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DevOps Architect

Bluebeam, Inc.

Software Architect

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-   Participated in the Architecture Board, which governed best practices, cross-cutting concerns, and technical proposals
-   Introduced a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to address quality issues and reduce production incidents by 90%+
-   Led the organization of the first Architecture Summit to discuss high-level concerns and processes
-   Increased batch job processing throughput by 4x through hands-on troubleshooting and developer coaching
-   Designed API throughput performance improvements for a 10-15x reduction in deployment resources and related costs
-   Mentored engineers by sponsoring technical designs, offering career guidance, and enhancing technical skills
-   Promoted methodologies for performance testing and data-driven decision making
-   Developed strategies and systems for decomposing a monolith into microservices
-   Collaborated with the event bus team on designs for eventing and serverless functions
-   Improved testing frameworks and guided developers on Test Driven Development (TDD)
-   Worked with the Security Team to address security concerns and implement secure coding practices
-   Utilized Python, Google Cloud Platform/Functions, API First designs, Microservices, Dapr, Redis, Docker/container images, Kubernetes, MySQL, and ElasticSearch

Principal Engineer/Software Architect

Pulse Secure

- Served on the Architecture Board, responsible for determining overall software architecture and development practices
- Architected and led a team for the development of a Zero Trust microservice platform
- Coordinated security hardening, evaluation, and best practices for most Python-based software
- Designed and led the development of the Python framework at the core of most of the company's Python software
- Designed various features, including authentication token management, multi-tenancy, WebSockets, event messaging, RBAC, user management, certificate management/PKI, OpenAPI adoption, Docker image builds, Postgres migrations, async function queues, and inter-service APIs
- Advocated for Python Best Practices, API design, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
- Maintained several open-source projects core to the company's Python frameworks
- Coordinated Python 2 to Python 3 conversion of many microservices
- Utilized Python, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker/containers, Postgres, MySQL, Nginx (Lua), OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Terraform, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch

Principal Engineer/Architect

- Leader of team that converted newly acquired MobileSpaces's Mobile Device Management (MDM) software to Pulse Workspace
- Architect for Pulse One, a VPN server manager and orchestrator that is Docker based, SaaS and On-premise
- Team lead for conversion of Pulse One from a SaaS solution to a cluster-able, on-premise solution within 6 months. Its Docker based architecture can be installed on custom VPN hardware or ran in VMware

Senior Staff Engineer/Server Architect

Various startups and consulting roles

Through many years of software engineering, I gained a broad range of experience from various startups, consulting companies, and open-source projects. I've deployed to every major cloud hosting provider. I've been hands-on with every major programming language. I have developed SaaS, on-premise, desktop, and mobile applications. Some notable highlights include:

-   Co-founding a software contracting agency called Massive Forge, where we developed multiple applications using Python and Javascript. A client acquired the company.
-   Software Architect Consultant for several Hong Kong-based startups, including Libbler and Pingspot, where I developed applications using Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, and iOS.
-   MapMyFitness (acquired by Under Armour), a fitness tracking SaaS and mobile app, where I primarily developed with Python and Django. I also worked with Hadoop, Cassandra, and Java for analytics.
-   Zenoss, IT monitoring software, where I designed a new event processing and service monitoring suite as part of a project to convert the software from Python to Java.
-   A fintech startup called Bancvue Interactive (now known as Kasasa), where I developed SaaS products for community banks and credit unions.

Additional Software Engineer Experience

Pingspot

Pingspot (http://pingspot.com/) was "A fun, new way to record and recommend your favorite businesses.". It's an iOS application with a Python backend. For Pingspot I developed the mobile application as well as designed and developed the backend. The app graphics were designed and created by Catchlight Productions (http://www.catchlight.com/).

Technologies used: Python with Flask and Celery, MongoDB, Redis, Foursquare API, Facebook API, iOS SDK, Heroku, Cloudinary

Software Architect Consultant

Libbler

Libbler (http://libbler.com/) is "The ultimate career launchpad for entry level professionals. Features include: resume builder and guide, comprehensive employer database for graduate, internship, entry level opportunities and practical industry advice to help develop career skills.". 

I designed and developed the original libbler.com from top to bottom -- except for the graphic design.

Technologies used: Python with Flask and Celery, Spine.js, Coffeescript, MongoDB, Redis, Oneall single-sign-on, Heroku and AWS

Massive Forge

A software contracting agency that I started with my business partners. We developed several applications, primarily with Python and Javascript. The company was acqui-hired by a client.

Co-Founder/CTO

MapMyFitness

- Maintained and developed new features for primary website platform using Python/Django and MySQL
- Developed new API platform using Python and Flask while utilizing Django ORM
- Developed new live race tracking platform using Flask and integrated with remote tracking services using Python and RabbitMQ
- Created APIs for mobile developers to integrate with race tracking
- Maintained fitness statistics reporting engine using Hadoop, Cassandra, and Java
- Created and maintained new unit test infrastructure using py.test
- Developed continuos build solution for development virtual boxes using VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Python

Senior Software Engineer

Zenoss, Inc.

Zenoss provides dynamic system monitoring for IT services across physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The core of Zenoss is open source and built on Zope/Python, Ext JS, and MySQL.

- Helped wrap up development of UI refresh for 3.0 release
- Developed Dynamic Service View using Flex and yfiles
- Use Agile methodologies for software development
- Design new event processing and service monitoring suite which uses Java, RabbitMQ, SOLR/Lucene, and Neo4j.

