Work experience

AD HOC LLC WASHINGTON, DC (Remotely Based)

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER DEVOPS

Feb 2023 - Present

Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions, Argo CD, DataDog and Hashicorp Vault.
Built and deployed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on AWS EKS.
Created standardized platform EKS service to get Veterans Affairs API services onboard to AWS.

INTEGRAL AD SCIENCE (IAS) NEW YORK, NY (Remotely Based)

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Jun 2020 - Dec 2022

Built multiple microservices to migrate legacy monolith applications over to Kubernetes in AWS EKS which made feature updates faster and improved developer experience.
Designed and developed APIs for IAS pre-bid and post-bid platform using Spring boot with a MySQL backend running in Tomcat. This project enabled IAS’ clients to integrate with our targeting segments quickly.
Created a new microservice in AWS via ECS/Fargate. It was called Reporting API and it allowed clients to request reports programmatically.
Worked on integrating systems developed by the acquired company (Admantx). We had to receive their data and incorporate it as part of our pre-pid feature set.
Created multiple mock services with Spring Boot and Cucumber framework to improve development in non-production environment and enhance automated tests.
Mentored and helped new engineers integrate in IAS as part of the co-pilot program.
Created automated test-suites in Python for regression and acceptance tests.
Dockerized an existing monolith Spring application to improve developer experience. This project won in the company hackathon.
Conducted bi-weekly Lunch and Learn sessions for the team to present and discuss new technologies, and brainstorm improvement for our current tech stack.

STAFF QAA ENGINEER

Jun 2015 - May 2020

Created headless XVFB and Chrome/Firefox test framework to speed up testing time by 80%.
Created a reusable testing environment for different products using Puppet that spins up AWS EC2 environments on demand.
Refactored legacy regression suite and cut testing time from 90 to 25 minutes.

IV INTERACTIVE JERERY CITY, NJ

FULL STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Aug 2014 - Jun 2015

Designed and created a HIPPA compliant Web Application for IV Interactive using Laravel(PHP framework), MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Skeleton, SASS/CSS3 and HTML5.
Created and maintained unit tests for the above using PHPUnit.
Proposed and implemented secure backups of codebase and database with PGP data encryption.

MEDIA THREE CORPORATION NEW YORK, NY

FULL STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Jun 2013 - Aug 2014

Implemented customer support system using CakePHP(PHP framework), MySQL, JQuery, CSS3. This was used to monitor customer complaints and inquiries.

L & L TRAVEL ENTERPRISE, INC NEW YORK, NY

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER DEVOPS

Aug 2012 - Jun 2013

Created and maintained the Online booking/tracking system for 500 travel agents using IIS, ASP, Javascript and SQL Server.

MERCK & CO., INC MORRISTOWN, NJ

INFORMATICA DEVELOPER (Consultant)

Jun Jun 2011 - Feb 2012

DATASYNAPSE, INC NEW YORK, NY

SENIOR SUPPORT ENGINEER

May 2007 - Nov 2009

Provided technical support for customers using DataSynapse software, a distributed computing application, on their mission-critical production systems in various platforms.
Developed sample code/examples of the DataSynapse API to make integrations for clients easier.

APPLIMATION, INC NEW YORK, NY

INFORMIA SUPPORT CONSULTANT

May 2005 - Apr 2007