Role: Design and build high-volume, real-time event streaming systems to deliver product, price and inventory data for HBC's banners, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Hudson's Bay.

Relevant keywords: Scala (particularly functional programming with Cats, FS2 Streams, Http4s, Circe), Python, Node.js, Java, Go, Bash, Infra as Code, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Terraform, AWS (esp. CodeBuild, CodePipeline, EC2, Kinesis, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Batch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache, KMS, ECS, ECR, EKS), Redis, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ArgoCD, Docker, Kafka, Avro, Git, Github, Travis.

• Lead developer for Sparta's cloud Quality Management System offerings in an agile, test-driven, continuous integration environment.

• Full-stack development experience from enterprise-level backends, RESTful web services to modern JavaScript-based web clients.

• Creation and enhancement of build pipelines, and improvements to test and analysis tooling.

• Backlog refinement support, additional requirements gathering. Coordination with BA, Architecture, QA and DevOps to ensure alignment on broader requirements, identifying challenges and sequencing of work.

• Drive our technical interview process, and provide mentorship of new and junior hires.

• Evaluation and promotion of new technologies via proof-of-concepts, knowledge sharing sessions and justification/prioritization with business.

• Author of HoldMail, Sparta's first sponsored Open Source project, which facilitates the automation of email testing.

• Design, prototyping and development of an Android app for graph dashboard monitoring.

• The development of a Java API to support the app, which is planned for a separate release.

• Integration of third party payment, metric and logging systems into the primary web application.

• Lead developer for several customer-specific projects with complex workflows, involving J2EE business logic with custom web functionality.

• Collaborated with the software configuration manager on the specification and configuration of our Weblogic, Tomcat, Apache and Oracle DB servers.

• Led the migration of several core CrefoSystem components from Java 1.4 to 1.5, including migration from Weblogic 8 to 10.

• Lead technical role on the “CrefoSystem 2.0” project, using Oracle's Application Developer Framework to deliver Creditreform’s newest generation of business information.

• Created a proof-of-concept app (yFiles/AJAX) for visualizing company hierarchy information. This application will be used to replace the legacy applet-based solution, thus vastly simplifying our client's minimum system requirements.

• Lead role on web-based dynamic reporting application, using Eclipse BIRT.

• Developed a Single Sign-On solution for linking sessions across separate application servers.