Senior Java Backend Engineer

Rob Mitchell

Senior Software Engineer

**************@*****.***

Stoughton, Massachusetts, United

States

781-***-****

linkedin.com/in/swrob

Summary

I specialize in making great software solutions that exceed expectations and leading software development teams using nearly 40 years of hands-on software design and development. The last 15 years with Java/JEE. I have experience with Agile development and SDLC as well as leading in-sourced and out-sourced software projects. Specialties: Java, Spring, Web development, Docker, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss, XML/XSL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, Eclipse, Mac OS Unix, Windows, project management, leadership, design, development, Github, and Jenkins CI/CD. Experience

Senior Backend Java Developer, Coviant Software

Design, develop, and maintain backend Server application using Java. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features. Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize existing codebases. Write and maintain robust unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.

2025 09 – Present

San Antonio, TX

Independent Consultant, Self Employed

•Using Java fullstack technology to create new functionality as well as fixing bugs in a large SaaS based web application

•Writing and debugging Java code, XML/XSL, and frontend HTML/JS Ajax api calls 2018 10 – Present

everywhere

•Customizing SQL builder and enhancing custom Reporting Analytics engine

•Interacting with clients directly to help expedite the overall process and stave off misunderstandings

Contract Software Engineer, The Home Depot

Created new Java/Spring Boot and CockroachDB based on old C/C++ code specs to replace legacy systems. Part of team porting 120 APIs, security, integration tests, Github builds, PCF, GKE, Docker.

2021 09 – 2025 09

Atlanta, GA

Senior Software Engineer Contract, Third Eye Software Contracted as Senior Software Engineer to client: The Home Depot 2021 09 – 2025 09

Atlanta, GA

Senior Manager of Sales Engineering Team, Wayfair

As an Engineering Manager I performed the following:

•Lead multiple sprint teams ranging from 2 to 5 Software Engineers. 2018 05 – 2018 10

Greater Boston Area

•Responsible for owning features developed by your team in each phase of a project design, implementation, code review, QA and deployment to production.

•Identified and delivered solutions and strategies to push the boundaries of our tech stack to handle scalability and performance goals.

•Drive the creation and execution of quarterly roadmaps for product enhancements and technical improvements, in collaboration with product management to align with Wayfair's business strategy.

•Actively mentored and coached all direct reports. Rob Mitchell **************@*****.***

Senior Java Software Engineer, Direct Commerce

The lead engineer for the team to build custom software solutions that connect DCI customers’ ERP systems to our SaaS platform. Work closely with customers to understand their needs and then write software to handle a large number of transactions. Work to implement new application features and functionality for our customers, and help DCI solve challenging engineering problems. 2016 01 – 2018 05

San Francisco Bay Area

Director of Software Engineering, RBM Technologies I mentor and guide a team of software engineers. I am a leader in defining architectural direction of the company's products. I love learning new tools and technologies to help all of us grow and do more in a faster and easier manner. Ruby on Rails development, PostgreSQL, and customer integrations. 2015 09 – 2016 01

Boston, MA

Software Engineer and Director, dunnhumby - BzzAgent I am a hands-on software engineer and manager with experience building world-class products in a nimble and entrepreneurial fashion. I build and enhance a core set of products that serve over 350 clients and 800,000 BzzAgents. I use my skills to build the next-generation of Social Media products that connect agents with the brands they care about across Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, BzzAgent.com and other platforms.

•Eclipse, Java, Jersey RESTful, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, XML, JSON 2011 03 – 2015 09

Boston, MA

•Agile process, JSON, XML, Play framework, Facebook, Twitter

•Co-developed and debugged iOS 7 app using Xcode/Objective C talking directly to secure REST api that I wrote

Technical Leader, Fidelity Investments

Provide technical direction, mentoring, analysis, design, and implementation for JEE- based project Fidelity NOW, an internal news and announcements communication website. This web application uses SOAP Services to access a Documentum CMS, builds daily websites, and integrates with an enterprise search system for indexing. Build transactions for storing user requests and UI workflow and notification for administrators.

•Eclipse, Java, SQL Server, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, custom publishing with Documentum

2007 08 – 2011 03

Smithfield, RI

•Agile, SOAP, XML, XSL, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, JSP, Apache Owner, Base Class Technologies, Inc.

