Aaron McKay

Innovative and self-motivated Software Engineer offering 10 years of experience in Java development. Constantly driven to learn new skills and technologies while improving knowledge on existing ones. Full stack developer which stemmed from ambition to learn all aspects of a product. Relentless team player who believes in contributing to the team by sharing knowledge, working enthusiastically, and striving to achieve all team and individual goals.

• Started a company from scratch and learned more about running a business from end to end.
• Heavily contributed to building many new products from scratch
• Championed the use of GraphQL within BlueYonder by having the first GraphQL implementation within the company to make it to Production. Other teams later reached out and began to adopt it as well.
• Finalist in BlueYonder hackathon by pitching the idea to have templates for microservices in order to speed up development for new products as well as a standard procedure for new product creation.
• Key contributor to architecture design of each product, including the database schema design, API design, and Microservice responsibilities.
• As the most experienced developer on most recent team, shared knowledge and helped team members come up to speed on technologies which were new to them.
• Learned new technologies by creating a side project with over 10 Microservices and with 100% unit test coverage in each service.
• Received Above and Beyond award each year from 2015 to 2017 while at CA Technologies.
• Completed Master's Thesis on the topic of RFID Localization which details how to pinpoint the location of an RFID tagged items using a single RFID reader.