Minh Bach
Staff Software Engineer
San Diego,CA
Summary
Passionate Staff Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience. Complex problem-solver with an analytical data-driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing resilient and clean code. Detail-oriented and customer-focused with proven skills in project management and team leadership.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Intuit Inc.
San Diego, CA
01.2014 - Current
- Technical leader driving research, design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of enterprise-level customer-focused capabilities for market-leading tax preparation platform, TurboTax.
- Working across company boundaries, designed and led delivery of innovative, secure, and seamless integrations with Experian, Chase, and CreditKarma. Expanded TurboTax benefits to millions of TurboTax customers, generating over $20M annually.
- Leading with data-driven approaches and industry trends, led multiple teams encompassing diverse technologies towards improving performance on all TurboTax experiences. Collaborative effort of 10+ teams positively reduced customer experience latencies by 10%.
- From ideation and architecture to execution and delivery, led successful launch of TurboTax: Easy Extension and Estimated Payments. Annually serving 3M customers and grossing $4M annually.
- Design, scope, and led flawless migration of high throughput (20K TPS), highly scalable (350 pods/instances), and fault tolerant (6AZ in 2 Regions) "experience orchestration" microservices from on-premise data centers to AWS EC2 to Kubernetes.
- Patent: Bach, Minh. 2021. Quick serve tax application. US Patent 11,030,705, filed on February 28, 2018, and granted on June 8, 2021.
- Notable Technologies: Java, Spring, AOP, LaunchDarkly, JPA, Cassandra, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Jenkin, React, Wiremock, Gatling, Splunk, Wavefront
Software Engineer
ACTIVE Network LLC
San Diego, CA
09.2010 - 12.2013
- From inception to launch, designed and led full-stack development team to deliver ACTIVE Network: InstantAds, low-touch, and self-service marketing platform, which grosses $1M annually.
- Effectively collaborated with marketing and engineering teams to define requirements for end-user customers and account marketing managers.
- Drove all design aspects and implementation for UI technologies, microservice capabilities, database schemas, and hosting infrastructure to deliver: marketing administration portal, impression and click recording, end-of-campaign batch statistic calculations, monthly subscription billing, and multi-platform marketing assets.
- Notable Technologies: Java, Spring, AWS, SQL Server, Akamai, Tomcat, EJB, MS SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JSTL
Software Engineer
Aldera Holdings, Inc
San Diego, CA
06.2007 - 09.2010
- Established pattern and transformed 100% customer experiences within AboveHealth, self-service health insurance web portal, from static non-performant customer experiences into fully rich, dynamic, and snappy user experiences.
- Notable Technologies: JQuery, JSP, EJB, Java, Spring, and Oracle
Associate Software Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology
San Diego, CA
04.2006 - 06.2007
- Increased data visualizations by 25% with meteorology and oceanography (MetOc) and war-fighting tactical decision aids (TDA) data to Virtual Natural Environment-Net Centric Service (VNE-NCS), system distributing weapon system info onboard military ships.
- Notable technologies: Java, Sun Solaris
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University Of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 09.2001 - 06.2005
Skills
Java Spring MVC AOP Jersey Feign OkHttp Maven Logback Log4j Lombok Swagger JPA Hibernate
JUnit TestNG Mockito Spring Test Karate Gatling Wiremock
Wiki JIRA Lucidchart
AWS Kubernetes Docker
Jenkins ArgoCD
Splunk Wavefront Micrometer PagerDuty
Tomcat Nginx Memcached LaunchDarkly Akamai AppDynamics
Agile, SSDLC, CICD, BDD, TDD
MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, MS SQL, Oracle, Kafka
Certification
Java SE 6 Programmer Certified Professional
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Intuit Inc.
01.2014 - Current
Java SE 6 Programmer Certified Professional
12-2012
Software Engineer
ACTIVE Network LLC
09.2010 - 12.2013
Software Engineer
Aldera Holdings, Inc
06.2007 - 09.2010
Associate Software Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology
04.2006 - 06.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University Of California, Irvine
09.2001 - 06.2005