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Caleb Walker

Caleb Walker

Chicago, IL, United States

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 7 Years of Experience Pursuing Highly Technical and Leadership Positions After Recent Completion of MBA.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Java Engineer

Peapod Digital Labs
03.2021 - Current
  • Designed, Implemented, and Supported Spring Boot RESTful microservices in Kotlin and Java to support omnichannel e-commerce experiences for major grocery brands. Introduced modern practices with current technologies such as Azure Cloud, Elasticsearch, and Postgres.
  • Modernized legacy monolith services to Service-Oriented Architecture. Converted from Contractor to Full-Time Employee due to high performance.
  • Facilitated communications and technologies between organizations and external vendors.
  • Oversaw production performance and maintence of microservices with tools such as Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana with on-call rotation while maintaining high availability.

Associate Software Engineer

Vizient, Inc
11.2018 - 03.2021
  • Designed and Implemented Software Suite for University and Non-Profit hospitals using MSSQL, Spring Boot, and Angular 10.
  • Collaborated in fast-paced XP Agile with 1 week sprints and daily code pairing.
  • Mentored new and existing hires to improve scrum team velocity.

Education

Master's of Business Adminstration - Information Technology Management

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI
12-2024

Bachelor's of Science - Computer Science

Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL
05-2016

Skills

  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Spring Boot
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • GraphQL
  • AWS
  • Azure Cloud
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • Angular
  • Leadership Development
  • RESTful Microservices
  • Agile Methodologies

Personal Projects

Vinyl Record Pricing App August 2023

  • Architected and Implemented digital solution to local record vendors' pricing concerns.
  • Populated data set via web scrape hosted in PostgreSQL on AWS's RDS.
  • Created API to access data via graphQL and perform common business logic used by record sellers.

Timeline

Senior Java Engineer

Peapod Digital Labs
03.2021 - Current

Associate Software Engineer

Vizient, Inc
11.2018 - 03.2021

Master's of Business Adminstration - Information Technology Management

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Bachelor's of Science - Computer Science

Northern Illinois University

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