Carly Rodriguez
McAllen,TX
Summary
Dedicated Backend Engineer with extensive Software Development and DevOps experience, a positive, team-oriented attitude, and strong communication and organizational skills. Expertise spans all aspects of the software development life cycle, with a focus on designing scalable, robust backend systems, enhancing API performance, and optimizing cloud-based applications. Seeking to deepen backend engineering expertise and contribute to the creation of efficient, high-performing solutions.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer - Data & Analytics
The Home Depot
03.2023 - 10.2024
- Led efforts to enhance customer communication platforms, focusing on data-driven insights and analytics to improve customer engagement.
- Supported the transition from an asynchronous to a synchronous API model, optimizing real-time communication capabilities and reducing latency.
- Leveraged Spinnaker to enable self-sufficient deployment of the Admin Portal to GCP Cloud Run, improving deployment efficiency and reducing dependency on external teams.
- Designed and optimized BigQuery views for data analysis, segmenting data based on customer experience metrics (e.g., PRO customers vs. BTC) to improve reporting accuracy.
- Streamlined CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enhancing deployment efficiency and reducing downtime.
- Collaborated on improving search functionality and pagination in large datasets, ensuring efficient data retrieval and user-friendly frontend performance.
- Utilized GCP services, such as Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and BigQuery, to refine data processing and analytics for better decision-making.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering skill development in cloud technologies and Java-based microservices.
DevOps Engineer
Boxboat Technologies (An IBM Company)
08.2021 - 02.2023
- Managed clustered applications within OpenShift using ArgoCD and Tekton pipelines
- Collaborated closely with clients to modernize their applications from on-prem to cloud services leveraging Gitlab and Kubernetes.
- Wrote blogposts for Boxboat on innovating ways to improve security when containerizing applications using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners using podman-in-docker.
- Provided Gitlab support for a major United States Bank on how they should best manage their Enterprise Edition Gitlab
- Worked with a major wireless provider and a squad of 7 DevOps Engineers to propose a cloud agnostic solution for kubernetes infrastructure provisioning and application deployments utilizing cutting edge technology such as Crossplane, Helm, Terraform and ArgoCD via a GitOps model. Applications were to be hosted on AWS, GCP, and Azure
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team
The Home Depot
09.2019 - 08.2021
- Worked within the Enterprise Customer Communication's team and migrated on-prem java applications to Google Cloud Platform to utilize Google PubSub, Compute Engine, and Cloud Run
- Built Java applications within GCP utilizing Spring Cloud (API, Batch and Integration), Compute Engine, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, DataStore, BigQuery, MemoryStore, CloudSQL, DataFlow, and StackDriver in order to ensure resiliency and scalability within team applications
- Accomplished integration with Salesforce, Sendgrid, Urban Airship and Twilio by creating and managing 11 Java application systems to enable 160M communications annually across email, e-voice, push notifications and SMS
- Implemented event streaming into BigQuery to satisfy client needs for Big Data analytics
- Lead endeavors to innovate within The Home Depot through a hackathon, with the team achieving first place and gaining recognition to push a new innovative customer facing project
- Incorporated TeamCity integration into the team to speed up CI/CD process.
- Lead and anchored our delivery efforts with a team of 8 engineers.
- Piloted the Docker and Containerization efforts across 20 of our applications, pushing us towards a future to migrate from Compute Engine and leverage Kubernetes.
- Introduced curbside enhancement within customer communications, involving curbside pickup during the COVID crisis for The Home Depot by leveraging Twilio Autopilot.
Software Engineer
The Home Depot
02.2018 - 09.2019
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Texas State University
2017
Skills
- Strong in Java
- Deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Computing Experience with AWS
- Experience in Spring Framework and creating Spring Java Applications
- Terraform Experience, Crossplane Experience, IaC
- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs and their implementation
- Proficient in all UNIX/Linux, Windows based environments
- Understands all Agile concepts
- Experience utilizing SQL based database systems, and managing Big Data in GCP (BigQuery)
- Managing CI/CD pipelines for Concourse, TeamCity, Gitlab, and Github Actions
- Docker and containerization experience Kubernetes experience as well as ArgoCD
- Leadership skills - Lead an Agile based team of Software Engineers
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer - Data & Analytics
The Home Depot
03.2023 - 10.2024
DevOps Engineer
Boxboat Technologies (An IBM Company)
08.2021 - 02.2023
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team
The Home Depot
09.2019 - 08.2021
Software Engineer
The Home Depot
02.2018 - 09.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Texas State University
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