Dakota Belt

Background

About

I'm a software engineer with a strong background in RESTful APIs and data processing and management in complex enterprise ecosystems. I am product-focused, highly flexible, and prioritize user feedback and continuous improvement.

Work Experience

Software Engineer II, Cox Automotive
Aug, 2021 - Present
Mid-senior development team member within Marketing and Advertising, supporting Real-Time Bidding, a cloud-based platform for bidding on and serving web banner and video advertisements.
- Improved cloud storage costs by as much as 50% across various services.
- Optimized cloud services, leading to six-figure annual cost reductions without sacrificing performance.
- Enhanced advertiser campaign configuration with additional fee opportunities and structures to improve margins by up to 20%.
- Added product catalog tags to cloud infrastructure, allowing efficient estimation of expenses at a product, team, and portfolio level.
Software Engineer II, Cerner Corporation
Oct, 2019 - Aug, 20211 year 10 months
Mid-senior development team member responsible for supporting HealtheIntent, a cloud-based population health management platform that receives data from any EHR, existing HIT system and other data sources, such as pharmacy benefits managers or insurance claim systems. Team is responsible for developing and supporting APIs and their associated applications which controls access by providers and consumers to various HealtheIntent solutions.
- Designed, documented, and implemented RESTful APIs with MySQL databases and Kafka messaging queues.
- Broke down a monolithic Java code base into Ruby microservices and APIs.
- Optimized performance for service & web applications up to 1,000%.
- Migrated over 100 clients from on-site to AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Trained and mentored new engineers.
- Scheduled and conducted release activities utilizing CI/CD.
- Designed and administrated MySQL databases.
- Maintained and enhanced MapReduce pipelines.
- Triaged client support requests, monitored operational health, and improved alerting by preventing 75% of erroneous alerts.
Software Engineer, Cerner Corporation
Jan, 2017 - Oct, 20192 years 8 months
- Designed, documented, and implemented RESTful APIs with MySQL databases.
- Maintained and enhanced MapReduce pipelines.
- Scheduled and conducted release activities.
- Automated basic processed to improve day-to-day workflows, resulting in faster code reviews and fewer missed commitments.
Software Intern, Cerner Corporation
May, 2016 - Jul, 20162 months
- Utilized agile methodologies to produce software in a fast-paced, test-driven environment.
- Designed and created UI elements within client-facing applications.

Skills

Languages
Java

Scala

SQL

TypeScript

Ruby
Tools
Apptio Cloudability

AWS Cost Explorer

DataDog

Splunk

Gatling

Kafka

NewRelic

DCOS

Spinnaker

Jenkins
Data
MySQL

AWS S3

Airflow

Hadoop

MapReduce

Education

Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Emporia State University
Aug, 2012 - Dec, 2016

Interests

Chandlery, Cycling, Gaming, Zymurgy

References

Joshua Walden, Product Manager at Cerner Corporation
In a high-pressure, high-velocity development environment with a focus on developing new feature enhancements for our API and UI/UX tooling offerings, Dakota thrived, quickly becoming our de facto SME on processing, as well as our public facing API layer, helping design and implement large chunks of the service. As the team was Agile in nature, he has become knowledgeable in the full tech stack, ranging from our database, infrastructure systems, various frameworks, stratified APIs, and our UI/UX tooling. I could trust him to easily handle a project handed off to him such as to build out an API from scratch, or to help with a support issue, without oversight or worry. This independence, combined with a history of reliability, proved him to be a key resource on the team and across our organization, providing expertise across multiple avenues of SDLC. His work effort was impeccable, helping work tirelessly across multiple features whenever asked and jumping in and assist other newer associates on his team without question. I give him my highest recommendation to those looking for a software engineer with expertise in PaaS leveraging AWS, a guarantee he can quickly adapt and learn whatever challenges he may face, and most importantly, someone who can bring a team together.