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Drew Short

St. Paul MN — H (612)-361-1019 — B drew@sothr.com — m https://www.sothr.com

SOFTWARE

ENGINEER

Object Oriented Design and Development — Relational Database Systems

• Exceptional Software Engineer - 10+ years of experience with the entire software

development lifcycle. Dedicated to the delivery of innovative solutions for today’s

problems, using tomorrow’s tools.

• Excellent troubleshooting and analysis skills - Quick to analyze the root cause of

issues and work towards both immediate and long term solutions.

• Expert in backend/middle system design & implementation - Years of experience

in validating, processing, and marshalling data across varied systems.

COMPUTER

SKILLS

Languages & Software: Java, Groovy, Kotlin, SQL, Javascript, Python, Go Maven,

Gradle, JUnit, Spock, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Stream, Hiber-

nate, Docker, Tomcat, Logback, SLF4J, Backbone.js, JQuery, Nginx, Oracle, MySQL,

SQLite, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, RHEL), OSX.

EXPERIENCE Senior Platform Engineer Flywheel Exchange, LLC

Minneapolis, MN 2020 - 2021 (1 year, 5 months)

• Developed a Kubernetes based replacement for existing Docker Compose deploy-

ments and tooling.

• Wrote management tooling for support to connect/maintain/upgrade Kubernetes

deployments.

• Currated and maintained support documentation for Kubernetes deployments.

• Lead team meetings, planning sessions, retrospectives, and postmortems.

• Mentored junior platform engineers, software engineers, and interns.

• Developed static compute functionality for the in house dynamic compute man-

agement system to more effectively support growing customer sites.

• Deployed highly available metrics, reporting, and build clusters to improve sup-

port and developer quality of life.

• Lead development effort to move log collection for customer sites into centralized

GCP Stackdriver or customer supplied logging infrastructure.

Lead Software Engineer Optum

Eden Prairie, MN 2017 - 2020 (2 years, 6 months)

(Contracted) 2016 - 2017 (7 months)

• Developed report tooling to group and assign security issues to domain teams.

• Led efforts to triage critical security issues in a production Spring application.

• Involved in Zero Downtime and long term archiving projects.

• Improved a code generation feature of an internal framework built on top of

Spring Framework. Easing life for developers.

• Led the conversion work of in-line JSON deserialization to Jackson enhanced

DTO for the communication of internal data structures via web API and message

queues.

• Involved in the early work to replace standalone legacy REST API services with

versions built on the latest Spring Boot.

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Software Engineer Cargill Incorporated, Risk Management

Hopkins, MN 2013 - 2016 (3 years, 6 months)

• Led a small (3-5 person) team to retool and support a migration system in prepa-

ration of an extended cut-over testing period.

• Architected a Python REST API to integrate an Oracle data source with a third-

party suite of back, middle and front ofﬁce tools.

• Redesigned management system for ’Risk Products’, delivering improved control

over the individual components.

• Maintained/upgraded a 10+ year Spring web application. Modernized interface,

improved the back end, started work to move to modern build tools/process.

Software Engineer Intern (Under Contract To) FPX LLC

Mankato, MN 2011 - 2013 (2 years, 1 month)

• Expanded a REST API and implemented continuous integration testing.

• Developed a DSL and tooling for internal auditing, testing and reporting.

• Developed a ’playback’ system that facilitated debugging of client systems.

EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, IT (May 2013) Minnesota State University

Software Engineering & Ethics Mankato, MN

NOTABLE

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Eagle Scout 2007

• BSA Leadership Instructor Summers 2004-2007

REFERENCES Available Upon Request

Last Updated: July 20, 2021