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I am a full-stack, senior software engineer that is passionate about code craftsmanship, devops, and
software professionalism. I started my career as a web development contractor, before jQuery made
everything "easy". I transitioned from that into a back-end engineer writing reverse logistic software
for Amazon: If you have ever returned a product, it was my team that evaluated the condition of that item
and tried to find it a new home.
Amazon.com
[2012 - Present]
Senior Software Development Engineer - ReCommerce
- Developed the back-end services and logistics tools for routing all of Amazon's damaged and overstock inventory to the most optimal destination.
- Designed, developed, tested, and supported software used by thousands of employees in 11+ countries, and selling to millions of customers world-wide.
- Designed and built the infrastructure components that run the majority of my team's software, including:
- A document database built on DynamoDB, S3, and Kinesis.
- A business rules engine that processes thousands of requests per second.
- Led my team of ~60 SDEs to constantly improve our software's quality:
- Raised the average test coverage from 10% to above 75% across hundreds of software packages.
- Adopted a continuous deployment process for the majority of 100+ interdependent services.
- Reduced high severity tickets from over 400/year to under 100.
Technologies Used: Java, Python, Oracle, AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kinesis)
Bodybuilding.com
[2011 – 2012]
Sr. Software Engineer - Logistics
- Developed and maintained the in-house order management system, warehouse management system, internal web apps, and other logistics software.
- Implemented a business-to-business communication layer with a third-party logistic vendor to open the company’s first international warehouse.
- Redesigned and upgraded the team’s data layer, resulting in faster and more testable code.
- Organized the team’s professional development efforts, including a weekly developer training lunch.
Technologies Used: C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk, AS2, EDI
Blackfin Technology
[2005 – 2011]
Software Engineer - Web Development
- Responsible for developing web applications on ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and PHP frameworks.
- Worked with designers to create usable, standards-compliant web designs in HTML and CSS.
- Developed rich client-side interfaces using JavaScript with jQuery and Prototype.
- Implemented data access layers using a variety of Object-Relational Mapping tools for .NET including nHibernate and LINQ to SQL.
- Created components that were reused on a variety of projects including an automatic bug reporting component, an HTML to PDF/PowerPoint converter, a RETS client, and a library of commonly used C# and JavaScript code.
- Helped lead Blackfin’s continuing education program, including giving several presentations on new technologies and design practices – both internally and at Boise’s Code Camp.
Technologies Used: C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WPF, XML/XSLT, SQL Server, RavenDB
[2005 – 2011]
Software Engineer - Web Development
Education
- 2005: B.S. Computer Science - Florida State University
- 2002: A.A. Honors - University of North Florida