Personal details

Jayson M. - Remote back-end developer

Jayson M.

Principal Engineer
Timezone: Central America (UTC-6)

Summary

I am a well-rounded software developer that covers many development languages, frameworks, tools, infrastructure and cloud providers. Some of my top areas of focus include Java / Kotlin for languages (but I touch many more including TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Scala, Golang), any SQL database, most NoSQL engines (including MongoDB), Solr / Elasticsearch (expert in both), and working in the Cloud with AWS, Azure, and more recently with Google Cloud.

My top skills are currently: Data Engineering, Back-end development (Microservices, REST, GraphQL), Search, Analytics, Cloud (AWS/Azure/others), and the Kotlin Language.

Personal Projects

Summon - web scale search system for researchIconOpenNewWindows
2008
Java
SQL
Cassandra
Big Data
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
Apache Solr
Apache Hadoop
Linguistics
Chief Architect and developer for Summon, a product built for ProQuest (SerialSolutions) to provide a search and research system over a billion academic documents. More about Summon: Summon has won the 2011 CODiE Award for Best Enterprise Search Solution by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Responsible for architecture and leading development since the proof of concept. The Summon™ unified discovery service allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content. It goes beyond federated search, beyond next-generation catalogs to create an all-new service for libraries. Through one simple search, it provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content that's the hallmark of great libraries - digital and print, audio and video, single articles to entire e-journals, and every format in between.