Jacob Usgaard
Chaska
Summary
Seasoned senior developer experienced developing applications, databases and cloud computing solutions. Smart professional with proven troubleshooting and debugging capabilities for resolving complex technical issues.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Optum
03.2024 - Current
- Delivered technical guidance and consultation with application teams, clients and developers across multiple technology domains
- Implemented and adopted cloud technologies and best practices for automation, configuration, monitoring and platform scalability
- Designed, implemented, and maintained data externalization system to increase data availability to millions of customers in real-time
- Modernized monolithic application into flexible micro-services
- SRE lead for $10 billion application
Senior Software Engineer
Optum
08.2019 - 03.2024
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software interfaces
- Created continuous integration and development pipeline to bring deployment cycle down from 3 months to 2 weeks for 100+ developer application
- Setup common telemetry infrastructure used by 30+ applications via Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana
- Improved API throughput from 12,000 per minute to 55,000 using existing resources
Senior Software Engineer
United States Postal Service, USPS
05.2016 - 08.2019
- Designed, developed, and maintained payroll-viewing application used by 500,000 employee with emphasis on mobile use
- Created application for maintaining compliance with all USPS standards and legal obligations in human resource management
Software Engineer
United States Postal Service, USPS
05.2014 - 05.2016
- Supported and maintained corporate budget application used by entire organization totaling $5 billion in assets
- Enhanced stamp revenue tracking application which accounted for over $4 billion in revenue
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MNBachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MNSkills
- Performance optimization
- Software architecture design
- Technical leadership
- API development
- Proactive monitoring and troubleshooting w/ Splunk and Dynatrace
- Cybersecurity best practices
- Continuous Integration and Development (GitHub Actions & Jenkins)
- Java, Spring, Hibernate, Gradle Development
- Cloud Development and Deployment via Terraform
- Telemetry & Metrics via Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana
- Cloud Technologies: Kubernetes, Container Apps, Functions
- Data Externalization via Kafka & Snowflake
- System Reliability Engineering
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Optum
03.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Optum
08.2019 - 03.2024
Senior Software Engineer
United States Postal Service, USPS
05.2016 - 08.2019
Software Engineer
United States Postal Service, USPS
05.2014 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Minnesota
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