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    John West

    A senior full stack developer with over 15 years of professional experience

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About Me

Who Am I?

Hi, I'm John West, a senior full stack developer with over 15 years of professional experience. I am highly skilled in .NET, hefty product development experience, and the ability to thrive in a fast-faced environment. I am always looking to create world-class applications as part of an innovative team for a best-in-class company.

Innovator & Mentor

Senior Software Engineer

UI/UX Web Designer

Application Architect

Valued and trusted technology partner to many businesses through development of applications which align with organizational strategies.

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Technical Abilities

My Skills

C#

Knowledge on .NET Framework, .NET Standard 2.0, and .NET CORE APIs

JavaScript

Deep understanding of vanilla JS and popular frameworks

CSS

Solid grasp of complex CSS selectors; including usage of preprocessors

Microservices

Using Docker, Kubernetes, Aqua, and RabbitMQ

Databases

Proficient with T-SQL and Entity Framework

Azure

Skilled with CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, and Git

Experience

Work Experience

Software Engineer III 2021-2023

  • Provided expertise on overall direction of company platforms, policies, and procedures related to managing applications and content of applications.
  • Designed and developed new client applications and services using the latest technologies; including industry specific technology, such as HL7 communication/processing.
  • Developed and implemented strategies and solutions to business problems by partnering with business users and customers to assess needs and identify projects which will improve efficiencies, productivity, quality and profitability as well as improving the patient experience.

Senior Web Developer 2016-2021

  • Primary development resource on projects providing estimates, solution design, development updates, team meetings, and working closely with PMO on schedules and risks.
  • Mentored developers, including providing coding guidance, enforcing coding standards and best practices through daily interactions as well as code reviews.
  • Created and deployed a real time alerting system, which has delivered over ten million account-based alerts to over a hundred thousand members with a delivery time of under two seconds. This system has been adopted by other credit unions.

Web Application Engineer 2014-2016

Lead developer and architect for multi-tenant fleet management tools; delivering custom portals capable of providing real-time GPS communication between hundreds of thousands of vehicles concurrently.

Senior Project Manager & Developer 2013-2014

  • Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to align with corporate goals, standards, and cost targets.
  • Excelled at guiding the work of technical teams by articulating project goals and scope.

Lead Web Developer 2007-2012

Developed large scale educational websites in .NET, including OCR, streaming audio and video, with complex functions to provide scholarly data to thousands of international educational focused clients; while allowing for scalable, modular, evolving applications.

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