Slalom is a consulting firm dedicated to improving and updating software solutions for a large number of different companies across the county. I worked on teams aiding clients who were interested in big data solutions encompassing Hive, Hadoop, Spark, and no-SQL Databases.

In addition to continuing to learn and better myself by looking for opportunities to improve the code base, increase team unity, and drive the product forward to be a star in the company, I have also begun to serve as Scrum Master for the Jade team. Day-to-day duties include development of new features, organizing team backlog and addressing issues, and ensuring that issues are being completed in a timely manner.

This position builds upon the Software Associate below and adds to it in complexity, scale, and quality of work and has also taught me how to manage a subset of a team in addition to writing quality code.

As a software developer at NISC, I helped to expand and innovate upon a system that helps electric cooperatives manage their recording meters. Every rural landowner reliant upon electricity may be using a meter sending data that will at some point be processed by the software written by my team.

The key technologies learned since starting at NISC and working in this project include Java, Hadoop via both Pig scripts and standard MapReduce algorithms, and GUI design using GWT, Guice, and SmartGWT, specifically cross-browser design. Additional technologies commonly used include Cassandra, a quick no-SQL database, RabbitMQ, and Multispeak.