# Ethan Headings

> Senior Software Developer at IBM

Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ethanheadings

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2024 – Present | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

### Senior Software Developer @ IBM
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
•	Design and develop Java microservice in Spring framework based on business logic. 
•	Supported CI/CD via Jenkins, Git, Maven and Travis.
•	Enforced strict adherence to coding standards via peer reviews of code merges.
•	Create Sequence and Class diagrams to convey new features to technical and business leaders.
•	Lead technical discussions when sizing work for squad.

### Application Developer @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023
In my time here I’ve worked as developer, working on backend and frontend, production issue and new features. Also worked a portion of the time as an IM in addition to my developer role.

•	Worked with team to design and write mapping procedure in Java to interface our application with external application via SOAP and RESTful APIs.
•	Lead development efforts in rewriting frontend of application. This included learning NodeJS, Angular, Javascript, implementing 3rd party software, and writing Rest APIs.
•	Lead effort in cleanup of security vulnerabilities for frontend using Sonarqube.
•	Lead the development effort to increase performance of an OS batch ran program.
•	Provided initial, and ongoing training and supervision for 3 new development teams and interns.

### Staff Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
System and Performance QA
Identified bottlenecks while also deploying and maintaining applications at an platform level
•	Use of java profiler and thread dumps to identify and fix performance bottlenecks.
•	Increase HTTP/S protocol performance by 60%
•	Develop queue to queue timing tool
•	Deployment of a multi node cloud bases application.
•	B2B AC (IBM) Performance team lead; where my responsibilities included sprint commits, plan creation, and repository oversight
•	JVM resource management of cores, memory, disk space.
•	DB installation and configuration onto virtual machines, attaching it to enterprise software.
•	On-board and mentor new employee over testing strategies, and introduction to enterprise products
•	Planning and execution of recruitment events.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Miami University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ethan-headings

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Last updated: 2026-03-22