Lead Engineer Resume
San Jose, CaliforniA
SUMMARY:
Self - starting, hands-on senior technologist seeking an opportunity to work on strategic software initiatives that create business value. Experience in building SaaS products from scratch, modernizing legacy applications, and managing the teams that do the work.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Primary Skills: Java/JEE, Relational Databases including MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, REST, Spring/Spring Boot, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Mock Objects, JMS, AMQP
Secondary Skills: Angular.js, Bower, Grunt, CSS, Bootstrap, Node.js, JavaScript, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, MemCache, Ehcache
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Lead Engineer, San Jose, California
Responsibilities:
- Architected and built from scratch, an embeddable JavaScript library for in-product marketing messaging in Confidential Spark and WebEx using JavaScript on the client and Spring Boot (SpringMVC) for the RESTful backend.
- Integrated with WebEx Cloud Services including Common Identity, Entitlements and a 3rd party ecommerce transaction provider (Digital River) via RESTful and SOAP Services.
- Evaluated third party SaaS services for metrics and analytics gathering and managed the integration effort with Segment and Optimizely across multiple application clients.
- Leveraged caching and JMS (ActiveMQ) for scaling out parallelism and meeting performance requirements.
- Resourced engineers from within and outside the organization and developed hiring and onboarding process for new team members to scale effort.
Confidential
Lead Engineer, Burbank, California
Responsibilities:
- Wrote and architected a Java (SpringMVC) RESTful backend using a MSSQL relational database and Apache Solr for a business workflow application connecting background actors with major film and television studio productions.
- Used JMS (ActiveMQ) for handling asynchronous, data operations.
- Wrote extensive data migration code to move from legacy database to modern RDBMS.
- Ported legacy authentication/authentication to cloud-based identity (Ping) and services to Apigee.
- Integrated with SOAP-based internal payroll services.
- Designed and implemented security approach for internal employees and public internet users.
- Managed Team agile process, serving as Scrum Master. Agile ceremonies included grooming sessions, retrospectives, sprint planning.
Founder and CEO
Confidential, New York, New York
Responsibilities:
- Ran capital fundraising process, resulting in a $200K angel investment round with notable investors in New York City.
- Iterated through three minimal viable products on a limited budget, putting into practice the Lean Startup.
- Hired contract developers, designers and an external branding agency on a contingent basis to maximize value delivery per dollar cost.
- Wrote thousands of lines of code in Python, Objective-C and CSS.
VP of Technology
Confidential, New York, New York
Responsibilities:
- Recruited and hired a team of backend, frontend, devops and quality assurance engineers.
- From scratch, architected and built the platform with the team while managing budgets to a burn rate of $1.2M a year.
- Worked tightly with VP of Product and CEO to develop and execute on strategic roadmap for the business.
- Participated in sales meetings as a ‘pre-sales’ engineer to answer technical questions and concerns for prospective customers.
- Partnered with Timba software, an offshore development agency for staff augmentation.
- Assisted in business partnerships with WWTS, iYogi and Reliable Group as technical liaison.
- Attended board meetings and venture capital fundraising meetings as the technical representative of the executive team.
VP of Technology
Confidential, New York, New York
Responsibilities:
- Built MVP product using Java/JEE with the help of two contract developers.
- Hired and managed team of four software developers and one quality assurance engineer to scale tech team in lock-step with business growth.
- Worked with Product Manager to refine the product roadmap and software delivery process.
- Attended sales meetings with CEO with John Deere and Caterpillar.
- Attended board meetings and reported on technical execution progress.
Contract Software Developer
Confidential, Michigan
Responsibilities:
- Built modern, reliable, scalable modern business web applications driving operational efficiencies for major corporations.
