Experience
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Created AWS microservices and databases for commercial banking, interfacing with 3rd party providers and internal customers. Maintained and improved resilience of systems while developing new realtime features.
• AWS, Golang, PostgreSQL, Docker, Python, Javascript, React, Datadog, New Relic
• AWS Certifications - Associate Solutions Architect, Associate Developer
• Simplified failover procedures, created failover runbook
• Setup monitoring and alerting
• Recognized for advocacy of team processes and norms
• Guided and mentored junior engineers
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
Richmond, Virginia Area
Created Azure web applications, most notably a product that measures health insurance plan performance with high levels of parallel processing and distributed databases.
• Azure, C#, T-SQL, MongoDB, Entity Framework, Dapper, React, RabbitMQ (Message Queuing)
• Volunteered for cross-team project implementing third-party integration
• Traced concurrency problems between distributed application services
• Addressed performance issues across the stack
> React TTL (Time to Load)
> SQL: EF6 and Dapper query performance improvements. (e.g. 35s to 1.25s)
> Sharded MongoDB Cluster performance: distributing load for 30 servers, 1 billion documents per run
• Guided and mentored team members
2016 — 2017
2016 — 2017
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
Developed scheduling and resource management web app as well as real-time network debugging tool (NDDS).
• C#, Java, .Net Web API, T-SQL, Angular2
• Spearheaded token-based authorization
• Refactored and upgraded legacy java application with test driven development
• Gaining experience with Java multithreading and concurrent data access
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Fredericksburg, Va
App prototype: social media feed and wine pairing
Java, Amazon Web Services
• Configured and utilized Amazon DynamoDB backend with AWS library
• Delivered on schedule, feature complete
2014 — 2015
Blacksburg, VA
InvDER project: modeling tool for invasive species research
C, C++, CUDA, Linux
• Setup and instructed team on Git
• Boosted performance 20% by parallelizing C code with CUDA (GPU processing toolkit)
Education
Virginia Tech
Bachelor's of Science
2010 — 2015