Colin Powell's Resume

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Overview

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Highly skilled Software Engineer experienced in working with large data sets and

with a keen eye for solid data models and intuitive architectural design for

both flexibility and long-term support. Detail-oriented and organized professional

dedicated to working as a team to deliver results for users and customers.

With free time, enjoys hobbies such as organic gardening, raising livestock,

taking photos, playing ultimate, writing poetry and land management.

Core Qualifications

+ Opinionated about the Python language and best practices

+ RESTful HTTP API design

+ System architecture

+ Data modeling

+ Agile/Scrum

+ GraphQL API design

+ Modern CI and deployment tools

- Ansible, Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, and AWS

+ SQL, including experience with both MySQL and Postgresql

+ Linux desktop user running i3, Emacs and terminal on most days

+ User/customer comes before the perfect solution

+ Excellent written and oral communication

Professional Experience

+ 2021.9--Present :: /Remote Principal Support Engineer/ at [[https://www.15five.com][15Five]]

- Rapidly prototype and deliver internal tools to support our support team

- Mentorships with Technical Support Engineers, providing them with confidence

to contribute solutions to our Django admin toolset on their own

- Managed customer response and technical solutions for major outages in

application infrastructure, including SAML misconfigurations and failed

deploys

- Improve internal security audit logging and prepared audit documentation to

improve security posture for internal tools

- Add better logging and provide customer access to SCIM/user provisioning API

responses

+ 2019.7--2021.9 :: /Remote Senior Software Engineer/ at [[https://www.15five.com][15Five]]

- Built out ETL pipeline for employee data from CSV files dropped in an SFTP

folder all powered by AWS/S3

- Lead project for adding arbitrary "people attributes" to employee data model,

effectively a custom EAV data store, allowing customers to add and track

data of specific types on their employees and cut reports based on those

attributes

- Partnered with squad engineers to add Zuora payment system to 15Five's

back-end, including syncing customer accounts with application database.

+ 2018.1--2019.04 :: /Remote Software Engineer/ at /[[https://www.elationhealth.com][Elation Health]]/

- Built out import script for 400k data points from health care providers

- Built import tool front-end using React + Django REST Framework

- Added features to custom JS framework built on Groovy templates

- Worked closely with product to deliver results to end users, resulting in

measurable improvements in health care gap closure and improved outcomes for patients

- Built out and debugged existing clinical quailty measures (constraint

problems) using a custom constraint solver in Python

+ 2017.1--2018.1 :: /Remote Backend & Ops Engineer/ at /[[https://www.ridecell.com][Ridecell]]/

- Built out API for managing carsharing via satellite stations

- Debugged Google Maps API misuse, massively decreasing cost to operate system

- Helped build out Kubernetes and Docker infrastructure to support microservices

- Support engineers building microservices with deployment to Google Cloud

+ 2016.10--2017.1 :: /Remote Software Engineer/ at /[[https://phobio.com][Phobio]]/

- Built out internal API for integrating mobile calendar app with third-party

calendar and timecard vendors

+ 2014.3--2016.9 :: /Remote Software Developer/ at /Fizzmint/

- Pre-funding HR software startup

- Implement backend and frontend for timesheet software using Django + jQuery

+ 2012.5--2016.8 :: /Full Stack Developer/ at /[[https://fiveq.com][Five Q]]/

- Worked closely with account mangers and clients to build websites based on Django-CMS

- Implemented flexible content discovery and taxonomy systems

- Built out SPA converting paper prayer journal to web application using

Django + Mithril.js

- Contributed back to Django-CMS and various plugin OSS projects

- Supporting legacy Django apps using custom content management system

+ 2010.1--2011.6 :: /Web Developer/ at /[[https://penobscotbaypress.com][Penobscot Bay Press]]/

- Designed and built custom CMS for weekly newspaper with circulation ~10,000

- Worked directly with stakeholders in newsroom to buid workflows

- Adapted existing HTML pages to dynamic Django templates

+ 2008.4--2011.6 :: Staff Reporter at [[https://penobscotbaypress.com][Penobscot Bay Press]]

Education

+ 2000--2004 :: Bachelor degree, English major / Computer science minor at /[[https://lawrence.edu][Lawrence University]], Appleton, Wi/