Jesse Anderson
Summary
Jesse is a self-motivated full stack software engineer, architect, and team lead with a wide range of skills and experiences in different tech stacks, language, platforms, and frameworks. As a self-taught engineer, Jesse has a unique ability to learn new technologies, allowing him to rapidly gain practical understandings in highly complex systems and swiftly become an effective, value-adding team member. Additionally, Jesse has a rare theoretical background in philosophy, which enables him to strike an elegant balance between technical software design and pragmatic implementations to address strategic business needs in a timely manner. Lastly, with an understanding of collective action, Jesse has a proven track record of agile project planning, decomposing business requirements, and managing teams to meet rigid deadlines.
Experience
2021-2022
Side Inc.
Software Engineer | remote
- Built tooling to optimize development workflow for distributed teams in a microservice environment
- Designed event-driven architecture using Managed Kafka through Confluent Cloud and spearheaded research and implementation phase with focus on decoupling the system architecture
- Maintained node packages and extending functionality in TypeScript for NextJS UI, Fastify API, and core CLI tools that integrate with GCP
2018-2021
Rackspace Technology
Software Developer III | remote
- Lead architect and developer in Managed Public Cloud for Azure offering responsible for mentoring, coaching, and managing numerous projects that enable thousands of globally distributed rackers the ability to serve customers
- Built highly scalable REST API microservices and serverless applications in AWS and Azure that enabled resell, billing, and management of Azure infrastructure using NodeJS, ReactJS, Terraform, and Jenkins DevOps
- Migrated monolithic Azure App Services to orchestrated serverless solutions and containerized AWS solution using Lambdas, Step Functions, and Fargate
- Planned, successfully executed, and delivered next generation automations and tooling using a proven agile development methodology
- Led countless requirements gathering sessions with Product Owners and end-users to understand business needs, write technical specifications, and prototype solutions influence the direction of the Azure offering
- Created dozens of Bash and Node scripts for handling a variety of business and compliance tasks including PCI and SOX
2016-2018
Presence LLC
Senior Software Developer | St. Petersburg, FL
- Built central form generation framework and interactive client-side builder allowing for completely custom automated data entry and entity automations that served as the foundation for all content in SaaS for student affairs professionals that managed over 100K yearly events for college campuses around the US
- Created .NET Core microservices using C#, AngularJS, CosmosDb, and Azure App Services
- Created JavaScript UI Grid framework allowing for vertical-scaling grid elements allowing for stackable, incongruent grid layouts
- Built user-programmable logic framework for developing highly complex forms for entity creation allowing for over 40+ custom fields, widgets, and complex automations to streamline campus processes and student retention practices
2015-2016
Bayshore Solutions
Senior Software Developer | Tampa, FL
- Built custom web applications using .NET/C# for businesses in the Tampa Bay area, meeting with clients to determine business requirements
- Modernized traditional software development shop to run in a more agile manner
- Responsible for interfacing with customers, conducting strategic requirements gathering meetings, and proposing software architecture
2012-2015
AMPACC Law Group
IT Specialist | Mountlake Terrace, WA
- Responsible for all, base-metal, and on-prem in-house IT operations including maintaining internal network domain
- Created in-house Patent Case Management system, which saw two iterations over its life. First as a monolithic .NET MVC web application, the second as a service-oriented WPF native-Windows application integrating with SAML SSO.
Education
August, 2010
Portland State University
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B.S. in Philosophy / Political Science Cum Laude Honors
- Concentrations: Philosophy of Mind and American Political Thought
- Involvement: Student Government, College Newspaper, Philosophy Club, McNair Scholars Program
June, 2006
Valencia Community College
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A.A. in Humanities
- Concentrations: Philosophy
- Involvement: Amnesty International
Technical Skills
- JavaScript
- NodeJS
- Kafka / EDD
- ReactJS
- Golang
- AWS
- Azure / AWS / GCP
- C#
- .NET Framework / .NET Core
- SQL
- NoSQL
- GoLang
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- ARM Templates
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Github Actions
- Docker
- Lambdas
- Azure Functions
- Step Functions
- Agile
- Bash
- PowerShell
Other Skills
- Project Management
- Debate
- Presentation / Public Speaking
- Team Leadership