Julie Wetherbee
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Architecture Developer
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Toptal member since August 21, 2015
Julie has over 20 years of experience building software applications and leading engineering teams for businesses of all sizes. She has expertise in Java, JavaScript, C, C++, and Perl, and is familiar with many popular frameworks. Recently, Julie designed and implemented a large-scale Oracle database sharding solution for Walmart.com.
Portfolio
Experience
- C++ - 15 years
- Perl - 15 years
- Java - 10 years
- Software Development Management - 8 years
- Technical Leadership - 8 years
- REST APIs - 8 years
- Software Architecture - 8 years
- Node.js - 4 years
Work Experience
Chief Software Architect
Anonos
- Led architecture and development for a suite of data privacy products.
- Implemented data privacy applications and SaaS services.
- Implemented plugin integrations for ETL products like Pentaho Data Integration.
- Managed the company's global Amazon Web Services environment.
- Worked directly with sales prospects and customers to demo, evangelize, implement, and integrate our products.
Principal Software Engineer
Walmart Labs
- Designed and developed a distributed data transformation pipeline for custom endpoints (e.g., sending and transforming data from Oracle to Graphite for monitoring database performance), using Java.
- Created an application suite to safely and automatically load-balance data among database shards in a home-grown sharding system using Java.
- Architected and built a next-generation “Do What I Mean” data access layer that makes back-end storage systems opaque to the front-end application developer, using Java, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra.
- Orchestrated my team’s Agile roadmap planning, software lifecycle, builds, continuous integration, testing, service integration efforts, and deployment.
- Represented my team and our ideas in front of various audiences, including the company’s architecture board and executive leadership.
Principal Application Engineer
LiveOps, Inc.
- Designed the next-generation version of the real-time monitoring product.
- Designed and implemented LiveOps’s first external single sign-on service and external API.
- Contributed significantly to a team design for LiveOps’s first phone call and human operator management API.
- Improved and maintained the LiveOps Access Control Service, a PCI- and HIPAA-compliant, RESTful Perl service that provided internal access to account security information.
- Built the second-generation version of LiveOps’s Dubber product, a distributed Perl application responsible for transcoding recordings of tens of thousands of phone calls each day.
Proprietary Equity Trader
ECHOtrade
- Executed manual and automatic day trades of NYSE-listed equity issues.
- Analyzed and forecasted market trends and developed algorithms for future trading and investment strategies using Perl and PostgreSQL.
- Earned a SEC Series #7 General Securities Registered Representative license.
Engineering Consultant
Watts Radiant
- Designed and developed CAD software and algorithms in C# for optimizing layout of the company’s flagship heating products in new and renovated construction.
- Communicated regularly with mechanical engineers and marketing managers to determine software specifications and design parameters based on previous usability studies.
Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
- Participated in the design of a spiral-finned magnetic micro-capsule for performing endoscopy, biopsy, ablation, and other medical tasks in the human intestinal tract.
- Designed and developed the C++ software control system for a bank of electromagnets that had the ability to move the aforementioned micro-capsule about its rotational axis in order to allow it to navigate the human body.
Owner
Purplehost.net
- Owned and operated a small-scale, Linux-based web, FTP, and email hosting company based on Perl and PostgreSQL.
Firmware Engineer
Anritsu Corporation
- Developed VxWorks-based embedded systems software, using C++ and Perl, to gather and transmit detailed instrumentation data during 1xEV-DO and CDMA2000 mobile device proving tests.
Webmaster
The UTD Mercury
- Transitioned a student newspaper’s entire website, archive, and associated data into a third-party-hosted publishing solution, using Perl for data import, transformation, and export.
Engineer
Signalogic
- Implemented a 2D block-diagram development platform for composing entire embedded software applications by visually connecting blocks of code, using C++, MFC, and a variety of Texas Instruments DSP hardware.
Project History
US Patent 10043035: Systems and Methods for Enhancing Data Protection by Anonosizing Structured and Unstructured Data and Incorporating Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Classical and Quantum Computing Environments
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10043035B2/enEducation
Master of Science Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University - Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics
University of Texas - Texas
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Node.js, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library, kundera, DBIx::Class, jQuery, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
Tools
Eclipse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio, CVS, Subversion (SVN), Git, IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Gradle, AWS OpsWorks, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Apache HTTP Server, Travis CI, AWS SDK, AWS IAM, GTK+, Apache Solr, Vim Text Editor, Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle), Mercurial, Chef
Languages
Bash, C++, Java, Perl, SQL, C, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C#, Ruby
Frameworks
Dropwizard, Jersey, Boost, Hibernate, OAuth 2, .NET, OSGi, Google Web Toolkit, Apache Spark, LibGDX, Dancer, Ruby on Rails 5
Paradigms
Concurrent Programming, Scrum, Agile Software Development, Waterfall Development, REST, ETL, Serverless Architecture
Platforms
Linux, Amazon EC2, Apache2, AWS Lambda, MacOS, Eclipse, VxWorks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Oracle
Storage
PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra
Other
Software Architecture, Software Development Management, DNS, Servers, Security, Leadership, Technical Leadership, Networks, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Privacy, Amazon Route 53, Architecture, Cryptography, TI DSP C2000, EVDO, SOAP, OpenID Connect (OIDC), LiveOps
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