James Joseph Jackson Jr
Hahira,GA
Summary
Skilled Principal Software Engineer adept at executing development strategies via unique management and design style. Known for tackling unforeseen hiccups in software creation with agility and tireless commitment. Creative innovator of novel approaches to time-worn problems, proficient at employing colleagues and resources to combat everything from minor bugs to catastrophic software failures.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Platform Engineer
TruPlay Games
03.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented all cloud infrastructure to manage the backend services, data, security, and DevOps processes using Azure’s VNETs, Azure Container Apps, MySQL, and other resources through Terraform.
- Increased developers speed to market from once a week to anytime in under 30 minutes
- Improved DevOps maturity by automating their build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps pipeline templates for all code bases (Unity, .Net, Node, Terraform).
- Acted as TPM for all things backend, DevOps, and automation; managing backlog, priorities, and timelines to present to business leaders each quarter.
Senior DevOps Engineer
3Cloud Solutions
08.2021 - 03.2023
- Led DevSecOps community, establishing best practices and grow others.
- Reduced deployment times by introducing CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
- Designed centralized and modularized DevOps deployment pipelines, reducing complexity of pipelines in application and infrastructure code repositories.
- Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
- Contributed to architectural decisions, ensuring scalable and maintainable designs for future expansions of application services.
- Applied automated testing solutions for unit, integration and system testing.
Principal Software Engineer
Alaska Airlines
07.2017 - 08.2021
- Migrated entire e-commerce department’s Azure DevOps repositories to GitHub and integrated both services for Product Management and Deployments.
- Led a team of engineers in creating a delivery platform to reduce developer’s cognitive load getting their app from concept to production.
- Created Web API in Go running on Kubernetes to scan all Azure DevOps repositories for a React dashboard showing adoption of our design system.
- Architected, built, failed, learned, and adjusted the new Trips React microsite and .Net Core microservices in Azure.
- Trail-blazed Azure adoption in e-commerce, exploring the technology and teaching others how they could utilize the different services available.
Lead Developer
Pariveda Solutions Inc.
10.2013 - 07.2017
- Created a DevOps Pipeline with Cloud Formation scripts for a scalable Jenkins build pipeline using Docker instances as agents in an AWS ECS environment.
- Provided career and technical development guidance for multiple junior developers in a mentor/mentee relationship.
- Architected, led, and developed a modularized C# console application to download, validate, parse, and load a terabyte of data daily into SQL Server.
Senior Analyst/Software Programmer
Mayo Clinic
05.2010 - 10.2013
- Coordinated a distributed architecture redesign across 3 sites between the vendor and Mayo’s Workstation, Server, Networking, and Security teams.
- Co-Facilitated monthly Lunch and Learn sessions on various web development technologies to educate my team as the unit move to web development.
- Designed and implemented an interface to improve data integrity and reduce on-call tickets by condensing multiple code bases into one.
- Participated as a member in 3 work groups to guide the department's technical direction away from client applications to web/mobile development and services.
- Refactored common components in 8 applications into a shared library to promote code reuse.
Associate Business Analyst/Programmer
McNeilus Companies, Inc
09.2006 - 05.2010
- Designed, developed, and maintained 5 ASP.NET web applications.
- Created a complex risk versus ROI calculation web application for senior IT management to score and prioritize all IT initiatives.
Education
Master of Arts - Theological Studies
Faith International University
Tacoma, WA05.2020
Master of Arts - Health & Human Service Administration
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, MN05.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Winona State University
Rochester, MN12.2009
Skills
- Technical Analysis
- Agile project management
- NET development
- Serverless Computing
- API Design and Development
- DevOps Methodologies
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Infrastructure as Code
- Microservices Architecture
- Automated testing
Timeline
Senior Platform Engineer
TruPlay Games
03.2023 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
3Cloud Solutions
08.2021 - 03.2023
Principal Software Engineer
Alaska Airlines
07.2017 - 08.2021
Lead Developer
Pariveda Solutions Inc.
10.2013 - 07.2017
Senior Analyst/Software Programmer
Mayo Clinic
05.2010 - 10.2013
Associate Business Analyst/Programmer
McNeilus Companies, Inc
09.2006 - 05.2010
Master of Arts - Theological Studies
Faith International University
Master of Arts - Health & Human Service Administration
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Winona State University
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