resume.json

resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Anthony Brignano",
    "label": "Sr. Staff Software Engineer",
    "image": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/9291621?s=460&u=99e94ca4708d41417ffbc5cbea7d4a7318bd07ba&v=4",
    "email": "hi@brignano.io",
    "website": "https://brignano.io",
    "summary": "I'm a full stack developer based in Hartford, CT specializing in building exceptional websites, applications, and everything in between. I enjoy strong coffee, open source, clean code, and continuous integrations. Focused on solving everyday problems with highly scalable solutions in the cloud. Please feel free to reach out to me directly with any inquires.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Bloomfield",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "Connecticut"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "github",
        "username": "brignano",
        "url": "http://github.com/brignano"
      },
      {
        "network": "linkedin",
        "username": "brignano",
        "url": "http://linkedin.com/in/brignano"
      },
      {
        "network": "twitter",
        "username": "brignano_",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/brignano_"
      },
      {
        "network": "npm",
        "username": "npx brignano",
        "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/brignano"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Hartford",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Sr. Staff Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2023-05-16",
      "summary": "Focused on impementing Enterprise GitHub Actions and self-service DevOps Tooling.",
      "highlights": [
        "Received the Enterprise 2023 Award for Most Transformational Technology with the introduction of GitHub Actions",
        "Create GitHub Actions and Reusable Workflows to provision application IaC with Terraform and Ansible APIs",
        "Led development for an Enterprise-wide self-service DevOps Portal",
        "Support migration of enterprise CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to GitHub Actions",
        "Develop real time dashboards to monitor application health and performance",
        "Responsible for all on-prem and AWS CI/CD pipelines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Hartford",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2021-03-16",
      "endDate": "2023-05-15",
      "summary": "Led the optimization of automated testing, data management, and service virtualization for a portfolio of multiple applicaitons.",
      "highlights": [
        "Responsible for all QA-related issues using Scaled Agile Framework (SaFE) with many teams (400+ people)",
        "Function as the technical lead for multiple development teams to support the creation of automated solutions for end-to-end regression testing",
        "Setup and maintain contribution standards for GitHub",
        "Design and implement a test data management tool using AWS enterprise solutions",
        "Increased overall test automation performance by 30%",
        "Lead migration of E2E tests from Protractor to Playwright framework",
        "Act as the product owner, scrum master, and tech lead for the E2E automation framework upgrade",
        "Train team members on the best practices of Coding, GitHub, and Rally",
        "Built a self-sufficient team that gathered requirements, refined user stories, and planned iterations in an iterative Agile manner"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Hartford",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Sr. Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2020-03-16",
      "endDate": "2021-03-15",
      "summary": "Implement a new Policy Admin platform for Personal Lines Insurance.",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed and implemented a solution to feed premium-related data to the enterprise general ledger",
        "Acted as the technical lead for a large team of Agile developers using Scaled Agile Framework (SaFE)",
        "Supported platform Performance testing and tuning using Dynatrace and LoadRunner",
        "Setup DevOps CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to build and uDeploy to deployment",
        "Setup SumoLogic ingestion of JSON application logs for automated alerting and monitoring",
        "Conducted code reviews, merges, deployments, versioning and tagging",
        "Used automated GitHub Checks and Project boards to optimize pull requests",
        "Used GitHub Issues to track bug reports, feature requests, and other technical discussions",
        "Mentored developers on best practices to optimize development and avoid technical debt",
        "Enforced consistency in code and unit tests with minimum 80% code coverage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Hartford",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2018-09-15",
      "endDate": "2020-03-15",
      "summary": "Design and implement customer facing sales applications.",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed a customer facing application using a micro-service (20+) based architecture",
        "Acted as the technical lead for a team of Agile developers",
        "Participated in Agile story creation, refinment, and execution with Agile Product Owners and Scrum Masters",
        "Triaged and drove the resolution of critical and time-sensitive application defects",
        "Provided mentorship to help developers understand new software and technology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Windsor",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Multi-Stack Engineer",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2018-03-15",
      "endDate": "2018-09-15",
      "summary": "Responsible for the production stability of all existing applications.",
      "highlights": [
        "Efficiently triaged multiple high impact production incidents",
        "Restored service to applications in the event of failure",
        "Provided expertise in full-stack development to application teams",
        "Owned and drove the adoption of DevOps tools and best practices to the application portfolios",
        "Reviewed and influenced major technical design changes and participate in the review of change management activities",
        "Functioned as the go-to technical leader for the software application teams"      
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Windsor",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Developer",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2017-03-15",
      "endDate": "2018-03-15",
      "summary": "Implement an internal application to quote/issue Personal Insurance policies.",
      "highlights": [
        "Functioned as the technical lead for an Agile scrum team",
        "Led development of a new internal application used by Personal Insurance Agents",
        "Resolved over 1,500 application defects and/or incidents"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The Hartford",
      "location": {
        "city": "Windsor",
        "region": "Connecticut"
      },
      "position": "Spec App Development",
      "website": "https://www.thehartford.com",
      "startDate": "2016-06-15",
      "endDate": "2017-03-15",
      "summary": "Provide production support for an existing internal application.",
      "highlights": [
        "Triaged and resolved production issues reported by application users",
        "Led disaster recovery testing to ensure system availability",
        "Led annual application audit to ensure application compliance",
        "Refactored technical debt to increase application stability, performance, and maintainability"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Central Connecticut State University",
      "area": "Computer Science (Honors)",
      "studyType": "B.S.",
      "startDate": "2012-08-30",
      "endDate": "2016-05-15",
      "courses": [ ]
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Syntax",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [".js", ".jsx", ".ts", ".tsx", ".py", ".cs", ".java", ".html", ".css", ".scss", ".md", ".json", ".xml", ".sh", ".bat", ".sql", ".yml"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Frontend",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["NextJS", "React", "Angular", "Jekyll", "Bootstrap", "jQuery", "Material Design", "Tailwind CSS"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["django", "flask", "spring", "ruby", "Express.js", "Node.js"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Database",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["mongodb", "mysql", "oracle", "microsoft sql server", "rds", "firebase", "postgresql"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hosting Services",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["digital ocean", "aws", "google cloud", "openshift", "nginx", "apache", "iis", "vercel", "github pages"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Operating Systems",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["windows", "macos", "ubuntu", "debian", "raspberry pi", "ios", "android"]
    },
    {
      "name": "DevOps",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["jenkins", "udeploy", "sonarqube", "azure devops", "rally", "aws", "github", "anthillpro", "dynatrace", "sumologic", "docker", "github actions"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Version Control",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["git", "github", "github flow", "gitlab", "subversion"]
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": ["cloudformation", "lambda", "secrets manager", "service catalog", "ecs", "fargate", "route53", "ecr", "iam"]
    },
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Cloud Computing",
      "keywords": ["aws", "azure", "vercel", "digitalocean", "firebase", "google cloud"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Machine Learning",
      "keywords": ["openai", "tensorflow", "nltk", "scikit-learn"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Computer Security",
      "keywords": ["kali linux", "metasploit", "wireshark"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Open Source",
      "keywords": ["software", "ideas"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rock Climbing",
      "keywords": ["boulder", "top rope", "lead", "kilter", "decoy"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Snowboarding",
      "keywords": ["whistler", "mt snow", "okemo", "stowe", "killington", "park city"]
    }
  ]
}