Reza Rezaian, Developer in San Rafael, CA, United States
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Reza Rezaian

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Back-end Developer

Location
San Rafael, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 18, 2020

Reza is an accomplished back-end Microsoft engineer with expertise in C#, .NET Core, .NET, Microsoft SQL, WPF, and REST API. He has worked for the last 10 years in fintech and he is a subject matter expert on insurance tracking for lending institutions. Reza's solutions have enabled companies to significantly increase revenue and customer service efficiency and decrease costs.

SQLLINQXML.NETC#C#.NETJSON.NET CoreREST APIsASP.NET Web APIMicrosoft SQL ServerC#.NET WinFormsLINQ to SQLAgileASP.NET

Portfolio

Freelance
SQL, Postman, .NET Core, REST APIs, Azure API Management, Azure Functions...
Allied Solutions
.NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)...
Kurt Kesler & Associates
LINQ to SQL, C#.NET WinForms, C#.NET, Microsoft SQL Server

Experience

Microsoft SQL Server - 15 years.NET - 10 yearsC# - 10 yearsJSON - 5 yearsWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - 5 yearsASP.NET Web API - 3 yearsREST APIs - 3 years.NET Core - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Skype, Slack, Windows

The most amazing...

...project I've done was to redesign and rebuild a legacy DOS-based insurance tracking service to a more current web-based solution using C#/MS SQL/LINQ to SQL.

Work Experience

Senior Software Architect/Engineer

2020 - PRESENT
Freelance
  • Mapped HL7 medical record data into a customized Azure SQL schema using Azure Functions Blob Trigger.
  • Derived a cost-effective solution via Azure Functions and Azure Storage to provide a REST API for file transfers.
  • Integrated the client's system with a third-party REST API, using .NET Core 3.1 to efficiently import and export medical record data.
  • Created a WPF desktop application in C# and .NET to seamlessly manipulate and read file content.
Technologies: SQL, Postman, .NET Core, REST APIs, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Blob Storage API, C#

Senior Software Architect

2014 - PRESENT
Allied Solutions
  • Designed and implemented a REST API using .NET Core 3.1, MS SQL, and C# to integrate a borrower self-service website with Salesforce Marketing Cloud content delivery services.
  • Delivered REST-based services to integrate modules driving the company’s transition from manual data entry to automation via optical character recognition (OCR). OCR is gauged to result in a 40% gain in customer service efficiency.
  • Built a WPF tool to facilitate the comparison of OCR data entry against manual data entry to decrease manual testing hours by more than 50%.
  • Implemented a WPF desktop application for internal users to seamlessly construct transactional data for partnering companies.
  • Developed a C# MVC website module providing drag-n-drop dynamic document construction for the company’s internet quick quote (IQQ) product.
Technologies: .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), REST APIs, C#.NET

Applications Developer

2011 - 2014
Kurt Kesler & Associates
  • Led a team of three developers to complete a two-year redesign, rebuild, and launch of the company’s main business software platform (WinTraq) using ASP.NET, C#, SQL, and LINQ.
  • Designed and implemented a data conversion process to import financial data into WinTraq from two different insurance tracking platforms.
  • Served as the SME and main contact during a six-month process to convert financial data from WinTraq into Allied Solution's application, UniTrac. This was part of the company's acquisition by Allied.
  • Incorporated an Interop API to architect cyclical processes and nightly report generation, enabling the company to increase revenue by 40%. The impact of the advanced analysis reports positioned the company for acquisition by Allied Solutions.
  • Automated outgoing customer service calls by faxing requests using FACSYS and MS Exchange, thereby increasing company-wide performance by 20%.
  • Engineered a matching algorithm for unable to locate (UTL) records in incomplete financial documents, resulting in a 10% uptick in customer service efficiency.
Technologies: LINQ to SQL, C#.NET WinForms, C#.NET, Microsoft SQL Server

Sofware Engineer

2001 - 2011
Freelance
  • Worked on development projects with California Mortgage, Merck, Pacific Capital Mortgage, and The Tony Awards.
  • Collaborated closely with clients to develop custom applications that met specifications.
  • Developed and integrated back-end, web-based tools to enable dynamic data feeds using ASP, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL, and IIS.
Technologies: IIS, JavaScript, Microsoft Access, SQL, C#, Visual Basic

Software Engineer

1999 - 2000
MarketTools (Now Owned by Conformit)
  • Upgraded the JavaScript-based nGauge application into a robust SaaS product.
  • Translated and optimized client-side JavaScript into server-side VB modules.
  • Played a key role in the development of the zIntelligence application and coded a Java-based object library for a regular expression parser.
Technologies: JavaScript, Java, VBScript, VB

Salesforce Marketing Cloud REST API Integration

An insurance tracking website for customers to submit active insurance policies. As a back-end developer, I authored a .NET Core/REST API solution to encapsulate and simplify functionality from the Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC). The core functionality was to deliver email via SFMC content management, populate a messaging queue, process the message queue by running various insurance matching algorithms, and, finally, trigger a secondary email based on these results.

Languages

XML, C#, SQL, C#.NET, Visual Basic, JavaScript, VB, VBScript, Java

Frameworks

.NET Core, .NET, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, LINQ, Azure Blob Storage API, Azure API Management

Paradigms

REST, Agile, Microservices Architecture, Microservices

Storage

JSON, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Databases, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Cosmos DB

Other

APIs, Architecture, IIS 10, IIS, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

C#.NET WinForms, LINQ to SQL, TFS, Git, Azure Key Vault, Slack, Skype, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Postman, Microsoft Access

Platforms

Azure, Azure Functions, Windows

1995 - 1999

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA, USA

JULY 2019 - PRESENT

Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

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