Alexander Lemkin

Full Stack Web Developer

alemkin.com

[email protected]

github.com/Alemkin

Netchex

Software Architect

Nov. 2019 - Present

  • C#, dotnet core, JavaScript, React, Redux, ASP, Angular, .Net, Sql Server, Git, Azure, Redis
  • Promoted to architect after proving myself to be a reliable source of innovation and architectural patterns
  • Actively engage in the developer community, attending hackathons as mentor, speaker and participant, to speaking at and participating in developer conferences, and have events sponsored by Netchex where possible to increase outreach and recognition
  • Trusted with the interview process of dozens of developer candidates since July 2019, all prospective candidates being interviewed by myself and fellow Architect
  • Hired over a dozen developers that continue to deliver high value and innovation across all applications
  • Built out, maintain, and innovate on most of the architecture used across the UI and API of all new applications, from React to the dotnet core microservices
  • Led stabilization effort to burn down the highest impact bugs across the legacy applications in the company, helping accomplish in one month the elimination of the biggest issues faced by our customers, some bugs having been unresolved for years before
  • Led the effort to deliver our initial COVID response portal for EFMLEA and Paycheck Protection in a matter of weeks
  • Handle cross cutting concerns including the mobile applications with biometric authentication, Global Navigation of the application, Feature Flag implementation and maintenance, User Sessions, Migration of existing architectures to new ones, and Application configurations to name just a few
  • Constantly rethink and reevaluate our architecture, and innovate on the latest best practices across all our frameworks and technologies
  • Implemented Cloud Compute Functions in Azure for job executions such as our address, wage, and tax verification system
  • Constantly work to increase effectiveness of processes in the company, from bottlenecks in release and test pipelines, to helping understand and shape agile process in teams
  • Hold Town Halls on Architectural accomplishments to keep all developers up to date and encourage adoption and use of newest practices and technologies, as well as gain feedback for what everyone needs most
  • Mentor other developers on a consistent basis, from spending time with new hires to set up their environment, to hopping on team coding calls to help get complex features and bugs figured out, to showing junior developers how to navigate systems and frameworks they are not familiar with
  • Added Redis caching layer in Azure across our microservices, increasing performance of several high traffic bottlenecks including session check and refresh
  • Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Council formed by the company, helping shape company policy on the subject

Netchex

Software Engineer

Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2019

  • C#, dotnet core, JavaScript, React, Redux, ASP, Angular, .Net, Sql Server, Git, Azure, Redis
  • Joined as a general engineer and quickly promoted to technical lead of new product development
  • Applied my expertise of React and architectural patterns to craft a solution for the rewrite of core applications across the company site
  • Worked with a full agile scrum team to rebuild the Employee Profile experience from the ground up using React/Redux and Dotnet Core microservice architectures
  • Analyzed and helped apply B2C authentication schema across all applications
  • Led the Payroll rewrite team after accomplishing the Employee Profile goal
  • Helped to establish a culture of innovation and improvement at the developer level, focusing on making our code better to deliver new applications and features at an unprecedented pace for the history of the company, and not just fighting fires

Auto Data Direct Inc.

Full Stack Developer

Nov. 2016 - Nov. 2018

  • Java, JavaScript, React, Redux, PostgreSQL, Git, Jenkins, AWS
  • Pivotal in the effort for restructuring, rebuilding and redesign of most products in the company, continuing to give all of the applications a fresh look, with cleaner code and greater maintainability
  • Engaged in leadership roles for projects that have company wide impact
  • Lead the development of the new navigation across all customer and company facing products using React/Redux
  • Delivered a new internal, drop box style file sharing application from the ground up using React/Redux and Spark (Java)
  • Researched and created proof of concept desktop application using Electron and Oath2 for greater competitiveness in Enterprise sales. Turned the PoC into fully functioning and deploy-able application for Linux and Windows that has not needed to be updated since.
  • Contributed heavily to the architecture and technology stack of all new products in the company
  • Consistently pushed the boundaries of our practices, and striving for continued excellence in our use of standards in the field and employing the latest technology stacks in a fully effective and efficient manner

i2xSolutions

Software Engineering Consultant

Mar. 2017 - Jan. 2018

  • .Net, AngularJS, JavaScript, C#, TFS, Azure, Sql Server
  • Actively engaged in and tackled every need i2x had, and maintained continuous contact with owners of the products and processes
  • Delivered large scale patient data importing processes for several of their contracts in SQL Server databases
  • Worked heavily on improvements and brand new features on the UI and API of their xReports product
  • Maintained ongoing processes for billing and data importing on certain contracts and customers
  • Performed and delivered results on research and implementation on cloud solutions using Azure

