Michael Lowenstein

• Authored a new Onboarding & Technical Documentation package for new engineers joining the company
• Wrote user manuals and other documentation for roll-out in customer training sessions.
• Mentored and performed regular code reviews for junior developers and engineers.
• Engaged directly with stakeholders to understand the needs of the end-users in order to optimize the balance between prioritizing client deliverables and managing technical debt on enterprise scale in-production software.
• Met with product owners, design engineers stakeholders and customers throughout system development lifecycle to review and refine goals, expectations and priorities.
• Created cloud-native instances and test, staging and production environments, optimizing products to work in distributed computing environments.
• Primary cloud technologies of focus included (AWS) DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, EC2 Console, Lambda Functions, RDS Postgres Databases, (GCP)
• Design, documentation and distribution of remote virtual machine instances to serve as development environments across remote engineering teams.
• Regularly performed codebase reviews, static code analysis, and load testing to gather metrics and make objective evaluations of our software internally - this R&D-style of analysis often led to presentations of proposed solutions to the challenges our team was facing in delivering features efficiently.
• Developed automated test suites using linux shell scripting, python, and javascript/typescript libraries such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, Puppeteer. Cucumber and Playwright
• End-to-End Test Automation frameworks written for Angular web applications using Cypress
• Introduction of automation tools to enhance workflows and required processes that rely on manual and/or out-dated tools.
• Researching, planning and architecting new Authentication Servers and Infrastructure from scratch - .NET and Node.js ecosystems, modern web frameworks (React, Next, Vue and Angular - specialty in v5-v17), implementing OAuth2.0 + OIDC Protocols for Identity and Access Management via Auth0, Passport, and FusionAuth.
• Designed and implemented reusable components and user interfaces for web-based applications - collaboration with UX Designers
• Conducted full lifecycle software development from planning to deployment and maintenance (Angular 14-17, Node.Js Express + Typescript Web API + PostgreSQL).
• Integration of third-party APIs into existing systems - realtime-communication, audit-logs, scheduled backups and job-runners for long-running processes.
• Optimization of database and query structure and for improved performance (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) as well as introducing new server-side caching to existing web APIs which resulted in upwards of 90% performance improvements.
• Troubleshooting of post-release software faults to support live service and installed software patch design - Pingdom, Papertrail Logs, Sentry Error Monitoring.
• Refactoring and/or rewriting existing applications in out-dated technology - experienced high-pressure, high-priority and time-sensitive projects such as the internal employee-time-tracking and client-billing sync service. Skills and concepts put to use here included ETL architecture and NestJS/Server-Side Typescript + GraphQL + PostgreSQL + Shell-Scripting via Cron-Jobs
• Participated in deployments to production involving multiple development teams, database migrations - notably, I have also gained experience in failed major releases to production, which was as valuable of an experience as any of the skills I have practiced throughout my career.

1 Year - ProdView Software Developer of new web application for scheduling tasks and operations to be used by oil and gas companies

• Individual project - ASP.NET API + Angular 7, Cosmos DB

1 Year - CORE Software & Infrastructure Development Team:

• Building PoC demo applications
• Research & Development of new technologies & collaborated on the construction of the current enterprise identity management server

2 Years - LandView Software Engineer developing and maintaining the Land Management System used by our clients - oil & gas companies

• Daily bug monitoring and feature development - Perl, Python, Rust & Javascript
• Linux Server & Database management - PostgreSQL & FreeBSD

Paid Summer Internship before my third year of Computer Science:

• Focused on rebuilding a legacy software application using modern a web app
  framework
• Primary role was designing the User Settings Console, and a suite of financial
  market visualization tools
• Stock Market Analysis & Visualization Charts and Calculators
• MSSQL Server, ASP.NET (C-Sharp), Javascript, jQuery & Bootstrap
• Was offered a position following the end of my internship

During my second and third year of Computer Science, I designed and built an Inventory Management & Invoice Automation System for a local sign manufacturing company, National Neon.

• The company has been using paper invoices, hand-written and manually
  calculated by one of the managers
• The web application provided opportunity for improving company’s productivity
  and process of creating custom signs for clients with a user-friendly interface
• Great first experience in dealing with clients directly as a developer