Britney Bogard
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Utrecht, Netherlands
Toptal member since March 29, 2019
Britney has extensive experience utilizing the AWS ecosystem of tools to build reliable, scalable, and expansive web services. She excels at turning ambiguous use cases into detailed technical requirements. Britney joined Toptal to work with companies that make data-driven decisions and value the delivery of functional, tested, and quality code over all else.
Portfolio
Experience
- Java - 6 years
- AWS CloudFormation - 4 years
- Serverless Architecture - 3 years
- Node.js - 2 years
- AWS Lambda - 2 years
- React - 2 years
- Java 8 - 2 years
- Serverless Framework - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Serverless Framework, Java, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was an Elasticsearch cluster for organizing and utilizing client metrics and operational logging for my Cloud9 team at Amazon.
Work Experience
Senior Software Development Engineer
ThinkReservations
- Refactored and upgraded integration with Airbnb, including listening and reacting bidirectionally to events happening in the ThinkReservations service and Airbnb.
- Implemented new reactive integration with HotelTonight, managing bidirectional events between ThinkReservations and HotelTonight.
- Designed and worked on EMV integration to allow hotels to take EMV payments integrated with our service.
Freelance Software Developer
Curious Reactor
- Bootstrapped a beta application for customer data retrieval and research.
- Used existing specs and worked with founders to reduce the scope and define a short-term proof of concept (POC).
- Built a stack including the web HTML and JavaScript, an admin panel in React, and a back-end using AWS technologies, including Lambda, DynamoDb, SQS, SNS, GraphQL, and Serverless Framework.
Software Development Engineer
AWS Cloud9
- Onboarded Cloud9 to the AWS infrastructure and prepared it for launch, including EC2, CodeDeploy, load testing, and canary creation.
- Created an Elasticsearch infrastructure for the management of logs and business metrics using AWS Elasticsearch, SNS, JavaScript, Lambda, and Kibana.
- Designed and implemented a full-stack reporting solution for an internal CMS using Java, JavaScript, Dynamo, and S3.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Maintained a legacy CMS product utilized by 70,000 people, including an Oracle and Solr back-end.
- Developed a high-level, fully auditable, eventually consistent document store using Java and AWS services.
- Designed, developed, and launched a reporting solution for an internal sprint developer and operations tool.
Experience
Curious Reactor Beta Product
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Spring REST, AWS Amplify, Vue
Tools
AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS CLI, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS AppSync, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, MySQL
Languages
Java, Java 8, HTML, GraphQL, TypeScript, JavaScript
Frameworks
Serverless Framework, Spring, Spring Boot
Paradigms
Serverless Architecture
Other
API Gateways
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