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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Certification
Public Speaking
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Andres Olarte

Chicago,IL

Summary

Experienced engineer, skilled at overcoming development obstacles to ensure customer success in the cloud. Trusted source of technical guidance and programming and reliability best practices. Passionate about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with colleagues, customers, and the broader community.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Strategic Cloud Engineer

Google
08.2017 - Current

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

Principal Java Software Engineer

The Nerdery
11.2015 - 08.2017
  • 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.

Sr. Java Engineer

Modernizing Medicine, Inc.
10.2014 - 11.2015
  • 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

Sr. Java Developer

One Blood / Community Blood Centers of South Florida
06.2011 - 10.2014
  • 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,

System Administrator / Lead Programmer

dotCMS
03.2008 - 06.2011
  • 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

Technical Dept. Manager

CPU
06.2005 - 03.2008
  • 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.

Network Administrator

Lincoln School
03.2004 - 09.2005
  • 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

Education

MBA -

University of Miami
Miami
05.2001 -

Bach. Business Administration (Finance) -

Universidad Interamericana
Heredia, Costa Rica
05.2001 -

Bach. Computer Science (unfinished) -

ULACIT
San Jose, Costa Rica
05.2001 -

Skills

    Java

Python

Go

Javascript / Typescript

Linux

Spring

Cloud Architecture Design

Capacity Planning

SRE / DevOps

Certification

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Developer

Public Speaking

  • Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning: Clustering & Sentiment Analysis, Nerd Interface, February 2nd, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/TheNerdery/videos/1444941262203618/
  • Scalable Services with JMS, Spring Integration and Apache Camel, Chicago Java Users Group, May 17th, 2016, https://vimeo.com/169607004

Timeline

Strategic Cloud Engineer

Google
08.2017 - Current

Principal Java Software Engineer

The Nerdery
11.2015 - 08.2017

Sr. Java Engineer

Modernizing Medicine, Inc.
10.2014 - 11.2015

Sr. Java Developer

One Blood / Community Blood Centers of South Florida
06.2011 - 10.2014

System Administrator / Lead Programmer

dotCMS
03.2008 - 06.2011

Technical Dept. Manager

CPU
06.2005 - 03.2008

Network Administrator

Lincoln School
03.2004 - 09.2005

MBA -

University of Miami
05.2001 -

Bach. Business Administration (Finance) -

Universidad Interamericana
05.2001 -

Bach. Computer Science (unfinished) -

ULACIT
05.2001 -
Andres Olarte