Luke Samad

Results-driven Tech Lead with a focus on the Non-Qual space, demonstrating expertise in overseeing Enrollment, Distributions, and Tax Elections applications. Proven ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver high-quality solutions in a timely manner.

• Spearheaded the development and maintenance of Non-Qual applications, managing end-to-end processes for Enrollment, Distributions, and Tax Elections.
• Successfully maintained both legacy and modern applications, including a monolithic Spring MVC application and a suite of Spring Boot applications.
• Oversaw a team of [number] developers, providing mentorship, guidance, and technical expertise to ensure successful project completion.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and define project requirements, translating them into actionable plans and deliverables.
• Implemented best practices in coding standards, code reviews, and testing protocols, resulting in improved software quality.
• Conducted regular status meetings, communicated project updates, and ensured alignment with organizational goals.
• Delivered new features and enhancements to Angular applications, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Ensured continuous improvement of applications through regular updates, optimizations, and issue resolution.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address technical debt, implement upgrades, and fortify security measures, contributing to the overall robustness of systems.
• Played a key role in planning and executing monthly releases, delivering planned work, and meeting project timelines.

Environment:

• Java
• Spring MVC
• Spring Boot
• AWS
• Kubernetes/ECS/EKS
• Git
• Mockito
• Angular
• Gradle
• Jenkins
• Python
• Datadog
• Splunk

Spearheaded a cross-company and cross-team initiative to modernize technology stacks, leading the rewrite of a Spring Boot Microservices and AngularJS application.

• Collaborated with development and DevOps teams to review existing code and integrations, assessing improvements and shaping the architecture into a cloud-agnostic microservices paradigm.
• Served as a senior developer on a React application, pivotal to the microservices architecture, involving a migration from AngularJS.
• Integrated KeyCloak and Kong as the security front end of the application, ensuring robust security measures aligned with industry standards.
• Developed new Spring Boot/REST microservices and modernized existing ones, contributing to the evolution of the microservices landscape.
• Implemented a custom authentication flow using Redux, React, Cookies, and REST API calls, seamlessly integrating with KeCloak and Postgres.
• Engineered a custom implementation of JWT refresh, Redux middleware, and session management, optimizing session timeout, JWT initialization, refresh, and store propagation.
• Rewrote and refactored the React architecture, transitioning from class components to functional components, eliminating duplication, and implementing single components for grids, search, and advanced searching.
• Conducted interviews and played a key role in onboarding new developers, providing mentorship, and assisting with problem-solving.
• Updated Postgres stored procedures, database triggers, and indexes, incorporating changes requested by clients and re-engineering several parts of the database.
• Worked on enhancing the performance and reliability of data-intensive calls, contributing to overall system optimization.

Environment:

• Java 8
• Srping
• MyBatis
• Srping Boot
• Azure
• NPM/Node
• Kubernetes
• Redhat
• Git
• Postgres
• Maven/Gradle
• AngularJS
• Kafka
• Puppet
• Logstash
• Elasticsearch
• Kibana

Designed and developed a Microservices Infrastructure catering to the processing of applications for "payment and card-processing solutions" for small business accounts at Bank of America Merchant Services.

• Implemented Spring Boot/REST style microservices hosted on an Azure Kubernetes cluster, effectively utilizing Azure cloud services.
• Engineered an OAuth2 microservice infrastructure to streamline authentication and authorization processes, leveraging Spring Boot, Azure Functions, Azure Active Directory, SQL Server, JWT, and HTTP inspection.
• Created microservices responsible for collecting user application data, formatting data content into PDFs for electronic signatures, and managing various email integrations within the system.
• Developed an Admin Application using Angular and Spring Boot to efficiently manage post-application functionality and streamline customer onboarding.
• Utilized Python3 scripting to create clients for integration testing across all endpoints in the application flow.
• Managed and maintained the database, overseeing data synchronizations, migrations, and system updates to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Environment:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Azure
• Kubernetes
• Git
• Mockito
• Sql Server
• Gradle
• Jenkins
• Python
• Angular
• SendGrid
• Abobe AEM

Collaborated on a nationwide service team at the Federal Reserve Bank, providing integrations, managing infrastructure, and developing components for continuous integration and code inspection across the organization.

