Cengage Learning is a leader in procuring high quality educational content for higher education, K-12,

professional, and library markets. I contributed to their success by leading the development and

maintenance of an in-house NodeJS based session management and reverse proxy service. This service

is acting as the front door to a catalog of learning products for millions of teachers and students around

the world.

● Responsible for the deployment and right-size scaling of the service to both AWS and

on-premise, as well as tuning of AWS autoscaling.

● Maintained service to ensure it continues to operate at peak loads of

tens-of-thousands requests per second, and sub-10ms response times, and repeated

year-over-year 99.9% uptime.

● Drove research initiatives to evaluate multiple groups of open source projects to evaluate

functionality, extensibility, performance and cost to run.

● Utilized iterative design patterns, using end-to-end contracts to ensure compatibility and minimal changes required by delivery teams.

● Built Splunk dashboards around the service to gather near real time stats and supplemental

monitoring.

● Ensured stability of all projects by utilizing testing suites such as Jest for unit testing, Playwright

for end to end, and Gatling for load and performance.

● Built custom front-end application into CloudFoundry, utilizing React and Fastify, for maintaining

per-host configurations of the reverse proxy service.

● Designed and built the Okta integrations for the service, enabling our higher education platforms

to seamlessly transition from in-house sessions to OIDC standards with minimal downtime and

code changes to their platforms directly.

● Worked with DevOps to enable near fully automated deployment strategy, including full functional,

integrational and performance tests.

● Gained solid understanding of W3C routing and proxying standards, and was able to mentor

team members on how to follow such standards.

● Developed and maintained front-end platform for restaurants by location, leveraging custom

NodeJS utilities and Angular & React front-ends.

● Designed, implemented and published javascript libraries to npm.

● All modules built with CI/CD in mind, integrating with Jenkins and validating releases with

automated testing.

● Regularly performed code reviews via Pull Requests on github.

● Responsible for building tools to facilitate Dev & QA, such as a CLI tool that provides a developer

runtime resembling the production ecosystem for feature parity.

● Handled all front end related deployments through the environments.

● Completed CQ training at Adobe’s Virginia office.

● Maintained and extended bcbsm.com for 1 year, utilizing Adobe CQ and modernizing with

Bootstrap 3 and Angular.

● Built mobile banking application using Angular and PhoneGap.

● Consulted on numerous smaller projects while utilizing TDD and Agile practices