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Jay Damon

Software Engineer from Portsmouth, NH

Experience

I have over 9 years of professional development experience. While I do have some front end experience, my expertise is in developing highly scalable back end solutions for web applications.

Fidelity Investments

  • Developed a UI using Angular and Typescript for initiating and tracking the creation of database recovery snapshots, simplifying an error-prone process and ensuring the reliability of database backups for platforms representing over $140 billion in assets
  • Re-engineered 2 applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Docker and migrated both from on-premises servers to AWS EKS, improving scalability and eliminating rehydration and other server maintenance
  • Automated build and deployment process using Jenkins and Groovy, eliminating deployment errors and reducing developer involvement by 2 hours per week

Amazon (Global Mile)

  • Part of the ShipDocs team in the Global Mile organization, building microservices to support Cross Border Transportation Documents.
  • Diagnosed a hi-impact bug where traffic spikes led to message processing failure and dropping from the queue for a system handling over 500k documents daily. Resolved issue by flattening out the processing of SQS messages and added a DLQ with automated retry logic, reducing operational load by over 10%
  • Collaborated with customers to design a feature enabling the bulk download of up to 10,000 documents in a single zip file, allowing for simplified compliance audits on shipping documents in support of Amazons e-commerce platform. Achieved by leveraging S3 batch with a Java-based AWS Lambda function for zipping the files upon request
  • Led Q4 peak war room meeting of a combined group of 3 teams, achieving a reduction in high severity issues compared to the previous year by 20% while ensuring the stability of a system supporting over $100 million in global shipments
  • Improved developer documentation for client onboarding resulting in a reduced onboarding time.
  • Mentored 2 junior developers on the team, improved new hire onboarding documentation, and wrote on-call triage process.
  • Led Q4 peak war room meeting of combined 3 team group reducing high severity issues compared to the previous year.

Athenium Analytics

  • Designed engine capable of processing user-created rule sets to validate questionnaire results in less than 5000 milliseconds.
  • Spearheaded team of 7 to improve performance of public-facing API resulting in a 50% request per second improvement.
  • Implemented internal authentication and authorization framework for microservice security with Spring Security provided support for multitenancy and user-customized data security rules.
  • Led backend development of greenfield microservice application using Java with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and AWS to replace legacy platform used by more than 100 business customers.
  • Implemented IAC platform Terraform to replace manual provisioning and management of AWS resources reducing environment consistency issues to 0.

Lindt & Sprungli

  • Designed and developed a Safety Reporting system in collaboration with the Environment, Health, and Safety team using Python and SQL Server, simplifying accident reporting and leading to an increased reporting of 20%.
  • Created an automated dashboard for the management team using Python, VBA, and Excel to provide real-time insights on manufacturing performance on over 200 data points.
  • Built ETL application with Java to consolidate data from data sources including SQL Databases, Excel, Word, and CSV into a single database saving 12 hours per week of manual reporting work.
My Resume: download

Portfolio

Money Maker: Personal Finance

Media Library

Personal side project for managing my personal finances and tracking my income/expenses

  • Security: Keycloak
  • Front End: Typescript with Angular
  • Back End: Java with Spring Boot
  • Database: Mysql
  • Build Tools: CircleCI
Try it out!

Media Library

Media Library

Fun project created durign the pnademic to manage what movies and tv shows I wanted to check out.

  • Front End: Typescript with Angular
  • Back End: Java with Spring Boot
  • Database: Mysql
  • Build Tools: CircleCI
Try it out!

Jay Damon Portfolio

Media Library

This website you are on now!

  • Front End: JavaScript/HTML/CSS
  • Build Tools: CircleCI

Contact

I am open to new opportunites and would love to hear from you!

Contact Me: [email protected]