Andres Olarte

Customer Oriented:

• Provide thought leadership and technical advice to customers looking to move to cloud or improve their presence in the cloud to develop faster and with less risk.
• Championed the adoption of SRE principles within customer organizations, driving a customer first perspective to reliability and development. Established patterns for effective monitoring using SRE best practices for real-time visibility into service reliability metrics.
• Led teams to develop and deliver API and platforms that unlocked the value of GCP.
• Led capacity planning activities for several engagements to balance performance and budgetary concerns requirements.

Google Internal:

• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to develop one of the key offerings for 2024.
• As the AI Solution lead for "Developer Productivity with GenAI", assisted sales teams pitching to customers (MLB / Televisa)
• Collaborated in the writing and review process for the Developer, DevOps, and Digital Leader certifications exams

• Led the Chicago Java team, of a total of eight developers. Performed the technical part of the yearly reviews, and co led career growth conversations
• Mentored junior developers programming best practices, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and collaboration. Led several talks both internal an external on security, async programming, and Java performance troubleshooting
• Provided technical help and advice to Account Executives and Solutions Engineers
• Engagement at an online food-ordering company: Worked on an stability project to help increase reliability and performance of legacy monolithic order processing infrastructure. Led team that helped design and implement cloud based (AWS) micro services.
• Engagement at retail analytics company: Led team that helped design and implement new cloud ready microservices to replace legacy system. Leveraged Spring Integration to provide integration with external companies through a variety of formats (SFTP, web services, messaging). Designed and implemented micro service to provide abstraction layer for a proprietary customer service software.

• Helped in design and implementation of integrations with external parties, including an Enterprise Service Bus infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented mechanism to control versioning and deploy integration code.
• Helped in troubleshooting performance, memory, and functionality issues.
• Technologies used: Tomcat, ActiveMQ, Spring, MySQL, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, JAX-RS, Apache Camel, Elastic Search, JMS, JTA, Mirth, Apache Cayenne, JQuery, AngularJS, HazelCast

• Designed and implemented enterprise applications, and services to interface with specialized medical equipment
• Contributed to FDA certification of the application
• Implemented programming best practices, such as Behavior Driven Development and Test Driven Development
• Designed integration and implemented integration services using industry standards (HL7)
• Technologies used: Hibernate, Spring, Spring Security, EHCache, JSP, JSTL, JPA, JMS, Weblogic, Oracle and PLSQL,

• Managed team of developers and Q&A personnel, tasked with support and development of new features for the product
• Developed deployment model for hosted services in AWS using Puppet
• Implemented monitoring and automation to improve service reliability
• Technologies used: Hibernate, Velocity, Lucene, JMX, JQuery, Jenkins, Puppet, Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, Glassfish, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

• Established clear performance expectations for staff members which led to increased accountability.
• Developed strong relationships with client to ensure timely service.
• Designed, architected, and led the development of a framework for Java applications (both GUI and web based) based on the Eclipse platform. The framework provided basic services such as authentication, reporting, database access patterns, and data visualization.
• Helped coordinate the migration of existing applications to the new core framework, including migration from Visual Basic and legacy Java.

• Managed a mixed network (Windows, Netware, Linux) of 200+ computers and 1000+ users
• Restructured the networking infra to support future growth
• Developed a J2EE (servlets and JSPs) application to automate basic help desk tasks to be able to meet the growing demand of IT service by faculty and students