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STEPHANIE FOSKITT

Buffalo,NY

Summary

Hardworking software engineering professional with 12 years experience. Ready and motivated to find the next outstanding who is ready and motivated to find the next challenge.

Objective: Make outstanding contributions on an outstanding team creating outstanding products.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Cox Automotive
03.2022 - 09.2024
  • Architected the ETL pipeline to filter 800,000 records per month using Snowflake, AWS services (Athena, Glue, more)
  • Modified the monolithic back end service to accommodate the 10 new endpoints required to query and retrieve the ETL data
  • Wrote more than half of the Terraform required to create the AWS infrastructure for the ETL
  • On-call support and debugging for the existing Kubernetes containers running on AWS EKS
  • Led the team migrating an existing Confluent pipeline to AWS Kafka pipeline
  • Contributed to conversion from Jenkins CI/CD to GitHub Actions by writing actions and workflows for 6 repositories
  • Mentored junior engineers and incoming team members

Software Engineer II

Bizrate Insights, a Meredith Company
04.2017 - 02.2022
  • Back end microservice and API development in Java with Spring (2020-2022)
  • Front end development with React (2017 – 2020)
  • Heavy AWS infrastructure development in EC2, CodeDeploy, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation and more
  • Maintenance of existing services and scripts in Python
  • Familiarity with Zeppelin, Airflow, SonarQube and more

Front End Developer

Vroozi
10.2015 - 02.2017
  • Test-driven feature development and bug fixes for the company's primary product, Purchasing Manager, using AngularJS 1.5, NodeJS, MongoDB, and Jasmine
  • Research issues on the company's secondary product, SmartOCI, and provide recommendation for fixes

Software Developer I

National Western Life Insurance Company
09.2013 - 02.2015
  • HTML/CSS/Javascript changes to external company web sites upon request from Marketing and Underwriting departments
  • XLNT scripting for ActiveBatch job automation, development and management
  • Active management of 15-20 products and state-required insurance forms on SQL database with Microsoft SQL Server
  • Wrote Javascript code that validated HTML against an XML list of agents' ID numbers to produce alternative text on company's external website based on user login
  • Track down and squash bugs in 2.5GB C# code base using Visual Studio 2013

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Texas State University
Round Rock, TX
08-2023

Completion - Advanced Software Engineering

MakerSquare Immersive
Austin, TX
05.2015

MOS 74B - Information Technology

U.S. Army Advanced Individual Training
Fort Gordon, Augusta, GA
05-2000

Skills

  • AWS Services including: Lambda, EC2 (minimal here, maximal at Bizrate), RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Athena, EMR, MSK (managed streaming for Kafka), Glue, Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, EKS, AppSync, CloudFront, Route53, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, IAM, CloudWatch
  • Soft skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, team leadership, creative problem solving, collaboration within and outside the team, accountability and adaptability
  • Languages: Java, Javascript, React 16, Python, Scala
  • Other Technologies: Snowflake, Terraform, SonarQube, Airflow, Spring Boot 3, GitHub Actions, Kafka

Accomplishments

    Cox Auto nVision

  • Auto dealership sales, inventory, and advertising data aggregated and rendered in a visualization web app
  • Primary responsibilities were in the back end data pipeline, ETL, and monolithic service layers.
  • Bizrate Insights Vital Signs

  • Online retailers' shopper survey data aggregated and rendered in a visualization web app
  • Responsible for both front-end React components and reports, as well as the back-end microservice modifications and database maintenance
  • Vroozi Purchase Manager

  • Procure-to-pay platform for B2B procurement transactions
  • Feature development and bug fixes
  • TDD with Jasmine and Mocha

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Cox Automotive
03.2022 - 09.2024

Software Engineer II

Bizrate Insights, a Meredith Company
04.2017 - 02.2022

Front End Developer

Vroozi
10.2015 - 02.2017

Software Developer I

National Western Life Insurance Company
09.2013 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Texas State University

Completion - Advanced Software Engineering

MakerSquare Immersive

MOS 74B - Information Technology

U.S. Army Advanced Individual Training
STEPHANIE FOSKITT