Personal details
Jonathan G.
Summary
Summary:
Computer Science Bachelors Degree from New York University, 2004
17 years of hands-on software engineering experience in corporate Manhattan offices. 9 years of Java programming in addition to 8 years of managing technology teams. Projects include: HBO GO (API Team, 7 years), Macmillan LaunchPad, Citigroup Private Bank, Schoology.
Hands-on coding:
Senior Engineer for API Design and Implementation in Java.
Expert in Oracle and MySQL database design and implementation.
Technology skill set:
- reverse engineering old web sites
- root cause analysis of hard-to-solve bugs
- master in integration solutions like adding a video player or making 2+ systems talk to each other
- adding shopping carts to old web sites
- adding new technologies to old web sites
- upgrading the look & feel of old web sites without throwing the whole thing away
- adding a paywall to web sites
- creating blogs
- managing software engineering teams that are stuck
- getting projects out the door when momentum is lacking
Testing:
Professional experience in continuous integration solutions for unit testing and automation: Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity.
Management:
Implementer of best practices across software engineering teams including training on: business requirements documentation, technical specifications (Confluence), test case writing, test bank management, QA testing, software task management and bug tracking (JIRA), code review (GitHub), Git branch strategies (i.e. Gitflow), Git branching and forking.