Hi, I’m
Adam Baldwin
Denver,CO
Summary
Customer-focused software professional with superior communication skills and expertise in various technical platforms. Understands and meets both client and employer needs and develops highly functional, robust and easy-to-use applications. Excels as hands-on developer and oversees work of software teams.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
Work History
StackHawk
Full Stack Engineer
03.2020 - 07.2021
Job overview
- Provide solutions to help businesses secure their web deployments by discovering potential security vulnerabilities before pushing production builds
- Develop custom integrations and merge back into open source ZAProxy project, enhancing ease of use and effectiveness of web app vulnerability scanning
- Developed the first go-to-market GraphQL API scanning platform to automatically enumerate, traverse, and attack endpoints designed using the GraphQL specification
- Research and development of the first, viable GraphQL vulnerability scanner
- Projects attributed to a substantial increase in customer engagement, generating nearly 26% ARR in the first year of launch.
- Designed and implemented scalable application programming interfaces.
- Understood full technology stack and underlying applications, services and databases, resulting in optimal program performance.
- Developed complex software and systems deploying one or more programming languages.
- Paired with fellow engineers to brainstorm ideas, debug problems and review code.
- Collected, defined and translated user requirements into project designs and implementation plans.
- Planned and engineered RESTful web services to manipulate dynamic datasets.
Apex Systems
TECH LEAD
10.2019 - 03.2020
Job overview
- Spearhead efforts to hoist legacy systems up to modern architecture standards
- Point of contact for Management and Executive team coordination for mission objectives
- Mentor junior engineers in development and design process
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
Validityinc
SENIOR SOFTWARE, ENGINEER
01.2017 - 08.2019
Job overview
- Deliver data pipeline systems utilizing Kafka, Storm, Spark, MapR and Airflow
- Deliver optimized NLP models and algorithms to reduce streaming PII redaction rates from 30% to 12% within highly variant domain and foreign language data sets
- Development of the massively concurrent, reverse DNS resolver which is able to perform over 2 million IP to PTR resolutions in under 20 minutes
- Develop ‘bad actors’ model and algorithm to tag suspicious data within newly acquired email data streams
- Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to help integrate new services into the data pipeline
- Consistently create and deliver new processors, services, brokers, and topics within mission critical portions of the business while maintaining 99.999% up-time
- Design and deploy microservices on Kubernetes and ECS infrastructure
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
- Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for project plans.
- Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Documented software design, detected faults, project planning discrepancies and other vital data.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues.
- Adjusted design parameters to boost performance and incorporate new features.
- Onboarded new tools and technologies during development to elevate project quality and shorten timeframes.
- Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
ReturnPath
01.2016 - 01.2017
Job overview
- Implement Data Pipeline back- ends for stream and batch processing on Kafka / Spark /
- Storm / MapR / Airflow
- Develop consumer-facing
- RESTful and publisher/subscriber
- APIs
- Creator of the NLP streaming redaction processor on the JVM for PII data compliance
VMware
Senior VMware Cloud Engineer
01.2014 - 12.2015
Job overview
- Support customer deployments of the vRealize Automation suit including vRealize Orchestrator, Application Services and Horizon View.
- Provide guidance to customers on developing custom vRO ECMAScript JS Workflows to
- Manage Business Critical infrastructure
- Author and release VMware KBs which include vRO Workflows to automate various
- Repair and maintenance procedures within customer environments using the power of VRealize Orchestrator Engine
- Awarded MVP for innovation and performance in the first quarter of 2015
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.
- Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
- Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
- Diagnosed network problems involving combination of hardware, software, power and communications issues.
- Collaborated with engineering to report issues, manage project deliverables and provide status reports.
- Applied deployment best practices and proper security protocols in network management.
- Researched and read up on new and unfamiliar technologies for quick and effective adoption.
- Reviewed technical specifications from clients and vendors to confirm adequacy, accuracy and functionality.
Skills
- SPRING BOOT
- KAFKA
- SQS
- GRADLE
- NODEJS
- REACTJS
- GATSBY
- KOTLIN
- JAVA
- TYPESCRIPT / JAVASCRIPT
- REDIS
- DYNAMO
- POSTGRESQL
- Liquibase
- Spring MVC
- Scripting Languages: Typescript, Python, JavaScript
- Version Control Systems: Git, GitHub
- Software Deployment
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 3 in the development of GraphQL Vulnerability Scanner.
Timeline
Full Stack Engineer
StackHawk
03.2020 - 07.2021
TECH LEAD
Apex Systems
10.2019 - 03.2020
SENIOR SOFTWARE, ENGINEER
Validityinc
01.2017 - 08.2019
SOFTWARE ENGINEER ReturnPath
01.2016 - 01.2017
Senior VMware Cloud Engineer
VMware
01.2014 - 12.2015
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