Jason Plumb

3215 NE 41st Avenue, Portland, OR 97212

Summary:

Seeking a position with a creative and energetic engineering team to build killer solutions.

Dedicated software and hardware engineer with specific interests in internet technologies, embedded systems, computer instrumentation, user interfaces, and artistic application of technology.

Experience:

New Relic, Portland, OR Senior Software Engineer - Java Agent (Jun 2019 - Present)

• Wrote, built, and deployed the code that powers the New Relic Java agent, used by thousands of customers on millions of instances.
• Constructed and maintained open source tools/libraries for JVM observability, including Java Flight Recorder (JFR), OpenTelemetry, Kamon (Scala), Micrometer (Spring), and Dropwizard (codahale).
• Administered 20+ public GitHub repositories and assisted community engagement with issues and pull requests (code submissions). (Specific links available upon request).
• Diagnosed and fixed highly technical support issues in across extraordinarily diverse customer ecosystem.
• Advocated for best practices, gave talks, taught, and mentored.
• We used: Java, Kotlin, GitHub actions, docker, AWS, jenkins, sonatype, gradle, gRPC, protobufs, azure pipelines, GraphQL, and nearly every popular java library under the sun. Senior Software Engineer - Agent Lifecycle (Apr 2018 - Jun 2019)
• Designed, built, deployed, scaled, and monitored high-volume environment metadata API and supporting services.
• Conducted cloud migrations, owned software maintenance, devops and incident response for extremely high-volume APIs and backend data services (hundreds of millions of transactions per minute).
• Built, deployed, and maintained services that every New Relic APM language-agent talked to every minute, and more! ~20M TPM
• We used: Java, Kotlin, Kafka, Spring Boot, gradle, vault, docker

Adidas Digital Sports, Portland, OR
Senior Manager Software Engineer (Sep 2016 - Dec 2017)

• Team lead, instrumental in the design, construction, and delivery of the adidas AllDay server-side platform (supporting iOS and Android mobile apps).
• Owned the backend REST API design, system architecture, development process, tech debt paydown, security, and scalability.
• Built a robust and mature CI/CD multi-stage pipeline
• Wore so many hats: coder, mentor, reviewer, devops, tester, interviewer, tpm, agile coach, feature concept collaborator, story writer, sprint planner
• Collaborated/coordinated with onsite and offshore mobile, UI, UX, QA, devops, data science, marketing, growth, legal, and management across 3 timezones in 5 countries.
• Handled data ingress and aggregation for 10M+ daily data points (200k users)
• Zero unplanned production downtime in 10+ months
• Stack: node.js, hapi/express, jwt, docker, couchbase, s3, aurora, bintray, ecs, jenkins2, elb, cognito, terraform, new relic, redshift, sqs, react[...]

FlightStats, Portland, OR
Senior Software Engineer (Jan 2013 - Sep 2016)

• Team lead on several large-scale data aggregation applications and microservices/REST APIs.
• Architected, designed, and implemented early version of the FlightStats data hub (https://github.com/flightstats/hub) using Spark, Jetty, Jersey, Guice, Gson, Gradle and friends.
• Designed and implemented RESTful microservices to support FlightStats' travel disruption management platform. Built role-based entitlements APIs using HTML microdata with Spark, Jetty, Jersey, Guice, Gson and friends. Integrated new APIs with existing/legacy systems.
• Bootstrapped FlightStats next-generation Data Acquisition platform as a team lead in 2014. Designed and built fast and scalable microservice APIs to support realtime collection/normalization of flight status and position data from airline, airport, web, and other heterogeneous industry sources (hundreds of millions per month). Leveraged technologies like Node.js, AWS, Docker, GitHub, Grunt, Express, Bootstrap, Jade, Zookeeper, Spark, Guice, jOOX, Gson, Lombok, Jenkins, New Relic, etc.

Ethan Rose / Parallel, Portland, OR
Technology lead (2014 - 2015)

• Assisted artist Ethan Rose in the hardware/software design, construction, and installation of two permanent sound-art installations in Microsoft building 83 in Redmond, WA.
• Elements - Ambient, experiential sound composition for the lobby of building 83 at Microsoft. The piece reads realtime data from a roof-mounted weather station and converts the information into evolving sound parameters across 60+ ceiling mounted speakers. Used Pure Data (Pd), node.js, Open Sound Control (OSC), GitHub, DropBox, Windows. See http://www.ethanrosemusic.com/elements
• Landings - Complex swelling and decaying sounds spill out of 4 elevators when passengers arrive at their destination. Sensor data is collected via hardware interface to custom/commissioned elevator controller firmware. Elevator floor arrival and door opening signals trigger sound composition in Pure Data (Pd). Used Pd, C/C++, Open Sound Control (OSC), GitHub, DropBox, Windows.

