Brendan Brecht

Technical lead and developer for small team representing retail store ordering. Primary technical associate working on a large initiative to replace store ordering devices and software across thousands of grocery stores. Developed requirements, RFC, and evaluation criteria, and participated as a key associate in the selection and implementation of the chosen vendor.

Worked primarily in Java, COBOL/JCL, SQL (DB2), JasperSoft reporting, and legacy MS Access applications

Full-stack engineer dedicated to products responsible for auditing major shipping carriers, as well as Amazon Marketplace, on behalf of their customers (shippers and marketplace sellers).

Worked primarily in C# / .NET, Python, Golang and Node.js using cloud-based infrastructure in both AWS and MS Azure. Designed, developed, deployed and supported applications using AWS (Athena, RDS Aurora, Glue, EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS and others), and MS Azure (Active Directory, Azure SQL Server, Function Apps, Log Analytics, VMs and more). Also worked on IaC solutions using AWS CloudFormation and Hashicorp Terraform

Supported Java Spring / ExtJS based financial intermediary application.

High-level estimate and design options for project intake.

Consultation with product owners/managers to assist in project approval and prioritization.

Requirement analysis, solution design, sizing and alternative considerations in partnership with development teams, both agile and waterfall.

SME in business and technical arenas including fixed/variable/otherwise unitized investment vehicle pricing and earnings processing; financial transaction processing/sequencing/balancing; and trading/clearing among myriad partner systems.

High-level/critical system and business entity data maintenance using secured credentials and QC procedures.

Creative problem solver in support of large-scale financial IT systems design, dev and upkeep.

Quickly became tasked, treated, and gratefully respected as a senior department member who could consistently be relied upon to deliver on a wide array of highly complex, critical and/or sensitive priorities.

Many years spent in consulting, development, implementation and continued support for high-priority clients, old and new.

Amassed a healthy pile of SME topics and specialized advising services in areas such as data/code/system level optimization, project design options/impact considerations, and general risk avoidance and alerting when necessary.