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• Tech Lead/Principal Software Developer, Fidelity Investments

  May, 2022 - Present

  Tech lead supporting several brokerage applications on Fidelity.com

  • Performed tech lead duties for several Fidelity.com enterprise-level brokerage applications which allow users to place orders and manage account positions; Coordinated software delivery, release processes, and production support across multiple geographically dispersed squads.

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams including product owners, scrum masters, analysts, architects and development teams across the full stack to ensure successful execution per project goals and timelines

  • As resource manager, formally managed summer interns and informally mentored junior engineers. Also conducted technical interviews for engineering job openings, hiring dozens of engineers in 2024.

  • Conducted bi-weekly production installations

  • Created Splunk queries, dashboards, and alerts to monitor applications to aid production support by increasing observability of the health of our applications which receive upwards of 10M+ hits, 1M+ unique visitors and 1k TPS each day. Supported on call rotation for production support by responding to and triaging issues per the SLA and escalation procedure.

  • Direct and implement agile methodologies and best practices for scrum teams. Helped current squad increase velocity by 50% by implementing Scrum best practices including story mapping, sprint planning, Behavior-Driven Development user stories, etc.

  • Conducted daily code reviews, provided mentorship and fostered a culture of continuous learning and professional growth

  • As individual contributor, leveraged tech stack of Angular SPA, NodeJs/Express, GraphQL, Nx to deliver software features. Used Jest to achieve 100% unit test coverage and Cypress to create End-to-End tests.

  • Attended tech conferences to understand industry best practices to drive innovation within our organization

  • Created architectural design patterns in monorepo that the 15+ brokerage apps can reuse including best practice for GraphQL API design, shared library guidelines, feature toggle lifecyle and more.

  • Created GraphQL API with queries, schemas, and resolvers. Also enhanced the GraphQL implementation by: creating custom plugins to enhance observability of back-end errors, leveraging avanced GraphQL features such as delegation and schema stitching, and implementing request parameter validation to strengthen security by validating incoming request data.

• Principal Software Developer, Fidelity Investments

  Oct, 2020 - May, 20221 year 7 months

  Portfolio Quick Check is an on demand financial portfolio diagnostic tool. I worked on the full stack of this appplication from UI to Database, including CI/CD pipelines.

  • Demonstrated ability to learn a handful of new technologies immediately including but not limited to: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Python, AWS ECS, React, Azure IDAAS Oauth, Docker, MacOS/Linux upon inheriting ownership of a legacy application

  • Administered AWS ECS instance via the AWS Console to manage deployment and prod support

  • Configured Datadog logging tool to monitor application health and logging to provide production support

  • Responsible for CI/CD pipelines to build into Docker image and deploy to AWS ECS envrionment

  • Wrote python scripts to load financial market data into the Postgres DB

  • Wrote server-side Ruby on Rails code to perform financial analyses for the users' portfolios

  • Created UI components using chart libraries to display information graphically in React

  • Documented production installation guide and performed monthly prod deployments

  • Wrote dozens of automated UI tests using Cucumber that were run against QA and Prod environments

  • Implemented security measurse leveraging Veracode code scans to find and mitigate issues such as SQL injection

• Senior Software Developer, Fidelity Investments

  May, 2015 - Oct, 20205 years 5 months

  Front-end developer creating web applications to support the Order Entry and Management platform to enable financial advisors to place and manage orders for their clients. Primarily created Angular client-side single-page applications (SPA) and corresponding Java/Springboot server side applications to provide RESTful API to client app.

  • Served as technical lead, architecting UI applications and organizing technical team and mentoring junior developers

  • Created and maintained numerous client applications in AngularJS and Angular. Built reusable UI components to ensure a consistent user experience across the platform.

  • Created server-side web application using Java/Springboot to provide REST API to consuming client application.

  • Implemented security measures to safeguard against attacks such as SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

  • Wrote thousands of unit tests using Jasmine / Karma

  • Led grassroots movement to migrate to an Agile/Scrum software methodology that was similar to what was later adopted company-wide

• Senior Business Analyst, Cardinal Solutions

  Jan, 2011 - Apr, 20154 years 3 months

  Business Analyst Consultant

  • Provided consulting services to local tech companies including software development, business analysis, and instructor-led training on Agile/Scrum

• Junior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin

  Oct, 2007 - Dec, 20103 years 2 months

  Systems Engineer working on Department of Defense sotware project for the DDG1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer

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