Aderant

Software Engineer

Jul. 2015 - Nov. 2016

  • .Net, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, JQuery, WPF, Azure, Sql Server, XAML
  • Contributed significantly on a small development team to all of the web based products for Aderant including:

    Deadlines.com (https://www.deadlines.com/)

    CompuLaw Product Suite (https://www.aderant.com/solutions-calendaring-compulaw/)

  • From database to UI, fully built the DocketMonitor product
  • Moved to a performance enhancement and research position after successfully increasing the productivity and value of the products on the CompuLaw team
  • Successfully increased performance of several components within the Expert product suite.
  • Created and updated numerous internal tools for company software development.
  • Engaged in a number of research related projects on the Expert Suite, and contributed to the Expert Time product for releases
  • Spearheaded group learning and community developer involvement efforts, teaching learning sessions, and encouraging others to partake in the local tech meetings to better ourselves.

AgileSrc, LLC

Web Developer

Jul. 2014 - Jun. 2015

  • Java, JavaScript, Vaadin, BackboneJS, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, JQuery
  • Fully involved in full SDLC for most products in the company. Design to production.
  • Learned and created a majority of the API, and UI, for their flagship product Engage Value:

    Engage Apps (https://engageapps.io/)

  • Applied myself as a core contributor in the suite of products under Karasu:

    Karasu Technologies (karasutech.com)

  • Engaged in the development and maintenance of large enterprise application government contracts

    Environmental Data Cube (www.edcss.net/edc/)

  • Contributed significantly in new technologies for the company through exploration and proof of concept projects for a slew of new frameworks and languages.

UCF Psychology

Java Android Developer

Mar. 2014 - Jun. 2015

  • Java, Android, MatLab, Google Glass, TCP
  • Applied my capabilities to learn the brand new technology Google Glass
  • Evaluated and delivered every request from the psychology research team to enable them to perform new kinds of experiments
  • Continued to learn the api as it was constantly updated, and implemented numerous projects for use in the lab
  • Publications:

    Through the Google Glass (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-016-0015-6)

UCF College of Sciences

Research Fiscal Analyst

Mar. 2013 - Jun. 2014

  • Maintained rigorous accounting of grant financing for College of Sciences researchers
  • Revamped accounting and tracking system through the uses of Microsoft Access Suite
  • Learned and employed Visual Basic and integrated with all of the existing systems built through Excel

UCF College of Medicine

Undergraduate Researcher

Apr. 2013 - Jan. 2014

  • Engaged in rigorous research in the field of Biological Gerontology
  • Received extensive training in lab procedure, safety, and research methods
  • Employed actively learned techniques on collection and experimentation on brain and skeletal muscle tissue of GHRGK mice
  • Performed a multitude of DNA and protein analysis tests for the research study on long lived mice

Personal Projects

Gaming Ever After Blog (https://gamingeverafter.com)

Gaming Ever After Code (https://github.com/Alemkin/gamingeverafter.com)

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Live Chess Minecraft Mod (https://github.com/ToroCraft/ToroChess)

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2D Wizard game I made learning Monogame (https://github.com/Alemkin/WizardSurf)

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Boilerplate I created and maintain and use for all my React UI projects (https://github.com/Alemkin/react-redux-boilerplate)

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Family Archive to showcase curated family artifacts built with Ruby on Rails (https://alemkin.com/archive)

Family Archive Code (https://github.com/Alemkin/familyarchive)

Expertise

Java, C#, Azure Cloud, Agile/Scrum, UX, Full SDLC, Electron, System Architecture, Application Architecture, Microservices OOP, Functional Programming, Domain Driven Design, SOLID Principles, Dapper, Postgresql, devops, Bootstrap React/Redux, AJAX, JQuery, REST API, AWS, .Net, .Net Core, Git, Spring, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, SASS, JavaScript, Unity, Node.js, Docker, SASS, Jenkins, JIRA, Linux, Mac, Windows

Education

University of Central Florida - Orlando, Florida

B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies - Biology, Physics

Alexander Lemkin — [email protected] — Tallahassee, Florida