RANDALE WATSON
Pensacola,FL
Summary
Adaptable Software Engineer ready to support operations from conception through post-release support. Skilled creator of efficient code and exciting user experiences. Eager to elevate ongoing development projects or create novel software solutions geared towards driving increased usership.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Technology
Kickstart Tech Foundation
Atlanta, GA
09.2023 - Current
- Directed the development of a new technology strategy to meet company objectives and needs.
- Analyzed business requirements in order to recommend suitable technological solutions that maximize efficiency while minimizing costs.
Senior Full Stack PHP/Laravel Application Engineer
COMMENT SOLD
HUNTSVILLE, AL
02.2023 - Current
- Architect and implement robust technology solutions in an agile and ever evolving environment
- Took initiative to implement OpenSearch integration that has been on the backlog for half a year
- Implemented real time socket updates to various components using PusherJS
- Implemented pivotal tooling for Dropship module integration with core selling platform
- On a daily basis implement code that was cloud ready for AWS
- Enlisted unit/feature tests for new features and bug fixes.
CTO, Co-Founder and Lead Application Engineer
KRAVIN KITCHEN, INC
CHARLOTTE, NC
12.2019 - 08.2023
- Provide accurate and achievable technical vision and leadership to other Co-Founders, investors, team members and partners
- Lead and inspired full system architecting and road map for proposed features of the platform
- Directly contract and manage 6 members of an Agile/Scrum development team
- Lead backlog and grooming session, provide live bug fixes in production, hunt down and fix bugs when no other developers are available, review pull requests, have code-reviews/peer programming sessions as needed
- Demonstrated ability to execute and meet startup projected features, that allowed for the company to secure several grants, partnerships and 1st round of funding
- Create, Deploy and manage infrastructure components such as virtual servers, virtual disks, databases, firewalls, domains and certificates
- Migrated to AWS serverless deployments.
Senior Full Stack C#/.NET Application Engineer/Software Developer
PAYTEL
GREENSBOROUGH, NC
06.2021 - 08.2022
- Empower business executives, general staff and end users by leading research, architecting and deployment of new features and improvements to existing services/systems
- Work with architects, business analysts, quality assurance analysts and dev ops to develop and maintain information systems, including web applications, REST APIs and Xamarin applications, that provide communications and other inmate services to confinement facilities
- Perform code reviews, looking for best practices, identifying design patterns, anti-patterns, and bad code smells, offering constructive criticism, suggestions and coaching as appropriate during code reviews
- Troubleshoot technical issues and debug programs, applications and systems in a variety of application environments to determine the root cause
- Implemented Azure Notification Hub integration for cross platform applications
- Understand assignments by reviewing program objectives, input data, and output requirements with supervisor and product owner
- Audit, refactor, upgrade and/or replace existing services and applications to enforce good practices, improve scalability and performance, reduce costs, and produce joy among your peers and managers.
Senior Full Stack C#/.NET Application Engineer/Software Developer
IFB SOLUTIONS
WINSTON-SALEM, NC
03.2020 - 06.2021
- Empower business executives, general staff and end users by leading research, architecting and deployment of new features and improvements to existing services/systems
- Estimate net business benefit of a desired/proposed solution
- Estimate costs in developer capacity, time and budget for said proposed solution
- Provide roadmap to other developers: tech stack options, architecting, evaluate priority tasks, analyze code quality, analyze performance and scalability, A/B consistency, analyze extensibility/flexibility of projects
- Continuously negotiating and exchanging concerns and progress with executives, project owners, networking team, cyber security and infrastructure team
- Lead research on updates and alternatives to technology and paradigms implemented or desired
- Rewrote or refactored several internal projects to gain improved performance and reliability that resulted in more confidence, less users complaints, more transactions process, improved analytics.
Full Stack C#/.NET Remote Application Engineer/Software Developer
PROMILES
BRIDGE CITY, TX
06.2018 - 11.2019
- Maintain and extend permitting systems for multiple states
- Design databases, application code, front end and daemons to add functionality to publicly used systems for states including Mississippi, Maine, Idaho and more
- Meet with state highway officials to shape business rules and workflow, give estimates for future features, impact of current features and changes desired
- Make reports generating code so finance department for states could be able track activities in respective systems
- Design multiple user types, roles and permission system to manage, State officials, highway troopers, finance users and carriers applying for permits
- Integrated with state highway API's
- Create backend and frontend tools and rules for calculating balance, fees, credits, warrants and suspension to Carrier accounts
- Create and maintain backend and frontend tools and rules for calculating violations on carriers pulled over by troopers.
Associate Application Engineer (Full Stack C#/NET Developer)
HEALTH TRUST PG (THROUGH FMD GROUP CONSULTING)
NASHVILLE, TN
06.2017 - 06.2018
- Analyzed business owners needs and requirements to determine, design and develop MVP solution
- Met with other teams to create interface contracts to address cross cutting concerns
- Developed microservices to replace legacy applications in a continuous integration environment.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Johnson C. Smith University
05.2014
Skills
- C#
- NET Core
- PHP
- AWS
- Docker
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- ElasticSearch
- Redis
- Laravel
- ASPNET Core
- HTML5
- VueJS
- Software Development
- Continuous Development/Integration
- CSS3
- PusherJS
Languages
English
Professional
Spanish
Limited
Accomplishments
- Lead development efforts that allowed Kravin Kitchen Inc, to receive seed funding of $250K
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director of Technology
Kickstart Tech Foundation
09.2023 - Current
Senior Full Stack PHP/Laravel Application Engineer
COMMENT SOLD
02.2023 - Current
Senior Full Stack C#/.NET Application Engineer/Software Developer
PAYTEL
06.2021 - 08.2022
Senior Full Stack C#/.NET Application Engineer/Software Developer
IFB SOLUTIONS
03.2020 - 06.2021
CTO, Co-Founder and Lead Application Engineer
KRAVIN KITCHEN, INC
12.2019 - 08.2023
Full Stack C#/.NET Remote Application Engineer/Software Developer
PROMILES
06.2018 - 11.2019
Associate Application Engineer (Full Stack C#/NET Developer)
HEALTH TRUST PG (THROUGH FMD GROUP CONSULTING)
06.2017 - 06.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Johnson C. Smith University
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