SUMMARY

With a career architecting and developing modern full-stack solutions, I lead product development with robust DevOps and testing practices. Specializing in polyglot microservices (Java focus), containerization and release automation, my role revolves around enhancing system reliability and performance. AI forward-looking. AWS certified and Kubernetes trained.

My expertise and proficiency in application design underpins the high-availability systems that are crucial to clients’ needs. As a mentor, I’ve had the privilege of guiding new talent, ensuring our team’s growth aligns with the cutting-edge standards essential for today’s dynamic needs.

WORK EXPERIENCE

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER, AGO Insurance Software — 2004-2024

• System Development: Designed full-stack, micro-service and monolith solutions for policy issuance, agent commissions, billing, and claims processing.

  • Quarkus and Spring Boot (GraphQL and RESTful services), Payara Micro and Full, Node.js
  • Angular with PrimeNG single-page application, JavaServer Faces
  • MongoDB, Redis, and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Docker stacks and Kubernetes for both on-premise and cloud deployments

• Code, Standards and Testing: Conducted code reviews; enforced coding and testing standards to ensure engineering excellence.

  • SonarQube code analysis with JaCoCo code coverage
  • JUnit, Mockito, REST Assured, Integration Testing

• Document Processing: Engineered a multi-threaded Java document generation service using LibreOffice UNO for template processing, enhancing service concurrency across print, email, and imaging.

• Security Practices: Implemented standard security practices.

  • Java Security API, OpenID Connect (JWT)
  • Keycloak and Amazon Cognito (Amplify)

• DevOps Leadership: Built and maintained internal DevOps stack; enforced best practices for development and QA teams; managed product releases.

  • GitLab CI/CD, Nexus (Maven & Docker), SonarQube, Postfix, Draw.io, Ngnix

• Architectural Proficiency: Familiar with monolithic applications, distributed micro-services, single-page applications, event processing, fault tolerance, and cloud-native design.

  • ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, SNS, SQS, Kubernetes, Docker containers, service mesh and Gateway API
  • Cloud-native and native-binary Quarkus services
  • Smallrye and MicroProfile Fault Tolerance (Quarkus), Resilience4j (Spring Boot), load balancing

• Legacy Application Management: Led maintenance and migration of legacy applications (VB, JSF) to a modern architecture and technology stack; monolith decomposition; Data migration and modeling.

• Collaboration: Engaged with clients and business analysts on product features, issue resolution, data migration, and b2b integrations.

• Mentorship and Leadership: Provided technology guidance, mentored developers, participated in candidate selection, and oversaw technical onboarding. Coordinated tasks among developers and managed product release cycles.

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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR — 2003-2024

Engineer products based on Java, LAMP, Node.js, MongoDB, Kubernetes.

Buffalo Head Media

• CMS for reporting and investigating on regional events
• Node.js, Hapi.js, MongoDB, Aurelia, Bootstrap
• Deployed on Linode Kubernetes cluster

University of Scranton, Information Security Office

• A Splunk integrated data-mining system that imports and correlates DHCP, NAT, and NAC events into a concise and unified framework
• Multi-threaded Java parser of Splunk records, integrated as a FreeBSD daemon, with customized import requirements, such as timing and event sources
• Java EE web app for manual identity tasks, record browsing and reporting, utilized by existing network monitoring tools for automated mediation

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PROGRAMMER ANALYST, MetLife — 2000-2002

• Engineered Agency Commissions system: a first of its kind at MetLife that reduced commission data distribution costs by 90%, eliminated mailing quarterly commission data CDs
• Member of production response team
• Analysis and consolidation of redundant applications
• Develop IIS applications with Visual Basic Web Classes and MTS

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Skills Summary

Focus	Technology
Languages	Java, Javascript, Typescript, Python, PHP, bash, HTML, CSS; Rust/Go (training)
Java	Java 8-21, Java Enterprise (EE), Maven, Quarkus, Spring Boot, RESTful API, GraphQL, OpenAPI, MicroProfile, JavaServer Faces, JAX-RS, JAX-WS (WSDL), JPA, EclipseLink, Hibernate, and more
Javascript/Frontend	Node.js, Hapi.js, Mongoose ORM, Express.js, Angular, PrimeNG, Aurelia, Webpack, Bootstrap, jQuery, JSON
Testing	REST Assured, Mockito, JUnit, Lab.js, Integration Testing, SonarQube, JaCoCo
Docker/Kubernetes	Containerization, Docker Compose, Docker Desktop, Kubernetes, EKS, Istio, Gateway API, Cilium, Kind, minikube, Vagrant, Linode
AWS	API Gateway, Cognito, Lambdas, EKS, Boto3, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Bedrock (training)
DevOps	git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub, CI scripting, pipeline automation, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus
Security	Kubernetes Secrets, Keycloak, OpenID Connect, Amazon Cognito, Java Security
Data	Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis/Valkey, MySQL, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, S3, Postgres, SQL, JPQL
Servers/Platforms	Payara/Glass sh, Apache, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, JasperReports, Kafka (training), Linux, MacOS, Netbeans, IntelliJ IDEA, VSCode
Design	Agile methodologies, microservices architecture, messaging (websockets, backend queues & pub/sub), fault tolerance, data modeling, single-page applications, UI design, monolith decomposition, problem-solving skills, detail oriented, business integrations

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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science — University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, 2001
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) (Credly) — Amazon, Expires January 2028
• Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (pre-cert training) — Udemy
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 (pre-cert training) — Udemy
• Notable Udemy courses: Red Hat OpenShift, Apache Kafka, Terraform/OpenTofu, LLMs