Ai Developer Solution Architect
Resume:
Paul Kruger
Developer
Miami, FL United States
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Professional summary
Software Craftsman / Solution Architect / Core Developer with 20+ years of experience building and leading teams & mentoring developers with a love for applications at scale distributed systems and web3, crypto, fintech Employment history
Verizon GEN AI Developer Slack Bot AI Developer - RAG LLM Remote Nov 2024 - Current
● Build Verizon Design System Slack Bot
● Build Verizon Design System FASTAPI PYTHON
● Also Built Verizon Vegas Client in python for LLM
● Use Langchain, Slack API, In-house Vegas(LLM Portal) as well as scrapers to load data into Postgres pgvector, chromadb, NEO4J
● Dockerize bot for Amazon EKS using podman and docker builds..
● Ensure secrets loaded safely with python vault and cloud secrets and dotenv
● Building Slack Bolt core with pure websockets
● Setup DIno for building various pieces - TYPESCRIPT
● Refactor 4 man project into long term mono repo with documentation and testing
● Python, Yarn, Poetry, Slack-bolt, slack_sdk, pytest, flake8, rdflib, black, rich, logger, bota3, certifi, logger python,env, sqlalchemy, langchain, langchain_core, langchain-community, langchain-huggingface, langchain-chroma, langchain-postgres, langchain-text-splitters, honcho, transformaer, playwright, pathliv, fita, numpy, requests, python-pptx, pydantic, asdf, pyenv. pip, storybook, figma, Jira, Confulence, Artifactory, Jfrog, Helm, Jenkins
● Increased code quality and development times but utilizing copilot
● Models: minstral, falcon, Google Gemini
Volico Data Centers Full Stack AI Developer - Automation Engineer Deerfield Beach, FL Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
● Automated Billing processing and ticketing for data center clients allowing unified billing for customers by integrating 2 Rails apps data and api layers together
● Built bot for Slack utilizing Ruby that allowed integration with customers to request, help and support tickets
● Utilized: Redis, OpenAPI, MongoDB, Kafka, Slack API/UI RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL and Docker
● Built greenstreet web spider with Watir & Mechanize to parse 20 different competitions pricing and send reports to marketing and sales teams slack channel
● Created Disaster Recovery Plan for application including container based Applications in docker Directmail.net / Hi-Tech Printing Systems VP of Software Engineering - Core Developer / Cloud Infrastructure / Devops
Dec 2022 - Jun 2023
● Worked to deliver docker and kubernetes workflows for cloud infrastructure and security layers
● Wrote on workflow app in ruby on rails and node js microservices
● Manage Development of all inhouse projects workflow and 100 other sites
● Migrated old rack of inhouse WHM servers to Amazon Infrastructure
● Upgraded old software to latest version and did bug a thon to resolve all customer issues
● Upgrade to Amazon Aurora / EFS for dynamic storage
● Integrate third party web2print software and build over 200 themes for directmail.net website
● Integrate Mailchimp/Usps/New Relic, Airbrake and automated updates for all plugins
● Trained remote staff on product and created workflow process to scale
● Dealt with managing Ubuntu/patches and upgrades as well as kernel updates
● CI/CD and Continuous deployment to ensure nodes always up to date
● Integration with ups, salesforce, hubspot and many other crm platforms in workflow application
● Worked with team to learn Python, Go, Node, Rust, Elixir, React, Typescript and serverless Frameworks
● Worked on disaster recovery plan to rebuild and redeploy infrastructure in event of failure LendingWise Core Developer for Legacy Refactor / Miami Engineering Manager Overseas Team - Hyderabad India
June 2019 - May 2020
● Core Developer to refactor legacy app into mvc app for 3 months before traveling to india
● Traveled to India to manage entire organization,Teams were, Front end, Back End, QA,Logistics, DBA, Devops
● Gave Training to staff on modern tech frameworks and stacks
● Taught microservice architecture to team including serverless and lambda
