- Taking some time to ask myself things, such as
- "What is that beautiful house?"
- "Where does that highway go to?"
- "Am I right, am I wrong?"
- "... What have I done?"
- Job hunting, also.
- Take a look at my experience below!
- Are you hiring for software development or something else you think I'd be good for? Feel free to reach out.
- Supporting Auth APIs and third party integrations
- Techincal documentation
- Profit?
- Building pipelines for notifying Wayfair's suppliers about integration issues and needs.
- Repairing legacy apps used by Wayfair's suppliers.
- Designing and implementing custom ERP plugins for Wayfair Supplier Integrations.
- Building a "dating service" between Wayfair's suppliers and the integration solutions provided by partner organizations.
- Finding every possible way to migrate PHP-backed workflows to Python and Java
- Assisting the director of Integration engineering.
- Adding and enhancing data channels in the Pega platform.
- I made it possible for your banks and insurance companies to send you emails with embedded images (sorry?).
- I authored the first properly-encoded Tweet coming from a Pega flow.
- Componentizing modules in a monolithic codebase
- I abstracted and reimplemented a lot of the code and PegaRules middleware in order to actually work across all supported operating systems and application servers.
- I assisted in migrating my team to a Test-Driven-Development approach with reusable, testable code.
- Designed, implemented, and ran real end-to-end testing of integration features via emulation of customers' applications and environments based on donated samples.
- I asked a lot of third parties to fix their broken REST services for everyone's sake.
- Adding new Integration Security features to the Pega platform.
- I got the Pega platform to start utilzing the complicated layers of security in IBM Websphere instead of being overly tuned to Apache Tomcat.
- Your insurance company started transferring your private information by more secure means after I was there for a while.
- I manually backported some Transport Layer Security (TLS) features to ancient versions of Apache HTTP Client, for customers who could not upgrade Java but still wanted to use Google services.
- Coaching Product Managers, Support Engineers and End-Users on internet technologies and the use of Pega's integration feature set.
- I gave semi-annual presentations on "what are secure sockets and what versions of TLS should we be supporting (and deprecating) next?"
- See my efforts to help users report and resolve bugs.
- TR-069 / CWMP engineering.
- Writing custom XML Parsers.
- Reviewing / certifying test plans published by the Broadband Forum.
- Sun Microsystems
- Mindreef