Thomas Powell Professional Resume

Thomas Powell

Senior Technical Leader

thomaspowell.com/about
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Objective

Dedicated and experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager looking for the opportunity to bring 20+ years' experience with programming, architecture, technology engineering, and leadership to a Software Engineering Manager role.

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Current Role
Senior Principal Engineer
Progress, Chef Infra Client • 05/2022 - Present
  • 🔧 Troubleshooting Windows builds for Chef 18 release and stabilizing the build
  • 👥 Community PR and Issue Triage
  • 🏗️ "Ad Hoc" Jobs architecture and development in Golang
  • 🐛 Solve complex setup and trace problems with Ruby, packaging, and target operating systems
  • 💻 AIX: Building of libarchive solutions
  • 🖥️ Windows: Solving heap memory errors, OpenSSL FIPS issues, time zone loading fixes
  • ☀️ Solaris: Resolving patch version mismatches between customer fleets and build systems
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Healthcare Technology
Sr Software Engineer / Support Team Lead
Everly Health • 03/2021 - 04/2022
  • 👨‍🏫 Mentoring new junior engineers in support, ActiveRecord and SQL queries, and DevOps
  • 🔗 Mirth and HL7 messaging support
  • 📊 Prioritization of support concerns and automation analysis
  • 🚀 Legacy Rails app Labs Module enhancements and build stabilization
  • 🔒 Compass Project: Adding Rack::Middleware and log formatters for sensitive data filtering
  • ☁️ Datica to LogicWorks (EKS) migration with helm charts and Datadog configuration
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Management Experience
SR Software Engineering Manager
Appriss Health • 08/2018 - 03/2021
  • 👥 Remote manager of up to 13 US and Warsaw-based developers
  • 🏛️ Architecture Design Sessions for technical debt management
  • ⬆️ Rails 5 Upgrade leadership
  • 🎯 Interviewing for Director of Engineering, Manager, and Software Engineering roles
  • 🔄 Migration of Legacy Prescription Management Program to Vue.js
  • 📈 Performance debugging with New Relic and AWS Performance Insights
  • 🔧 Site Reliability Engineering team management with Sumologic and New Relic
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Healthcare Development
Software Engineer III - IV
Appriss Health • 07/2012 - 08/2018
  • 🏗️ Co-developed flagship Prescription Management Program serving 43 state configurations
  • 📊 Scaled to billions of rows of data in PostgreSQL
  • 🔌 Co-developed PMP API "Gateway" for pharmacy and health system integrations
  • 🌿 Led team developing Medical Marijuana Registry for Ohio
  • 📱 Led Xamarin mobile app development with AWS Cognito and React + .NET core
  • 📚 Led team book reads and discussions (Exceptional Ruby, POODR)
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Enterprise Experience
Intern to Solutions Architect
Yum Brands • 05/1996 - 07/2012
  • 📈 Promoted through multiple roles from co-op student to Solutions Architect
  • ☕ Java developer supporting EAI processes with JCAPS 6/Java Web Services/JMS/DB2
  • 🏗️ Solutions Architecture including social media training and Microsoft BI analysis
  • 🔍 Enterprise Search with IBM OmniFind integration to SharePoint and WebSphere
  • 💳 Credit card and gift card POS integration and business analysis
  • 🎯 Mobile ordering proof of concept with POS integration
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Education
Master of Engineering, Computer Engineering & Computer Science
University of Louisville • Fall 2003 • Graduated with Honors
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Louisville • Spring 2000
Technical Skills
Team Leadership
Legacy Apps Support
Ruby/Rails (10+ years)
AWS Certified 4X
Healthcare Tech
Restaurant POS & BOH
Golang
PostgreSQL
Vue.js
Docker/Kubernetes
DevOps
Architecture Design
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AWS Certifications
  • 🏅 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01) - 03/21/2022
  • 🔧 AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C01) - 03/23/2021
  • 👨‍💻 AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C01) - 01/26/2021
  • 🏗️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) - 12/01/2020
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