Paul Barbaro
Holmdel, NJ ***** • 908-***-**** • ****.*********@*****.*** • https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-barbaro-70aa97a7
Experience
Senior Appian Developer • ICF International, Reston, VA April 2023 - Present
● Designed and built workflows enabling end users to submit claims and apply for funding related to damaged or destroyed housing.
● Translated complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
● Developed user interfaces, backend logic, and system integrations with a focus on performance, reliability, and usability.
● Provided technical leadership through code peer reviews, architectural guidance, and enforcement of engineering best practices.
● Built proof-of-concept solutions to evaluate technical approaches and reduce delivery risk.
● Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams including product owners, developers, and infrastructure partners.
● Supported production deployments, post-release stabilization, and ongoing application maintenance.
● Identified opportunities to improve efficiency through automation and/or AI.
● Standardized reusable components to ensure consistency, accessibility, and maintainability across applications. Software Engineer • Tata Consultancy Services (Client: The Vanguard Group), Malvern, PA January 2019 - April 2023
● Developed and supported enterprise applications in a highly regulated financial services environment.
● Worked across the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
● Built and maintained backend services and data-driven applications using relational databases.
● Led weekly meetings to assess the health of cloud computing instances against recommended standards.
● Optimized database queries and application performance, reducing storage usage and improving response times.
● Configured Splunk integrations, sending structured JSON data for monitoring and analytics.
● Reconfigured AWS server settings using CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket and Bamboo.
● Coordinated and supported system upgrades with minimal or zero production impact.
● Mentored and coordinated with offshore development teams to improve delivery timelines and code quality.
● Planned and tracked sprint deliverables using Agile methodologies.
● Worked extensively with Git, Jira, SailPoint, ServiceNow, Okta, Bitbucket, and Office 365.
Languages
Java SQL SAIL (Appian) HTML Python
Technologies
Appian (full-stack) MySQL UiPath phpMyAdmin Git AWS S3 Lotus Notes Jira Bitbucket Spring
Education
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ September 2015 – May 2018 BS Double Major in Computer Science and Economics, summa cum laude, GPA 3.86
● High Honors in Computer Science (Top 50 Computer Science students)
● Milton Friedman Distinguished Scholar Award (Top 30 Economics students)
● Certificate in Financial Economics
Villanova University, Villanova, PA September 2014 – May 2015 Computer Engineering, GPA 3.78
Projects
● Designed a SQL database with key relation pairs to store college statistics and to retrieve information for statistical analysis.
● Implemented a multithreaded banking system using C with client interactions to a server. Utilized signal handlers and locks to achieve consistent states to allow multiple synchronous users .
● Implemented a program to find an interpolating polynomial for a set of data points using Python.
● Designed a two player chess game with a graphical user interface with Java.
● Recreated the memory allocation function in C to optimize memory usage from a fixed block of data.
● Developed a graphical user interface to make a gallery for uploaded photos with Java.