ANET - ABC Affiliate Network Portal - Tech Lead
Acted as tech lead of a team of engineers on a large-scale project to re-imagine the ABC affiliate-facing portal. The project was built on top of Hippo CMS and utilizes a RESTful microservices layer (see below) to integrate into a range of enterprise resources. Responsibilities included overall application architecture and design of the systems, integration strategies of the various enterprise resources, and guiding the team through best practices, business requirements, and daily technical challenges.
ANET - Service Platform - Tech Lead
The ANET Service Platform consists of five services being developed by sub-teams on the ANET project. The platform largely handles integration with other enterprise resources, and has a focus on resiliency to upstream errors. The services are being designed to handle upstream outages, bad data coming in from upstream, and other general edge cases that are known to occur.
The services are being built with the Spring framework and heavily utilize Amazon Web Services and the DevOps systems I’ve developed (see below.) My responsibilities include the overall architecture of the platform, design of the individual systems, overseeing the sub-teams working on the services, and as time permits actual development on the services themselves.
ANET - DevOps - Tech Lead
Because of the size of the ANET project and the number of engineers working on it, I spent a significant amount of time developing tools to help the team move faster and with more confidence.
I utilized Hashicorp Terraform and GitLab’s CI / CD to automatically build and deploy changes. Entire Phoenix Environments can be spun up within minutes and torn down once we’re done with them. This gives us confidence that we don’t have any “snowflake“ environments running anywhere and that code will act the same across all the environments.
I also developed a Hubot-based Slack bot to help with daily operations. The Hubot can list Phoenix Environments (it’s so easy to create environments that we needed a way to manage them) and posts the result of the nightly build across all the sub-modules.
ABC Studios Website - Tech Lead
The ABC Studios project was a “quick win” project spun up during the larger ANET initiative. We operated on an aggressive weekly sprint cycle, during which my responsibilities included providing technical leadership for the team, development, and meeting with the stakeholders weekly. This project was successfully put into production.
Storyline - Tech Lead
Tech lead of a team of engineers on an internal high-availability, active-active configuration, real-time global news collection application utilizing Spring, Cassandra, Redis, and AWS. My responsibilities on the project included assuring production readiness, design and implementation of the real-time, high-availability systems, and guiding the team through best practices and daily technical challenges. This project was successfully put into production.