Eric Nielson

Lehi, Utah ***** • 801-***-**** • adg9xx@r.postjobfree.com • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericgnielson

Seeking

●Enterprise Architect

●Director of Engineering

●Cloud Architect

Consulting and Contracts

Professional Work Experience:

Aptive Environmental - Provo, Utah 06/2020 - Present

Director of Engineering

Accomplishments

●Reduced AWS spend by 10-15%, identified another 20% room for improvement.

●Greatly improved engineering best practices and security standards

●Provided communication and transparency for C level executives

●Lead strategic initiatives and partnerships

●Improved the quality of data

●Provided Devops, IT, Security, and Managed 60+ developers, qa and data across onshore, nearshore and offshore.

Hands on Technologies

AWS, GitLab, Splunk, Jira, Confluence, CloudZero, Snowflake, Fivetran

Projects

1.Customer Servicing Platform - web and mobile apps that integrate with our CRM partner

2.Sales Rep Management Platform - web apps and back end that manage our custom onboarding, housing, pay and reporting utilities to manage thousands of seasonal and non seasonal sales representatives.

3.Creating a single source of truth for data

Cloud and Data Architecture Consulting LLC - Lehi, Utah 06/2020 - Present

Owner

Accomplishments

●Oversee how companies are using the cloud and data to ensure best practices are maintained and that techdebt is controlled

●Ensure security issues are prioritized properly

●Technology partners are used in ways to greatly increase time to market

Hands on Technologies

AWS

Divvy - Lehi, Utah 02/2019 - 05/2020

Staff Data Engineering Architect/Guild Leader

Accomplishments

●Created and owned

End to end engineering experience and SDL to enhance quality and speed of delivery. Deployment to production in under 2 hours from feature assignment.

All standards and best practices(no P0 or P1 bugs)

●Architected and maintained the technical stack. Included monitoring and alerting, tech debt and bugs along with cost and usage reporting.

●Responsible for

All compliance within our stack (no references on SOC2 Type1)

Career progression for everyone in the guild (1 promotion, several close)

Integration requirements with other business units and 3rd parties

●Architected cross functional feature development work

●Covid19 impact layoff

Leadership

Hiring, interviews, mentorship, 1:1s, trainings, advancements, PIP

Hands on Technologies

AWS, Python, Pulsar, GitLab, Docker, Splunk, Fivetran, Protobuf, CICD, Automation, KPIs, Local dev and debug env, QA and Security, Linting, unit and e2e testing, IAC, code review, library and licenses, SOC2, Data Governance

Projects

1.Custom Docker orchestration on AWS with multiple interactive inputs and native integration to Splunk.

2.Implementing microservices on Apache Pulsar that utilizes Protobuf schema serde as well as Vault encryption/decryption for GDPR/CCPA crypto shredding.

3.New data visualizations from the analytics warehouse directly to the front end via GraphQL with Apollo Federation

4.Real time policy decisioning for onboarding and transaction level events.

Adobe - Lehi, Utah 09/2014 - 02/2019

Senior Engineering Architect

Accomplishments

●Interacted directly with customers and sales to estimate and architect custom big data cloud solutions.

●Led development teams on many large scale frameworks within AWS for our global team to reuse and extend.

●Coordinated with other product teams to develop a strategy to integrate and meet customer needs.

●Digital Transformation

From PHP scripts cronned on local linux hardware to large cloud based solutions

Hands on Technologies

AWS, Python, Java, bash, JSON, Oozie, Hadoop, sql, nosql, distributed computing, cloud computing, Azure, Adobe Experience Cloud, DivvyCloud

Projects

4.Successfully delivered on too many to count. They all run on premises or within our cloud platforms across AWS and Azure.

5.Both platforms are designed to integrate large amounts of data with event streaming or batch ETL in order to enable customer use cases within our products and third parties.

Microsoft - Lehi, Utah 07/2012 - 09/2014

Software Development Engineer

Accomplishments

●Contributed on a small team of top end engineers who were responsible for the entire MDOP suite.

●Delivered features at many levels such as build systems, bootstrapping and installation, patching, globalization and localization, and release taxes.

Hands on Technologies

Msbuild, WIX, MSI, XML, SQL, WPF, Localization, Visual Studio, C++, C# Projects

Microsoft MDOP Suite. Contributed to improving and maintaining the following components: UE-V, MAP and App-V

Lockheed Martin - Draper, Utah 08/2008 - 07/2012

Software Engineer Associate

Accomplishments

Won and delivered several DoD biometric research contracts.

Hands on Technologies

Java, C++, C#, Visual Studio, XML Projects

1.Mobile Biometric Software. Integrated existing biometric software and ported it to a windows mobile PDA to enable remote matching capabilities from a worn camera.

2.3D modeling for more accurate non frontal or poorly lit facial recognition.

Education :

B.S., Computer Science (Digital Systems). Utah State University, Logan Utah

Military Experience :

United States Army Reserve 1998-2006

Deployed- Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 2003 – Feb 2004

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