● Worked with Google Docs api and documented all code related to our Google Docs api
● Migrated servers from local data center in miami off bare metal hardware to pure cloud based infrastructure 2TB of data from sql cluster(Amazon Aurora), and 2 TB of file storage to EFS/S3
● Create nfs proxy service for opening up file to Amazon EFS service for copying data
● Built billing and onboard help into app so it would no longer need sales person involved
● Added customer training in app so new clients had better understanding of the complexity
● Bugathon to rid legacy unhandled bug and new 2 hour solution policy to ensure no longer a problem for clients
● Wrote script to backup and restore 5 applications in bash which during a disaster allowed to to get back up during our migration in minutes vs days
JPMorgan Chase & Co. UncleSam CyberSecurity Software Engineering Columbus, OH June 2019 - May 2020
● Core developer on UncleSAM the main EmberJS / Rails
● Worked with US and India teams on the core authentication systems in ruby on rails & EmberJS to the Oracle db.. nicknamed UncleSAM.. The largest authentication banking systems on rules, policies and approvals…
● increase performance of the application by 20%
Coinhub Founding Core Developer San Francisco, CA August 2017 - May 2019
● Live real time quotes and forum, message boards for crypto currencies
● Built with Ionic and Firebase auth
● worked with solidity, web3
● https://web3lab.webflow.io/coinhub
Renew Financial Engineering Manager Oakland, CA July 2017 - May 2019
● Work with offshore team to develop In house Fin-tech Application that was failing (Front End Backend QA)
● Manage deployments and build process of amazon cloud instances for workflow process and NGinx configurations
● Handle decoupled react front end(karma) application from rails 5.1 Api backend (swagger,rspec)
● Converted team from waterfall to agile to deliver application on tight deadlines
● Held stand ups for india at night and in the morning did code reviews and qa before deploying to staging
● Planned Disaster Recovery Plan for application including documentation and bash scripting New York Code + Design Academy Fullstack Javascript / Ruby On Rail Bootcamp Instructor Atlanta, GA Aug 2016 - March 2017
● Open and close office at from 9am to 8pm monday to friday
● Hold saturday usergroup programming sessions for anyone interested in learning to recruit candidates
● Train new developers Agile, Pair Programming, Rails and Javascript in 12 week bootcamps
● rewrite courseware to fill in an gaps in the education
● add new modules and write solutions to the existing work
● picked up and learned courseware with less then 2 week before start of first cohort Nuro Retention Founding Greenstreet Developer Fort Lauderdale, FL Dec 2015 - May 2016
● Building Student Retention system in Ruby on Rails
● Wrote api importers to import from Popular LMS systems like Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard
● Build both frontend and backend
● Helped raise 7 million dollar seed round from initial prototype from Marc Kaplan Guard Dog GPS CTO / Core Developer Fort Lauderdale, FL May 2014 - Jan 2016
● Managed GPS tracking system built with node and rails
● Managed queues, deployments, process and added new features with Sidekiq and Redis
● Worked alone to handle thousands of updates from cars around the world
● Worked with remote development teams on UDP apis for Embedded C++ developers
● Modernized Legacy Java Api for performance in spring boot
● Built Node Api with non blocking io for high performance and backend processing
● First day I found no client could login so I made a plan to move from datacenter in boca to cloud, also created Disaster Recovery Plan
Ironhack CTO / Core Developer Miami, FL
Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
● Taught new developers the value of TDD in the workplace
● Build login systems in a live classroom setting
● Taught Sinatra, Rail, Javascripts with Pair Programming
● Created code challenges for the students where they had to write tests and delete the code and still determine what the code used to do
