll-out and deployment features --- Java 8, SQS, DynamoDB & EC2 -- Designed and implemented the Console --- Ruby on Rails, Angular, EC2, Lambda, RDS, and DynamoDB -- Contributed to the design and implementation of the data plane --- Java 8, EC2, and S3 - Developed AWS asset management platform for accelerating new region builds -- Designed and implemented the Console --- Ruby on Rails, Angular, EC2 -- Designed and Implemented federated resource management functionality --- Ruby, EC2, SWF, ELB, Route53 - Designed a Region Build Orchestration platform -- Dependency tracking, automated infrastructure allocation and deployment --- Ruby, OrientDB, RDS, SWF, SNS - Contributed toward org-wide standardization of development processes -- Agile/Scrum process refinements - Served as interviewer for over 70 candidates throughout AWS - Mentored engineers and interns in AWS, which has led to promotions/hiring - Interacted & discussed architecture with Principals, Distinguished Engineers and VPs Monitoring Organization - Supported CloudWatch and internal metric tools deployment into air-gapped regions - Developed automation tools for new AWS Region Builds and Fleet Operation -- Declarative & idempotent AWS resource management (Ruby) Show less
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SAVA Solutions
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Vienna, VA
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Software Developer
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Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
On contract to FBI, Terrorist Screening Center • Lead Developer for the FD-930 Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Application On contract to FBI, Terrorist Screening Center • Lead Developer for the FD-930 Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Application
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InScope International
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Reston, VA
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Sr. Software Engineer & Technical Lead
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Jul 2011 - Apr 2013
On contract to US Department of Energy • Technical Lead for a team of 7 developers • Responsible for System Architecture, Prototyping and Technical Feasibility • Represented development team in client meetings • Produced Level of Effort estimates for use in planning and requirement negotiation • Rich Internet Application Development using Microsoft ASP.NET 4 On contract to US Department of Energy • Technical Lead for a team of 7 developers • Responsible for System Architecture, Prototyping and Technical Feasibility • Represented development team in client meetings • Produced Level of Effort estimates for use in planning and requirement negotiation • Rich Internet Application Development using Microsoft ASP.NET 4
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ARMATURE Solutions Corporation
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Apr 2009 - Jul 2011
• Rich Internet Application Development using Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5, & 4 with AJAX • Interface with clients to determine and negotiate project requirements • Routinely and rapidly became proficient in the specialized domains of each of our clients • Supervise and Mentor Jr. Developers in ASP.NET, Object Oriented Design, quality coding practices and reusable code • SQL Server 2005/2008 development and administration • Full Lifecycle Development using both Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall methodologies Show less
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Genesant.AI
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Developer
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Mar 2007 - Mar 2009
• Maintained and expanded world-class fitness and nutrition Internet Applications generating revenue in excess of 2 million dollars a year • Rich Internet Application Development using Microsoft ASP.NET (2.0) with AJAX • Applied Object-Oriented design principles in the creation of Controls and Pages • Used Cascading Style Sheets to create layouts compatible with all major browsers • Used JavaScript to present a responsive interface to the user • Relational Database Development and Administration using Microsoft SQL Server • Responsible for observing the error log and rapidly responding and fixing critical bugs or errors • Completed projects on schedule without supervision Show less
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VERISIGN
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineer II
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Apr 2005 - Mar 2007
• Designed and implemented a framework for the automatic collection, organization and display of hundreds of thousands of records that had previously required manual retrieval. This framework has proven itself reliable and robust to the point that it remains a flagship application in the Monitoring department and has been expanded in my absence. • Developed applications for aggregating and analyzing network data using Perl and a variety of utilities within RetHat Linux • Created Dashboards used by the NOC to support mission-critical monitoring of the global .net and .com Registry • Rich Internet Application Development using Perl and AJAX methodologies • Relational Database Development using MySQL • Created Desktop Widgets using the Yahoo Widget Engine, JavaScript and XML • Used CSS to create layouts compatible with all major browsers • Used JavaScript to present a responsive interface to the user • Received three monetary awards for inter-department collaboration • Promoted three times during my tenure • Met schedules and delivery timelines on assigned projects without supervision Show less
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Education
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2000 - 2004
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science -
1996 - 2000
Bishop Walsh School
High School Diploma
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