Experienced Software Architect, Developer and DevOps engineer

Summary

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Decades of experience as a software development professional: leadership, architecture, development and dev/ops. Some recent experience includes:
- As a consultant, reinvigorated a medium size IoT product firm: started new development teams for product offerings (Electron, Python, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, RasPi, Yoctopuce)
- As a consultant, rearchitected and consolidated code bases for a large PaaS cloud provider into a single flexible multi-tenant enterprise model (Java, Spring, SCIM, SAML2, PostgreSQL)
- As an entrepreneur, designed and developed multiple apps published to the iOS App Store, the last of which was in 2021: A multi-player game allowed a small group to create content and compete in real time (Go, AWS DynamoDB/ECS/ALB, Nginx with a custom developed routing plugin)
- As chief technologist, responsible for all technology management, backend design, development and devops for an educational startup from inception to standalone viability (NodeJS, Express, ClaudiaJS, AWS Lambda/Cognito/DynamoDB/CloudFront/SQS/SNS/S3, OIC, SAML2, Terraform, Jenkins, Panoply)
- As a long term consultant to a major Ed-tech company, responsible for architecture and development of many infrastructure and product project, some of which include:
- Design and implementation of a flexible ETL process using Apache Airflow to populate Learning Record Store data
- Spearheaded conversion of development and operations groups to IaC using Terraform
- Re-architecture of existing product line backed by legacy, monolithic software into a REST based Spring Boot micro-services model

Expectations

I'm seeking new opportunities where I can utilize my varied experience as a software architect, developer and leader to help product and business stakeholders achieve their organization's goals. I love finding solutions to problems, coaching and helping others all while learning new things myself.

Employment Preferences

Expected Hourly Rate

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Academic Degree

Experience

Skills

• Java
• Javascript
• Typescript
• GO
• Python
• Perl
• Swift
• Objective-C
• C
• C++
• Php
• Bash
• Lisp
• Prolog
• C#
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Chef
• Docker
• Spring Boot
• Node.js
• Express
• Electron
• Unity
• ReactJS
• VueJS
• SailsJS
• AirFlow
• Apache Spark
• DBT
• MySql
• PostgreSql
• RabbitMQ
• GraphQL
• SCIM
• SAML2
• OpenID Connect
• Oauth2
• Nginx
• Airtable
• Learning Record Store
• Learning Tools Interoperability
• AWS
• S3
• EC2
• ECS
• SNS
• SQS
• Lambda
• DynamoDB
• RDS
• Aurora
• Cognito Identity
• User
• ALB
• NLB
• VPC
• Route53
• API Gw
• CloudFormation
• CloudWatch
• Azure
• Container Instances
• App Services
• SQL Databases
• Blob Storage
• Databricks
• DevOps
• GCP
• App Engine
• Cloud Build
• Cloud SQL
• Compute Engine
• Heroku
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate