• Proficient with AI to dramatically speed up execution while maintaining quality across Spring Boot, Rust, and React codebases, including Claude Code, Codex, and others, including building advanced AI tooling and organization to enable even faster development.

• Created and maintained Spring Boot micro-services written in Kotlin, using RESTful and gRPC intra-service communication strategies.

• Implemented several 3rd party integrations including GitHub, Snyk, Azure Devops, and others using their RESTful APIs and Argo Workflows and Jobs to manage data syncing.

• Enhanced a React single page application, including migrating the app from a customized redux state store to one built on nanostores.

• Mentored other engineers on best practices in technical areas of Kotlin, Gradle, Spring Boot, Kubernetes and general engineering principles of scrum / agile.

• Developed and maintained several custom Gradle plugins to fit our build and deployment strategies.

• Migrated our CI/CD pipelines to GitHub actions including implementing additional features for advanced build and test reports from the pipelines.

• Recipient of first quarterly Promontory Lightkeeper Award, in recognition of excellence in contributing to the company's goals. (Q1 - 2021)

• Conduct and guide architecture reviews to ensure patterns fit within overall architectural direction.

• Continue to mentor and guide fellow engineers in Spring, Kotlin, Java, and Gradle best practices.

• Enhanced Kubernetes ecosystem through creation of development cluster to enhance the development lifecycle

• Aid with implementation of CI/CD processes to cut release times down from 3 months to 1 week

• Migrated Java/Kotlin micro-services from Maven builds to Gradle builds with Kotlin DSL build scripts

• Enhanced Spring Boot, event sourced micro-services using Axon framework written in Kotlin and Java

• Updated RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs for data transfer while maintaining backwards compatibility

• Mentored team members on Spring Boot, Java, and Kotlin best practices

• Partnered with UX team to bring their visions to life via an Angular and Typescript web application that consumes RESTful and GraphQL APIs

• Migrated applications to a new Kubernetes cluster hosted in AWS

• Enhanced CI/CD workflow with custom git web hooks and robust Jenkins pipeline scripts

• Mentored team members on Spring Boot and Java best practices

• Awarded the Key Contributor Award (2017), Schwab Technology Services Champion (Q4, 2017), and Wealth Management Technology Mad Skillz Award (Q4, 2017) for excellence in performance, leadership, technical ability, and consistent success in delivering team goals

• Awarded 2nd place in company wide code-a-thon for proposing and demonstrating the use of custom Spring Boot starters to speed up application development

• Spearheaded the use and integration of cloud services, including Eureka, Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Gateway

• Advocated for internal open source projects, and contributed as the owner of an internal open source project for Spring Boot starters

• Architected several distributed microservices that were part of a larger cloud native platform

• Designed and developed integration automation framework for an event driven architecture system