Alan Joseph Boyce

As a key contributor to the modernization of the MyNSF application for National Science Foundation, I led critical initiatives that improved performance, security, and maintainability across the frontend platform used by thousands of users.

• Increased application reliability by 35% by resolving critical timing and update logic bugs that had blocked user workflows. Streamlined error-handling logic and improved system feedback for end-users.
• Expanded automated test coverage by over 23%, resulting in greater release confidence and reduced regressions during deployment cycles.
• Reduced technical debt by coordinating with backend team to consolidate two microservices into a unified REST-compliant service, simplifying the codebase and improving maintainability. Led frontend integration of the new service by analyzing Swagger documentation and refactoring Ember adapters and serializers to comply with updated API contracts.
• Improved frontend performance by 30% by identifying and eliminating redundant network requests that were degrading page responsiveness. Refactored core logic to reduce API overhead and latency.
• Migrated authentication system from Basic Auth to OAuth 2.0, aligning with federal security standards. Oversaw frontend implementation including token-based header injection and authorization flow. Collaborated with security and backend teams to coordinate rollout and testing. Authored detailed Confluence documentation to guide future developers and stakeholders through the migration.
• Deployed updates to environments via Jenkins, contributing Infrastructure as Code configurations to support OAuth deployment pipelines and other important updates.
• Frontend: Ember.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, Amazon Q, ChatGPT, QUnit
• API Integration: RESTful APIs, Swagger/OpenAPI, EmberData
• DevOps: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira
• Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), CI/CD, Cross-functional collaboration

As founding engineer, I lead a team of engineers that architected and built the technical platform for a live event ticketing and promotions startup. This included designing and deploying a secure, scalable full-stack system using modern web frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and container orchestration.

• Designed and implemented a full-stack web application using NestJS (TypeScript) for the backend and Angular (TypeScript) for the frontend, enabling end-to-end ticketing, authentication, and event management.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather business requirements and translated them into scalable, secure cloud architectures.
• Built a PostgreSQL data layer using TypeORM, including custom schemas, table relationships, seed data, and automated migration scripts for both development and production environments.
• Developed RESTful APIs for user registration, event creation, QR-based ticketing, and role-based access, with JWT authentication and secure cookie-based session handling.
• Led the development of the company’s marketing website using Drupal, designed requirements, and user experience goals.
• Deployed infrastructure using Docker and AWS, leveraging ECS Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and ACM, Oracle EBS R12.2 platform, achieving 99.9% uptime and enabling seamless scaling to support peak user loads.
• Automated production deployments with GitHub Actions, including dynamic environment variable loading from AWS S3, build step optimizations, and automatic migration execution on container boot.
• Managed CORS and frontend-backend security, configuring HTTP-only, SameSite, and Secure cookies, while enabling cross-origin credential support.
• Debugged complex integration issues, including CORS failures, cookie storage inconsistencies, and CloudFront caching misconfigurations, using browser dev tools, server logs, AWS insights and AI debugging tools.
• Engineered infrastructure-as-code startup patterns, including start.sh scripts, conditional environment logic, docker compose API + database local development container environment which reduced onboarding and local development build time for all engineers from 10 minutes to 30 seconds.

Worked on the Intent platform which allows customers to identify and engage buyers right when they begin researching solutions like theirs.

• Software Stack
  - Frontend: Angular, SCSS, RxJS, NgRx, Jest
  - Backend: NodeJS, NestJS, MongoDB, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jest

Involved in UI/UX design and software development on government contracts for National Geospatial Agency and the State Department.