DevOps Solutions Architect

• Jan 2021 - Present

• Lead DevOps engineer on a CI/CD pipeline for a cross-platform Xamarin application utilizing Azure DevOps and Microsoft AppCenter for an IoT device functioning with Android/iOS. • Architected and developed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for a set of applications built using ReactNative, Spring Boot, .NET, and Ruby on Rails. Terraform is utilized for provisioning environments in Azure, which seamlessly moved the client from Google Cloud to Azure, and Docker is used for containerization. • Lead DevOps engineer on a CI/CD pipeline for a cross-platform Xamarin application utilizing Azure DevOps and Microsoft AppCenter for an IoT device functioning with Android/iOS. • Architected and developed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for a set of applications built using ReactNative, Spring Boot, .NET, and Ruby on Rails. Terraform is utilized for provisioning environments in Azure, which seamlessly moved the client from Google Cloud to Azure, and Docker is used for containerization.

Lead DevOps Engineer

• Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

• DevOps Team Lead for the Cloud Governance team. Responsible for a group of 5 DevOps engineers with the goal of implementing enterprise-wide compliance and security standards for other teams within BBVA US to use on all continuous integration/deployment pipelines and AWS deployments using Helm, EKS, Fargate, and Terraform deployed throughout the bank. • Lead DevOps Engineer on the ClientVista team, which is the backend platform used by BBVA US to operate physical branch locations. • Responsible for architecting and mentoring the team on best practices related to cloud deployments and Node.js. Show less

Principal Consultant

• Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

• Lead Backend Developer on a project for Watch Systems, integrating full-text image metadata search such as tattoo images of sex offenders into their existing platform, utilizing C# and SQL Server. • Lead DBA for IBML. Converted all existing SQL Server inline-SQL, views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures to a pluggable MariaDB/MySQL/SQL Server compatible abstraction, using C# for the backend. • Designed and developed DB automation tasks for Viva Health using DB2, SQL Server, SSIS, and other tools. Show less

Technical Architect / Consultant

• Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

Insight Global’s Managed Service Division is organized into a collection of practice areas where their approach, people, and experience position them to deliver significant value to their clients by rapidly developing and deploying custom solutions to deliver value to a variety industries. • Backend Lead Developer on a complete rewrite of Daimler North America's fleet management mobile and tablet app utilizing Xamarin and Node.js with a CI/CD pipeline built on Docker, Azure, and Microsoft AppCenter. • Technical Lead on a Node.js application to allow CenturyLink to migrate existing customers from their proprietary cloud solution to a managed solution that allows their customers to host services on multiple cloud integrations such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud on the CenturyLink Cloud platform. Show less

Lead Software Engineer

• Mar 2017 - Aug 2018

Vincari is the Electronic Physician Assistant, designed to improve the way patient information is captured, leveraged, and delivered. Vincari's rules-based, point of care physician workflows help capture the complete picture of patient encounters from the bedside, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. Some of my accomplishments include: • Architecting and leading a complete internal rewrite of the existing monolithic Rails infrastructure to a microservices Node.js-based architecture utilizing Hapi.js, Docker, Travis CI, Redis, ElasticSearch, and AWS ECS. • Designed and developed a reusable single sign-on application that allows pluggable integration with multiple EHR's, including Cerner, Epic, and several custom facility systems, allowing Vincari to enter the Cerner and Epic app marketplaces. • Developed unique solutions to IT integration issues such as utilizing Electron to embed the Vincari web application within a fat client to pass facility integration requirements. • Manage a team of developers working with React Native for the Vincari mobile app. • Actively managing the company's AWS MySQL RDS instances, removing the need to further utilize Percona as an outside consulting firm for this task. This responsibility included identifying troublesome queries and performing query optimization or index addition as needed. Show less

Technical Development Lead / Consultant

• Jan 2017 - Mar 2017

infoedge provides clients with a unique perspective into their industry on both a management and technical level. From a technical perspective, infoedge facilitates transitioning and mentoring their clients' existing teams into a modern development process, utilizing modern tools and processes to streamline developer productivity and quality. Some of my accomplishments include: • Built and actively managed a team of more than 20 offshore resources, while taking over the role of platform architect for a rewrite of Encore Capital's payment processing platform. Encore is the largest publicly-traded debt buyer in the US. This was mostly Spring and Java-based. • Guided existing Encore employees through a modernization of their development process, from a waterfall methodology, to one more following a mix of Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Show less

