I am a programmer who has primarily worked in web development positions mostly in Java/J2EE environments. I have experience working on both front end and back end work and debugging legacy systems however, I am very open to any new challenges or opportunities to learn and experience new languages and opportunities.

Experience

PayPalSenior Software Engineer

2025 — Now

Austin, Texas, United States

Career BreakTravel

2023 — 2024

Personal Sabbatical to travel and look after family.

SailPointSenior Software Engineer

2018 — 2023

Austin, Texas Area

Diagnosed and troubleshot code for legacy systems on both the front-end and back-end in a CD/CI environment. Including build and delivering patches and security fixes directly to customers.

Acted as a final escalation point for support teams to solve customer issues and deployment issues.

Worked on IAM systems for aggregation and certification of users and roles in Active Directory and other user databases.

Participated in scrums and bug scrubs during sprints in a fast paced Agile environment.

Troubleshooted and designed solutions for key customer issues.

Reviewed and participated in PR requests for junior and senior developers.

Mattersight CorporationSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2018

Austin, Texas Area

Worked with Jenkins 2 for building, testing, and releases.

Sustained and built Rest APIs for the PHP web portal used by clients to access by working through weekly deliverable issues in JIRA.

Created and updated tables and scripts for a Microsoft SQL server database back end.

Worked together with QA and testing teams to implement smoke tests and security testing for a SAML IdP.

Built SSO solutions for the customer facing web portal.

Rewrote existing load/stress tests for the portal and new IdP, converting them from Python based Locust tests to Newman tests using NodeJS scripts.

Union Pacific RailroadSenior Application Developer

2015 — 2017

Austin, Texas Area

Built and maintained the legacy code of J2EE web applications critical to business operations for managing logistics of inter-modal and automotive facilities on both the backend and frontend.

Debugged and maintained front end HTML and JavaScript code, as well as code using the Apache Wicket and implemented new projects using AngularJS.

Debugged and wrote CRUD queries for a MySQL back end as well as provided on call support for production issues in the data.

Used performed security audits on code and ensured OWASP standards in the code base.

Provided 24/7 on call support for inter-modal locations to train users and troubleshoot issues in order to improve productivity and facilitate the implementation of our new systems at the locations.

Lead the deployment and testing of code to production.

Education

Southwestern University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

2009 — 2013

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Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

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