Software Engineer Developer

Kathy King

Email: *********@*****.*** Location: San Carlos, California

Linked In: linkedin.com/in/kathykingca Phone: 650-***-**** A Software Engineer with deep experience in systems design, Java development, and in leading people and software projects. A proven ability to learn new architectures and technologies quickly and a track record for delivering software systems that make busi- ness customers very happy.

WORK HISTORY

FC Associate I, L1 11/2024 - present

Amazon Brisbane, CA

• Hazardous materials handling and other warehouse duties. Principal Software Engineer 4/2021 – 5/2024

DEPT® Agency San Carlos, CA

Skills: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Gateway, MySQL, Postgres, AWS SQS, AWS Quicksight, Angular, SOAP

• Architect and technical lead on multiple client projects, including Fidelity, Circle Financial, and Skyword

• Directly managed junior software engineers

Projects include:

• At Circle Financial, technical lead of 6-person team for back-end services and software development for token reverse loan application. A quick pivot to tackle some surprise Go development.

• At Fidelity, back-end SME for hybrid mobile applications. Java abstraction of services in Spring Gateway and Spring Boot ap- plication.

• Java REST API development for both financial services clients.

• At Skyword, bespoke analysis tools built with AWS Quicksight; supporting contracts tracker via Directus Senior Software Engineer 5/2014 – 3/2021

Systems Software Developer 5/2002 – 5/2014

HighWire Press Los Gatos, CA

Skills: Java, Spring Boot, Perl, Unix/Linux, Gradle, Memcached, Sybase SQL, Dynamo DB, XML, AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, EC2, s3fs, s3, SNS, SQS

• Managed the systems team; lead engineer

• Development of processes and applications to facilitate enhanced productivity through automation for the team and customers

• Design, development, and maintenance of new/improved system-wide features, modules, and custom projects

• Design and development of tools to monitor system processes and health

• Troubleshooting issues on a daily basis, both customer-facing and back-end

• Provide documentation for services including design specifications and installation instructions

• Collaborate with other systems developers, project groups, and external vendors as needed

• Management of development and production code installations

• Identify and implement performance enhancements throughout the system

• Database support and administration, including designing and creating new tables/stored procedures Projects include:

• API Integrations with Copyright Clearance Center, iThenticate, Publons, WorldPay, PayPal, SendGrid, Unsilo and other third- party APIs

• Developed the BenchPress Ingest service to accept data from other vendors. Built in AWS with sftp on ec2, S3 bucket events, Step Functions calling several Lambdas, SNS, and DynamoDB. Includes clamAV virus scanning, PDF optimization, XSL trans- formation, and Schematron processing.

• Participation in the development of the MECA standard for data packaging (now a NISO standard). Implemented the first inte- gration using this.

• Flexible transaction failure handling, support for partial transaction handling with automated future completion

• Technology stack upgrades

Product Manager/Applications Software Developer 6/2001 – 5/2002 HighWire Press Palo Alto, CA

Skills: XML, Perl, Unix, HTML, DTL, Sybase SQL

• End-to-end BenchPress product management - demonstrations and technical overviews for potential customers; RFP re- sponses; building development schedules for new customers; overseeing development details; responsible for customer satis- faction and hitting implementation deadlines

• Training new application developers, managing developer workload, and assignment of tasks

• Management of system enhancements

• Development of new features and custom modules

• Application developer for high-profile customers

• Development of tools to integrate automation and increase efficiency, productivity, organization, and product quality

• Troubleshooting issues, both customer-facing and back-end; providing support to application developers triaging customer reports

Applications Software Developer 5/2000 – 6/2001

HighWire Press Palo Alto, CA

Skills: XML, Perl, Unix, HTML, DTL, Sybase SQL

• Member of BenchPress design team - in-depth design specification documents for the new product; participated in develop- ment of DTD and database designs; conducted workflow analysis with alpha customers and developed XML-driven workflow files for workflow/transaction aspects of product; developed user interfaces; alpha and beta development and testing; cus- tomer support for alpha and beta customers; marketing demonstrations

• Development of tools to integrate automation, increase efficiency, productivity, organization, and product quality

• Interface development for new features

• Training new application developers, managing developer workload, and assignment of tasks Systems and Operations Manager 7/1998 – 5/2000

Biophysical Society Bethesda, MD

• Supervision of society web site including script development for interactive forms, surveys, and searching; management of an- nual meeting online abstract submission, post-submission processing, and print production of volume. Supervision of Biophysi- cal Journal operations (monthly scholarly journal). Production Editor, Health Affairs 12/1996 – 7/1998 Project Hope Bethesda, MD

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

• University of Maryland University College, B.S., Mathematics, 1996 Secondary Concentration in Microbiology

• Contentful Certified Professional, 2024

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