Technical Lead at TalentReef

April 2021 - Present

• Lead the highest performing feature team, a title earned six months after I took over a formerly production support team
• Plan architecture for new design, heavily leveraging Spring Boot in ECS, Node Lambdas, Postgres in RDS, and other AWS services
• Mentor developers in best practices and establish procedures to enforce those practices
• Mentor other leads in effective leadership and value delivery
• Assist with DevOps using CloudFormation, Terraform, and especially Shell scripting to automate repetitive tasks
• Use Agile methodology with two-week sprints organized on Jira

Software Developer at Carfax

March 2020 - April 2021

• Developed Spring Boot / Spring Batch apps in Groovy and Java 8
• Developed Node.js apps, using React with webpack for frontend
• Deployed apps using Jenkins, either Docker images to Kubernetes on AWS or RPMs to DC 3.0 on-premise
• Went from new hire to acting team leader in less than 10 months

Senior Programmer Analyst at Boone County Government

November 2014 - March 2020

• Developed full-stack web applications using CSS, HTML, and vanilla JavaScript with ASP, ASP.NET, or Java backend
• Developed COBOL and IBM CL applications on IBM System i midrange
• Acted as project manager for two major projects
• Earned three performance-based increases outside annual review

Languages

Proficient in

Familiar with

SQL

NoSQL

Technologies

AWS

Columbia College — Columbia, MO

Bachelor of Science — GPA 3.68

Major: Computer Science — Minor: Business

• Graduated cum laude with a GPA of 3.68/4.0
• Earned an A in all computer science classes

David H. Hickman High School — Columbia, MO