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Chris Pratt

San Francisco,USA

Summary

Professional engineer with deep expertise in leading complex projects and driving technical innovation. Skilled in systems design, software development, and project management. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving high-impact results. Known for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Engineer

Wells Fargo
07.2011 - Current
  • Company Overview: Wells Fargo is a large US bank, it has a number of mobile applications including the Retail app with over 30 million downloads, and 3 million logins a day.
  • IOS Platform Lead, responsible for iOS developers meeting Coding standards and common patterns.
  • Oversee the migration to SwiftUI and Combine.
  • Introduced a number of standards and tools like SwiftLint, Snapshot Testing, AppDynamics and Fastlane.
  • Worked closely with Android lead to ensure common standards across platforms.
  • Assisted DevOps to introduce and maintain Jenkins builds.
  • Participated in the selection of SDKs and upgrades.
  • Technical Lead Mobile Check Deposit hands on iOS developer for this feature.
  • Also participated in scrum and communicated all requirements to iOS and Android development team to ensure the migration from Hybrid experience to pure native experience.
  • IOS migration is to SwiftUI and Combine.
  • Developer on a number of projects in iOS, including coding and unit test for Photo Bill Pay, Mobile Check Deposit and Sign In.
  • Developer on migration from Object C to Swift.
  • Wells Fargo is a large US bank, it has a number of mobile applications including the Retail app with over 30 million downloads, and 3 million logins a day.
  • 3 years as Java developer.
  • Tech Lead that oversaw all engineering aspects of Mobile Deposit, requiring communication with a number of other teams within Wells Fargo including CX, Deployment teams, Product Managers and Technical managers.
  • Mobile Deposit was a hybrid app with JSP and a Javascript bridge to communicate with the Native code.
  • This role included all Java server side code that integrated with a number of Wells Fargo backend systems to verify and credit/debit accounts deployed to Weblogic cluster.
  • Managed delivery of the Android and iOS Mobile Deposit functionality, including utilizing Third Party check capture SDK.

Senior Software Engineer

Direct Commerce
11.2009 - 07.2011
  • Company Overview: Direct Commerce offers Accounts Payable SAAS to fortune 500 companies.
  • J2EE developer responsible for all aspects of the Home Depot engagement.
  • Worked closely with the client to identify their needs.
  • Interpreted them and develop prototypes, and delivered final code for the client.
  • Fixed a number of Production deployment issues and introduced a new firewall to the servers.
  • Moved the code from Sun Solaris servers to Linux servers, updated the code from Java 3 to Java 7 and deployment from Weblogic to JBoss.
  • Introduced new concepts to the development team including AJAX and JQuery enhancing the user experience for customers.
  • Mentored junior members of the team teaching them the architecture of the code base and database/XML schemas.
  • Direct Commerce offers Accounts Payable SAAS to fortune 500 companies.

Senior Software Engineer

Moderati
06.2004 - 11.2009
  • Technologies: Java, Tomcat, XML, XSLT, SQL (PostGres), Ruby on Rails, Shell Script, ANT.

Lead Data Architect

Three
09.2001 - 04.2004
  • Technologies: J2EE, Tomcat, UML, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL, SQL, Shell Script, ERStudio, ANT, Cocoon.

Software Engineer

Listen.com
09.2000 - 08.2001
  • Technologies: JAVA, Resin, Visual Basic, PL/SQL (Oracle), JSP, Shell Script.

Consultant

Accenture
09.1996 - 09.2000
  • Technologies: Visual Basic, COBOL, C, SQL on DB2, Neon (Shadow) as middleware.

Level 2 Helpdesk (Contract)

GW Consulting
12.1995 - 09.1996

Stockbroker

Kennedy Cabot Securities
03.1994 - 12.1995

Stockbroker

Prudential Securities
02.1993 - 03.1994

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Sheffield Halam University,
Sheffield, UK

Skills

  • Jenkins, Fastlane, Swift, Python, Shell Script
  • Cloud computing expertise
  • Mobile application development
  • SQL
  • Database management software
  • JIRA
  • Python
  • Git proficiency
  • API integration
  • Software development life cycle (SDLC)

Timeline

Lead Engineer

Wells Fargo
07.2011 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Direct Commerce
11.2009 - 07.2011

Senior Software Engineer

Moderati
06.2004 - 11.2009

Lead Data Architect

Three
09.2001 - 04.2004

Software Engineer

Listen.com
09.2000 - 08.2001

Consultant

Accenture
09.1996 - 09.2000

Level 2 Helpdesk (Contract)

GW Consulting
12.1995 - 09.1996

Stockbroker

Kennedy Cabot Securities
03.1994 - 12.1995

Stockbroker

Prudential Securities
02.1993 - 03.1994

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Sheffield Halam University,