John Fonte

Designed and built a microservice to detect false advertisements on Craigslist, reduced those ads by 90% which provided upwards of ~$20k/month in cost savings Led projects to build multiple new internal tooling modules for our operators in ReactJS/TypeScript, deprecating older tools built on technologies and platforms like Angular and Retool Orchestrated a cross-team upgrade to React 18 - enabled integration with our internal shared modules library Advocated and led projects facilitating the push to microservices and newer, more extensible technologies

Led efforts to use new technologies and platforms such as Apache Kafka and GCP Mentored software engineers on our Kotlin Spring Boot microservices/Azure Eventhubs messaging stack Created new microservices to improve our data pipeline and handle 200k events/day

Championed initiatives to integrate new technologies such as Netflix's Hystrix circuit breaker library and a custom CacheManager implementation to keep our system available during downstream outages Improved performance of our API aggregation layer using Java Spring Boot/Webflux to streamline responses from downstream APIs into our Mobile Application. This application serviced our premium pharmacy, Accredo

Rebuilt and optimized critical e-Commerce endpoints across the system including a project to reduce database calls by a factor of 100 and deliver a 5x average reduction in e-Commerce platform loading times Presented software engineering approaches to the engineering team for load testing, refactoring, AWS, Java Streams, and IDE fluency to reduce technical debt and assist in developer attraction/retention Oversaw development strategy for projects spanning multiple months to manage prioritization with business stakeholders

Designed and built the system to batch-process software licensing in Java Spring MVC Led several projects to enhance our e-learning platform in collaboration with other engineers and internal Customer Service leadership

2013: Redesigned transition animations and other user interface features such as the navigation bar in our iOS application. Managed graphics resources for the application. 2012: Designed and built parent portal (http://www.raz-kids.com/parents) to allow parents to monitor student progress and interact with teachers on http://www.raz-kids.com. This includes database design, queries, data organization, and display. 2011: Upgraded swfobject across all products to use version 2.2. Added testimonials to our Kurzweil/IntelliTools product website. Created slider for http://www.sciencea-z.com homepage. Implemented a variety of other minor features and defect fixes. 2010: Fixed software issues on the Customer Service website and other web products.