Benjamin

Principal Engineer in Platform Infrastructure enhancing infrastructure automation and monitoring within an on-prem datacenter and coupled with AWS infrastructure and assisting team members. Worked with automating system and
database upgrades with ansible for configuring and deploying cloud infrastructure and databases including virtual machines, kubernetes, and postgreSQL.

• Platform and Systems Automation
• Web Portal development and maintenance

Technologies: Python, Ansible, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, on-prem

Solutions Architect responsible for designing new API framework and the corresponding deployment infrastructure using python, kuberenetes, and terraform. Designed OLAP time-series database to consume product data to be processed for billing and business intelligence. Redefined the development to production pipelines with new CI/CD and containerization of legacy services. Design of realtime communication api and infrastructure with webrtc for chat and video conferencing products. Coordinated with Teams to collaborate and support architectural implementation.

• Designed, prototyped, and implemented technical solutions related to REST APIs, Sync event systems, data processing / ingestion, CI/CD automation processes, and deployment automation.
• Research and document solutions while providing at least a baseline prototype while mentoring others to continue with implementation, or driving the implementation himself and again.
• Trained other developers/engineers to continue to improve and support the solution.
• Kubernetes Solution
• Unified Communications Client Infrastructure
• Voicemail Sync
• Call Service ACME 302 failover
• Call History for use by UCC in near-real time.

Technologies:  Kubernetes, WebRTC, REST API, Express, VoIP, JavaScript

Senior full-stack developer and team lead in the overhaul of internal CRM and product portal. Designed strategy and coordinated the execution for upgrading the core CRM/portal webapp. Enhanced development workflows, project coordination processes, and deployment tooling. Built API and realtime application services in support of integration with VoIP infrastructure for both monitoring and integration with products.

• Develop and maintain code related to the customer management portal.
• Scrum team tech lead responsible for coordinating team technical resources to achieve sprint goals.
• Worked on source code branch management and coordinated SDLC practices.
• Release Management – coordinated deliverable release candidates between 4 scrum teams
• PHP Web App
• Public Realtime API
• Billing
• Realtime API Clients
• Development Environment / Tools

Technologies:  PHP, jQuery UI, SASS, CRUD, SQL, API, Vagrant, Chef, Python, JavaScript

Software Development of the npr.org front-end, specifically during the responsive redesign of the home page and update of the online radio station player.

• Contribute to the primary PHP/JavaScript of the WWW and codebase
• Contributed to the API for station search and localization
• Participated in the awesome Agile/Scrum workflow

Worked on Web Application Development.  Performed server management and maintenance.

• WordPress Plugins
• Web Application Database redesign
• Google Maps API Integration
• Basic HTML/CSS website builds/updates

WordPress specialist, building and maintaining WordPress plugins, coordinating 3rd party vendors in the migration of proprietary CMS to WordPress migrations, assisting front-end team with HTML/ CSS/JavaScript.  Built management tools for SEO tracking and maintenance utilizing template hooks, sitemap generation (XML, video, images), and WordPress permalink system Maintained Enterprise WordPress installation

• Cross-server publishing tool
• Rebuilt various plugins
• Migration utility to move sites into a WordPress environment from a development server where they’ve been converted from site9 CMS using NodeJS, MySQL, Bash, Curl
• AJAX comment post updates for Summit Conference where attendees could post comments that asynchronously updates anyone viewing the page as well as on a large screen in the conference room.
• Created Custom Post Types with Custom Taxonomies(Multi-relational)
• Custom Menus utilizing Custom Post types and taxonomies.
• Extending the built-in User Profile System while still utilizing native administrative pages.
• Triggered templated emails using events/actions in WordPress.

Technologies:  WordPress, NodeJS, Site9 CMS, MySQL, Bash, Curl, AJAX, jQuery, jQuery UI, AJAX Hooks, HTML, CSS, XHTML.

Full-stack developer and maintainer of custom CMS solutions for a marketing firm and all client sites, later converting everything to WordPress. Integrated Third-Party Products into Web-Platforms. Created multiple Plugins for WordPress to streamline production, deployment, and maintenance. As well as add new and unique functionality to the WordPress environment.  Video Distribution involving web optimization via transcoding upon upload, deployment to the specified sites/pages/posts.

• Setup, Configured, and Maintained both In-House and Virtual Servers using Linux and Windows Server, with bind9, MySQL, Apache, ssh, PHP, Python, and Java
• Developed a complete CMS Framework in PHP with XHTML and AJAX
• Co-Developed and Executed Marketing and SEO Strategies for platform sites and client profile sites
• Converted the entire Site network to WordPress with no downtime.
• Develop & Maintain Client Sites
• Email Service Administration
• Assisting with Analytic Tracking and Client Performance Reports
• Built Template Building Parser using Project PHPQuery as the core.

Technologies:  Linux, Windows Server, bind9, MySQL, Apache, ssh, PHP, Python, Java, XHTML, AJAX, PHPQuery, WordPress