Resume
Principal Engineer building scalable cloud platforms and driving technical standards across enterprise organizations.
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EDUCATION
Wentworth Institute of Technology | Boston, MA
Graduated: August 2020
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Computer Networking
EXPERIENCE
Liberty Mutual | Remote
Senior Software Engineer
May 2022 - Present
- Member of the Architecture team, defining technical standards throughout the organization
- Developed ‘fitness functions’ to quantify adherence to technical standards across the company
- Developed a Spectral openAPI linter ruleset to enforce enterprise naming standards in openAPI specs
- Benchmarked legacy Java APIs using JMeter before and after mainframe migrations
- Integrated Open Telemetry’s APM to Node, C#, Java, and Python projects
- Led adoption of platform patterns, adding canary deployments, buildpacks, and framework upgrades
- Presented and communicated to senior leadership on my work output and impact regularly
Liberty Mutual (Contracted through Whitridge Associates) | Remote
Cloud Engineer
July 2021 - May 2022
- Produced and documented EDA MVPs using Confluent Platform, Kafka, and multiple languages
- Developed Java Spring Boot applications utilizing gRPC, Protobuf, GraphQL, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
- Built a GH Actions workflow to build and publish multi-language artifacts for an openAPI spec
Medicasoft | Remote
Devops Engineer
October 2020 - July 2021
- Sole developer working on writing an operations testing framework for a FHIR API using pytest
- Implemented a SSO auth flow from Azure AD to AWS Cognito in order to auth a custom application
- Administer and configure Kafka for processing hl7v2 and v3 messages at scale
- Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, R53, Cognito, RDS supporting application, database, and CI/CD servers
Eaton Vance Corporation | Boston, MA
IT Marketing Co-Op
January 2019 - April 2019 & September 2019 - December 2019
- Implemented a file upload screen for tabular data using Typescript, PHP, Oracle DB, and MSSQL
- Developed Python scripts to automate data import from many different filetypes to a DB backend
Kaman Corporation | Bloomfield, CT
Information Technology Infrastructure Intern
June 2018 - August 2018
- Developed bash scripts for server health monitoring on Suse Linux as well as RHEL
Hartford Hospital Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation (CESI) | Hartford, CT
Software Engineer
April 2017 - August 2017
- Programmed a WPF application in VB.NET, using the MVVM design pattern, for displaying PTZ camera feeds
The Town of South Windsor, Connecticut | South Windsor, CT
Information Technology Lead Intern
Summers 2015 - 2017
- Developed a WPF application in C#, enabling supervisors to update and track their employees trainings
PROJECTS
WHRB Stream Archive Downloader | Python, ffmpeg
January 2026
- Automated tool to download and archive FM radio programs from WHRB (Harvard Radio Broadcasting)
- Parses iCalendar feeds to match program schedules, transcodes HLS streams to MP3 using ffmpeg
- Source code
GoPro Telemetry Data Merge Tool | Python
August 2020
- Encountered an issue with my GoPro recordings telemetry data files not merging properly after export, wrote a blogpost here about this project
- Source code
Personal website | hugo, bash, Github Actions
August 2020
- Wrote up how and why I made jamesdesmond.org here
- Wrote how I contribute new content to the site here
Coin Counting Image Processing | Matlab
Jan 2020 - April 2020
- Worked with a partner to create a tool to count the monetary value of scattered coins based on a single image
Online Synth | ReactJS, Typescript, Tone.js, MongoDB
April 2020 - Aug 2020
- Followed Agile methodology to create an online audio synthesizer with sequencing and recording capabilities
Boston.gov Data visualization | Python, datashader
October 2017
- Personal project to utilize at least one open dataset from data.boston.gov
- Ended up visualizing the position of every tree managed by the City of Boston. More info on github here
SmartDorm | Java, OpenweatherAPI, mutt
Sept 2016 - Dec 2016
- Created a wall mounted Raspberry Pi 3 and 16x2 lcd with 5 buttons to display weather and news
ORGANIZATIONS
Eagle Scout, Troop 390 South Windsor, CT, 2016
FRC Team 177, Lead Programmer, 2013-2016
SKILLS
| Language: | Python | Java | JS | C# & VB.NET | bash | C | R |
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| Libraries Used: | Pandas hl7 pytest Faker datashader |
openCV JavaFX |
Angular React Tone.js ag-grid |
WPF Meta.vlc |
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| Software: | git | vim | IntelliJ / Pycharm | Tableau | Visual Studio | SQL Server Management Studio | Jira |
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