Resume

Work Experience

Software Engineer II

Vertafore Sircon | November 2017 - Present

• Lead and trained multiple software development teams of up to 8 peers.
• Designed, delivered, and maintained an interactive report management system which integrates the Pentaho BI platform with multiple core products, Spring Boot microservices, and an Angular frontend.
• Warehoused data for reporting and analysis from products’ Oracle and Cassandra databases and Kafka queues using Talend, Kafka Connect, Spring Data, Liquibase, and a dash of PostgreSQL stored procedures.
• Improved reliability and performance of in-house ETL, reporting, and workflow systems.

Content Management Systems Programmer

MSU ANR Technology Services | September 2014 - November 2017

• Migrated hundreds of websites from ExpressionEngine to dotCMS.
• Planned and executed successful migration of CMS to vendor-managed cluster.
• Designed and developed custom tools, services and servlets, workflow actions, testing and debugging utilities, etc.
  • Structural Integrity service, servlet, scheduled Quartz job, and diff portlet.
  • Tuckey redirects API and GUI and redirtest tool.
• Coordinated with vendor support and infrastructure and department infrastructure teams in order to ensure service availability.
• Managed developer tools and infrastructure including Docker containers, Vagrant boxes, and VCS repositories.
• Contributed to vendor’s open-source CMS, dotCMS.

Student Web Programmer

MSU ANR Technology Services | May 2011 - September 2014

• Developed and managed dozens of websites in a MVC CMS, ExpressionEngine.
• Developed and maintained CMS add-ons, libraries, and custom reports in PHP in order to improve CMS usability and functionality.
  • Varnish cache purging tools and automation.
  • Data access library to quickly perform common, cached, standardized database lookups.
• Integrated CMS with department and university APIs and services.
• Placed all existing software and websites in version control systems.

Information Systems Intern

General Mills, Inc. | May 2013 - August 2013

• Integrated third-party couponing services and aggregated external coupon data.
• Overhauled frontend couponing application built in SiteCore.

Personal Experience

• Organized the Lansing JVM User Group.
• Contributed to the Lansing Codes API.

Education

Computer Science and Engineering B.S.

Michigan State University | 2009 - 2018

Familiar Technologies

• Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, Clojure, Python, PHP, SQL, CQL, HMTL, CSS, LESS
• Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, OSGi
• Data Stores: Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, SQLite
• Infrastructure: Chef, Kubernetes, Docker, Liquibase, Pillar, Vagrant
• Servers: Apache Tomcat, Apache httpd
• Testing: JUnit, Mockito, WireMock, Karma, Jasmine, Selenium WebDriver
• Version Control: Git, Subversion
• Build Tools: Maven, npm, Angular CLI, Leiningen
• Content Management Systems: dotCMS, ExpressionEngine