Charlton Rose

Mar. 2020-present
(full time)

Director Of Engineering, Engineering Team Lead, Principal Software Engineer , Alianza (Lehi, Utah)

• Director Of Engineering
• Ensure performance and delivery of 5 engineering teams.
• Develop and teach principles-based approaches for reporting and cross-team coordination.
• Strategically build and staff teams to meet changing business needs.
• Address teams' engagement challenges and mitigate attrition.
• Organize and simplify work management processes.
• Transition remote teams to on-call software ownership model.
• Lead technical interviews for front and back end candidates.
• Scrutinize and approve contractor invoices.
• Learn Ukrainian.
• Engineering Team Lead
• Manage full stack team, including local developers and overseas contractors.
• Organize and clarify business requirements.
• Architect modular approach to company monolith.
• Gain reputation for reporting transparency and accurate completion estimates.
• Conduct 1-to-1s.
• Principal Software Engineer
• Advise on architecture committee.
• Present Git trainings.
• Solve challenging geometric layout problems for graphical design system.
• Develop Angular component library.
• Technical experience: Angular AWS Buildkite CSS Confluence Git GitHub JUnit Java JavaScript Javadoc Jira Less MacOS Maven Mockito Node.js Office 365 PlantUML Sass SCSS Storybook

Sep. 2018-Feb. 2020
(full time)

Principal Software Engineer, Ancestry (Lehi, Utah)

• Develop and maintain mission-critical backend microservices.
• Mentor junior/senior engineers.
• Cost-optimize existing microservices.
• Present formal trainings on essential technologies.
• Design/create system for migrating large, in-flight production data sets between incompatible database technologies.
• Train team in new Java features, transitioning from Java 8 through Java 11.
• Prepare written overviews for challenging problem domains.
• Lead team in effective Git usage strategies.
• Develop unifying common library in support of multiple projects.
• Lead team in developing and adopting effective code review processes, promoting techniques for building reviewable code submissions.
• Develop Java client libraries for backend web services.
• Review all code submissions, offering written guidance for improvement and leveraging teaching opportunities.
• Lead team in Scrum ceremonies.
• Author resources for rapid code development.
• Implement/maintain GDPR support for multiple systems.
• Develop team's dev setup guide.
• Interview new manager candidates.
• Technical experience: Aurora (AWS) CA Agile Central Confluence Couchbase Docker EC2 (AWS) Git GitHub Enterprise Java 11 JavaScript Javadoc Jersey JMockit JUnit Kubernetes MacOS Maven Mockito Node.js New Relic Spring SQL Terraform TestNG

Nov. 2014-Sep. 2018
(full time)

Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Workfront (Lehi, Utah)

• Lead development of tenant/user profile unification service for unifying profiles across segmented product line.
• Port flagship product to Java 8.
• Port flagship product to Wildfly application server.
• Overhaul configuration framework in flagship product.
• Invent procedure entry/exit logging framework with graphical visualizer for post-mortem debugging.
• Manage application deployment processes for complex, high-cardinality lane configuration.
• Maintain proxy sign-in service for customer support.
• Troubleshoot and repair complex bugs in flagship product.
• Design and build application gateway.
• Drive synergy between Dev and QA to improve knowledge transfer and testing effectiveness.
• Discover and proactively log numerous bugs outside assigned area concern.
• Promote sane unit testing practices.
• Maintain search indexer service.
• Technical experience: AWS DynamoDB AWS CloudFormation AWS EC2 AWS Lambda AWS S3 Docker Elasticsearch Git GitHub Enterprise GitLab Enterprise HTML Jasmine Java 8 Javadoc JBoss 7 JUnit Kafka Kong Lua MacOS Maven Node 6 SAML2 Serverless Framework Spring SQL TestNG WildFly 8 Workfront

Mar. 2007-Nov. 2014
(full time)

Development Lead/Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Corp. Of The Presiding Bishop (Riverton, Utah)

• Manage employee performance:
  • Conduct monthly 1-on-1s.
  • Administer biannual performance reviews.
  • Promote employee growth through relevant challenges and feedback.
  • Address specific performance concerns through compassionate but direct intervention.
• Interview prospective employees and make hiring decisions.
• Lead teams developing enterprise software solutions for the church's missionary program, using Java and .NET technologies:
  • Architect and lead development of application to generate dynamic, individualized information booklets in multiple languages.
    • System mass-generates thousands of documents per week as part of an essential business process.
    • Complex documents are automatically assembled from 5 different media types on industrial printers.
    • System includes content editor and configurable rules engine to support constantly shifting business requirements.
    • System incorporates versatile, semi-automatic translation learning processes.
  • Manage development team building the application used by church leaders to make and record missionary assignments.
  • Organize and coordinate the emergency efforts of several product teams to address a sudden and dramatic change in missionary funding policies.
  • In general, routinely:
    • Architect effective solutions for complex problems.
    • Establish clarity from ambiguous requirements and build team consensus.
    • Manage teams using agile methodologies.
    • Develop, formalize, document, and promote team standards, processes, etc.
    • Build relationships of trust with the customer.
    • Plan and estimate projects.
    • Provide timely and effective customer support.
• Develop web portal for missionary force, automatically customizing content based on user role and status.
• Develop Facebook/Twitter module for uploading personalized photo badges.
• Develop Android-based personal organizer software for missionaries.
• Maintain statistics reporting system based on InfoPath web forms hosted in a SharePoint environment.
• Technical experience: Android AngularJS Apache CXF Apache httpd Backbone.js C# CSS Facebook Graph API Git Grunt Handlebars HTML5 InfoPath Java JavaScript Jira jQuery JSP LESS Linux Maven MediaWiki OAuth 1 & 2 PHP RequireJS SharePoint Spring Framework Spring Social SQL Subversion TFS Tomcat Twitter Bootstrap Windows WordProcessingML XML XQuery