mjpowersjr

primary role as full stack web development in a devops environment on a combination of established and greenfield projects. worked directly with stakeholders and security officers to design solutions that balanced ux & technical security constraints. provided continuous mentorship to junior developers on our teams, using pair programming, code reviews, and presentations as opportunities to help share knowledge. often tasked to rapidly build prototypes that required short turnaround. contributed towards large effort government proposals. often conducted interviews to help prime on contract identify candidates for various outstanding contract positions. designed and implemented a collaborative professional networking service that balanced the need to share information in a group setting while maintaining need-to-know access controls to protect data based on customer requirements. developing multiple custom grails framework plugins and customizing existing open source plugins to support intranet development environment and custom security constraints. experience designing rbac & abac based data protection strategies deployed to production environments in secured enclaves. responsible for routine linux server maintenance, configuration changes, and optimizations (rhel environment). optimized database performance using a combination of replacing storage backends, optimizing queries, and creating targeted indices after profiling query usage patterns. experience integrating with x.509 client / server certificate authentication infrastructure with apache, tomcat, and custom client applications (pki authentication). successfully adapt multiple closed source / proprietary projects to work with established x.509 authentication (using shared http sessions, custom proxies, etc.). experience working with multiple established open source web projects (bug fixes, testing, feature requests, user support, and documentation). good understanding of tcp/ip / udp network communication. experience using wireshark to diagnose and resolve network issues. produced deep insight into how distributed systems worked through structured logging and custom software to embed unique request ids into stack traces & orm generated sql queries (early proprietary form of trace ids / distributed tracing.).