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Kenneth Till
Software Development Engineer
Seattle,WA
Summary
Highly skilled software development professional bringing enormous talents for software design, development, and integration. Offering advanced knowledge of in-demand programming languages. Background writing code, developing software systems, and creation of CI/CD infrastructure for multiple large organizations.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer II
Change Healthcare
Seattle / Remote, WA/ Remote
10.2019 - Current
- Design, develop, and maintain customer-facing systems that generate approximately USD 600 million annually
- Create developer specifications from project management requirements and realize full-stack solutions (CI/CD Pipelines -> API)
- Provide cross-team mentorship and development of new talent
- Leverage big-data technologies on high throughput systems
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement
- Reviewed project specifications and architected technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
- Managed and upgraded systems to allow for 9 million transactions monthly, along with mandatory logging compliance for each
- Created and maintained systems to allow for following transactions through their entire lifecycle
- Trained customer support in skills needed to troubleshoot new and existing systems
Software Engineer
Freelance
Seattle/Remote, WA/ Remote
01.2016 - 08.2019
- Developed fully-featured Java web applications and APIs for customers
- Utilized AWS stack including RDS and EC2 to create and deploy solutions to customer's needs
- Provided peer mentorship: teaching/tutoring, code feedback, and formation of teams based on existing skill sets and interests
Business Systems Analyst 2 / Programmer
Safeco Insurance
Seattle, WA
08.2014 - 12.2015
- Developed mission-critical applications in C#, directly impacting workflow of 3500+ employees
- Through .net automation, reduced turn-around time on customer process from 5 days, down to a single business day
- Designed and maintained application metrics to provide quality feedback for senior leadership, allowing them to make informed decisions
- Collaborated with management to design and implement new workflow email and fax processing automation, eliminating several manual processes
- Lead cross-team collaboration effort, reducing rework and increasing quality of overall codebase
Contracting Software Developer
Amtrust Finanical Services
Cleveland, OH
06.2013 - 11.2013
- Built tooling using .net to automate audit workflows decreasing FTE hours by ~60%
- Migrate legacy systems to newer architecture, decreasing load times by ~26%
- Spearheaded transition of existing software projects to new version control system
Skills
Java
Spring & Spring Boot
Python
C#
MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Gitlab CI/CD
Cloud-based software development (AWS)
Software
Visual Studio
Git/Gitlab (Including CI/CD pipelines)
EC2
S3
RDS
ECS/Fargate
Docker
Cloudformation
Timeline
Software Development Engineer II
Change Healthcare
10.2019 - Current
Software Engineer
Freelance
01.2016 - 08.2019
Business Systems Analyst 2 / Programmer
Safeco Insurance
08.2014 - 12.2015
Contracting Software Developer
Amtrust Finanical Services
06.2013 - 11.2013