Senior Scala Engineer (Contract)

Satellite Radio, Music Streaming

• Implemented Scala 3 microservices with the Typelevel ecosystem (Cats Effect 3) on AWS using ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and Lambda
• Augmented a sub-millisecond location resolution service with the CE3 Hotswap to enable seamless updates of in-memory geo-IP database
• Discovered a major flaw in CE3 Hotswap and contributed a bug fix to the project

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Software Developer (Freelance)

Custom SaaS platform for online-only bespoke wedding dress company

• Built a SaaS platform to provide universal full text search across a variety of platforms using Scala/ZIO in order to increase customer service rep efficiency by 300%
• Scala.js front-end using functional reactive (FRP) Laminar UI library and ZIO
• Integrations include: Facebook, Instagram, Slack, Shopify, Google, Etsy, featuring bulk import and real-time updates
• Continuous deployment on Google Cloud/Firebase

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Director, Data Engineering

Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, Consumer Health

• Designed and implemented Databricks pipelines on Microsoft Azure for sales and R&D
• "Next Best Action" pipeline reduced sales overhead by 300 hours per month
• Spearheaded Genomic Data Analysis project cutting time identifying potential vaccine targets in half

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Senior Manager, Data Engineering

• Built backend infrastructure with Play/Spark/Docker to operate machine learning model for retail bank Funds Forecast feature
• Built highly-available Scala/Play API to support Second Look, a feature to inform cardholders in real-time of possible double charges, monthly price increases, and more

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Senior Software Engineer

Small Business Marketing Tools

• Built out Scala/Play middleware layer for email marketing dashboard
• Migrated functionality from Java 6 monolith to containerized Java 8 microservices

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Other experience includes Software Engineer for Online Small Business Lending, Software Engineer for Custom Software Solutions for Clients, and Client Programmer for Direct Mail Marketing