Charles Bilbo
Baton Rouge,LA
Summary
Team-oriented professional prepared to take on leadership responsibilities with focus on driving results and fostering collaboration. Proven success in managing teams, overseeing project execution, and adapting to dynamic work environments. Known for reliability, flexibility, and strong organizational skills, ensuring seamless team operations and achievement of goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead
Renaissance Education Fndtn
Remote
02.2024 - Current
- Led cross-functional team in transforming a legacy PHP application, upgrading from PHP 5.4 to PHP 8.0 to enhance performance and security.
- Architected and Implemented a new student intake funnel which brought ingestion time per district down from several hours to a few minutes utilizing modern PHP practices and Golang
- Facilitated knowledge transfer to onshore resources to enhance proficiency in modern PHP and engineering methodologies.
- Created a student deduplication system, resulting in a reduction of support tickets and saving 90 hours monthly in manpower.
- Facilitated collaboration among diverse teams to improve effectiveness of educational program implementation.
- Developed training materials to improve staff performance and ensure consistency across programs.
- Optimized integration processes to ensure effective monitoring and logging.
Senior Software Engineer
RxMG
Remote
09.2020 - 02.2024
- Coached and guided three mid/junior-level developers to enhance their expertise in Laravel, PHP, and architectural principles, resulting in the promotion of one developer to a senior-level engineering role.
- Designed and implemented reporting dashboards on the application's performance and its dependencies using AWS and GCP.
- Formulated cost optimization plans that led to a six-figure saving in spending on Redis, GCP, Kubernetes, and MySQL.
- Created a consumer processing system utilizing MongoDB and PHP to handle 24 million records a day of consumer PII.
- Designed and developed user applications using Bootstrap 4 and Vue.js 3.
- Led the development of a comprehensive backend coding standards document and successfully enforced rigorous unit testing practices, resulting in a significant increase in code coverage from 26% to 82% using PHP Unit.
- Consistently designed and implemented high-throughput, scalable applications in PHP and Golang, frequently handling over 1 million requests per minute.
- Implemented fallback strategies for critical services to minimize application downtime and increase application observability.
- Optimized Redis and MySQL, reducing latency by 75% and decreasing memory usage from 14.8GB to 1.2GB (a 92% decrease).
- Reduced latency by 80% on the consumer processing system by optimizing queries and implementing proper caching strategies.
- Created specialized Docker images to host critical applications responsible for handling millions of requests a day.
Senior Software Engineer
GE Software
Baton Rouge, LA
09.2020 - 09.2021
- Created automated CICD processes to enforce software standards, performance analysis, optimization, and system robustness
- Utilized VueJS 2 and 3 along with Bootstrap 4 to created unique user experiences.
- Created reporting dashboards on the application performance, PostgreSQL performance and Redis Latency.
- Create inhouse PHP composer packages for shared utilities that was distributed across multiple microservices.
- Developed a distributed API event brokering system that was responsible for managing and delivering critical system events.
- Train team members on best practices in alignment with PSR-12 standards with existing legacy systems.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to event driven microservice APIs using Laravel / Symphony, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Mentored and guided junior developers on TTD and Unit testing best practices in PHP Unit and Mockery.
Backend Developer
Click Here Digital
Baton Rouge, LA
06.2019 - 09.2020
- Created reporting software to break down the distribution of $4.3 million dollars in PHP, Symphony, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Created high-throughput applications in Laravel/Lumen responsible for handling critical API requests.
- Developed a CMS lead generation platform responsible for handling millions of requests a week, utilizing Laravel, Laravel Blade, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
- Built custom Docker images to host our applications on a Kubernetes Cluster.
- Optimized MySQL queries on a legacy platform, reducing financial report generation time from 1 hour to 5 minutes.
Director
8Bit BootCamp
Baton Rouge, LA
06.2015 - 08.2018
- Designed and supervised the implementation of course curriculum and assignments.
- Collaborated closely with organizational leadership, including the board of directors, to strategically influence the direction of operations.
- Generated progress reports on teacher performance and student test results.
- Assisted in leading more advanced topics, including MySQL, query optimization, caching strategies, and memory management.
- Instructed teachers on a variety of topics, such as C#, Unity, JavaScript, and PHP/Laravel, as well as fundamental computer science concepts.
Lead Backend Developer
A3PL
Remote
03.2014 - 10.2016
- Supervised back-end development using RESTful API microservices to support front-end applications, thereby enhancing customer experience. Developed with PHP, Laravel/Symfony, Laravel Blade, and Bootstrap.
- Translated user requirements into concrete project designs and implementation plans.
- Established an in-house e-commerce system, enabling customers to buy and sell goods.
- Engineered a distributed system to manage the processing of in-game consumer funds and purchases.
- Integrated with third-party services via REST APIs for reporting and metrics collection.
Backend Developer
Ethnografilms
Remote | Paris, France
04.2014 - 09.2016
- Created unit tests in PHPUnit, utilizing Mockery.
- Developed and implemented a QR scanning system and CMS using MySQL, Laravel, and PHP for advertising.
- Established a JSON REST backend to enable external film providers to develop apps that seamlessly integrated with our film library.
- Implemented an automated process that reached out to third-party vendors using RESTful API calls to facilitate the handling of show times.
- Assisted in developing frontend aspects of the user portal using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap 3.
Skills
- PHP 81
- Javascript
- Golang
- MYSQL / MongoDB/ PostGreSQL
- Python
- Event Driven Architecture
- Microservice Architecture
- Unit Testing
- Rest API
- Composer Package Development
Accomplishments
- Active Laravel Contributor
- Spatie Contributor
- Mongo Developer Certified
- Mongo DBA Certified
Timeline
Team Lead
Renaissance Education Fndtn
02.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
RxMG
09.2020 - 02.2024
Senior Software Engineer
GE Software
09.2020 - 09.2021
Backend Developer
Click Here Digital
06.2019 - 09.2020
Director
8Bit BootCamp
06.2015 - 08.2018
Backend Developer
Ethnografilms
04.2014 - 09.2016
Lead Backend Developer
A3PL
03.2014 - 10.2016
Technologies
- Laravel Ecosystem
- Laravel FIlament
- NuxtJS
- Eloquent ORM
- Docker / Serverless
- AWS
- GRPC / HTTP 3.0
- GIT
- Agile / SCRUM
- VueJS
- Tailwind
- Kubernetes
- Bit Bucket CICD / GitLab pipelines
- Redis / Memcached / APCu
- Relational Databases ( MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- NoSQL Databases