Experience

Gigasearch

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Search Consultant

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Silicon Valley, California, United States Work with clients to develop innovative search solutions at scale. Primarily focused on Elasticsearch (including all products within the Elastic Stack) and OpenSearch (including additional AWS products such as CloudWatch for logs/metrics).



JK Alvarez, LLC

• Owner

  • Feb 2015 - Present

  Orlando, Florida, United States Develop innovative, custom software that solves complex issues. This entails utilizing the agile methodology to deliver well tested software quickly. The services offered encompass the entire Software Development Lifecycle from analysis/requirements gathering to coding, testing, and delivering an enterprise-grade product.



Disney Experiences

• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  Orlando, Florida Area Develop and maintain the search functionality for a myriad of Disney websites belonging to their world class parks, resorts, and cruise line. This is done in multiple different languages and locales, utilizing Elasticsearch, Oracle Endeca, and Microsoft Fast technologies for the search engine. This entails troubleshooting and resolving website defects pertaining to search, rolling out support for additional languages/locales, utilizing the web crawler to gather data to be made searchable… Show more Develop and maintain the search functionality for a myriad of Disney websites belonging to their world class parks, resorts, and cruise line. This is done in multiple different languages and locales, utilizing Elasticsearch, Oracle Endeca, and Microsoft Fast technologies for the search engine. This entails troubleshooting and resolving website defects pertaining to search, rolling out support for additional languages/locales, utilizing the web crawler to gather data to be made searchable, relevancy tuning, creating synonyms for commonly used words, modifying/maintaining the pipeline for multiple applications, managing multiple development environments, leading daily SCRUM meetings, conducting/participating in code reviews, interfacing with multiple different teams to help create a holistic web and mobile experience, creating/modifying documentation in JIRA tickets and the Wiki, being on call to handle critical production defects, managing production releases of code modifications conducting/participating in code reviews, creating/modifying documentation in JiRA tickets and the Wiki, being on call to handle critical production defects, managing production releases of new code/modifications to Endeca configuration files every two weeks (two week Agile Development Sprints) Show less



IBR

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  Orlando, Florida Area Assist the U.S. Navy in updating their personnel portal. My specific tasks included maintaining the emulator application which emulated the transactions between the web front-end and the database back-end, and creating automated testing for the web front-end.



Harris Corporation

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2012 - Jul 2014

  Suitland, MD Assist the U.S. Census Bureau’s Technology Management Office in creating and implementing an architecture that adheres to their mission goals. This entailed all parts of the software life-cycle including creating documentation and offering support, research and analysis, generating reports, conducting trade studies, scoping development tasks, creating architecture and data flow diagrams, creating training materials, and any other required support. Some projects include a web services trade… Show more Assist the U.S. Census Bureau’s Technology Management Office in creating and implementing an architecture that adheres to their mission goals. This entailed all parts of the software life-cycle including creating documentation and offering support, research and analysis, generating reports, conducting trade studies, scoping development tasks, creating architecture and data flow diagrams, creating training materials, and any other required support. Some projects include a web services trade study: load test a simple web service application on several web servers to see which performs better; Communications Manager: a cross platform library built for iOS, Windows, and Android written in the native languages (Objective-C, C#, and Java) that handled encryption and authentication; Communications Manager Service: a windows service that serviced requests from other applications using IPC mechanisms such as named pipes to connect users to the VPN when the application needed to transmit data. Show less



teleNetwork

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Technical Support Analyst

  • May 2011 - Aug 2012

  Orlando, FL Troubleshoot DSL connections, internet connectivity issues, email clients, etc. Remove malware/spyware. Install drivers and applications. Open ports and change firewall settings.