- Led and mentored 8 to 12 cross-functional engineers, fostering expertise and collaboration across teams. - Served as a solution architect, optimizing engineering processes considering costs, integration, and non-functional requirements. - Identified software deficiencies, driving iterative improvements for enhanced developer experience. - Collaborated with Product, UX, QA, DevOps, and IT to align engineering goals with team milestones. - Led successful Azure to AWS migration for the Engineering team. - Developed and managed SDLC for smaller teams, multitasking as scrum master, Product Manager, architect, and manager. - Enabled and supported larger teams to cultivate a culture of psychological safety, enhancing the engineering experience and accelerating project velocity by removing obstacles. - Ensured best practices in code reviews for front end (Typescript, React), back end (C#, asp.net 6, GraphQL), and databases (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, PostgreSQL). - Empowered teams for independent success while managing technical assets and facilitating knowledge transfer to engineers. - Conducting interviews and involved in quarterly planning

- Developed and enhanced RESTful API features, implemented business logic, and optimized database designs while continuously refining engineering best practices. - Collaborated closely with Product and client-facing teams to construct and optimize the technical roadmap, addressing client concerns by researching and implementing effective technical solutions. - Spearheaded and advocated for asynchronous scrum refinement, boosting parallelism across teams for greater efficiency. - Provided mentorship to teammates, guiding them through technical challenges and fostering their growth. - Conducted virtual training sessions, facilitated knowledge-sharing initiatives, and curated educational content for onboarding new hires.

- Architected fault-tolerant Elasticsearch clusters housing terabytes of data, optimizing performance versus cost across 5 to 60 nodes. - Designed precision-based data modeling for enhanced response time and cost efficiency, implementing caching systems for complex queries. - Led iterative development and deployment of scalable Azure-based Elasticsearch clusters, supporting extensive data aggregation across billions of documents. - Implemented ASP.NET Core microservices through Test-Driven Development, optimizing performance and cost via continuous improvement in production. - Orchestrated event-based workflows via Azure Functions, contributing as a full-stack developer from database ingestion to frontend. - Guided engineering teams on comprehensive software best practices, including Test-Driven Development and Agile methodologies, while fostering knowledge sharing through initiatives like 'Code with Joe'.

- Engineered and tested high-throughput RabbitMQ consumers in C# across multiple machines, enabling the ingestion of millions of JSON documents daily into Elasticsearch. - Implemented optimized models for swift ingestion, search, and aggregation, leveraging backpressure techniques. - Orchestrated one-click CI/CD deployment for Windows and Linux environments, conducting AB testing for seamless model deployment validation. - Introduced backward-compatible data models with feature flags into existing systems, collaborating closely with Support teams and customers for issue resolution and successful implementation. - Identified and addressed system pain points for users, developers, and DevOps through innovative solutions. - Led the transition from monolithic service architecture to microservices with separate databases, conducting performance tuning for SQL, Elasticsearch, and ASP.NET Core. - Upgraded multiple-node Elasticsearch clusters and conducted seminars on various technical subjects to the team. - Developed and tested multiple ingestion models from an SQL data warehouse into Elasticsearch, scaling service APIs for enhanced user capacity.

- Part of an application development IT shop through the requirement, design, development, QA SDLC cycles with a focus on C#, ASP.NET, associated web technologies, SQL, and Elasticsearch - Created Elasticsearch indices and C# services with millions of providers and practices to allow for type ahead searching. - Built services for Windows and Linux to synchronize Elastic indices with SQL databases at configurable intervals. - Investigate and integrate advances in software engineering technology and practices into the overall development process; programming languages, relational database systems, application frameworks, software processes, software automation, and system optimization / scaling - Maintain source-code repository, and participate in deployment of code into production. - Communicates the status and forecasting of these projects to the internal clients through a variety of methods including project status reports. - Develops metrics for gauging success of enhancements using TFS and other issue tracking software in an agile/SCRUM SDLC environment

- Led a dynamic team of 3 to 5 engineers, fostering innovation and agility in a high-speed, continuously operating C# .NET packet processing system. - Managed daily bug fixes and deployments within a system exceeding +1 million lines of code. - Provided expert resolution and design guidance for 10+ groups utilizing internal database analytics. - Engineered streamlined detection modules, enhancing deployment speed and logging efficiency. - Architected an eventing interface for system configurability and standardized output. - Enhanced system integrity by integrating internal routing validation, ensuring zero data loss. - Developed a new library implementing numerous RFC specifications, improving test coverage and accessibility. - Oversaw additional engineers handling specialized customer projects, creating a scalable blueprint. - Optimized health monitoring database for enhanced readability of existing and future logs. - Collaborated with 4+ system consumers to prepare for upcoming changes, ensuring seamless transitions. - Implemented mechanisms for XML integrity checks and structured TortoiseHG repositories for improved merging and deployment capabilities.

- Worked onsite directly with customer - Supported massively scaled high speed packet processing system written in C# .NET running 24/7 - Rapid bug fixes and deployment, occasionally working through the night - Identified and resolved improper content processing - Performed quality checks on output via logging databases, statistical analysis, and manual checks - Modeled and implemented codec handler to detect and process encoded RTP (audio and video) and SIP - Identified numerous critical system failures. Coordinated and deployed with minimal delay. - Measured and improved critical points on an existing database hit +10k reads/second 24/7

- Given tasking from manager to develop new features in C# .NET in Visual Studio - Learned to work on massively scaled high speed packet processing system written in C# .NET - Composed a graphical user interface (GUI) for engineers to use packet processing system - Implemented 20+ new filter modules, some requiring reverse engineering with Wireshark

Worked with PBX division to automate time consuming processes in C++

Wrote a variety of VB scripts and C/C++ console applications to aid full time developers in their work.