BLAKE YACAVONE
Spanaway,WA
Summary
Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Full stack developer with six years experience dedicated to achieving development objectives for military based applications.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer III
Phoenix Defense Systems
05.2023 - 04.2024
- Using assigned tickets in Jira, maintained legacy Java simulation software.
- Refactored legacy codebases for improved maintainability, paving the way for easier future updates.
- Developed web pages for a modernized UI in Angular to handle new and existing functionality of the underlying simulation program.
- Participated in agile development processes, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Conducted thorough peer code reviews to identify potential areas for improvement, ultimately enhancing code quality across all projects handled by the team.
- Created documentation to assist with onboarding of new team members
Software Engineer
Cole Engineering Services
03.2018 - 04.2023
- Developed web pages that allowed preset simulations and gave detailed breakdowns of events that occurred during simulation run time using Angular, TypeScript, and HTML
- Established logging code to assist users in understanding simulation results using TypeScript
- Developed multiple Rest APIs and communication frameworks for data and state management for multiple projects using MongoDB, Java, TypeScript, RabbitMQ, and Wildfly.
- Overhauled the UI of the modern interface for consistency in button design and overall layout.
- Created a status indicator to show current state of the simulation to user.
- Performed stress testing to handle extreme edge case data loads.
- Developed reusable components and web pages that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.
- Created custom Bash scripts for internal developer testing.
- Using assigned tickets in Jira, conducted thorough code reviews to identify potential areas for improvement, ultimately enhancing code quality across all projects handled by the team.
- Participated in agile development processes, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Solution Developer
Deloitte
02.2015 - 03.2018
- Created web page mock ups for Child Welfare Services to mimic functionality allowing users to record physical injuries on body model
- Stood up and tore down AWS severs for development environment.
- Created and maintained credentials for team members to access project.
- Created Jenkins integration jobs.
- Performed code hand off deployment with client.
- Merged finalized code into Production and fixed any conflicts.
- Enhanced software performance by optimizing code, reducing bugs, and streamlining processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering
University of West Florida
2014
Skills
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Nexus
- Maven
- Gradle
- Terminal
- Npm
- AMQ
- Jira
- AWS
- Virtual Box
- MongoDB
- Java
- C
- C
- MySQL
- HTML
- XML
- Bash
- TypeScript
- Angular
- VS Code
- Unity
- Eclipse
- RTC
- DI2E
Clearance
Secret Clearance level
Timeline
Software Engineer III
Phoenix Defense Systems
05.2023 - 04.2024
Software Engineer
Cole Engineering Services
03.2018 - 04.2023
Solution Developer
Deloitte
02.2015 - 03.2018
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering
University of West Florida
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