Contact Info

• resume-pers@bsflowers.net
• Woonsocket, RI 02895
• www.slightlycyberpunk.com

Skills

• Application Development: Java, Spring/Springboot, C/C++/C#, Python
• Web Development: LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP), HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, NodeJS, React
• Performance Monitoring: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana, InfluxDB, Kapacitor, JMeter
• System Administration: Linux/Unix, Bash/Ksh and Windows/Powershell scripting, Ansible, Apache, Dovecot, Nextcloud, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Quickbuild, Microservices
• Cloud Platforms: Proxmox, Microsoft Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud
• Hardware: Arduino, RapsberryPi, 3D Printing, OpenSCAD

Education

• BS in Computer Science
  The Pennsylvania State University, May 2012

About Me

A software engineer with 12 years of professional experience primarily focused in performance engineering including development of server, client, and web applications. I also have extensive personal experience with system administration on my home lab including Dovecot (email), Apache and Nginx (web), Mastodon (social media), Nextcloud (file server and cloud apps), Git (version control), Ansible (automation) and others, and have some experience programming embedded devices with Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms plus 3D modeling and printing.

Professional Experience

• CVS Health

  Apr 2019 - Present

  • Developed performance testing frameworks using in-house and open-source technologies simulating tens of thousands of retail stores performing thousands of transactions per second against databases, filesystems, JSON, AJAX, Kafka, and other endpoints.
  • Led the effort to migrate the performance testing tools from on-premises servers to a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
  • Developed additional monitoring tools using in-house and open source technologies for real-time and recorded monitoring of system performance, application behavior, and logs.
  • Performed testing, triage, and analysis of new application releases to ensure scalable performance in production.
  • Supported other teams as needed including web development, batch testing, and Unix administration.

• Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2012 - March 2019

  • Developed batch processes utilizing Unix (AIX) shell scripting, Informatica workflows, BMC Control-M scheduling, Oracle PL/SQL and Java application integrations
  • Lead development of improved Unix shell script framework used by the performance testing team for system monitoring and collection of test results which significantly increased the pace of execution through parallel processing of and real-time display of results.
  • Led the testing effort, including development of custom script components, for data integration from major acquisitions representing a 20% increase in retail volume.
  • Trained and educated new team members on Unix and batch processes.