Software Developer in Austin, TX, United States

In my time at The CodeWorks, I built the initial version of an application we called “VMS Express.” This product allowed staffing agencies to integrate with the Vendor Management System of large employers to provide two-way integration between the many VMS installations and the staffing firm’s applicant tracking system. This means that as jobs appeared in a VMS they would be automatically populated in the ATS and as candidates were proposed for the job in the ATS, they would be pushed back to the VMS. This saved the staffing firms an amazing amount of time by completely eliminating a large amount of routine data entry and allowed for greater productivity as staffing employees could work exclusively in the ATS.

What made this application interesting is that none of the VMS products provided APIs. This means that all of the integration was accomplished with web scraping. I built all of the integration pipelines to handle the input and output with all of the various VMS products and with the ATS. The system was designed to be very modular with adapters for both the VMS and ATS and a scriptable data mapping layer.

At TubeMogul, I worked with a small team to create and integrate a new fees module into the TubeMogul infrastructure. This Java-based module handles the fine-grained application of fees to the millions of billable events that occur in the platform every day. It carefully prevents any floating point math errors as applicable fees are applied. In addition, the module handles REST API lookups with caching for its high performance requirements.

Passbox, LLC was a startup aimed at creating an in-store loyalty network at convenience stores in the US. I worked on a team with two other engineers to create the platform from the ground up. The system included custom POS software, an Android tablet application, a cross platform phone application, and the cloud-based server.

The Java-based server application handled events from the stores to calculate and award points, award prizes and instant rewards, publish information and images to the in-store Android tablets, and handle communication with users (email/text). There was also a web based administrative UI to allow configuration by Passbox and client administrators.

The server utilized SVG image processing to display dynamic images on the in-store tablets allowing for an immersive and customized experience to the end-users.