Griffin Tucker

Software Engineer

Driven and knowledgeable Software Engineer seeking greater challenges after gaining valuable development and practical business-side experience within the DoD environment.

Successful in designing and implementing full-stack product features on multiple user-facing applications, and providing live production support to the customer's team and 10's of thousands of military applicants every year.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer 03/22 - Present

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)

· Designed alongside mid-senior developers to engineer both front and back-end feature upgrades to 4 different apps utilizing .NET Framework 4.6.1/4.8, .NET Core 3.1, .NET 6, ASP Web API & MVC, Razor Pages/HTML/JS/AJAX/JQuery, Angular 4+.

· Collaborated on API additions and enhancements, database schema adjustments, and refactored services across applications to meet functional requirements.

· Took initiative and lead contribution to the technical direction of upgrades to each app’s respective version upon end of compliance. To .NET 6, fixed upgrade-related issues quickly to break a release deadlock and saved more than $10,000 in costs from impacts to the release schedule.

· Successfully delivered a large release to a flagship application, streamlining user experience and enhancing specific customer-workflow features, adhering to complex functional and business logic requirements. Improved applicant processing times for the customer’s team and reduced support response times for the development team due to better database design and solution design and organization.

· Rehauled multiple app’s outdated logging upgrading to Serilog where applicable, leveraging Elasticsearch and ELK Stack, managed in Kibana. Due to the improved performance, we no longer faced responsiveness issues during high-user loads during critical periods in the academic season. Ensured government STIG compliance.

· Took charge of responsibilities associated with a Sr./Lead such as: requirement elicitation from customer, story estimation and version control management, delivery of release documentation and solutions, and deployment into test and prod environments

Student Developer 08/2020 – 12/2021

Center For Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) Tuscaloosa, Alabama

· Performed essential responsibilities of the center by manually reviewing and processing United States crash reports for statistical data use in the future.

· Worked with in-house statistical modeling software, performing both general and data-specific test cases and documentation review of the application's functional requirements.

· Undertook Angular development training as well as exposure to C#.

SKILLS

Languages

C#, Java (Spring), C++. SQL, Javascript

Frameworks

.NET Framework 4.6.1/4.8+ & Standard 2.1 legacy vers., .NET Core 3.1, .NET 6+, Spring Boot

Web Development

ASP .NET Core, ASP.NET Web API/MVC, Razor Pages, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, REST, SOAP, JSON, JWT, JQuery, AJAX

Databases

MS SQL Server MS 2014, '16', '19, Entity Framework, Linked Oracle Servers

Tools

ElasticSearch ELK Stack, Serilog, SwaggerAPI, Fortify, GIT, Dimensions, Kibana

Project & Management

Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, TFS, SharePoint

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

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