I'm a motivated professional with high aspirations for success. I am working towards my goal of being one of the leaders of tomorrow. I'm a full stack software engineer, and am proficient in Java, Kotlin, TypeScript / JavaScript, Spring / Spring Boot , HTML, CSS, Mongo DB, and SQL.

2022 — NowStackHawkSenior Software Engineer

2022 — Now

Denver, Colorado, United States

Proficient with AI to dramatically speed up execution while maintaining quality across Spring Boot, Rust, and React codebases, including Claude Code, Codex, and others, including building advanced AI tooling and organization to enable even faster development.

Created and maintained Spring Boot micro-services written in Kotlin, using RESTful and gRPC intra-service communication strategies.

Implemented several 3rd party integrations including GitHub, Snyk, Azure Devops, and others using their RESTful APIs and Argo Workflows and Jobs to manage data syncing.

Enhanced a React single page application, including migrating the app from a customized redux state store to one built on nanostores.

Mentored other engineers on best practices in technical areas of Kotlin, Gradle, Spring Boot, Kubernetes and general engineering principles of scrum / agile.

Developed and maintained several custom Gradle plugins to fit our build and deployment strategies.

Migrated our CI/CD pipelines to GitHub actions including implementing additional features for advanced build and test reports from the pipelines.

2021 — 2021Promontory MortgagePath LLCSenior Software Engineer

2021 — 2021

Denver, Colorado, United States

Recipient of first quarterly Promontory Lightkeeper Award, in recognition of excellence in contributing to the company's goals. (Q1 - 2021)

Conduct and guide architecture reviews to ensure patterns fit within overall architectural direction.

Continue to mentor and guide fellow engineers in Spring, Kotlin, Java, and Gradle best practices.

Enhanced Kubernetes ecosystem through creation of development cluster to enhance the development lifecycle

Aid with implementation of CI/CD processes to cut release times down from 3 months to 1 week

Migrated Java/Kotlin micro-services from Maven builds to Gradle builds with Kotlin DSL build scripts

2019 — 2021Promontory MortgagePath LLCSoftware Engineer

2019 — 2021

Denver, Colorado, United States

Enhanced Spring Boot, event sourced micro-services using Axon framework written in Kotlin and Java

Updated RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs for data transfer while maintaining backwards compatibility

Mentored team members on Spring Boot, Java, and Kotlin best practices

Partnered with UX team to bring their visions to life via an Angular and Typescript web application that consumes RESTful and GraphQL APIs

2018 — 2019Zen PlannerSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2019

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Migrated applications to a new Kubernetes cluster hosted in AWS

Enhanced CI/CD workflow with custom git web hooks and robust Jenkins pipeline scripts

Mentored team members on Spring Boot and Java best practices

2017 — 2018Charles SchwabStaff, Software Applications Engineer

2017 — 2018

Lone Tree, Colorado

Awarded the Key Contributor Award (2017), Schwab Technology Services Champion (Q4, 2017), and Wealth Management Technology Mad Skillz Award (Q4, 2017) for excellence in performance, leadership, technical ability, and consistent success in delivering team goals

Awarded 2nd place in company wide code-a-thon for proposing and demonstrating the use of custom Spring Boot starters to speed up application development

Spearheaded the use and integration of cloud services, including Eureka, Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Gateway

Advocated for internal open source projects, and contributed as the owner of an internal open source project for Spring Boot starters

Architected several distributed microservices that were part of a larger cloud native platform

Designed and developed integration automation framework for an event driven architecture system

Education

2016 — 2019

Regis University

Master’s Degree

2016 — 2019

2011 — 2015

Regis University

Bachelor's Degree

2011 — 2015

2007 — 2011

Regis Jesuit High School

2007 — 2011

Experience+

Education

Master’s Degree

Bachelor's Degree