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Kwadwo Boasiako Assenso Antwi

Bolingbrook,US

Summary

Led end-to-end software development, delivering customizable applications and solutions Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success. Experienced developing applications, databases and cloud computing solutions. Smart professional with proven troubleshooting and debugging capabilities for resolving complex technical issues. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable code.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineering Lead

Maven Wave Partners
2019.01 - 2024.01
  • Led team of 8 software engineers in development and delivery of complex web applications using Java,Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA,Kafka and PostgreSQL
  • Supervised team of engineers engaged in project for creation of Authorization and authentication system for various credit Risk application
  • Developed distributed caching for application acceleration which increased application speed by 20%
  • Planned and devised cohesive test plans for projects using advanced testing technologies to increase code coverage to 85%.
  • Define, develop and document new products and features for enterprise cloud platforms, and update cloud service catalog for enterprise consumption
  • Develop automation scripts using enterprise IaC tools for deployments and platforms operations and integrate with CI/CD tools
  • Developed container based architecture and deployments (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Developed infrastructure-as-code provisioning (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration (Ansible).
  • Update Jenkins pipelines and OpenShift templates to make use of new environment.
  • Managing environments DEV, QA, UAT, Stage and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.

Lead Engineer

Sky Road LLC
2018.03 - 2019.01
  • Developed data warehouse to build securities and prices from Bloomberg back office files on Linux environment using Java, python, AWS which boosted revenue by 30 percent
  • Developed Restful service to interact with Bloomberg Data license services to pull down securities and prices from Bloomberg using Java, python, multithreading, which facilitated 100 percent access to analytics data.
  • Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality
  • Designed intuitive graphical user interfaces to improve user experience
  • Architected data engineering pipelines to support machine learning performance
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products
  • Built databases and table structures for web applications
  • Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing

Lead Engineer

Transunion
2017.04 - 2018.02
  • Developed data analytics tool using Angular, python, Java, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL which boosted sales revenue by 35 percent
  • Developed Data Insights tool and Unified Landing Page tool using JavaScript, Angular, Java which facilitated development new features by product owners by 40 percent.
  • Created data models and developed descriptive metadata schemas to meet functional and technical requirements
  • Improved DevOps across deployment and testing strategies and application monitoring
  • Wrote relational database queries for stored procedures, query optimization and performance tuning
  • Created new and improved existing algorithms based on customer requirements or other input
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
  • Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using Java, Scala, MapR and Python

Senior Software Engineer

Allstate Insurance Company
2015.03 - 2017.03
  • Designed and developed Electronic-signature Gateway application for signing documents using java, Hibernate, Oracle, Restful Web services, WebSphere application server which boosted speed to filing claims by 85 percent
  • Customized Signing ceremony UI into Allstate Brand for internal clients using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ajax, J Query, WebSphere application server and Jsp.
  • Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Java,Spring Boot,AWS and working to improve overall team performance
  • Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff
  • Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience C#. NET, Python and Angular

Software Engineer

Neuberger Berman
2012.12 - 2015.02
  • Developed and supported Legal Entity App for firm using JavaScript, AngularJS, Java, HTML, CSS, Tomcat, GIT, Hibernate, JQuery, AJAX
  • Built Custom java classes to parse XML and multiple delimited files using Java, spring and Mongo DB, Tomcat, GIT, Restful Web services, Maven
  • Developed encryption and decryption process for encrypting files across firm using Maven, java, Tomcat, GIT, Mongo DB and PGP encryption.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

DePaul University
Chicago, IL
06.2013

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University Of Science And Technology
Ghana
06.2008

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Angular Web Framework
  • Apache Maven
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Kubernetes
  • Career Development
  • Cascading Style Sheet
  • Code Review
  • Prometheus
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Warehouse
  • Grafana
  • GigaSpaces
  • Git
  • Hibernate
  • IBM WebSphere
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Jenkins
  • Linux
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • Multithreading
  • MySQL
  • Operating System
  • PostgreSQL
  • Pretty Good Privacy
  • Programming Language
  • Project Delivery Method
  • Kafka
  • Python
  • ReactJS
  • Representational State Transfer
  • Service Process
  • Shell Script
  • Spring Boot
  • Team Development
  • Team Leading
  • ELK
  • Web Application
  • Web Development
  • Splunk
  • Database Management
  • Microsoft ASP.NET
  • API Development
  • SQL
  • Machine Learning
  • Web Security
  • .NET Development
  • Git Proficiency
  • Unix
  • Agile
  • JIRA

Timeline

Software Engineering Lead

Maven Wave Partners
2019.01 - 2024.01

Lead Engineer

Sky Road LLC
2018.03 - 2019.01

Lead Engineer

Transunion
2017.04 - 2018.02

Senior Software Engineer

Allstate Insurance Company
2015.03 - 2017.03

Software Engineer

Neuberger Berman
2012.12 - 2015.02
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • Microsoft Cetified - Azure Administrator

Master of Science - Computer Science

DePaul University

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University Of Science And Technology

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