Technical Architect

Grant Gyssler

Lisle, IL ***** 847-***-****

*****.*******@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-gyssler/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Technical architect that thrives on loosely defined requirements, complex problems, and tight deadlines; enjoys out of the box thinking and creative problem solving. Drives operational efficiency, cost savings, optimized application performance, and increasing the agility of the supporting team.

EXPERIENCE

Tech Mahindra - Technical Architect October 2019 - Present

●Spearheaded migration of mission critical applications from Jenkins CI/CD to Azure DevOps, JBoss to Wildfly, Struts 1 to Spring, containerization of applications with Docker to deploy to Azure kubernetes cluster. Fully automated deployments to virtual machines and AKS.

●Implemented File Integrity Management (FIM) process to monitor for unauthorized changes to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley audits.

●Migrated cookie-based authentication platform to OpenID Connect (OIDC) based platform.

●Transforned legacy messaging bus framework to Apache Kafka event bus.

AT&T - Technical Architect June 2007 - October 2019

●10+ years experience designing/developing major components of Java based mission critical applications with 32k daily users that manage POTS/UVerse/DSL tickets. Multiple years being sole architect responsible for new framework integrations, standards, training, roadmap.

●Increased team’s productivity by integrating with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to deploy ANT based web applications to JBoss Application Server on Linux on-prem VMs. Integrated SonarQube, Veracode vulnerability scans in CI. Eliminated need for dedicated SCM role.

●Streamlined automation testing creation/execution through creation of docker backed Selenium grid based Java/Spring web app to trigger and track automated tests. Selenium script automatically captured during human interaction, eliminating need for dev to understand Selenium, and greatly reducing overhead to increase code coverage.

●Enabled upper management visibility into application usage stats through creation of highcharts/REST based dashboard, allowing pattern identification, and aiding in issue investigation. Alerting framework implemented to be proactive with potential outages.

●Designed Ionic Framework (hybrid) proof-of-concept to re-imagine 10+ year old application UI.

●Designed modernized web UI and backend communication through AJAX providing a more fluid user experience. Increased user productivity by reducing need for copy/paste or manually entering information across the system.

●Exposed application functionality to external teams through Java based SOAP web services. Interfaced with external apps through SOAP, microservices, Kafka mechanisms.

●Authored several JSTL tags correlating to custom web UI widgets (calendar, time, etc) to drive consistency and centralized, easily maintainable code.

●Received CIO award for enhancing application to be cross-browser compliant as part of UVerse certification for the iPad. iOS devices deployed to users earlier than anticipated providing $1M+ in savings. Mitigated early iOS safari bugs quickly.

●Ensured application quality through code reviews. Created Eclipse plugin to scan code and enforce coding standards.

HSBC - System Analyst Intern May-August 2005

●Modified JavaScript code to ensure compliance with multiple web browsers.

●Optimized Perl code to reduce LDAP requests and search time by 50%.

●Audited functionality of web-based systems through test scripts.

●Provided quality assurance testing for major software revision.

LANGUAGES & SKILLS (YEARS EXPERIENCE)

Java (15), JavaServer Pages (JSP) (15), JSP Standard Tag Library JSTL (13), PL/SQL (13), MySQL (5), PHP (5), HTML (16), HTML5 (16), Cascading Style Sheets CSS (16), JavaScript (16), AJAX (6), JSON (6), TypeScript (2), WildFly (3), JBoss Application Server (3), CI/CD (5), Microsoft Azure (3), Kubernetes (3), Docker (3), Jenkins (2), Sonarqube (2), Selenium (3), SOAP (13), RESTful WebServices (5), Git (6), SVN(2), Bitbucket (3)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems

Illinois State University

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