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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Languages
Interests
Timeline
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Christopher Oakeson

Christopher Oakeson

Software Engineering Manager
Saratoga Springs,UT

Summary

Adaptable Software Engineering Manager with the skills to wrangle multiple simultaneous projects into streamlined and cohesive efforts even in remote environments. Firm believer in holistic and collaborative management strategies and relationship building. Thrives on providing exceptional oversight and hands-on guidance that improve quality metrics, speed to market, and developer satisfaction.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2
2

Certificates

Work History

Owner / Contractor

InStratus
05.2019 - Current
  • Communicate with clients to clearly understand and simplify requirements, create system designs, and code up infrastructure and application code for deployment in AWS
  • Create cost-effective designs in AWS based on throughput needs
  • Create full-stack web and mobile applications such as journeykeep.com to manage file uploads, maps, documents, and printing APIs

Software Engineering Manager

Aura
07.2021 - 06.2024
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate employers and partners into the Aura subscription ecosystem
  • Completely migrated away from a monolithic architecture to a distributed micro-system architecture
  • Mentored up to 12 junior and senior software engineers at a time both on front-end and back-end - giving technical and architectural oversight
  • Provided guidance to engineers around time management, collaboration with others, and career goals
  • Drove high-level strategic planning across various simultaneous projects and reported status to various leaders and up to the C-level
  • Successfully moved a team culture from extensive manual testing to full reliance on automation tests and reporting

Senior Software Architect

Aura
07.2019 - 05.2021
  • Guided and collaborated with other engineers to succeed in breaking a monolithic service into approximately 30 micro-services in AWS infrastructure
  • Worked with various stakeholders to design and implement new micro-services that were critical to revenue goals
  • Managed project scope, schedule, and status
  • Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to other teams and managers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities

Infrastructure Systems Architect

Younique Products
03.2018 - 07.2019
  • Oversaw the systems architecture of the e-commerce and direct-sales solutions with a team of engineers in an agile working environment
  • 3x throughput during high-demand events by measuring bottlenecks and implementing durable solutions to thousands of transactions per second
  • Discovered security flaws and kicked off initiatives to successfully close the security holes quickly with help from several product teams
  • Implemented CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting systems with on-call rotations

Senior Software Engineer

Younique Products
07.2017 - 03.2018
  • Worked on Salesforce API integrations including a real-time chat client
  • Simplified core processes through refactoring the PHP monolith to allow micro-service implementation
  • Implemented caching layers with Drupal and other internal APIs to reduce overall latency at load and during the cache warming phase

Co-Founder / CTO

Omadi
03.2011 - 10.2017
  • Managed off-shore and local PHP and mobile developers, QA staff, and product managers
  • Created extensible and customizable web and mobile applications to manage all aspects of a towing company including payroll, notifications, compliance, GPS tracking, and customer and invoice management
  • Maintained technologies including advanced MySQL usage, EC2 servers, AWS micro-services, Drupal APIs, GPS and location devices, and cross-platform native mobile applications with billions of data points
  • Worked with the executive team daily to solve critical issues and keep customers happy
  • Started with a single partner and beta tester, and the played a major role in growing the business to hundreds of customers with a later acquisition into a larger firm

Web Developer

BYU Athletics
11.2010 - 08.2012
  • Managed student employees for PHP / Javascript programming
  • Replaced the aging Java / JSP application with a Drupal backend and responsive front-end theme with an automated migration phase
  • Created user-friendly content management tools for the athletics writers to get their content to the web and mobile audiences quickly and efficiently
  • Initiated ideation and design on an athlete promotion component that became integral to the application

Embedded Software Engineer

Lockheed Martin
05.2009 - 10.2010
  • Created several Java GUIs to wrap highly-used Linux shell scripts
  • Wrote scripts to improve efficiency in compilation of code and revision control
  • Tested a custom FPGA hardware integration with COTS hardware by writing Linux device drivers in C

Programmer

Tax Hawk
06.2007 - 04.2009
  • Created and maintained 4 of the Tax Hawk landing websites using JSP, JSTL, and Java
  • Performed detailed testing of the company’s online tax application

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
05.2009

Skills

  • Remote team mentoring and oversight
  • Agile processes connoisseur
  • Infrastructure as code die-hard
  • CI/CD automation in GitHub / Bitbucket
  • Monolith to Micro-Service design & migration
  • Typescript / Python / Java / PHP
  • DynamoDB / MySQL Aurora / MongoDB
  • Lambda / Fargate / Docker
  • Monitoring / Alerting / CloudWatch / OpsGenie
  • Technical communication for distinct audiences

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Limited Working
Japanese
Elementary

Interests

Camping with my family

Paramotoring

Factorio

Sailing

Building Things

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager

Aura
07.2021 - 06.2024

Senior Software Architect

Aura
07.2019 - 05.2021

Owner / Contractor

InStratus
05.2019 - Current

Infrastructure Systems Architect

Younique Products
03.2018 - 07.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Younique Products
07.2017 - 03.2018

Co-Founder / CTO

Omadi
03.2011 - 10.2017

Web Developer

BYU Athletics
11.2010 - 08.2012

Embedded Software Engineer

Lockheed Martin
05.2009 - 10.2010

Programmer

Tax Hawk
06.2007 - 04.2009

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Brigham Young University

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