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Daniel Oskvig

Kansas City,MO

Summary

Software Engineer and Architect with 10 years designing development frameworks and guidelines to expedite and enhance application engineering at scale. Focused on cloud integration and distributed systems. Experienced with a myriad of technologies such as JavaScript, .NET Core, C#, Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, React, Angular, Postgresql, C++, AWS, and more.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Backend Software Architect

Evercast LLC
03.2021 - Current

Engineer productivity solutions for remote collaboration with large-scale media projects. Provide key features such as video conferencing, direct from DAM playback, remote sessions, NDI support and more. Balancing cost with strict requirements such as low latency, color accuracy, and on-demand availability.

  • Designed, architected, and implemented fully customizable solution built with Golang for allocating, scheduling, and decommissioning compute resources via Kubernetes to provide on-demand hardware allocation as needed
  • Reduced company-wide cloud service costs by over 60%, designed to be both cloud-agnostic and cross-cloud compatible
  • Lead platform and infrastructure teams, providing solutions for client applications and application-wide visibility through logging
  • Integrated centralized logging solution using Elasticsearch and Kibana to provide real-time visualizations and insights
  • Designed and implemented custom service to ingest events from service message bus
  • Integrating media production requirements such as 10-bit color, HDR, 5.1 audio, and more
  • Engineered solution for video room add-in services via simultaneous deployments and scheduling using Kubernetes allowing for major features such as direct from DAM playback, remote session sharing, and live room text chat
  • Manage AWS services such as Lambda, S3, EC2, EKS, and ECR to lower infrastructure costs and save development time
  • Build and integrate completely off-cloud solution for on-prem needs, allowing entire solution to be available within private networks
  • Collaborated on remote desktop streaming solution, allowing users to open shared desktop or browser session attached to video room served on-demand
  • Integrated lambda-based load testing solution, allowing tests to verify performance during very high demand.
  • Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.

Senior Software Engineer

symplr LLC
07.2018 - 03.2021

Engineer solutions and guide development of a large-scale healthcare credentialing application. Overhauled company-wide approach to documentation with training videos, inline documentation, and complete BPMN diagrams. Managed developmental and tooling needs across 14 teams spanning multiple countries and time-zones.

  • Designed database schema driven generator to create UI bindings on fly, saving over 800 hours of development
  • Lead multiple teams of engineers, mentoring and strengthening teams
  • Collaborated with architects to build scale-able containerized broker service using Docker, Kafka, Redis, .Net Core and Kuberenetes
  • Integrated company-wide centralized logging with containerized service for quick and concise production monitoring using ELK stack

Application Developer

Industrial Air Centers
02.2018 - 11.2018

Independently contracted to engineer a prototype cross-platform mobile application for cataloging individual parts with the ability to submit inquiries.

  • Prototyped mobile application using Xamarin Forms to quickly build cross-platform solution for demos
  • Demonstrated and documented functionality regularly
  • Integrated rapid client feedback to serve constantly changing needs.

Software Developer

Yoodle LLC
04.2018 - 07.2018

Developing content management systems and consulting in a fast-paced environment with continuous customer feedback and evolving needs.

  • Consulted with over 60 clients directly, keeping project priorities aligned with client needs
  • Boosted client retention by capitalizing on important deadlines and collaborating with clients to set expectations
  • Constructed base foundation for image driven machine learning application for image tagging
  • Developed data-driven multi-tiered email and marketing automation system, personalized to each customer using recommendation engine.

Timeline

Senior Backend Software Architect

Evercast LLC
03.2021 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

symplr LLC
07.2018 - 03.2021

Software Developer

Yoodle LLC
04.2018 - 07.2018

Application Developer

Industrial Air Centers
02.2018 - 11.2018
Daniel Oskvig