Alex Thomas, Software Developer in Atlanta, GA, United States
Alex Thomas

Software Developer in Atlanta, GA, United States

Member since November 4, 2022
Alex is a highly resourceful, flexible, and innovative software engineer who's self-motivated and passionate about developing technology applications. He has a solid track record of working on high-quality, performant enterprise applications from planning to production and delivering effective solutions to high-value business needs. Alex is willing to embrace new challenging projects that allow him to push his skills to the limits.
Alex is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Atlanta, GA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, MacOS, Vim Text Editor, IntelliJ IDEA, Spring, CSS, HTML, APIs, REST APIs, Elasticsearch, Docker

The most amazing...

...thing I've done was overhaul a large enterprise application's authentication and authorization patterns in a single week.

Employment

  • Senior Full-stack Developer

    2016 - PRESENT
    Norfolk Southern
    • Developed an application that identified, categorized, and reported data discrepancies across multiple data silos to provide customers with accurate data.
    • Created a user management application for an enterprise customer portal.
    • Rearchitected and led the development of business-critical applications, including monolithic stack apps and microservices running on Kubernetes.
    • Optimized poor-performing services across multiple teams to ensure delivery within service-level agreements (SLA).
    • Built an application to monitor best practice compliance across multiple projects.
    Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Apache Cassandra, Spring Data, JBoss EAP, Microsoft SQL Server, Angular, Svelte, IBM Db2, Spotfire, Datadog, API Gateways, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Microservices, JavaScript, Full-stack, TypeScript, Spring, CSS, HTML, APIs, REST APIs, Elasticsearch, Docker, SQL
  • Software Development Trainee

    2013 - 2016
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    • Converted the HP Enterprise Services request manager to a responsive design.
    • Exported the HP Enterprise Services catalog to an Excel document.
    • Worked on the digital customer experience of the HP Enterprise Services catalog.
    • Handled the enterprise software server troubleshooting.
    Technologies: Angular, AngularJS, Microsoft SQL Server, HP Service Manager, C#.NET, JavaScript, Node.js, Full-stack, CSS, HTML, Docker, SQL

Experience

  • DND Price App
    https://dnd-price-app.alexk8s.com/

    A Svelte app for fictional price lookups. I worked on this project as a full-stack developer, managing requirements, picking the toolset, and developing the application. This application provides an intuitive search experience to users who want to look up the price of an item in the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.

Skills

  • Languages

    Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, C#.NET
  • Frameworks

    Spring Boot, Spring, Angular, Svelte, AngularJS, Tailwind CSS
  • Libraries/APIs

    REST APIs, Node.js
  • Platforms

    Kubernetes, Docker, JBoss EAP, Red Hat OpenShift, Firebase, Linux, MacOS
  • Storage

    Spring Data, Microsoft SQL Server, Datadog, Elasticsearch, IBM Db2
  • Other

    Full-stack, APIs, Apache Cassandra, API Gateways, Vercel
  • Paradigms

    Microservices
  • Tools

    Spotfire, HP Service Manager, Vim Text Editor, IntelliJ IDEA

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