Senior Backend Engineer

Taha Abdul-Basser

**-** ***** ******, ******* Hills, NY 11432

Email: ****.***********@*****.***

Direct: +1-781-***-****

Education

Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Bachelors (cum laude), Comparative Study of Religion, June 1996

Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Masters, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, June 2006

Experience

Software Analyst, December 2015 - Present

Columbia University - New York, New York

As a member of highly productive and recognized team of data scientists, data engineers, software developers and clinicians in the Department of Bioinformatics, designed, developed, deployed and maintained numerous application and services in a hybrid (on-premises and multiple cloud provider) environment used by thousands of clinicians, researchers, data scientists and software developers; contributed to multiple national and international research initiatives and published studies; acted as member of architecture team and technical lead for several open source projects; founded, led and nentored platform engineering/DevOps/MLOps unit responsible for CI/CD, ETL and ML/AI pipelines; participated in multiple cloud migration initiatives. (Java, Python, Go, Bash, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Azure, Google Cloud, RStudio, ETL/ELT, Microsoft SQL Server, BigQuery, SSIS, Azure Data Studio, Postgres, Tomcat, Maven, Redis, MongoDB, TensorFlow, PyTorch)

Principal Software Architect/Analyst, June 2009 - December 2015

Sanative - New York, NY

As principal at a boutique financial technology firm offering consulting services to the financial sector, served as consulting architect, software analyst and solution architect for multiple web-based systems (administration UI components, trading systems and expert systems). Led rapid prototyping effort, conducted code and design reviews, authored design diagrams (UML), recommended technology platforms, routinely presented to executives and stakeholders, coordinated offshore and global delivery development efforts and authored documentation (Core Java, J2EE, RESTful WS, Spring, Hibernate, ESB, MQ, XML, JBoss, .NET, Agile, SCRUM, BDD, REST, JSON, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, JQuery).

Solution Architect/Analyst, August 1998 – June 2009

Wellogic, Inc. - Cambridge, MA

As senior engineer, technical lead, senior systems architect and director at a leading-edge healthcare software company, designed and implemented complex SOA and highly scalable, 3-tier Java and .NET web applications (e.g. administration UI components, electronic medical records [EMR], computerized physician order entry, clinical trials, claims eligibility, point-of-care mobile and physician practice) for leading clients in the healthcare industry (e.g. Cerner, McKesson, Mayo Clinic, Joslin Center, Carter-Wallace and WebMD). Designed and implemented portal application frameworks, service-oriented architecture (SOA) business components, persistence components, security components, directory service components, XML-based MDM/EDI/EAI modules and presentation layer components. Conducted code and design reviews, mentored engineers, routinely presented to managers and directors of potential clients during pre-sale meetings, lead offshore development efforts, created and directed performance lab, created and oversaw the evolution of agile software engineering methodology, directed efforts to prepare for regulatory audits, authored whitepapers and authored and reviewed national technical standards. (J2EE, J2ME, SOAP, REST, XML, XSL/XPATH, JavaScript, Hibernate, JSF, Maven, MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL, LDAP, JBoss, Grails, Tomcat, Struts, Tiles, IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Portal, WebLogic, Oracle Application Server, .NET, Oracle 11g, Ensemble, Cache, ETL, HL7, IHE, HIPAA, SiteMinder)

Java Web Developer, November 1997 - July 1998

Serendipity, Inc. - Cambridge, MA

Working under the supervision of the founders of a start-up (a professor and post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University), implemented a prototype of a Java application designed to improve the semantic accuracy of a popular Web search engine/directory. (Java, AWT)

Database Developer & Product Manager, June 1996 - July 1998

Staff Researcher, January 1996 - June 1996

HIFIP, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA

As a member of a small, innovative academic program at Harvard University (composed of an information scientist, several researchers and IT consultants), contributed significantly to and eventually supervised the design, implementation and maintenance of a multi-tier application that has been deployed at several specialty financial institutions around the world, performed upgrades and maintenance of software, acted as consulting architect during the migration of the application to the Web. (Windows DNA, VB4, SQL Server, Access 95, ADO, ActiveX, IIS, Cold Fusion, ASP)

Tuberculosis Research Project Associate, June 1994 – September 1994

NYC Department of Health-Correctional Health Services (NYCDOH-CHS) - New York City, NY

As an intern working directly under the assistant commissioner, designed and implemented a stand-alone bed-tracking desktop application for a respiratory isolation facility managed by the NYCDOH-CHS. (C++)

Skills

Languages: Java, Go, Bash, Python, R, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++/C, Scala, Groovy

Frontend: React, Angular, shiny

Backend: Kubernetes, Spring, NodeJS, Flask, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Data and Storage: Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, MongoDB

Cloud: Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services

Development Tools: Visual Studio, Git, Docker, Helm, NPM, GitLab, Maven, JIRA, Confluence, RAtudio, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Data Studio, Jenkins, PyCharm

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