# Albert Hives > Staff Software Engineer Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alberthives Over 20 years experience designing and building highly scalable, critical, asynchronous, observable systems from scratch using SaaS, Microservice, and Lambda architectural design patterns Highly collaborative, able to communicate effectively to executives (VP, SVP, CTO, etc.), technologists (e.g., Software engineers, QA engineers, DevOps, SecOps, etc.) and business (e.g., PM, PjM, Services, Sales, etc.) Ability to create technical and non-technical (e.g. purchase purposals, risk assesments, etc) documentation understandable by all Work primarily with C#, .NET, and SQL Worked as primary engineer on more than 5 patents in 3 different industries (healthcare, biotech, and linguistics) ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Crexi Jan 2022 – Present Working on auction platform in commercial real estate industry. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Serve Robotics Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Working at Uber spin-off, Silicon Valley startup Serve Robotics building space-age technology powering tomorrow’s green cities today using custom built autonomous robot rovers to solve the last mile delivery problem. My days are spent innovating the most sophisticated and elegant delivery platform the world has ever seen. ### Sr. Software Architect @ MTG Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Senior Software Architect @ Kaufman Hall Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Senior Software Architect @ Change Healthcare Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Emeryville, California Was responsible for overall architecture and design of next generation healthcare platform and several other related projects/products Was responsible for platform stability and performance Was responsible for mentoring Some of the languages I worked with are: SQL, JavaScript, C#, Scala Data exchange specifications I worked with: HL7, FHIR, CDA Tech I worked with: .NET, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, OAuth, ElasticSearch, SQL Server, IIS, OWIN, Azure (Service Bus, Blob Storage, Table Storage, SQL), Kafka, Spark, HDFS, ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana) APIs I worked with: MassTransit, WebAPI, TPL, NEST, AngularJS, TopShelf, Quartz.NET, JSON.NET ### Software Architect @ McKesson Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 | Emeryville, California Responsible for overall architecture and design of next generation healthcare platform and several other related projects/products Responsible for platform stability and performance Responsible for mentoring U.S. Patent pending for Fault-Tolerant Message Retry Subsystem Redesigned entire message processing platform Led a product development team on major product redesign and deployment Some of the languages I worked with are: SQL, JavaScript, C#, Scala Data exchange specifications I work with: HL7, FHIR, CDA Tech I work with: .NET, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, OAuth, ElasticSearch, SQL Server, IIS, OWIN, Azure (Service Bus, Blob Storage, Table Storage, SQL), Kafka, Spark, HDFS, ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana) APIs I work with: MassTransit, WebAPI, TPL, NEST, AngularJS, TopShelf, Quartz.NET, JSON.NET ### Senior Software Engineer @ McKesson Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Won Most Innovative award for internal Innovation contest ### Sr. Software Engineer (Lead) @ Nodality Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 Designed, developed, and tested various complex software systems in various industries. Worked primarily in .NET Framework 2.0/3.0/3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2005 technologies Was responsible for creating customer facing documentation of a technical nature including work estimation, architecture, design, and various reports Was responsible for architecture, design, programming, documenting code, writting unit tests, and performing general QA Helped define work protocols, standards, and methodologies of a technical and nontechnical nature ### Sr. Software Engineer (Lead) @ Spoken Translation, Inc. Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 Primary designer of patented technology Play prominent role in all SDLC activities Serve as liason to various 3rd party SDK vendors Responsible for the design and implementation of product's core components including database Worked with SQL Server 2000/2005, .NET 1.0/1.1/2.0 (e.g. VSTS) technologies, Team Foundation Server, Perl, Bugzilla, unit testing Responsible for creating documentation for company wide consumption Responsible for task delegation to other engineers, setting up engineeringl meetings, managing the codebase Serve as a liaison between engineering and other departments Serve as point person for contact in all things concerning design and development of product Report directly to CEO ### Software Engineer @ Altamont Solutions Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Design, develop, and test software in various languages (e.g. C#, VB 6, VB.NET, VBA, and SQL - Oracle, Sybase) and environments Responsible for documenting results and procedures Serve as internal point person on things relating to Team Foundation Server 2005 ### Software Engineer @ CDMI Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Fully documentated ETL process Gathered user requirements Assisted in redesign and introduction of key components pertaining to the data model in the areas of schema, transformation, loading, and validation Assisted with the design of adaptive self learning feature in the data model to fix recurring errors in processed data Creation of functional specification document for Account Saver ETL application Created proof-of-concept applications for feature prototyping purposes Participanted in testing (i.e. Unit, Regression, and Black Box) and verification Responsible for performing the ETL process end-to-end, including manually extracting data from files in various formats (i.e. Excel, HTML, PDF, and Text) and loading into data model using stored procedures and DTS packages ### Product Tester @ Konami of America Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 Tested video games on multiple gaming platforms including GameBoy, N64, Dreamcast, Sony PS1, and PC Prepared error tracking reports detailing probable causes and possible remedies Designed test plan template for other testers Worked with developers in defining proper game functionality requirements ## Education ### B.S in Computer Engineering San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/albert-hives-5833731 --- Source: https://flows.cv/alberthives JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alberthives/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12