ckilgore@kingthrillgore.name

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Results Oriented, Quality First Software Engineer⌗

For over a decade, I have aimed to advance the arts and sciences of web development in a variety of platforms and web-oriented technologies. My focus on client and experience driven software development, emerging technologies, and providing outstanding ability to organize, lead, and execute projects of varying scope.

Experience⌗

Software Developer | Crystal Knows | November 2021 - July 2022⌗

  • Development and maintenance of application functionality in Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript.
  • Additional Chrome Extension development using React
  • Advised adoption of Microservices and rearchitecting of AI components for scalability
  • Assisted with transition to Kubernetes on AWS

Software Engineer | CoreCommerce | May 2021 - November 2021⌗

  • Development and maintenance of new functionality and microservices for a payment gateway and payments API using PHP, Laravel, and VueJS
  • High scalability design patterns (CQRS, Event Sourcing, MVC, Messaging Queues)
  • Integration with vendor payment gateway APIs.
  • Leveraged used of AWS Lambda and other serverless components

Senior Web Developer | CBS Interactive/Paramount Streaming | Februrary 2018 - May 2021⌗

  • Development and maintenance of custom CMS using PHP, Javascript and Phalcon Framework, additional minor C# development and translitertation of C# functionality to PHP
  • Integration with Web Publishing systems and SEO standards like Schema.org
  • Transactional and Campaign Email integration and support with MailChimp and SparkPost
  • Administered various AWS components used, including EC2, RDS, S3, and Elasticache
  • Integrated outside systems and APIs through AWS DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Lambda
  • Integration with vendor APIs and Edge CDN networks
  • Project Management and Coordination
  • Information Security, including OWASP auditing and refactoring, identifying components against NIST and general best practices
  • Advised on EU and California Privacy Compliance Measures.

Web Developer | PopCulture Media | November 2017 - February 2018⌗

  • Development of custom CMS using PHP, Javascript and Phalcon Framework
  • Additional services development with NodeJS
  • Management of Amazon AWS components for platform, including EC2 and CodeDeploy

Software Developer | Community Loans of America | May 2016 - September 2017⌗

  • Object-Oriented PHP Web Development within the SuiteCRM system
  • New Application development and maintenance for clients using AngularJS, implementing custom-defined SuiteCRM REST services
  • Integration with DocuSign and other document verification vendors via REST API services
  • Project planning and management
  • Coordinated unit testing automation for PHP and AngularJS applications
  • Additional DevOps/IT Ops support, including assisting with a Subversion-to-Git migration and build automation

Previous Experience | 2007-2016⌗

Nearly a decade of prior development experience with a variety of technologies, content management systems, and frameworks for companies big and small.

Volunteering⌗

Secretary | Freeside Atlanta | 2013⌗

Handled responsibilities expected as Secretary for the Freeside Atlanta makerspace. Learned a lot about herding cats, and my own tolerances managing said cats.

Skills⌗

  • Agile software development
  • AWS
  • Business Development
  • C#
  • Command Query Responsibility Segregation
  • Continuous Integration
  • Data Oriented Development
  • Docker
  • Evaluative Assessment
  • Git
  • HTML/CSS
  • Javascript
  • JSON
  • Kanban
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Messaging Systems
  • MySQL
  • NodeJS
  • Project Management
  • Python
  • React
  • Redis
  • REST
  • Scrum
  • Semiotics
  • Software Architecture
  • TypeScript
  • Unix
  • Virtulization
  • VueJS
  • XML

Languages⌗

  • English (Native Speaker)
  • French (Intermediate)
  • Korean (Basic)

Education⌗

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga⌗

Bachelors Degree, Computer Science Business Systems

Georgia Northwestern Technical College⌗

Associates Degree, Information Technology/Web Design