• Mentored and guided junior developers, optimizing the team performance
• Sped up docker builds from 25 minutes to 6 minutes
• Assisted devops with ongoing process improvements for CICD
• Dockerized Jenkins for running Rails based specs
• Performed code reviews and managed release code quality
• Worked with project managers and other business stakeholders to ensure that feature stories were defined so that the dev team could deliver with reduced risk and unknowns
• Worked with QA and other developers to find common ground/understanding for bug fixes through all phases of a project
• Prototyped initial solutions as spikes for the broader team to use as a starting point on new feature requests

• Writing Express.js based services to support a magnitude of client applications backed by mongo as a data store.
• Created software solutions encompassing both front-end and back-end development through full stack JavaScript. The user interface (UI) was built using ExtJS, while the backend services relied on Express and Socket.io technologies.
• Identified issues that slowed down development and resolving such problems quickly
• Coordinated with software testing to ensure quality and expectations were met
• Collaborated with internal and external teams for customer support

• Developing services using Express.js to provide support for various client applications with MongoDB as the underlying data store.
• Maintained internal admin applications based on Angular
• Wrote unit and integration test cases to cover the most bang for the buck code paths.
• Contributed to bug fixes for a consumer focused ionic/Angular hybrid mobile application allowing users to keep up with their vehicles.
• Flexible to help anywhere needed and contribute to cross team discussions to flush out requirements.

• Worked with existing durandal/knockout based application structure for new features and bug support.
• While migrating to the most recent TransUnion API, wrote client-side JavaScript code to transform data into meaningful models.
• Promoted design patterns to remove connections between multiple view-models, and code duplication.
• Led efforts to promote moving off a SOAP based backend with a lot of integration code required for the JSON client API. Demoed personal projects using Kong, showing how an API gateway with updated services is easy to configure, update, and adapt to change

• Wrote an ingestion system using Node.js to consume data for over 300,000 accounts across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google+.
• Ingestion system stored the results in MySQL and Cassandra.
• Automated deploys via a configurable shell script harness orchestrated using Capistrano.
• Broke apart one big repository sharing code for UI and API into separate Git repositories.
• Implemented CORS between UI and API.
• Implemented API authentication against existing Rails users from MySQL.
• Provided settings library so that each developer could configure the application per their requirements.

I provided a high level of automation across a diverse range of product lines and systems, bridging the gap between test cases running on multiple machines and remote execution. My primary tools were Ruby and shell scripting, which enabled me to create robust test frameworks that exposed features resulting in optimal delivery of documentation and test results.

As a leader, I spearheaded efforts to move away from using word documents and other outdated formats. To achieve this, I developed tools that leveraged the Rdoc format to automate test results and deliver high-quality documentation for each release. I also demonstrated how this concept could be applied even when there wasn't enough time to automate all testable artifacts within a given time-frame. By creating stub test cases with appropriate Rdoc before each test method, all the documentation was written and the spec was consolidated in one place for people to automate as time permitted.

In a complex work environment, various teams, including development, deployment, delivery, and support, relied on my expertise in debugging to resolve critical problems. The solutions involved multiple components that communicated through WebSphere MQ.

As a tester, I had a unique opportunity to contribute to the production product by identifying a significant issue and developing code that saved the company $200K per year. This achievement resulted in my first patent, the Smart Archive for Jar Files.

Subsequently, I created an automation framework for our products that handled every configuration aspect for WebSphere Application Server. This framework translated into an annual cost savings of $500K and earned me a second patent. These patents were a byproduct of my side projects, which I undertook during overtime to eliminate Problem Reports arising from error-prone configuration items.

Tested a wide variety of products with custom integration for data center automation. During these efforts managed environments, wrote automation scripts and collaborated with a diverse set of project groups.