• Maintained servers hosting Apache, Nexus, GitHub, SVN, Contrast, Fortify, Nexus-IQ-Server, and Jenkins.
• Managed Jenkins pipelines for builds, code analytics, releases, and deployments, utilizing Java, Groovy, and shell scripts.
• Developed a custom LDAP component for the automation of onboarding/off-boarding of client teams, incorporating system monitoring, integrity checks, and self-healing solutions for team account maintenance and data integrity.

Environment:

• Red Hat Linux 7
• SVN
• GIT
• NPM/Node
• Java 6-11
• .NET
• Groovy
• Spring
• Python
• Docker

Contributed to the Amazon Rolling Stone initiative, a company-wide project aimed at migrating all Oracle databases to free open-source alternatives at Audible.

• Wrote integrations for real-time Oracle to Postgres table by table migrations.
• Wrote tooling to do time spliced differentiations of data pulled from both Oracle and Postgres to perform migration integrity checks.
• Performance tested and scoped of migration, intervals, and real time analysis.
• Wrote integration tests for microservice rewrite.
• Configuring environments, alarms, monitors for the various services through custom tooling that integrated with AWS.
• Fixed performance and latency issues, and worked on software issues across the architecture.

Environment:

• Java
• Spring
• Hibernate
• EasyMock
• Mockito
• PowerMock
• Oracle
• Postgres
• AWS
• Ant
• Brazil

Worked as an expert on contracts involving JBoss EAP 5.1.1 and JBoss/SOA-P Platform, contributing to the migration of existing applications and the implementation of SOA-based architecture.

• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Collaborated with multiple teams to produce a prototype application stack for the system rewrite of the Revenue Accounting and Management System (RAM) at USPTO.
• Employed technologies such as Spring, CFX, and GWT for application development, serving in roles as a developer, server admin, and integration specialist.
• Center for Disease Control
• Led a WebLogic to JBoss migration project at the CDC, optimizing and tuning JBoss, addressing application errors, and configuring IIS to proxy JBoss clusters with Apache mod_jk.
• Conducted JVM tuning, wrote load tests for peak performance, and provided training to administrators on JBoss, IIS, and deployments.
• US Courts
• Acted as a principal developer, performing analysis of existing application infrastructure and scoping the architecture for next-generation applications at the US Courts.
• Developed applications using JBoss SEAM, JSF/RichFaces, JMS, JPA, JAX-RS, EJB3, and DB2.
• GEICO
• Deconstructed a legacy SWING application and integrated its features into the Counselors Sales Web Application at GEICO.
• Utilized technologies such as Spring, Rich Faces, JPA, and hosted on JBoss. Carried out business analysis, development, and provided mentoring to employee teams on code and implementation.

Environment:

• JBoss EAP 5.1.1
• JBoss/SOA-P Platform
• Red Hat Linux 6.1
• GWT
• Spring 3.0
• Java
• JPA 2.0
• RestEasy
• Maven3
• Apache Velocity
• Apache CFX
• SVN
• SQL Server
• IIS7
• Badboy
• Jmeter
• Rich faces
• SEAM
• JAX-B
• Drools
• Informix
• EJB3
• JPA
• SOAP
• JAX-WS
• JAX-RS
• JAX-RPC
• Ant
• Maven2
• SVN
• Atlasssian
• Oracle
• DB2
• Oracle Tangosol
• JSF
• MyFaces
• Tomahawk
• Spring Web Flow
• Ajax
• DWR
• DOJO
• JSON
• Servlets
• Drools
• Blaze
• Hibernate
• Apache Axis
• JBoss
• Selenium
• Ant
• Maven2
• Hudson
• Perforce

• Analyzed, maintained, documented, debugged, and refactored older applications and store procedures.
• Developed Web Services using Axis 1.3, JPA, and Hibernate, and Web Applications with JSF/Struts.
• Authored ANT and Maven scripts for ColdFusion and Java Applications to streamline build and deployment processes.
• Installed and configured Hudson, an integration engine, for building, testing, and deploying software.
• Wrote unit tests for applications using JUnit and integration tests using HTTPUnit and Selenium.

