Shawn Brinkman
Kirkwood,MO
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented leader with over 15 years of experience in software development and architecture. Proven success in envisioning and directing the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and maintenance. Expert in delivering projects on time and within budget using agile methodologies and strategic initiatives. Recognized for developing systems and procedures that streamline operations, enhance performance, and reduce costs. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, strategic planning, and implementing best practice methodologies. Proven ability to improve delivery times, service levels, and efficiency while driving organizational success.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard
03.2023 - Current
- Designed, coded, tested, debugged and documented programs using agile development practices.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver comprehensive solutions for clients'' needs.
- Led a team of software engineers to successfully complete projects within deadlines, ensuring high-quality end products.
- Conducted thorough code reviews to maintain consistency, readability, and adherence to best practices.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering talent development and growth within Mastercard
- Enhanced user experience with intuitive interfaces that were easy to navigate and visually appealing.
DIRECTOR FRONT
Onwaterapp.com
2 2021 - 02.2023
- Migrated React application from GCP to AWS
- Migrated React Native Expo site to React CLI
- Dockered Application(NGINX/UI/API/POSTGRES)
- Created AWS lambda photo upload to s3 bucket
- Created VPC with private/public subnet and nat gateways
- Created monorepo for all UI components
- Created budget plan for transition from GCP to AWS
- Created 6 month roadmap of feature requests and enhancements.
DIRECTOR FRONT
Zayo
12.2018 - 02.2021
- Lead transition of UI from Angular to React zayo.com/tranzact
- Migrated site from Heroku to AWS
- Created AWS lamda to seed/read a Dynamodb
- Created AWS lamda for sign up read/write Dynamodb
- Created VPC with private/public subnet and nat gateways
- Created EC2 for headless CMS
- Built react component library with storybook
- Converted WordPress site to a Headless CMS with a React UI
- Collaborate with members of Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
- Optimize and simplify processes by analyzing business requirements and rebuilding existing solutions
- Set UI Standards for testing with jest/super test
- Created monorepo for all UI components
- Created budget plan for transition from angular to react
- Created 6 month roadmap of feature request and enhancements
- Created Zayo mobile app, React-Native,Sagas,Context.
NODE ARCHITECT/DEVELOPER
Alteryx
03.2017 - 12.2018
- Lead transition of services tier from monolithic C# to node.js microservices infrastructure
- Utilize Agile Scrum practices to help th team increase their velocity by 63% within th first year of Agile adopti
- Manage full SDLC, from ideation, to discovery, to execution, then to deployment
- Collaborate with members of Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
- Led cross-functional teams to gather functional requirements, dependencies and impacts business goals
- Developed React JSON driven input component
- Developed initiatives and business needs in Agile Scrum development method by delivering tested products in short sprint and responding quickly/easily to changes
- Optimize and simplify processes by analyzing business requirements and rebuilding existing solutions
- Built react component library with storybook.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SpireDigital
10.2016 - 03.2017
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Perficient
11.2015 - 10.2016
- Refactored, re-architected, and enhanced an existing AngularJS application to follow strict MVVM/MVC patterns for improved source code maintenance, 40% code reduction, ease of upgrade, scalability, ease of developer spin up, enhanced performance and offline with client caching
- Communicated with product designer on requirements gathering; project planning, design, implementation and testing
- Collaborated with Design and back-end team to raise related requirement and challenges
- Implemented the project methodically following the standard SDLC – requirements, design, development and deployment in both Android and iOS Platform
- Conducted quality assurance testing of software modifications and fixes
- Debugged and resolved critical software issues reported daily with rapid turnaround
- Worked with QA to understand the bugs and application issues
- Technology Environment: AngularJS (ES6 with babel) Grunt, Mocha, Karma.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONSULTANT)
HID Global
12.2014 - 11.2015
- Involved in requirements gathering and functional design
- Prepared functional design and technical design documents
- Analyzed and provided solutions for critical issues
- Worked with DBA's for DB specific changes
- Closely worked with business users to meet the requirements
- Recommended IT process solutions for improvement of current application functionality
- Involved with production deployment and post production support.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / MANAGER
DatuHealth
10.2013 - 10.2014
- Developed Personal/Clinical Heath portals utilizing Backbone, require, node.js, webrtc, grunt, bower, npm, python Set stanards/patterns for the redesign, MVC and event bus Built rest service using strongloop (node.js)
- Developed model schemes using mongoose stored in mongo Built robust real time messaging app using Node, sockjs, mongo (2 day hackathon)
- Tested code for robustness; executed edge cases and general reliability analysis
- Set up Mocha and Chai unit test for javascript
- Recommended efforts in defining characteristics, capabilities, inputs, outputs, and results necessary to describe the required functionality for the system.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
DatuHealth
03.2009 - 10.2013
- A123systems
- Designed User interface (dashboard) for grid stabilization system utilizing Ext.js, CSS, PHP Extended Stores/JSON Reader to handle the Ajax response from the C backend
- Created custom xtypes components for the grid, xtemplate, cell render
- Created long polling Ajax sending notifications (Racks, Inverters, HVAC, and Containers) to the UI
- Created Ext.js, php, openldap authentication module
- Created event tables to track user interaction with the UI
- Php, sqlite, PDO
- Extended the Store menu plug-in to handle push notifications from the backend
- Manage development life cycle, including the requirement analysis, prepare project plan, design application architecture, development, test and quality assurance.
SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER
Express Scripts
06.2007 - 03.2009
- Responsible for various phases of Deployment from Development to QA to Staging and finally into Production
- Interacted with subject matter experts to understand the business requirement and design the application accordingly
- Redesigned entire Express-scripts.com site, including layout, functionality, and navigation utilizing the J2EE, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery)
- Generated prototype in XML/XSLT for usability testing, production support on critical issues, and ensured all customer-facing material was implemented correctly and efficiently
- Generated custom (Flash) action script validation component, connection for Express Air Widget web service component, and custom user interface
- Utilized Agile delivery of software using practices from Scrum, eXtreme Programming, etc
- Established prototype widget using Flex 3 that allowed users to refill medication from desktop
- Troubleshot production issues, such as, threadlocking issues with a third party library xalan
- Helped maintain proprietary CMS system (Java, JSP)
- Managed Object oriented architecture, analysis, design and software development.
SENIOR FLEX DEVELOPER
MasterCard
11.2006 - 06.2007
SENIOR FLASH DEVELOPER/DESIGNER
MARITZ
05.2006 - 11.2006
SENIOR DESIGNER/DEVELOPER
Barnes Jewish Christian Hospital
11.2005 - 05.2006
SENIOR UI DESIGNER APPLICATION DEVELOPER
Citigroup
11.2003 - 11.2005
CONSULTANT LEAD
MONSANTO
09.2002 - 08.2003
- Web Master
FLASH DEVELOPER
Maritz
02.2001 - 08.2002
Education
COMPLETED COURSEWORK TOWARDS ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ANIMATION -
The Art Institute Phoenix
Phoenix, AZundefined
Integrated Technology Institute
Englewood, COSkills
Docker/Kubernetes
ES6,Node,React,React-Native,Angular
Oracle, MySQL, SQlite, Postgres, Mongo, NEO4j,Postgres
RabbitMQ/Kafi
CSS, HTML, CSS3,Sass, Less
AWS,EC2,EKS,APIgateway, VPC,Subnet,Terraform
Microservices Architecture
API Development
Software Architecture Design
Continuous Integration and Deployment
Mobile Application Development
Object-Oriented Programming
JIRA
Python
API Integration
JavaScript framework management
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard
03.2023 - Current
DIRECTOR FRONT
Zayo
12.2018 - 02.2021
NODE ARCHITECT/DEVELOPER
Alteryx
03.2017 - 12.2018
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SpireDigital
10.2016 - 03.2017
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Perficient
11.2015 - 10.2016
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONSULTANT)
HID Global
12.2014 - 11.2015
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / MANAGER
DatuHealth
10.2013 - 10.2014
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
DatuHealth
03.2009 - 10.2013
SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER
Express Scripts
06.2007 - 03.2009
SENIOR FLEX DEVELOPER
MasterCard
11.2006 - 06.2007
SENIOR FLASH DEVELOPER/DESIGNER
MARITZ
05.2006 - 11.2006
SENIOR DESIGNER/DEVELOPER
Barnes Jewish Christian Hospital
11.2005 - 05.2006
SENIOR UI DESIGNER APPLICATION DEVELOPER
Citigroup
11.2003 - 11.2005
CONSULTANT LEAD
MONSANTO
09.2002 - 08.2003
FLASH DEVELOPER
Maritz
02.2001 - 08.2002
DIRECTOR FRONT
Onwaterapp.com
2 2021 - 02.2023
COMPLETED COURSEWORK TOWARDS ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ANIMATION -
The Art Institute Phoenix
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Integrated Technology Institute
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