Chief Development Officer

• Mar 2008 - Dec 2016

Epoch is a high-risk Internet Payment Service Provider, that provides clients with the ability to process transactions in over 60 currencies and over 30 forms of payment. I began at Epoch as a Senior Software Engineer and was promoted to Chief Development Officer in January 2014. My role does not only comprise of leading engineering teams and developing software but also acting as a key advisor to various business units. I led the engineering team through the careful process to modernize the legacy platform while assisting the devops, data, and business teams first-hand to resolve complex issues. Some of my accomplishments include: • Leading the development team through careful refactorings of the legacy payment processing system. The first iteration moved payment processing from a JSP/Servlet-based architecture to one based on Apache Wicket. The next iteration modernized this platform and moved it to a Node.js platform running on Docker/Kubernetes in AWS, complete with CI/CD. • Architecting a token-based system for storing credit card data, based on public key infrastucture, to reduce the scope for PCI compliance. • Rewriting the existing fraud analysis engine. This resulted in a 100x performance increase, while also adding the ability to store data for postmortem analysis by the data team. • Integrating with many external credit card and alternative payment processors. • Leading the successful technical pilot of Paypal's reintroduction into high-risk payment processing after they exited the market in the early 2000's. • Architecting and leading the green field development of a new payment processing platform using Wicket, Spring, and Hibernate for BillTech, an Epoch subsidiary that specializes in mainstream processing. The languages used were JavaScript, Java, SQL, PHP, Perl, Ruby, and ActionScript3. Frameworks and technologies consisted of Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Spring, Tomcat, Hibernate, Lucene, CouchDB, Rails, Flex, Redis, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Show less

Software Consultant

• Mar 2008 - Jun 2009

Pinnacle Data Systems acquired SunGard Mailing Solutions in 2008. Pinnacle is a firm that provides a total solution for their clients by handling the printing, mailing, and digitizing of millions of financial statements and utility bills every month. Pinnacle retained me as a transition consultant and architect in order to ease the integration of SunGard's systems with Pinnacle. During this time, I provided software development and maintenance on SunGard's existing systems while providing technical oversight and leadership after the acquisition. I worked mainly on Output Director, their main printing and mailing workflow system, and ePresent, the document management portal that allows their client's customers to view statements and pay their bills. The main technologies used were JBoss, Java, Perl, C++, SQL Server, and IIS. Show less

Software Developer

• Mar 2006 - Mar 2008

SunGard EXP provided mailing, scanning, and workflow solutions to many top financial institutions, utilities, and insurance companies. I worked as a lead developer and architect on Output Director, an internal rewrite of the company’s mainframe-based infrastructure to a Java web-based, batch-scheduling and rules-based work flow infrastructure, which automates the composition, printing, and mailing of statements with monthly volumes of over twenty-million statements for hundreds of clients. I was a key contributor in the development of ePresent, a large-scale C++ enterprise document management system utilized by many publicly-traded companies and financial institutions as a back-end for web-based statement and document presentation to clients. I also designed and wrote a number of applications around HP's Exstream Dialogue products including a transparent versioning system similar to Subversion and a continuous packaging/deployment system for Dialogue Anywhere applications. I worked heavily in a myriad of languages: Java, C/C++, Perl, C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, and Classic ASP. Our stack was a diverse mix of platforms and frameworks: COM+, Hibernate, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, IIS, and SQL Server. Show less

Consultant

• Sep 2005 - Jun 2006

Software Developer

• Jan 2005 - Nov 2005

Cyber Operations specialized in security software for government contractors and embedded advertising solutions for marketers. During my time at at Cyber Operations, I was challenged with coming up with novel solutions to embed fingerprint sensors, smart cards, motion detectors, and a slew of off-the-shelf exotic hardware. At the time, there was nothing on the market that could provide centralized two-factor biometric physical access control. I was coding for a mix of Windows and Linux, targeting the x86 and ARM9 platforms, exclusively in C/C++. Show less