Jerry Gilmore

Full stack software architect/lead

Summary

Architect / lead developer experienced in object-oriented design, design patterns

Full-stack / cross platform development skills: Desktop, IoT, Azure Cloud, Docker, multiple RDBMS

Integration, automation, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), Microservices, IoT, micro-controllers

Exceptional communication and business skills facilitating cross-team collaboration

Adept at outside-of-the-box problem-solving across disciplines

Technical Skills

Object-oriented design, software design patterns, algorithms, data modeling

C#/.NET/.NET Core, C/C++, PHP, JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON

NET Core, MVC, web services, REST, gRPC

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git/Github, Subversion, Agile / Scrum, TeamCity

Experience

Senior Engineer | Lexis/Nexis | Remote | 11/2022 - present

C# Core developer in DPA group, made necessary changes moving to Azure
Migrated projects from on premise Jenkins to cloud GitHub actions and workflows for CI/CD
Refactored projects to use private Nuget packages in preparation for Azure cloud CI/CD
Migrated many projects to run under Docker Desktop, Azure AKS/Argo-CD
Updated projects to run in MySQL Azure
Tested APIs using Swagger and Postman
On boarded new employees and contractors with how to use GitKraken, JIRA, GitHub

Team Lead | Nuance Communications/Microsoft | Burlington MA | 7/2019 - 12/2021

Served as technical/team lead for local/offshore members in Dragon consumer products
Led meetings, SCRUM, wrote EPICS and stories, designed, built proof of concepts and prototypes
Mentored members on how to write quality code
Leveraged Nuance technology to build new products

Senior Engineer / Architect Lead | Grand Circle Travel | Boston MA | 2/2018 - 7/2019

Served as technical lead for internal team and offshore workers.
Re-Architected many legacy applications into scalable, self-hosting, high performance microservices.
Increased SOA uptime reliability from under 80% to over 99.99%
Increased performance and scalability over 10 times.
Designed/implemented monitoring system, dashboard, call rotation/escalation to increase uptime.
Implemented daily tests to identify failures before production problems arise.

Hardware/software architect and developer | Tremblay and Associates | Boston MA | 9/2017 - 2/2018

Architected workflow automation for a commercial bakery to reduce waste.
Integrated RFID scanner, Raspberry PI (LAMP stack), IIS and SQL Server.
Led design of harsh environment controller box utilizing single board computer, RS-232, multiple power supplies and more.
Designed and implemented C++ and PHP services for controller and .NET Core on IIS.

Senior Software Engineer | State Street Financial | Boston MA | 12/2014 - 09/2017

Increased SDLC efficiency: cut build times 20 times by migrating source from ClearCase/CVS to TFS
Increased quality using continuous integration, automated builds from source to ClickOnce artifacts.
Enabled State Street to pass stringent SEC auditing requirements.
Created a continuously available DR instance of TFS with its own dedicated SQL server and continuous backup.
Designed / built WPF promotion tool to promote build artifacts from DEV to UAT to production.
Designed / built meta-data driven batch job framework that uses password authority to handle ETL tasks like ftp/sftp, http downloads, zip archiving, email alerts, scheduling and custom actions to handle most routine batch job operations.
Refactored Currency Management system to remove dependencies from local Oracle DB to offsite DB.
Designed pattern for ETL between remote servers.
Provided technical leadership across functional groups with automation.
Enhanced BlockCross dark pool matching engine.
Improved performance by a factor over 100 on commission recapture system.

Senior Software Engineer | SS&C | Boston MA | 3/2014 - 12/2014

Developed new features and fixed bugs on a complex large scale legacy production software: PORTIA and Perform.
Debugged a broad range of technologies ranging from C, C++, C#, ATL, COM/DCOM, ODBC, SQL server, entity framework, Winforms, WPF, WCF and more.
Practiced disciplined Agile with rigorous and tight schedules.

Senior Software Engineer | GMO | Boston MA | 9/2012 - 3/2014

Designed, implemented and integrating vendor solutions using our queue based infrastructure.
Designed WCF hosted services interfacing with nCache/RabbitMQ based data fabric.
Developed pattern for Windows service client/server and WIX installer to go from concept to deployment in hours.
Designed and built eReportal custom controls in C#.
Provided technical leadership to junior programmers helping them keep their code to standards and respect target dates.
Responsible for maintaining many legacy applications such as web applications, VB thick clients (WinForms), Tidal jobs, etc.

Senior Software Engineer | Fidelity Investments | Boston MA | 04/2008 - 9/2012

Built many web based applications, WinForms apps and batch jobs using C#/VB. The web apps used Javascript, AJAX, streamed data using JSON to enhance the user experience. The apps interact with Oracle, SQL server, Sybase, Excel among other data sources.
Developed custom .NET components to standardize controls and improve maintainability. Some custom controls include: tab menu control, scrolling grid component, Excel download control, and more.
Designed meta-data driven scriptable ETL engine in C# which executes an XML file with SQL queries to replace aging DTS packages which allows for better integration with SQL Server agent jobs.
Architected projects, keeping projects on schedule and supporting systems. Some of the projects include Reuters DACS accounting, hard dollar/soft dollar eligibility tracking, accounting and resource audit tracking with emailing work flow.

Architect / developer | New England Comics | Norwood MA | 11/2008 - 4/2010

Designed and built their e-commerce website, using custom server controls, ensuring PCI compliance.
Designed content management system, shopping cart, payment processing/gateway to PayPal, Authorize.net and First Data.
Architected single page Javascript/AJAX design for responsive experience.

Senior Software Engineer | Acadian Asset Management | Boston MA | 09/2006 - 4/2008

Developed and enhanced custom trade order management system, corporate actions system, and cash management system using object Pascal (Delphi).
Improved application performance by multi-threading strategic processes.
Designed and built new secure WebService (IIS/.NET/C#) interface for Sungard pre-trade authorization system.
Automated many trade processing tasks using C#, T-SQL, DTS, Visual Basic, Excel and Perl. Integrated data feeds from Reuters, Bloomberg, IDC, BBH, MarketQA, Aegis Barra.
Provided technical leadership to operations and portfolio construction groups.

Senior Software Consultant | Wellington Management | Boston MA | 02/2001 - 9/2006

Enhanced in-house trading system written in object oriented Pascal (Delphi).
Wrote PL/SQL and embedded queries to support trading platform.
Designed and implemented auto-faxing for trade tickets.