Experience

SILAC Insurance Company
• United States
• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 2023 - Present


General Motors

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Jun 2014 - May 2023

  - Made several key architecture contributions that dramatically improved the performance and scalability of the application * Personally improved Shop Click Drive page load time by 2 seconds during an innovation iteration * Spearheaded the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices in the cloud * Upgraded 20+ projects to .NET 6 * Reduced build times from 10 minutes to 20 seconds through various optimizations - Certified SAFe 5 Agile Practitioner - Roles… Show more - Made several key architecture contributions that dramatically improved the performance and scalability of the application * Personally improved Shop Click Drive page load time by 2 seconds during an innovation iteration * Spearheaded the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices in the cloud * Upgraded 20+ projects to .NET 6 * Reduced build times from 10 minutes to 20 seconds through various optimizations - Certified SAFe 5 Agile Practitioner - Roles included senior software developer, architectural lead and mentor of new college hires - Backend microservice development with C# .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6 - Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure * Vault for secrets * Redis for caching and distributed locking * RabbitMQ for message bus * Eureka for service discovery - SQL Server and Postgres databases * Wrote stored procedures * Managed security permissions * Performed backups and defragmentation - Azure Devops * Build pipeline and release management for CI/CD * Project and requirements management - Powershell scripts for automating cloud deployment - Managed and remediated hundreds of Sonarqube issues (code quality) - Managed and remediated Black Duck issues (code vulnerabilities) - Created nearly numerous pages of rich documentation that is used every day by the rest of the team - Git expert, provided learning sessions to coworkers - 1st place in Top Coder company-wide coding competition from 2016 to 2022 - Taught C# in GM’s CareerStart Academy - Participated in the JEDI Secure Code Warrior tournament, learned about various penetration testing techniques - Steeltoe - Authentication and authorization, CORS, logging, error handling, cryptography, dependency injection - Telerik reporting Show less - Made several key architecture contributions that dramatically improved the performance and scalability of the application * Personally improved Shop Click Drive page load time by 2 seconds during an innovation iteration * Spearheaded the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices in the cloud * Upgraded 20+ projects to .NET 6 * Reduced build times from 10 minutes to 20 seconds through various optimizations - Certified SAFe 5 Agile Practitioner - Roles… Show more - Made several key architecture contributions that dramatically improved the performance and scalability of the application * Personally improved Shop Click Drive page load time by 2 seconds during an innovation iteration * Spearheaded the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices in the cloud * Upgraded 20+ projects to .NET 6 * Reduced build times from 10 minutes to 20 seconds through various optimizations - Certified SAFe 5 Agile Practitioner - Roles included senior software developer, architectural lead and mentor of new college hires - Backend microservice development with C# .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6 - Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure * Vault for secrets * Redis for caching and distributed locking * RabbitMQ for message bus * Eureka for service discovery - SQL Server and Postgres databases * Wrote stored procedures * Managed security permissions * Performed backups and defragmentation - Azure Devops * Build pipeline and release management for CI/CD * Project and requirements management - Powershell scripts for automating cloud deployment - Managed and remediated hundreds of Sonarqube issues (code quality) - Managed and remediated Black Duck issues (code vulnerabilities) - Created nearly numerous pages of rich documentation that is used every day by the rest of the team - Git expert, provided learning sessions to coworkers - 1st place in Top Coder company-wide coding competition from 2016 to 2022 - Taught C# in GM’s CareerStart Academy - Participated in the JEDI Secure Code Warrior tournament, learned about various penetration testing techniques - Steeltoe - Authentication and authorization, CORS, logging, error handling, cryptography, dependency injection - Telerik reporting Show less


American Express
• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

City of Chandler
• Government Relations Services
• Lifeguard

  • Apr 2008 - Mar 2013