Shane Solnosky
Kansas City,MO
Summary
Adaptable software engineering manager with a strong track record of efficiently managing multiple projects simultaneously. Skilled in streamlining operations and maximizing profitability. Emphasizes holistic and collaborative management strategies to drive success. Provides exceptional oversight and hands-on guidance to improve throughput figures and quality metrics.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Cox Automotive Inc.
03.2024 - Current
- Manager of multiple engineering teams developing integration applications between external and internal partners
- Efforts focused on utilizing existing patterns to simplify CI/CD and high level monitoring for increased observability/stability
- Successfully merged separate teams and code pipelines together to form a new team consisting of 50+ different microservice applications related to API development
- Combined microservices handle on average 41 million transactions per day, including throughput between applications
- Managed creation/support of new team for specifically developing on Cox Automotive wide shared data initiative
- Relatively focused team that was able to utilize existing patterns to enable quick turnaround for bulk onboarding/pilot efforts and continued focus on updating intra-company integrations for shared data compatibility
- Oversaw infrastructure upgrade from Terraform 0.X/custom K8S cluster to Terraform 1.X/EKS with fargate
- Successfully planned/managed completion of upgrade for entire ecosystem of apps within 2 quarters, while also developing 3 new feature items to production and handling production bug issues below company average turnaround
Software Engineering Manager
Cox Automotive Inc.
02.2022 - 03.2024
Lead Software Engineer
Xtime
01.2021 - 02.2022
- Designed partner notification system using AWS SNS topics for integrating platform data between multiple BUs in organization
- Lead engineering effort for common org shared data piloting
- Designed approach for scalable outbound transaction flow and eventing process heavily utilizing AWS API Gateway connected to an SQS queue
- Met quarterly goals to complete project scope ahead of deadline
- Lead external partner POC for eventing process
- Designed/implemented webhook approach using API Gateway and OAuth2 authorizer for security
- Worked with setting up structure for private GitHub action runners for future work with refactoring CI/CD approach
- Lead large refactor with database team to move pubsub model from AQ approach to a kinesis stream flow
- Created lambda process model -> SQS queue to handle processing kinesis messages at any scalable level (throughput tested 15k messages processed from kinesis on 15 seconds)
- Assigned work for creating required metrics to alert on any bottleneck issues through pipeline and a rollout plan for switching from current design
Senior Software Engineer
Xtime
12.2018 - 01.2021
- Build cloud native applications
- Fluent work in Java (Spring Boot framework) working with integration endpoints
- Experience building applications for SOAP, JSON, and JMS integration systems to handle thousands of messages concurrently
- Agile kubernetes developer, building applications inside docker images and deploying through helm templating
- Handle ingress and customizing ingress controllers for external access
- Work with 3rd party operators like KEDA for autoscaling features
- Handle AWS resource creation/management
- Create/maintain multiple lambda functions for authentication purposes (custom auth for AWS Managed SFTP), and S3 notifications
- Access management of S3 resources using IAM roles
- Build out Route53 entries for dns entry weighting
- Maintain infrastructure framework using Terraform and terragrunt
- Build out custom terraform modules to access/deploy all above resources and maintain state
Software Engineer II
Xtime
05.2016 - 12.2018
- Java app API and middleware development
- Manage existing application development through tier 4 support and QA bugfixes
- Develop new applications extending API connections or adding to existing apps with new behavior
- Backend admin page development with angular 2
Integration Systems Technician
Xtime
12.2012 - 05.2016
Tier 2 Support Specialist
Xtime
04.2012 - 12.2012
Assistant Manager
Outback Steakhouse
06.2012 - 04.2012
Editor in Chief
Limitless DROID
06.2010 - 09.2011
Education
No Degree -
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KSSkills
- Java (Spring, Kotlin, Quarkus), Javascript (Node, React), SQL (Oracle, MySQL), Python, bash
- Terraform and terragrunt for IoC
- Technical leadership
- Continuous deployment
- Cloud Software architecture - Focuses on Kubernetes and AWS support
- Security best practices
Personal Information
Title: Integration Software Manager
Timeline
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Cox Automotive Inc.
03.2024 - Current
Software Engineering Manager
Cox Automotive Inc.
02.2022 - 03.2024
Lead Software Engineer
Xtime
01.2021 - 02.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Xtime
12.2018 - 01.2021
Software Engineer II
Xtime
05.2016 - 12.2018
Integration Systems Technician
Xtime
12.2012 - 05.2016
Assistant Manager
Outback Steakhouse
06.2012 - 04.2012
Tier 2 Support Specialist
Xtime
04.2012 - 12.2012
Editor in Chief
Limitless DROID
06.2010 - 09.2011
No Degree -
University of Kansas
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