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Senior software engineer with over seven years of experience. During most of my career I have produced primarily Java-based solutions; however, I dabble in other programming languages and various open source technologies. I also have extensive experience applying Agile practices such as: Scrum and Extreme Programming (TDD, Unit Testing, Code Reviews, YAGNI, KISS and Pair Programming) I greatly enjoy collaborating & debating technical details with my team to find optimal software solutions and take great pride in everything I do.Software Engineering Consultant @ Providing technical & project management expertise to various clients of ThoughtWorks Inc. Please see below: From August 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCI / CD Engineer (via ThoughtWorks Inc.) @ + CI/CD using Jenkins + CD health checks + Overall process improvement to any manual processes & automation From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Software Engineer (via ThoughtWorks Inc.) @ + Helping build an internal tool using Java, Guice, Protocol Buffers (a language-neutral, platform-neutral way of serializing structured data for use in communication protocols, data storage etc.) and proprietary in-house tools + Optimized a distributed real-time full-text indexing process, triggered by changes in tool's records, to withstand enormous amount of queries-per-second during load testing. This exceeded scalability target set by project's lead by an order of magnitude + Asynchronous backend integration in order to achieve parallelization & improve overall application performance + Monitoring configuration of application performance in various areas of interest (incoming HTTP requests, database query latencies, RPC rate & latencies, etc.) + Enabling natural language processing From May 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 8 months) Software Engineer (via ThoughtWorks Inc.) @ + Merchandise payables system for the clothing retailer. The system helps to make sure the company receives what was requested from vendors and pays vendors for what was received, improves operational efficiencies, reduces financial risk, reduces retail invoice management support and maintenance costs. + Spearheaded selection of technology stack for two projects within the company In more detail, the system provides the ability to manage merchandise payables in automated manner, additional validations (purchase order VS invoice quantities, product properties such as size, color, etc.), the ability to receive electronic invoices, the ability to manually create invoices, and the ability to provide visibility and discrepancy approval/rejection online. From April 2012 to April 2013 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer (via ThoughtWorks Inc.) @ Software engineer and agile trainer From October 2011 to March 2012 (6 months) Tasmania Area, AustraliaSoftware Engineer (via ThoughtWorks Inc.) @ Software engineer From August 2011 to October 2011 (3 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaJava Software Engineer @ Accomplishments ------------------------ Designing and developing the following in-house applications: + A backend system for processing of license applications made at Australia Post outlets.The application is used to manage licenses that have been issued in Victoria (Forklift licenses, license to carry chemicals etc.) + A "portal" capability that enables maintenance of insurance account details, online lookup of invoice and payment data and lodgement of forms such as medical certificates. + Recoveries and litigation management system. The application implements functionality for use by WorkSafe Legal Panel firms for recording and tracking litigation activities. Responsibilities --------------------- + OO design, development and testing (unit and functional), deployment and integration + Coordinating production deployments From September 2010 to August 2011 (1 year) Melbourne Area, AustraliaJava Consultant @ Java Consultant. Stationed at WorkSafe, Government of Victoria, Melbourne From August 2010 to August 2011 (1 year 1 month) Melbourne Area, AustraliaJava/J2EE Application Developer @ Accomplishments ----------------------- + Implemented a message broadcast system that allows sending millions of messages across a period of time with an automated keyword triggered response mechanism + Developed in a team of four, a Java/J2ee based SO (Service Oriented) application. The application is a robust, high performance, extensible messaging gateway solution which integrates features such as high availability, jBoss messaging and clustering services Responsibilities --------------------- + Facilitating business requirements gathering and analysis to create functional specifications + Supporting and maintaining messaging gateway (PHP legacy system) that leverages on a range of transport protocols such as SMPP (Simple Message Peer-to-Peer protocol), HTTP, MM7 (Telstra) + Production support (Dealing with international clientele on a daily basis) + Maintaining poly operator exchange chat system (PHP), used across five countries 24/7 From January 2008 to August 2010 (2 years 8 months) Melbourne Area, Australia