● taught vim and pair programming and agile
WallabyCare Cofounder Core Developer Fort Lauderdale, FL Jan 2014 - May 2015
● Wrote Hipaa Compliant Application
● Worked with Angel clients to evaluate needs
● Wireframed Application and developed the flows
● Determined how to handle sensitive data and deal with audits Saveology Core Developer / Engineering Manager for Daily Deals Platform Coral Springs, FL April 2011 - June 2013
● Worked with Hashrocket to build dail deals application in Jacksonville Fl
● Trained and Hired Staff to develop 7th largest daily deals eCommerce site
● Interviewed and hired inhouse Rails Development Team
● Managed Cloud deployments on Heroku Cloud
● Integrated Salesforce leads into rails stack before salesforce offer api massive imports daily
● Monitored Team commits on Daily Basis
● Incorporated Agile Methodologies and Pair Programming
● Managed Daily Pair Tasks with Pivotal Tracker
● Worked with outsourcing firm to build initial application
● Held Daily Stand-ups with Team
● Worked with developers to increase velocity
● Trained Staff on working with rails applications
● Educated Staff on Git workflows
● Ensure team keeps "Master on Green"
● Managed Rollbacks in case of failure
● Worked with partners to collect complete api requirements
● Configured Distributed Test suite with specjour
● Wrote documentation in for the disaster recovery solution SavvyPenny Core Developer Coral Springs, FL
May 2010 - Jul 2011
● Built a ruby on rails backend to manage multi store coupon network with CouchDB / RIAK / MYSQL
● Using multi stage capistrano deployment
● And built rest api for instore advertising terminals
● Worked on Java code to integrate with cash registers checkout process and coupon selection code on android tablets
● Wrote ghost script to magically login and restart tablets Speeduneed Owner Core Developer Fort Lauderdale, FL Dec 2003 - May 2009
● Built over 200 Ecommerce websites
● Hired 7 person staff for design, development, sales
● Ran Miami PHP User group
● Built client servers and parked them in data center in miami to host websites
● Senior Web Developer and Community Organizer and Trainer and Team Builder
● Experienced In the following Open Source Technologies
● Major Experience in LAMP, OOP
● Languages: PHP(4 and 5), Ruby, Javascript, SQL
● Frameworks: CakePHP, Zend Framework, Symphony Framework, Rails
● OS: Linux, BSD, OSX
● Markup: haml, smarty, XHTML(Strict, Transitional), CSS
● Databases: Mysql, Postgresql, mysql lite
● Related: LAMP, Ajax
Nortel Networks Storage Architect for EMC Managed Research building for Qtera Boca Raton, FL May 2001 - May 2003
● Senior SAN Administrator for Nortel Network Long Haul Optics Research Center in Boca Raton, Managed 200+ server SAN
● Managed Windows IT teams for research department at Nortel in boca
● wrote scripts to integrate PRO-E to oracle
● wrote website to add printers to local computers with 1 client install
● wrote script to do daily splits on San Storage servers so manual updates so no typos would occur
● built Matlab Cluster with linux
● help testing teams setup clearcase for ticketing
● Put on the Disaster Recovery Team with 1 other person and we were doing backups from sun servers to tape as well as replicating data to houston texas… documentation later turned into a script for faster and safer way to not have to use EMC clunky interface
Skills
Ruby (Expert) Ruby on Rails / Sinatra / Grape (Expert) PHP (Expert)
Javascript (Expert)
Python (Expert)
Typescript (Skillful)
Cakephp / Laravel / CodeIgniter (Experienced)
NodeJS / Express (Expert)
Flask / Django / PYTorch (Expert)
NextJS / ReactJS / (Expert)
Elixir (Expert) Phoenix Framework (Expert)
Rust (Experienced)
Java (Expert)
C# (Expert)
WordPress (Expert)
SpringBoot Web (Expert)
Blazor (Expert)
React/React Native (Skillful)
Disaster Recovery Planning (Skillful)
API Development REST / Websockets / GRPC
(Expert)
Platforms
Heroku (Expert) DigitalOcean (Expert)
Amazon Web Services (Expert)
Google Cloud Platform (Expert)
Microsoft Azure (Expert)
Linode (Expert)
Links
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