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Work Experience

• Principal Solutions Architect, 

  May, 2019 - Present

  Lead and drive the successful rollout of modern IT architecture at PayLess Apartments to support the current stack (WP + MySql + ELK) and future organization needs (React.Js and React Native + Serverless), Planned, implemented and ensured ongoing management of high-quality coding standards and best practices during SDLC/CICD.

  • Extensive experience working in automation first environments promotions Continuous Integrating/Continuous Delivery and infrastructure as code using Jenkins as the main orchestration tool.

  • Solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and AWS cloud computing platform.

  • Mentored and trained the whole team on complex technical patterns and best practices.

• Senior DevOps Engineer, 

  May, 2017 - May, 20192 years

  Work with team to deliver a fully automated end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management process. Responsible for the selection and implementation of tools and processes which enable rapid development and deployment of software infrastructure, tools, and systems.

  • Design and improve fully automated CI/CD pipeline using AWS Services, Jenkins, Packer, Ansible and custom PowerShell, Shell, Python and Ruby scripts including automated parallel testing via Selenium/Cucumber

  • Architect, design and deploy all infrastructure as code across all environments.

  • Assisted in Architecture and best practices in the dockerized dotnet C# Web App and Serverless Code / React.JS and React Native Mobile App Code.

  • Develop and implement diagnostics and troubleshooting tool via Amazon Alexa skill reducing application outages by allowing quick fault analysis and response via voice by the Dev team based on Datadog and SumoLogic metrics.

  • Conduct training sessions on architecture and automation and associated technologies inspiring, encouraging, and raising the overall team knowledge.

• Software/Build Engineer II, 

  Aug, 2016 - May, 20178 months

  Prototyping, orchestration and automation of full end to end CI/CD Pipelines using cutting edge technologies for all SDLC stages for traditional and Serverless architectures.

  • Architected high performance / provider agnostic on premise-to-cloud storage SDK. (C#/AWS)

  • Extensive hands on experience with AWS in Cloud Formation (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, Route53, RDS, Lambda, Api Gateway, EFS, SES, SNS, SQS, ElasticCache).

  • Focused on process improvement, best practices, automation, reducing costs, continuous integration, continuous delivery, increase creativity and focus IT on core business needs. (Vagrant, Packer, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins).

• Development Analyst Officer, 

  May, 2011 - Aug, 20165 years 3 months

  Drive, manage and direct multiple global impacting critical applications and interfaces to support credit risk and compliance.

  • Led requirement gathering, development, and launch of a Credit Risk Management System which enhanced average loan disbursement times from 20-30 days to hours by automating flows, document generation and reduced operation risk in Miami and Geneva, CH offices (C# / Oracle)

  • Worked closely with cross functional teams through migration and re-engineering of multiple legacy technologies to an integral solution to handle incoming and outgoing Fed and Swift payments including OFAC verification and core system Integration via SOAP/REST web services (C#, SQL & Oracle).

  • Wrote hundreds of properly optimized stored procedures composed of complex T-SQL queries and PowerShell Scripts to account for C.R.U.D operations, financial reporting, and SSIS tasks.

• Application Developer, 

  Jul, 2008 - May, 20112 years 10 months

  Translated software requirements from new and existing clients into workable programming code in for campus wide used software.

  • Developed Equipment Inventory Management System (VB.Net, C#, SQL)

  • Developed SQL scripts to Insert, Update, Delete and Merge data in the database tables along with SQL joins and cursors.

Projects Experience

• DescribeMe, DescribeMe

  Jun, 2011 - Present

  Founding, managing, planning, orchestrating, developing all business, marketing and technology aspects of DescribeMe, A new innovating rating based social platform.

  • Defined and implemented processes to migrate full framework monolith (WebApi MVC + SQL Server) architecture to (dotnet core + Kafka + MongoDB + Redis) microservice oriented cloud architecture on a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.

  • Leading and mentoring small teams through the design, development and launch of Android / iOS mobile applications, started migration to React Native

  • Developed and directed strategy for launch of new product that reached 153 countries and over 4200 cities in 3 months after launch

  • Developed full database models including tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, triggers, SQL Jobs and customized functions for SQL Server and MongoDB

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