We deliver what clients really want, hands-on technology with over 40 years of software development experience. We work with you from concept to delivery using great tools like Java, Spring Boot/JPA, VSCode, Maven, Eclipse, Tomcat, Wildfly, Docker, Postman, GitHub, JUnit, Mockito, WireMock, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, MySql, Postgres, Oracle, SqlServer, Jira, Confluence 1998 11 – 2007 12

Boston, MA

Java Consultant, Industrial Defender Solutions (now Lockheed Martin) Part of a global team of engineers that designed and implemented security server software based on Struts and MySQL. Use Eclipse on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 to create additional functionality to existing software and debug. Mentored coworkers on software development methodologies and implementation.

•Linux, Eclipse, Java, MySQL, XML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, Apache 2007 01 – 2007 07

Mansfield, MA

Java Architect and Mentor Consultant, Loomis, Sayles & Company Provide Java consulting services and development to Loomis Sayles technology group. Institute a Java technology-mentoring program for peer-to-peer software development using the Xtreme Programming process. Architected and implemented long-term J2EE custom CRM/ERP system to handle accounts operations, sales territory and prospects, conferencing, and sales and marking business.

•Linux, Eclipse, Java, MySQL, XML,

2000 12 – 2006 12

Boston, MA

•JavaScript, CSS, JSP, Apache, JBoss

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Adjunct Faculty Member, Java Programming, Dean College Created and taught Java programming CIS-160 course by designing overhead slides and hands-on demos using Joyce Farrell’s “Java Programming: Comprehensive” book and overhead projector. Instructor evaluation ranked all positive. 2001 06 – 2002 01

Franklin, MA

Java Consultant, Instruction Set

Assist in developing Java training material on Symantec Visual Café as well as other Java technologies including RMI, Servlets, JSP, JFC, and JDBC on MS Windows and Sun Solaris. Provide working samples for student learning. Create PowerPoint presentations with footnotes as well as Word documents for instructors to use for classroom training.

2000 12 – 2001 03

Natick, MA

Web Architect Consultant, ZenDawg Consumer Network Designed and implemented custom Java solution that provides a one-to-one Web experience for ZenDawg, an Internet startup company. Wrote server side JavaBeans for database transactions and logging. Implemented JavaServer Pages with UltraDev and deployed in IBM WebSphere Application Server.

•IBM WebSphere Application Server Adv. Ed. 3.0.2, IBM HTTP Server 2000 06 – 2000 12

Beverly, MA

•Macromedia UltraDev, JavaScript, DHTML

•Oracle 8i, JDBC, Symantec Cafe

Java, Lotus Notes, Web, JDBC, Oracle Consultant, Evergreen Investments Design and implement Domino solutions using Java Notes Object Interface for financial Web reporting of fund information. Design and integrate with Oracle 8i database as well as multiple MS SQL Server databases. Developed Java applets that talked to IBM WebSphere Application Server. Designed and implemented prototype for e-commerce solution. Wrote servlets to handle Web requests that created virtual TN3270 screen-scraping session to legacy systems, extruded data, packaged in XML, and used XSL to translate to HTML in browser.

•Java, JDBC, JNDI, EJB, XML, XSL, JSDK 2.0, Lotus Notes/Domino 4.6 and 5.0 1999 01 – 2000 06

•Symantec Café, Cyberprise Host Access, Oracle 8i, IBM WebSphere Web Consultant, State Street

Design and implement a Web-based solution that allows knowledge Editors to enter trade specific information and trade Managers to review and accept or reject bulk changes. Reviewed existing architecture and recommended a re-engineering effort involving JavaSoft’s Servlet technology to talk to a CORBA service written in Java and presenting DHTML to end-users. Java server operates over JDBC SQL to Oracle 8 database. Designed journalling schemas to enhance knowledge editing and audit tracking.

•JDK 1.1.6, JSDK 1.2, JDBC, IBM WebSphere 2.0

1998 11 – 1998 12

Quincy, MA

•Visigenic CORBA, MS Visual Studio 5, Oracle 8

Principal Software Developer, Authoria (formerly Foundation Technologies, Inc.) Architected, designed, and implemented a software bridging solution to PeopleSoft HRIS consisting of an MFC DLL using MSVC++ 5.0 and ODBC. The bridge DLL is called by FTI’s Web server to allow employee specific information to be retrieved from multiple data sources e.g. local and remote Oracle databases, Excel spreadsheet, and Access database. This information is then combined with a knowledgebase to produce real-time answers to employee specific HR benefit questions.