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Mike Thornton

DeepOpinion

• Reduced lead time to deliver Machine Learning capabilities by idealizing, planning and doing the initial implementation of the ML Services project, reducing inter-team dependency for releases.
• Improved ML prediction stability by planning and guiding partial system redesign.
• Improved product observability by planning, evaluating and co-implementing migration to new observability platform.
• Improved company security and compliance-adherence by proposing and leading migration to new VPN, new secure information exchange solutions, new artifact registry and other improvements.
• Improved scalability in multiple clusters by planning and leading partial infrastructure redesigns.
• Increased visibility over product issues by idealizing, leading and co-implementing the company's incident management process.
• Improved the incident response process by idealizing and starting the Site Reliability Engineering team as part of the infrastructure team.

Head of Architecture and Infrastructure

• Increased customer satisfaction by migrating document processing to Event-Driven Architecture to reduce interruptions and increase performance and reliability.
• Increased reliability of one of the core components by bringing code coverage from 0 to 64% and refactoring the code to make it more readable, robust and maintainable.
• Set up a growth path for the company by planning new architecture for the main product, based on microservices and Staged Event-Driven Architecture.
• Prepared a more agile Software Development LifeCycle by planning a process to increase standardization and improve Developer Experience in the backend team.
• Improved acceptance from customers by improving security by planning and migrating to safer authentication system.
• Increased security, reliability and compliance adherence by planning and migrating all dependencies (Python, npm and containers) to Google Artifact Registry.
• Helped other developers grow and improve by coaching them, especially on automated testing and refactoring techniques.
• Ensured systems stood up by continuously working on the infrastructure while the company doesn’t have a dedicated IT Ops team.

Lead Backend Developer

Yalo

• Successfully launched Sales Desk by helping the team to stay focused on stabilizing the system for the global launch day. Check it out: https://www.yalo.com/product/sales-desk
• Ramped up reliability of the system by migrating components to better cloud provider and improving usage of Kubernetes.
• Improved monitoring and technical documentation to improve information sharing throughout the company.
• Increased company revenue by setting up new environments for new customers.
• Helped increasing software quality by doing additional code reviews to pull requests.

Engineering Manager and Tech Lead - Platform, Sales Desk

(Studying)

• Covered gaps in my experience. Learned more about Platform Engineering, Rust, Go, Kotlin, NATS, ScyllaDB, software architecture, Team Topologies and Engineering Management.
• Created relevant content for software engineers with the objective of improving the quality of their work.

Staff+ Software Engineer

YouGov

• Multiplied by 10x users and companies and achieved great success after rewriting the BrandIndex system from scratch.
• Rescued the product's internal analytics feature by changing the database and architecture.
• Improved core brand analysis experience by building super high performance analytics using Xarray, NumPy, pandas, numexpr and other tools.
• Enabled 3rd-party federated auth systems by re-architecting the customer-facing SSO.
• Improved intranet security by implementing OAuth Client Credentials within services.
• Avoided security nightmare by transitioning passwords to better cryptography.
• Helped SRE and other teams to migrate applications to Kubernetes.
• Helped BrandIndex growth by interviewing other engineering candidates.

You can find more details about what I did when working at YouGov here:
https://diogobaeder.com.br/pages/experiences.html#yougov 

Skills used: Python, pandas, NumPy, Xarray, numexpr, SciPy, Flask, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Pinot, GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenAPI, OAuth2, ELK, InfluxDB, Argo Workflows, 0MQ and others.

Senior Python Developer / Senior Architect / Tech Lead - BrandIndex and SSO

Canonical Ltd.

• Found a security breach with their password security, and fixed by implementing proper encryption.
• Dramatically improved ingestion of files in Ubuntu One by using RabbitMQ topic exchanges.

Software Engineer - Online Services, Ubuntu One, SSO

Dafiti

• Grew the engineering team from 2 to 30 people by leading them through high quality engineering.
• Allowed the product to launch to the public by fixing the entire payments module and covering it 100% with tests.
• Improved reliability and performance for customer orders.
• Enabled customers to receive order tracking events after fixing the tracking module.

For more, see here: https://diogobaeder.com.br/pages/experiences.html#dafiti

Senior Developer/Architect, Tech Lead

Various companies

• Worked both as a full-stack and frontend developer for various companies of all sizes, including Nokia-Siemens Networks and UOL, from only 5 to more than 10k employees. Launched many products during these years, a number of them using agile methodologies.
• Launched a job opportunity website for UOL in about 6 months, which ended being a highly successful product.

- Developed websites and intranet portals with PHP, Symfony, Java, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, Oracle and other technologies.

For a more comprehensive list, see here:
https://diogobaeder.com.br/pages/experiences.html

Software Developer

(Freelancer)

• I initially worked as a freelancer, building websites for other people, especially musicians.
• Created personal and organizational websites in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Software Engineering Leader | Software Architect

Software engineering leader with 22+ years of experience. I’ve led 9+ engineering teams throughout my career.

My passion and purpose is to make engineering teams work efficiently and with extremely high quality. To me, quality and speed are not a dichotomy, but rather companions: quality breeds confidence and fast deliveries, and reduces rework and investigation time. Few things in engineering are as expensive, traumatic and stressful as teams having to deal with uncountable hours debugging systems built with terrible quality, while having little time to spend actually building new features that could be delivering more customer value.

I also love coding, and my core values are those of agile software development. I’m a strong advocate for eXtreme Programming practices, like Test-Driven Development, Pair-Programming etc. I shape my teams so that they can deploy changes to production very fast and confidently, in order to reduce risk and speed up feedback from changes.

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