Software engineer with more than 7 years of engineering experience with small to large sized companies. Expertise in bridging the gap between business needs and meaningful software experiences with a proven track record of delivering value through the use of innovative digital solutions.
Highly engaged in company activities, corporate events, and team building exercises. Positive attitude to drive change and innovation.
Mentors junior devs, new hires, and struggling devs to guide them to success in both their technical skills and career aspirations.
Experience providing vision, leadership, and implementation of innovative technology while working closely with business partners to achieve goals. Constantly looking for automation or modernization opportunities to achieve process or business model improvements with tangible ROI.
Seeking leadership opportunities to expand my business knowledge and help guide and enable teams to succeed.
May 2022 - Present
Creating the #1 Finance App on the App Store apps used by millions of people. Specifically worked on the Smart Savings and other automated savings features in the Rocket Money app.
Tech Used:
- React Native
- Postgres
- Node
February 2020 - May 2022
Worked on the Finance and Risk team as an engineer and Scrum Master. Supported finance and accounting applications including cash disbursements and general ledger processing. Focused on modernizing mainframe and file-based applications/processes using microservices and data processing tools. Modernized General Ledger batch processes to use API based systems that process ~1.5m transactions daily worth >$5bn.
Notable Projects
- Cash Disbursements Microservice (Node.js/Kafka/NiFi/Postgres)
- General Ledger Accounting Microservice(Java/Postgres/NiFi)
- Check Automation (Node.js)
- Use Tax Workflow ETL (Apache NiFi)
October 2019 - February 2020
Senior Software Engineer focusing on Front End Web devlopment using React.js, Redux, and C# to support, maintain, and create new features for an order guide management application. This product is used to connect major US suppliers to Senior Living communities.
January 2017 - October 2019
Plays a crucial role in a highly successful scrum team. Responsible for understanding Real Estate business processes and creating cutting-edge technology solutions to improve business processes and manage investments. Takes part in digital innovation opportunities that often lead to tangible improvements in business processes.
- A member of the Diversity and Inclusion council to help lead efforts in creating an engaging, equitable, and diverse workplace.
- Led efforts in understanding employee engagement and acted on making improvements. (measured by eNPS)
Notable Accomplishments:
- Created web automation scripts to extract interest rates from various websites
- Migrated multiple full-stack applications from on premises solutions to AWS and Azure.
- Built full-stack web applications using React, JavaScript, and Node.js. Also have experience migrating a C# API to Node.js
- SQL Experience including Data Modeling
- Machine Learning Hackathon - Predicting Weather Impact on Investments (1st Prize)
- Document Portal Hackathon - Document Management/Intake Solution (Top 3)
- Fusion Hackathon - Call Center Improvements (Participant)
- NM Launch Hackathon - Investli - Crowd Sourced Real Estate Investing(Before it was Cool) (Participant)
Software Engineer I from January 2017 to August 2018. Current position from August 2018 - Present
May 2014 - November 2016
Assists IT Staff in conceptualizing and development of new and existing software programs and applications. Write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications. Test software and resolve any defects found. Run and monitor software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging.
These projects are described at a high level as to not give away any trade secrets.
My team and I created and maintained a web application that helped our business partners keep track of and make decisions about real estate investments. This was a fullstack web application Javascript across the stack. React.js for the front end. Node.js for the backend services(API). Our database was MS SQL. All of this was hosted on AWS using Kubernetes for orchestration of deployment of our containers. We were responsible for the ENTIRE stack. This includes but is not limited to the following:
- Designing AND Implementing UI/UX
- Implementing API services
- Data Modeling and Implementation
- Writing Tests
- Keeping Docker images up to date
- Implementing CI/CD pipeline using Gitlab CI
Developed 2 iOS games using Objective C and Swift. Uploaded them to the App Store where they hung out for 2 years before being killed by iOS updating to 64-bit. Also, my fault for being a young developer and not using git properly. Lost a lot of code. But it was a great experience and learned a ton!
Check out what I'm currently experimenting with at budziszek.com. Right now, you'll find a sample Svetle site.
- App Store Info Lookup - Use id
553834731to lookup Candy Crush - Need to enable cors w/ extension. - https://sonny-weather.vercel.app/ (Svelte, Vercel, TailwindCSS)
- http://ayyyyymc.bet/ (AWS Amplify)
- http://www.isgmeup.space/ (AWS Amplify)
- https://www.unspeakables.lol/
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- CAUTION: Mildly not safe for work. Takes a list of bad words as provided by Carnegie Mellon University and matches them to UrbanDictionary.
September 2012 - December 2016
- SAFe 4.0 Practioner
- SAFe 4.0 Scrum Master
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
I am confident that I can pick up any popular programming language pretty quickly; these are the ones I have hands on experience with:
- Javascript (Multiple Frameworks including React.js and Node.js)
- Python
- Java
- Swift/Swift UI
- Familiar with ArnoldC, Rockstar, and LOLCODE
- Photoshop
- Sketch.app
- AWS (RDS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, Cognito, AWS Amplify)
- Azure (Little Experience)
- Awesome Problem Solving Skills.
- Great at mentoring junior developers, new hires, and devs that are struggling in both technology and career.