Work Experience

Booz Allen Hamilton

Integration Engineer
March 2016 - Present

  • Designed and developed an integration using Mulesoft Anypoint Studio that sourced data from Workday and load to Salesforce-based risk management application; leveraged AWS SQS for SFDC status checks.
  • Refactored an integration that sends employee badging information from on-premise MS SQL Server to Dynamics 365 via Microsoft Graph API with OData system query; include distributed caching of bearer tokens.
  • Redesigned an API that sends email notification to include Apache Kafka for message queuing and MongoDB for persistent storage; improved reliability and guarantee delivery.
  • Refactored Ansible playbooks and templates to include Hashicorp Vault API calls for retrieving application level passwords and secrets to use as part of CI/CD process.
  • Developed and updated Postman collections and environments to debug, test, and verify APIs.

COMPAS Technology, LLC

Implementation Engineer
October 2014 - March 2016

  • Created custom SQL scripts to migrate and transform client's data from legacy applicant tracking system to firm's proprietary SaaS on backend MS SQL Server as part of customer onboarding process.
  • Updated inline SQL queries in firm's application codebase on long running web pages by rewriting selects, joins, and filters; merging and committing to a git remote repository on BitBucket.
  • Supported general database administration including index maintenance, performance tuning, and schema design.

BRE Properties

Business Intelligence Developer
May 2013 - October 2014

  • Supported installation and configuration of Oracle EPM using AWS EC2, S3, and ELB for proof of value on migrating business intelligence platform to AWS.
  • Refactored ETL processes developed in Informatica to include variables, Windows batch files, and parameter files; reduced duplicate code and introduced code reusability.
  • Developed Windows batch scripts to effectively archive high available contents for Tableau Server on a nightly basis and recycle application services on a weekly basis.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park
Graduated: May 2008

  • Bachelor's of Science, Information Systems
  • Robert H. Smith School of Business

AWS Solution Architect - Associate
Expected: Mar 2022

  • Work In Progress

Technical Skills

Python
Mulesoft
Lambda/DynamoDB
SQL
Ansible
Cloudfront/Route 53
CSS
Docker
SAM/Cloudformation
Git
Jenkins
EC2/ALB

Projects

Cloud Resume Challenge
Jan 2022

Blog Post: Just Another Cloud Resume Challenge Blog

Original Project Link: Resume Challenge by Forrest Brazeal

Building a static webpage from the ground up with a NoSQL database, API gateway, custom DNS, HTTP security, and serverless functions written in Python. Package the solution into a serverless application model (SAM) template utilizing Amazon's wide variety of cloud services.

Interview Coding Challenge
Nov 2021

Mulesoft Public Exchange: API Documentation

Design, develop, and deploy a public API using Mulesoft Anypoint Platform to get the latest tweets and list of hashtags for a given keyword and last n hours from Twitter's API. This project was part of a coding challenge for an interview process with a leading life science company.