Environment:

• Windows XP
• Red Hat
• Tomcat
• OC4J
• Oracle10g
• JDeveloper 9/10
• Hibernate
• JPA
• JSF
• STRUTS
• JUnit
• Ant
• Maven2
• HTTPUnit
• Log4j
• Java 4/5/6
• Eclipse
• CVS
• SVN
• Hudson
• TOAD
• Cognos
• ColdFusion
• .NET
• Plumtree portal
• Novel

• Conducted groundwork analysis with US Foods, gathering requirements and performing analysis for the upgrade of Actuate from version eight to version nine.
• Re-engineered, improved, and redeployed Marriott Hotels' existing Report Server Security Extension with the current Actuate Reporting Framework.
• Developed and implemented Report Server Security Extension for GEICO Corporation.
• Developed and implemented Active Portal Security Extension for GEICO Corporation.
• Developed and implemented Actuate Reporting Framework for GEICO Corporation.
• Collaborated with GEICO employees to integrate Actuate's RSSE and APSE into PeopleSoft and SharePoint, enabling Single-Sign-On and Page-Level-Security for reports accessed via the iPortal Web Application.
• Developed and implemented Human Resource reports for GEICO Corporation.
• Additional responsibilities included gathering requirements, coding stored procedures and queries, maintaining the iPortal J2EE application, and installing/administering source control for GEICO Corporation.

Environment:

• Windows XP/2000
• SVN
• Actuate e.Report Designer Professional
• Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer
• Actuate Information Object Designer
• Actuate iServer
• Actuate iPortal
• PeopleSoft
• Oracle 9i/10g
• Informix

• One of three primary J2EE developers instrumental in creating the Plant Clearance Automation and Reutilization Screening System (PCARSS) application for DCMA.
• Took the lead role in developing two out of the four modules while contributing significantly throughout the development life cycle.
• Leveraged Hibernate for the modeling layer and JSF for the presentation layer of this enterprise web application.
• PCARSS automates the government property redistribution process, ensuring efficient and real-time tracking of unused resources from contracting facility to facility.
• Projected to contribute to millions of dollars in savings for the US government through resource reutilization and improved tracking.

Environment:

• Windows XP
• Tomcat
• OC4J
• Oracle10g
• Hibernate
• JSF
• JUnit
• Ant
• Java 4/5
• Eclipse
• SVN
• Cruise Control

• Added software enhancements to the User Admin module of an existing Grants Management Application.

Environment:

• Java
• OC4J
• Oracle9i
• Struts
• JDBC
• EJB
• JavaScript
• Eclipse
• Clearcase

• Supported MS SQL Server/MS Visual Basic based in-house Clinical Information System (CIMS) that managed full prosthetic and orthotic patient life cycle.
• Performed trouble shooting, debugging, fixing and deployment of Clinical Information System (CIMS) software and data using Query Analyzer and MS SQL Server.
• Developed ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports per customer request using Query Analyzer and MS SQL Server. Performing scheduled database backups.
• Managed user accounts, authorization and roles for Clinical Information System (CIMS).
• Performed data cleansing and reconciliation of Clinical Information System (CIMS).
• Supported customer calls and e-mails; Coordinated with multiple business units; Managed knowledge base of Clinical Information System (CIMS) software bug fixes.

Environment:

• Visual Basic 6
• SQL Server 2000
• Visual Source Safe
• PL/SQL