IFS (State Street)
AVP (May 2011 - Dec 2012)

• Refactoring! More refactoring! Wrangling legacy apps into submission. Championing best practices, developing coding standards, working with offshore teams, fighting the good fight...with throwing stars.
• Rewriting and refactoring legacy code in a gargantuan code base. Developing new features and bug fixes.
• Advocating best practices, performing code reviews, developing standards guidelines
• Technologies: Agile (XP), Java, IntelliJ IDEA, JUnit, swing, Spring ramework, Sybase, RMI, Maven, Jenkins, Subversion, Cobertura

Chrome Systems, Portland, OR
Senior Software Engineer (Jan. 2010 - May 2011)

• Designing and crafting high-performance webservices while adding features and improving code quality of existing products
• Integrating heterogeneous 3rd party data products into new and existing Chrome webservices
• Building rich-client web applications using GWT for product/sales proof- of-concept demos
• Advocating best practices and encouraging the adoption of contemporary tools
• Championing unit testing, code reviews, code reuse, test coverage
• Technologies: Java, IntelliJ IDEA, JUnit, Mockito, Ant, Subversion, Metro/JAX-WS (SOAP), WSDL, JAXB, Ant, Hudson/Jenkins, GWT, JDBC, Cobertura

Ensequence, Portland, OR
Senior Software Engineer (Nov. 2007 - Dec. 2009)

• Designing and building tools to enable cutting-edge interactive movie and television experiences.
• Shipping a feature-rich and robust Blu-ray (BD-J) runtime abstraction on hundreds of movies and millions of discs worldwide.
• Championing modern software engineering tools and methods to foster an agile environment.
• Technologies: Java/J2ME, Eclipse, BD-J, JUnit, Ant, Ivy, AspectJ, Subversion, CVS, Proguard, Bugzilla, TeamCity, Hudson

Qsent Inc, Portland, OR
Senior Software Engineer (Dec. 2003 - Nov. 2007)

• Designed, implemented, and maintained high-volume data processing systems for data replication and realtime queries.
• Technical project lead on large data processing and replication engine, responsible for a substantial percentage of company revenue.
• Technologies: Java 5.0, Eclipse, JUnit, Spring, JDBC, Oracle, MySQL, Tomcat, SOAP, XML, WSDL, JSP, JSTL, JMS, JMX, JNDI, JNI, bash, Perl, CVS, LDAP, Active Directory, Anthill, Ivy, Fit, Hudson.

Fluid Logic, Clackamas, OR
Embedded Engineer Contractor (2002-2004)

• Designed and constructed the MIX-PRO flocculant timer/controller system. Utilized Microchip PIC microcontroller, wrote software in PIC assembly, designed schematic, created printed circuit board.
• Designed and prototyped test equipment (hardware and software) for measuring coefficients of static friction. Utilized Atmel AVR, wrote software in C, interfaced with parallel LCD and seral clinometer. Developed using gcc and open source tools under Linux.
• Designed Fluid Logic website, managed email resources, general IT tasks.

GBSD Technologies Inc., Lubbock, TX
Embedded Engineer Contractor (2003-2004)

• Created assembly code for Microchip PIC and Motorola 68HC12 for use in the Compass e911 location system. Included SPI control routines and RS232 support.
• Assisted with PC serial interface code written in Perl.

Operator Service Company, Lubbock TX
Programmer/Analyst III, Project Lead (1997-2004)

• Designed and implemented control process and communications API for telephone line control device and out of band telecom switch signaling.
• Designed and implemented directory assistance gateway server, including custom document type definition (DTD) for extensible API in XML over TCP/IP. Implemented suite of protocol converter daemons for multiple data vendors, security functions, usage tracking, and billing.
• Designed and implemented national directory assistance client application for call center use (50,000+ calls / day).
• Designed and implemented generic framework for call center applications in a Windows environment.
• Generated database front-end applications, web-based reporting systems, automated billing record generation, operator activity auditing, operator account management interfaces, server and network monitoring processes, and numerous other infrastructure applications.

Extensive programming skills:

• Java ecosystem (18 years)
• Node.js (4+ years) / Javascript (10+ years)
• Agile development practices (13+ years)
• REST / API design (5+ years)
• AWS (5+ years)
• Docker (4+ years)
• Concurrent/parallel/multithreaded/asynchronous software design
• Continuous integration / continuous delivery

Other software experience:

• Python, Pure Data (Pd), bash, Groovy, Scala, C/C++, Perl, PHP
• NoSQL: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis, Cassandra, S3
• SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora/RDS, Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase, JDBC/ODBC
• React, CSS, SASS, webpack, jQuery, Bootstrap, Materialize, AJAX, d3.js, p5.js
• JSON, YAML, XML, DTD, XSD, BNF
• Linux, OSX, Windows operating systems
• GNU make/compile/debug toolchain
• RS232, SPI, and other device interface protocols
• 8051, x86, PIC assembly, 68HC11/12 assembly

Education:

• BS Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University (Cum Laude)
• BS Computer Science, Texas Tech University (Cum Laude)

Hardware Skills:

• Eagle, Accel, and PSpice (Orcad) schematic capture and PCB design
• Prototype PCB fabrication using various techniques
• Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, and Motorola 68HC11/12 microcontrollers
• Use of bench test equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, etc)
• Digital and analog circuit design
• PC hardware assembly/testing/troubleshooting
• Network wiring and installation

Awards:

• 1st place, IEEE student paper contest (1999)
• 1st place, IEEE autonomous robot contest (1999)
• 1st place, TTU EE circuit design contest (1999)
• Texas Tech Dean's List and Honor List (1995-1999)
• 2nd place autonomous robot team at IEEE Region 5 conference contest (1998)

Activities/Hobbies:

• Portland Dorkbot [People Doing Strange Things With Electricity]
• Contributor to Futel (futel.net, nonprofit payphones)
• Alameda Elementary Walk/Bike program coordinator (PTA)
• DIY/synth/hobbyist/hacking/electronics/web/art/music (ongoing)
• Member of HKN honor society (1998-present)
• FM radio disc jockey at KTXT, Lubbock, TX (1998-1999)
• IEEE/HKN student chapters at TTU (1997-1999)
• Engineering peer-mentor, Texas Tech (1997)
• American Field Service 1 year foreign exchange to Dortmund, Germany (1991-1992),
• Bicycling, bike advocacy, yoga

References:

Available upon request.