Mitchell Schwitzer

• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Successfully navigated team to 100% performance achievement factors, satisfying all business requirements and requests.
• Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Linux operation, software development, and working to improve overall team performance.
• Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience C#, C, C++, and Bash scripting.
• Worked with development teams to correct problems and run test scenarios.
• Promoted experience with Docker and virtualisation services.

• Development and deployment of CRM and estimation/invoicing software for niche business practices.
• Development of scripts to automate billing reconciliation, invoicing notifications, delivery of customer e-mails, and other business operations using the aforementioned applications.
• Maintenance of existing website and development of new company website.
• Maintenance and spam monitoring of e-mail service.

Designing, developing, and deploying the following SDKS and applications:

• Core back-end SDKs utilized by all teams writing applications for the flagship product.
• Dynamic .NET REST API framework to better fit application needs.
• Developer application used to provision hundreds of Windows AWS EC2 instances to simulate a mass "fleet" installation of client software on hundreds of vessels. Developed in C# and included large amounts of PowerShell scripting to automate installation processes on Windows EC2 instances.
• Spearheaded use of and fully deployed + maintained an Elasticsearch/Metricbeat/Logstash/Kibana (EMLK) stack to aggregate back-end process logs and application/server metrics. This includes ECS containerization on AWS with Linux instances to facilitate scalability; as well as integrating the necessary parts into deployment processes. Development of data views and dashboards.
• General customer facing and administrative features for client software (both back-end server work and front-end web development work).
• Various developer scripts to facilitate automation of trivial routine tasks.

Other responsibilities included:

• Performing emergency bi-weekly 24/7 on-call duty to respond ASAP to any urgent issues.
• Identifying pain points in project code and optimizing running time and memory usage.
• Debugging and correcting bugs in project code.
• Participating in code review to share my recommendations and to help identify potential bugs or untested code paths.
• Working in day to day processes following Agile methodologies.

• Collaborating with other developers to work on client facing and back-end software and identify bugs.
• Janitoring and monitoring of application servers.
• Working with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to ensure software meets federal regulation.
• Debugging and correcting bugs in client and back-end software.