Profile

Seeking the opportunity to utilize my extensive experience with, understanding of, and excitement for software architecture, development, and technologies to foster interesting and innovative software projects and solutions.

Experience

Principal Architect, Xevo, Inc. — 2017-Present

Primary backend contributor to our GM Marketplace micro-service architecture, designing and implementing the AWS-terraformed infrastructure, security models, and the tooling to automate deployments.

Designed and implemented solutions for company-wide infrastructure standardize, primarily utilizing Hashicorp Terraform to ease integration with resources deployed across various teams, provide a consistent means of managing and deploying sensitive data, and to avoid resource-naming collisions.

Chief Architect/Lead Developer, Spatially — 2012-2017

Designed and implemented an internet-scale parallel/distributed spatial computation-engine accessible through secure, cogent micro-service based APIs for delivering proprietary spatial analytics to authenticated, registered third parties.

• Every custom component of the backend micro-services are written in Go, primarily utilizing go-kit, and supports a fully decoupled and resilient service discovery with Consul.
• Our continuous delivery mechanisms utilize Github and Docker-based techniques with custom-built micro-services integrating into the same delivery mechanisms as the applications themselves.
• Spatial analytics are provided by a Mesos-managed Spark, Solr, Titan, and Cassandra cluster utilizing DataStax Enterprise.
• Spatially optimized, proprietary Cassandra and Solr models support analytics and real-time spatial queries.
• Our proprietary spatial ingest is performed by reactive Go micro-services messaging over RabbitMQ.
• The entire infrastructure, from development to deployment is terraformed on AWS, primarily ECS and EC2.
• Preparing to open source a suite of pure Go spatial libraries.

Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Corporation — -2012

Improve performance, scalability and reliability of Oracle Business Intelligence solutions.

Designed and developed core services and libraries in Java for Oracle’s current and next generation Enterprise Applications utilizing JEE concepts including Web Services, Servlets and Oracle's ADF Business Components making extensive use of Java, JavaScript, XML/SOAP.

Proposed, designed, and developed automated procedures performance analysis of Oracle databases and applications to discover and resolve bottlenecks, contention, and bugs requiring utilization of deep knowledge of Oracle products as well as solid Linux knowledge and skills. Competencies ranged from legacy products utilizing C, ProC, SQL, SQL*Net to use of large Oracle Exadata hardware running the TimesTen in-memory database.

Education

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida — Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Certifications

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate - July 2017
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate - June 2017
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - May 2017

Skills

Proven track-record architecting and deploying resilient, secure, distributed micro-service infrastructures primarily utilizing Docker, Terraform, and Amazon Web Services. Extensive experience with scalable software architectures and deployments and programming languages including Go, Scala, Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, C, and Objective-C.