Led a team from conception to production delivery of a new payment orchestration platform on Amazon Web Services, leveraging Step Functions, Lambdas in Node.js, EventBridge, and DynamoDB, integrating with various legacy and vendor systems, to perform payment validation, screening, and fulfillment.
Also:

• designed and implemented several REST services
• worked on various employee groups for improving the development environment and cloud adoption
• organized weekly team lead discussion group
• built out system documentation wiki

Most recent role was team lead for Site Reliability Engineering, supporting a microservice/event based loyalty platform written in Go. I simplified the monitoring platform to improve reliability of metrics, using Prometheus and Jaeger. I also assisted in the development of support tools, and GitLab pipeline enhancements, to improve efficiency and quality.

Prior accomplishments:

• introduced site reliability engineering practice to a team of 40+ engineers, testers, and production support personnel
• migrated dozens of SVN repositories and multiple teams from SVN and Git
• migrated multiple services from WebSphere to kubernetes on-prem; introduced legacy team to code review and pipeline; major wiki documentation cleanup and build out.
• held educational sessions for team

Lead Java engineer on choiceEDGE reservation system, a greenfield replacement for the decades-old central reservations service. The system was built on a microservices architecture on AWS, using Cassandra, Amazon Simple WorkFlow (now known as Step Functions), and ActiveMQ, handling thousands of requests per second.

Also:

• co-led group of team leads to drive standards and consistency across the application
• technical product owner for multiple teams.
• presented technical topics to engineering organization
• presented at Cassandra Summit on choiceEDGE

Prior roles include:

• migrating services to Oracle Service Bus
• desktop client/server application development and support
• server processes, using Java and C++