Joshua A Axtell

Areas of expertise

Experience

• Overseeing the technical aspects and providing guidance to a team of 15 members
• Designing and Implementing applications using cloud infrastructure and services
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in the applications and the cloud infrastructure
• Collaborating with multiple teams to ensure successful code deployment
• Monitoring and optimizing applications to increase up-time, improve performance and scalability
• Participating in code reviews and guiding the team towards best practices and industry standards

• Cloud native design, development, and security using AWS
• Using Windows, Linux, Docker on EC2, ECS, Fargate
• Processing data using Glue with pyspark, Lambda, Step functions
• Making the data accessible to users via Amplify with cognito connected to api gateway as well as Quicksight.
• Supporting operations leveraging Jira, Confluence, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Pipeline
• Working with Git, PHP, Python, C#, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
• Mentoring junior developers and co-ops
• Promoted from Senior Software Engineer in February 2022

• Full stack development on a statement of work team leveraging AngularJS, Java, Spring, and Oracle
• Using Windows, Linux, Docker, and Openshift
• Supporting operations leveraging Jira, Jenkins, XL-Release with XL-Deploy, JFrog Artifactory, Splunk, and AppDynamics
• Working with Git, Gradle, ESLint, Jasmine, JUnit

• Worked with Exadata X4 and X5 as well as 160 core 40TB Oracle databases, doing development and application DBA type work
• Worked with Java, Scala, and Oracle on Linux, in docker containers, and on Windows
• Lead a team of five engineers for a hadoop project leveraging scala, spark, and the Cask data application platform.
• Worked with Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, Crucible, and a JFrog Artifactory
• Promoted from Senior Software Engineer in June 2016

• Write PL/SQL for Oracle Exadata data warehouse and data mart
• Tune SQL for optimal performance
• Use java SAX parser to process xml
• Use ant, subversion, and hudson to maintain and build java projects
• Use hadoop to process large collections of data on a cluster
• Create a web application using GWT and Spring
• Administer virtual machine using lab manager

• Design and implement web applications using Java, JSP, Struts, JSTL, PL/SQL, Oracle Reports, Oracle Workflow, Dojo, CVS, and Subversion
• Design and implement tables, views, materialized views, indexes, triggers, scheduled jobs, java stored procedures, and packages in PL/SQL
• Test and tune web applications and database
• Responsible for creating technical specifications based on discussions with end users and business analysts.
• Created and maintained multiple version control repositories for different uses (intranet applications, extranet applications, oracle reports and scripts).
• Created webservices to allow extranet applications to use PL/SQL in the intranet application.
• Created adaptors for 3rd party web services.
• Promoted from Associate Software Engineer after one year

Education

• 3.4 Cumulative GPA in Computer Science
• Electives include Graphical User Interfaces, Software Design, Robotics and Intelligent Agents, Teach Computing Concepts, Computational Linguistics, Web Services, and System Simulation

• Computer Science concentrate
• Honors standing

Skills and Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Credential ID: 8CWGMRNDCMBEQGKL
• Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner. Credential ID: 7Y5SF1KJKN4Q1HWZ
• Can rapidly adapt to new environments, designs, and situations
• Able to express ideas and methods clearly and effectively in spoken and written communication
• Over fifteen years of enterprise level programming experience.
• Previously worked with: PL/SQL, Java, BASH, Maven, ANT, Jenkins, Hadoop, XML, GWT, Spring, Scala, and Spark.
• Have worked with: JSP, Struts, JSTL, HTML, Oracle Reports, Oracle Workflow, Dojo, Javascript, XSLT, J2EE, Velocity, AJAX, PHP, CSS
• Familiar with: Windows and Linux
• Tools used include: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, TOAD, DBeaver , Vi, SQL Plus , SQL Developer