Blake Braun

Senior Software Engineer at Pax8
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Denver, Colorado, United States, US

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Credentials

  • Kafka Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Learning TypeScript
    LinkedIn
    Aug, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • CSS Essential Training 2
    LinkedIn
    Jun, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • CSS Essential Training 1
    LinkedIn
    May, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Migrating from REST to GraphQL
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2019
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Pax8
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Software Engineer
      • Jul 2022 - Present

      Technical lead for Internal Finance development team. Driving planning and execution of key business objectives such as integration with NetSuite ERP and supporting Pax8's growth into the APAC region.

    • Software Engineer II
      • Sep 2020 - Jul 2022

      Engineering Pax8's in-house billing, invoicing, sales tax, and reporting to support thousands of partners and companies who buy and sell cloud products through the Pax8 Platform. Utilizing Groovy, Kotlin, Postgres, Mongo, Kafka, JUnit, Mockito, Kubernetes, and more for backend billing code and Vue.js for frontend tools. Championing clean code, thorough unit testing, and test-driven development throughout the transition from monolith to microservices. My efforts have led to improved agile workflows, more and better testing, development of a code quality model, a model for frequent deployment of microservices, and more. Show less

  • DISH Network
    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer II
      • Oct 2019 - Sep 2020

      Engineered DISH's order management and orchestration platform, an event-driven system supporting multiple business units and processing thousands of orders per day. Utilized Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Kafka for microservices, and React.js for front-end order visualization tools.

    • Software Engineer I
      • Aug 2018 - Oct 2019

      • Coordinated development and deployment of new wireless customer care portal (including device activation/deactivation, account management, and more) with contracted onshore and offshore teams• Owned bulk activation tool allowing business partners to activate IoT devices on the Dish Wireless NB-IoT network• Sole developer and maintainer of proof-of-concept React.js applications that prove out DISH’s core architectural capabilities in new wireless business unit and existing BAU applications• Owned internal API marketplace utilizing React.js frontend and Spring Boot backend Show less

  • Saint Louis University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Student Intern
      • Aug 2014 - May 2018

      Assisted students, faculty, and staff with account issues and solved software-related issues Assisted students, faculty, and staff with account issues and solved software-related issues

  • DISH Network
    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • IT Intern
      • May 2017 - Aug 2017

      • Automated the display of Swagger documentation and API schemas/examples for DISH’s internal APIs in an internal React.js-based API marketplace • Developed plan for transfer of API marketplace backend data to MongoDB • Presented results and recommendations to executive leadership • Automated the display of Swagger documentation and API schemas/examples for DISH’s internal APIs in an internal React.js-based API marketplace • Developed plan for transfer of API marketplace backend data to MongoDB • Presented results and recommendations to executive leadership

  • Sidebarr Technologies, Inc.
    • Greater St. Louis Area
    • Intern
      • May 2014 - Aug 2014

      Assisted with Active Directory user management, Office 365 rollout, and Google Apps to Office 365 migration. Assisted with Active Directory user management, Office 365 rollout, and Google Apps to Office 365 migration.

  • GRS Auctions & Liquidations
    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Auction Marketing Specialist
      • Oct 2012 - Aug 2014

      Posted auctions online, marketed auctions through Constant Contact emails, Facebook, Craigslist, and AuctionZip, and performed general website maintenance. Posted auctions online, marketed auctions through Constant Contact emails, Facebook, Craigslist, and AuctionZip, and performed general website maintenance.

  • Market Place Grocery
    • Greater St. Louis Area
    • Stocker
      • May 2013 - Aug 2013

      Bagged groceries, stocked shelves, and performed general store maintenance. Bagged groceries, stocked shelves, and performed general store maintenance.

  • Steak n Shake
    • United States
    • Restaurants
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Server
      • Jun 2012 - Feb 2013

      Greeted and seated guests, took orders, delivered food, and cleaned tables. Greeted and seated guests, took orders, delivered food, and cleaned tables.

Education

  • Saint Louis University
    Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
    2014 - 2018
  • Gibault Catholic High School
    High School
    2010 - 2014

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