Kevin James

VP - Senior Cloud Engineer

Live Oak Bank

Oct 2023 - Current (3 years)

AI enablement architect that focuses on system decomposition, integration, tradeoff analysis, production risk, and organizational alignment.

Cloud Software Architect Lead

Cloudreach an Eviden business

Aug 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year 3 months)

As a cloud software architect I am responsible for making high-level design choices and decisions during external client engagements as well as leading implementation efforts. I lead development teams in the design, development, and agile implementation of software systems while ensuring best practices, coding standards, and technical requirements. My duties include system integration, communicating with stakeholders, and defining the solutions needed to implement business strategies and processes.

Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Cloudreach an Eviden business

Jun 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Senior software engineer on professional services engagements with a focus on application modernization.

Regional lead for a team of software engineers, supplying technical details for proposed solutions in pre-sales efforts, conducting technical interviews, mentorship, and weekly one-to-one meetings with team members.

Cloud Software Engineer

Cloudreach an Eviden business

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 4 months)

I help drive the development of production applications and tools for Cloudreach customers, including but not limited to the modernization of existing applications.

As an engineer I work in accordance with Cloudreach development methodologies and leverage industry best practices, tools, and infrastructure to deliver high quality end products.

Cloud Service Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
Technologies: All of the cloud managed services, Vue.js, React, Node.js, Java, .NET, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Vault, Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, Jenkins

DevOps Engineer

Second Nature

Mar 2019 - Jan 2020 (11 months)

Part of a team of full-stack developers with a focus on DevOps initiatives, systems analysis and process automation. I was responsible for identifying and paying down technical debt as well as creating and implementing DevOps roadmaps. Notably, I helped to implement and automate a blue/green deployment process via AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which increased our deployment velocity and reliability. This was a development heavy role in that I still contributed to the codebase for new features and bug fixes to a Laravel PHP application.

Technologies: AWS, EC2, S3, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, Netsuite, Oracle Warehouse Management (Logfire), Laravel (PHP)

Acting Development Manager

Second Nature

Mar 2019 - Sep 2019 (7 months)

Acting development manager for 6 months. Tasks and responsibilities included:
- Oversight over active development projects and responsible for delegation of tasks
- Major projects included company-wide rebrand to the name Second Nature (formerly FilterEasy)
- Performed code reviews with developers and in charge of production deployments
- Performed weekly one-on-one meetings with each team member
- Responsible for AWS cost optimization
- Created code challenge; interviewed and hired an additional full stack developer
- Closely involved in the interviewing and hiring process of the new VP of Engineering

Full-Stack Developer

Second Nature

Feb 2017 - Mar 2019 (2 years 2 months)

Full-stack software developer with a focus on DevOps, legacy code refactoring, systems analysis, process automation, ERP integration and customization.

Technologies: Netsuite, PHP, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, AWS, Laravel, Bash, Agile

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