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I am a full-stack, senior software engineer that is passionate about code craftsmanship, devops, and software professionalism.

[2012 - Present] Software Development Engineer II - Warehouse Deals

Responsible for developing the back-end services and fulfillment tools for routing all of Amazon's damaged and overstock inventory to the most profitable destination.
Designed, developed, tested, and supported software used by hundreds of employees in 9 countries, and selling to millions of customers world-wide.
Led my team of dozens of SDEs to constantly improve our software's quality:
- Raised the average test coverage from 10% to above 60% across hundreds of software packages.
- Adopted a continuous deployment process for the majority of 70 interdependent systems.
- Reduced high severity tickets from over 400/year to under 100.

Technologies Used: Java, Python, Oracle, AWS (DynamoDB, EC2, S3, SWF, SQS, SNS, Kinesis)

[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

[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