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Alessandro Aiezza II

About

My professional objective is to join an organization that is focused on their mission, cultivates a culture that rallies around that mission, and values growth and collaboration for their team members.

Work Experience

February 2023 – Present
Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead
Support and mentor a team of engineers to provide value to our members
Highlights
  • Senior Software engineer on the Digital Voice team that develops and maintains microservices for IVR (Interactive Voice Recognition) technologies; Automated phone services for member account self-management
  • Scrum work methodology
  • Java/Spring backend microservices, Javascript, VXML (Voice XML), GitLab CI/CD DevOps Pipelines, Various AWS components.
January 2018 – January 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Engineer on a team that develops and maintains platform microservices used by several customer-facing web applications that helped users with their finances
Highlights
  • Position entailed collaborating with multiple teams and business stakeholders within the company to discover needs and designing and implementing solutions.
  • KanBan work methodology
  • Notable projects include:
  • *SmartDollar* (https://www.ramseysolutions.com/corporate-wellness/smartdollar/home) - Java/Spring backend microservices; Various AWS components
  • *EveryDollar* – Budgeting App (https://www.ramseysolutions.com/ramseyplus/everydollar) - Java/Spring backend microservices; Various AWS components
  • *Gazelle* – Debit Card App (https://www.ramseysolutions.com/gazelle) - Kotlin backend serverless (AWS API Gateway); Various AWS components - Native iOS app (SwiftUI) / Native Android app (Kotlin)

Volunteer

Calvary Assembly
September 2023 – Present
Greeter and Kids Ministry Leader
Greeter at the front door to welcome guests to Sunday morning service and other church events. Kids ministry leader; essentially have fun with the kids and assist in teaching content related to the service or event.
Highlights
  • Sunday Morning greeting at the front door.
  • Camp counselor at Kids ministry events.
The Father's House
July 2006 – December 2017
Youth Leader
Assisted with a number of tasks as it pertained to running a ministry with a focused outreached to student-aged young adults.
Highlights
  • Ran the tech booth as well as schedule others to do so; lights, audio-visual elements, sound board.
  • Prepare sermons and deliver them during church service.
  • Provided mentorship and community with young adults at events or gatherings outside of church.
  • Assisted with programming of service, on and off-campus events.
  • Created, planned, executed a variety of games and skits for the purposes of entertaining young adult attendees and including them in activities.

Contact

Rochester, New York
(585) 6…8
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Education

  • 2014 2016

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Bioinformatics

    Science

Skills

JVM Languages Master
Java Kotlin
Frameworks Advanced
Spring Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Batch jOOQ Hibernate
Programming Languages Advanced
SQL Regular Expressions Javascript AJAX Python
Programming Languages Intermediate
Swift (iOS) Kotlin (Android) C# Shell Scripting R Perl Golang
Markup, Data, and Other Languages Advanced
JSON HTML CSS XML VXML YAML
Cloud Computing Advanced
Amazon AWS AWS Lambda AWS Event Bridge AWS API Gateway AWS SQS AWS SageMaker AWS DynamoDB AWS CloudWatch AWS CDK Deplpoyment AWS RDS AWS ECS/EC2 Containers
Databases Advanced
MySQL Postgres Microsoft SQL Server MongoDB SQLite
Other Tools Advanced
Twilio Segment Loggly New Relic OpenShift Websphere Mixpanel Postman Elastic Search Git version control GitHub GitLab GitHub Actions GitLab Pipelines Docker Kubernetes REST APIs OpenAPI Swagger Maven Gradle
Softare Engineering Paradigms Advanced
Test Driven Development (TDD) Domain Driven Design (DDD) Object-Oriented Programming Agile Methodologies KanBan Scrum Waterfall Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment CI/CD DevOps

Publications

The FLiCK framework; enabling rapid development and performance benchmarking of compression applications for genetic data files
The Rochester Institute of Technology
2016

A JVM framework for developing plugins for compression/decompression of genetic data files. Improved compression over 80% over traditional Bioinformatic compression software. https://github.com/aaiezza/FLiCK

Interests

Sports
Snowboarding Ultimate Frisbee Road Biking Improv Comedy
Software Development
Personal iPhone apps Other personal projects Coding challenges (Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com)