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Lead Software Engineer

C#, .NET, Javascript, SQL Server

WORK EXPERIENCE


Nationwide Law Firm - Lead Software Engineer

January 2023 - Current

  • Designed architecture for a form-building application to be used at scale. Collaborated with team members to implement architecture and incorporate new features such as configurable pre-population of answers and mapping results back to external systems.


Cloud base AI software company - Senior Software Engineer

December 2022 - January 2023

  • Redesigned CI/CD process with a focus on release deployment, reducing time required from one month to two days

  • Integrated an existing TextIQ Privilege machine learning app into Relativity using a full stack of JavaScript, .Net Framework, and Python technology

  • Implemented a job management API in Azure Durable Functions and C# and trained a team of engineers on both technologies


Senior Software Engineer

December 2021 - December 2022

  • Acted as interim technical lead beginning September 2022

  • Designed and implemented cross-team project to create an ElasticSearch ingestion pipeline for semi-structured data

  • Led adoption of OpenTelemetry framework to improve observability, reducing on-call burden and allowing targeted improvements to troublesome codes

  • Improved scale and reliability of keyword alerting from hundreds of thousands of documents per day to hundreds of millions

  • Held regular one-on-one meetings with each engineer to discuss technical interests and development goals

  • Facilitated engineering workshop discussions and learning session


Advanced Software Engineer - Cloud File PaaS

April 2020 - December 2021

  • Designed and built serverless API for managing SaaS infrastructure using .NET Azure Functions

  • Redesigned IP allow listing rules to reduce manual steps for new infrastructure

  • Created onboarding guide for new engineers to help facilitate addition of 7 new engineers within a year


Software Engineer - Cloud File PaaS

January 2019 - April 2020

· Mentored two interns through their program, providing guidance and feedback to help them grow

· Rebuilt CI/CD pipeline and DevOps practices, with a focus on testing for confidence, targeted changes, and quick review cycles

· Improved reliability of cloud infrastructure deployment pipelines, saving operations engineers time and improving customer sentiment

· Created framework for specialized storage infrastructure to support different performance requirements


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering


SKILLS

Languages & Frameworks

  • C# (.NET)

  • ASP.NET

  • Javascript/Typescript

  • React

  • OpenTelemetry


Technology

  • Serverless Software

  • Asynchronous API Architecture

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Azure

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