Brian Roberts

Remotely developing software in financial services and other domains using microservices, event sourcing, Scala, Java 8, React and other tools.

Used Agile, event sourcing, pair-programming, and functional programming to develop Scala- and Java-based web services with MongoDB, Play Framework, Akka, MySQL, Bootstrap and other interesting technologies in the financial services domain. Extracted key components of legacy monolithic application into high-availability microservices. Built new greenfield applications to explore new potential areas of business. Built data pipeline for computing daily stock recommendations based on public and proprietary input data.

Increasing responsibilities over tenure, starting from individual contributor through technical lead responsible for up to 12 developers, building software prototypes, research projects and demos for defense contracts. Consistently released stable framework for over 3 years in agile manner, adding new features while maintaining backwards compatibility. Leveraged OSGi to rapidly create componentized system with replaceable modules. Increased performance over 100-fold for scheduling algorithm implementation, by using more efficient data structure and reducing redundant object creation.