Software Developer Years Experience

John Vavul

******@*****.*** • Honolulu, Hawaii 96821 • 808-***-****

Summary

Lead architect of e-commerce platform that currently process over $2 billion a year.

More than ten years experience as lead software developer for high volume software applications that use extensive integration with disparate systems using LAMP and Java.

Tons of experience with SQL modeling, optimization, sharding, caching, replication and load balancing.

Can build from scratch and administer multi tier Linux systems.

Gifted at solving problems with elegant solutions focusing on stability, scalability and maintainability.

Designer of extremely flexible solutions that fit business needs while optimizing profit.

Self motivator that excels at getting results with minimal oversight.

Technologies

Java, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Linux, Apache, Hibernate, Memcache, Yii framework, Cold Fusion, JavaScript, jQuery, ImageMagick, Shell Scripts,

SQL, JSON, XML, DHTML, CSS, REST, OOD, JSON

Cloud Environments, Rackspace, VMWare, CDNs, Tomcat, Eclipse, CVS, GIT, SVN, SSH, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere

Facebook API, Google Maps API, Twitter API, PayPal API, AuthroizeNet API

Experience

CHIEF SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Extantware • Honolulu, HI

April 2012 - present

Built large applications using Java, PHP and JQuery using OOP and frameworks.

Integrated multiple disparate applications including Facebook, eBay, Yelp, Amazon, Google Ad Words, AuthorizeNet, PayPal, POS systems, accounting systems, multiple shipping connectors and many comparison shopping sites.

Configured and integrated HA systems consisting of database, web and app tiers to ensure uptime.

Implemented release procedures and oversee software deployments.

LEAD ARCHITECT

Tetris • Honolulu, HI

Sept 2006 - Sept 2012

Manged from inception through completion of web and backend server architecture and infrastructure for a top 5 Facebook game.

Engineered and managed large scale multi tiered systems using LAMP, Java, Tomcat, replication, load balancing and monitoring.

Developed hybrid solution of dedicated and cloud servers to handle over 5 million DAU, 15 million MAU.

Built custom CMS solution.

Integrated social gaming components on Facebook.

Managed programming and deployment teams for 5 game sites.

Designed and built dev, staging and production environments.

Implemented release procedures and oversee deployments.

Designed stress tests to find bottlenecks and breaking points.

FOUNDER AND CHIEF ARCHITECT

Ezrez Travel Software (now Switchfly) • Honolulu, HI

March 2003-September 2006

Developed leading travel e-commerce solution which currently processes over $2 billion a year in sales.

Developed booking engine solutions for American Airlines, United Airlines, Go Airlines, Quantas, American Express Travel, Jet Blue, Starwood Vacations, Lufthansa, Hotwire...

Founded and served as chief architect for the leading travel industry SaaS travel software company.

Integrated air, room, car, hotel, activity and redemption systems together into a completely configurable booking engine solution- basically an Expedia for everyone else.

Designed and built custom ver complicated CMS solutions.

Grew company from 2 to over 50 employees with offices in Honolulu, HI and San Francisco, CA.

Designed multi tier processing engines and common object models that integrate over 100 disparate connectors to airlines, car companies, hotel chains, GDS systems, and payment systems into a common object model.

First to implement shopping cart concept to travel websites.

Designed and developed templating solution integrating content management and over 800 custom configuration settings.

Designed and developed mulit currency product and payment translation systems that can handle up to 4 different currencies in 1 transaction. e.g.) user pays in currency1, agent commission in currency2, pay supplier in currency3, selling agency used currency4

Designed and built localization tools for n-languages.

LEAD PROGRAMMER

Kumo Productions • Honolulu, HI

September 1997-March 2003

Developed custom travel applications.

Developed custom E-Commerce solutions.

Integrated inhouse systems with 3rd parties.

Integrated inhouse inventory databases to websites.

Directed team of developers and business analysts.

Education Purdue University • West Lafayette, IN

1989-1994

Computer Science

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