•Traveled to customer locations to further refine and develop core and bridging software

1997 05 – 1998 10

Waltham, MA

•Modified HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, and bridge DLL software to handle new customer requirements

•Discovered and fixed major problems in core Web server software including memory leaks, thread collisions, logic errors, and STL collection class implementation

•Developed fully functional customer specific bridge in first 30 days of employment Rob Mitchell **************@*****.***

•Extended Bridge technology to call tracking and case management systems e.g. Remedy, Clarify, Quintus, Vantive, Scopus

•Develop Web-based integration solutions to extend FTI's Web server technology Senior Macintosh and Windows Developer, Reuters - AdValue Designed and developed client MSWindows application using MSVC++ and MFC which notifies and displays dynamic notification information. Extended WinSock listener application to handle network messages and send to Alarm application. Implemented Alarm application using MFC.

•Created C++ DLL for login and workstation identification and location functionality. Used function pointers extensively for backward compatibility and ability to communicate via UDP or TCP

1995 01 – 1997 04

Waltham, MA

•Implemented message mapping for custom window messages

•Created dialog-based MFC application with custom, unobtrusive notification and animation window

•Used BoundsChecker to uncover and fix bugs running under Windows 3.1 Overhauled and lead Macintosh port of media transaction application using CodeWarrior C++ and TCL. Software was originally developed using MSWindows 3.1 SDK. Developed Oracle queries in Unix application that transferred query data between desktop application and database backend.

•Developed SmartForm functionality which downloads vendor specific MSWindow and control metadata and creates dynamic Macintosh windows with TCL control and mix-in C++ objects complete with querying and saving results to Oracle

•Developed Reporting functionality which queried Oracle for list of reports, user selects, fills-in data fields, then sends request to Oracle to print on remote print server

•Developed Avail Request functionality which combined a Macintosh window with SmartForm functionality to send custom vendor data via email Senior Macintosh Developer, Motorola Codex

Add new functionality to Macintosh applications used daily by sales and engineering staff. The applications are a product configuration database application (ProCon) and a network design and expert system (CoEDS). ProCon improvements include database sorting, sequencing, and data modeling as well as detaching the user interface from data specific code. Migrated CoEDS’ GUI from multi-level modal dialogs to more robust windows and improved drawing and response time. Prioritize, fix, and test software bugs and release software on quarterly basis. These software application require a translation of marketing and business rules into software. 1992 – 1995

Mansfield, MA

Macintosh and Unix Engineer, BBN Technologies

Designed and developed Macintosh front-end software for distributed combat simulations using Think C’s object oriented extensions and Think Class Library. Programmed GUI classes that presented and sequenced dialogs to gather military information from the users. Designed and developed client-server AppleTalk library. The client-side Macintosh enabled application objects to handle multi-layered communication protocols through a gateway to my server-side AppleTalk process running on a Unix workstation. Developed an interrupt-based task class to display combat event messages to user on the Mac. Worked in team environment with other developers to create and control various military vehicles for virtual reality battles. 1990 – 1992

Cambridge, MA

Systems Development Engineer, Technology Concepts Inc Assisted in porting a DecNet Phase IV protocol stack, called CommUnity, to various Unix kernels. Responsibilities included kernel reconfiguring, data link-level scoping, and memory management. Enhanced Unix network application software including Network Management, Remote File Access, and Virtual Terminal. Fixed bugs and released software on time for new customer shipment. 1989 – 1990

Sudbury, MA

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System Library Support Engineer, Prime Computers

Modified and enhanced System Libraries used by various Prime compilers and within many operating system modules for Prime's 50 Series machines. Identified, fixed, and tested software bugs. Developed software tools to help increase productivity, generate test reports, execute test suites, and stress test library components. 1987 – 1989

Framingham, MA

Associate Software Engineer Intern, Honeywell, Electro-Optics Division Designed and implemented software tools to track and report software bugs for a large military software project, which was required to meet government regulations. Programmed software tools using VAX/Datatrieve and FMS combined with custom Fortran routines.

1985 – 1986

Lexington, MA

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Northeastern University Top Skills

Backend Server Design

Client Interaction

Sprint Team

Leadership

Managed File Transfer

MCP Server

Cross-functional Team

Collaboration

Java/Spring Boot

Scalability Strategies

Java Software

Development

Copilot/qwen3.8

Frontend HTML/JS

Ajax API

APIs Porting

Unit and Integration

Testing

Amazon S3

SQL Optimization

Integration Testing

Reporting Analytics

AI

Rob Mitchell **************@*****.***

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