Software Engineer

T.R. Staake

***A Casino Rd. Williamstown VT, ****9 adt4n7@r.postjobfree.com 978-***-****

Objective:

Build smart, scalable, efficient and reliable software while growing my skills and knowledge of development and architectural best practices.

Education:

Worcester State University Worcester, Massachusetts Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; Math Minor Fall 2011 - Dec 2014 Media:

● https://thenewstack.io/grafanacon-pancake-podcast-intricacies-composing-new-monitoring-stack

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KApdtPO4KFw

Employment:

Norwich University Applied Research Institutes Northfield, Vermont Development Team - Sr. Software Engineer May 2020 - Present

● Worked as part of an agile team working with internal and external stakeholders to implement bug-fixes, new feature requests and enhancements from the frontend to backend and down to the database.

● Collaborated to update the frontend from its legacy Angularjs (“angular 1.0”) to the Angular (“angular 2.0”) front end framework.

● Worked to update frontend workflows to make them more user-friendly, often involving changes to the Spring backend logic (by modifying or adding API endpoints) and updating or adding MySql Database structures (via flyway migrations and JPA entity generation).

● Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate well with others by collaborating with multiple external institutions to implement API endpoints which extended the functionality of the application and facilitated integration with external systems in an automated fashion.

● Led an effort to transition away from multiple different dev-ops tools, i.e. Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence and Jenkins to an all encompassing system in GitLab leading to both tool consolidation and cost reduction. Vermont Systems Inc. Essex, Vermont

Development Team - Software Engineer October 2018 - April 2020

● Collaborated on the “NextGen” frontend project, rewriting the homegrown jQuery-based frontend using the Vue.js framework.

● Collaborated to build a new REST API based backend architecture, leveraging Object-Oriented design principles and multi-component, multi-layer architecture practices.

● Integrated with third-party APIs to add and enhance features and functionality.

● Assisted in transitioning from a procedural based code based to an Object-Oriented one by helping design and implement existing functionality in an object-oriented style.

● Demonstrated leadership by helping drive my team’s transition to a sprint-based scrum-agile workflow from the existing waterfall style workflow. I achieved this by providing input and knowledge from prior experience along with advocating adherence to industry best practices.

● Demonstrated ability to learn quickly by learning a proprietary language and making contributions to the code base and architecture in a relatively short time frame. Staples Inc. Framingham, Massachusetts

Enterprise Tools - Principal Software Engineer March. 2017 - October 2018

● Lead efforts in growing and supporting the Splunk application from an eCommerce centered approach to an enterprise approach. Going from a few hundred to 5000+ servers across the enterprise

● Identified, planned and implemented a strategy for scaling the Splunk application across the enterprise

● Built and implemented a strategy of self-service for internal Splunk customers across the enterprise

● Assisted in the planning and implementation of a tool consolidation effort that reduced 3rd party monitoring tool usage and licensing. This project saved millions in licensing and support costs. Staples Inc. Framingham, Massachusetts

Instrumentation team - Sr. Site Reliability Engineer Jan. 2016 - March 2017 References furnished upon request

● Administered and on-boarded various teams to instrumentation infrastructure.

● Helped define and implement workflow for Splunk dashboard and alert development.

● Trained and coordinated offshore team to handle development requests in Splunk using agile methodologies.

● Assisted with the design of an application monitoring tool built from open source tools that replaced a multi-million dollar third party alternative while providing greater visibility and flexibility.

● Worked in an agile development team to implement the aforementioned monitoring application.

● Worked with various teams across Staples infrastructure to develop the plugins needed to monitor their hardware and software.

● Leveraged tools like Puppet, Git, and Jenkins to provide teams with a simple self-service process for adding monitoring to their applications once the plugins were developed by our team.

● Helped remove/mitigate/resolve impediments by running daily stand-up meetings.

● Provided teams with dashboards and alerts to provide insight and notifications on key performance indicators.

● Gained experience with open source projects by working as a member of one of the first teams at Staples to build a fully open-source product from open source applications. References furnished upon request

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