resume.json

resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "name": "Colby M. White",
    "image": "http://sustainabledev.io/assets/images/profilepic.jpg",
    "label": "Principal full-stack engineer and technical leader",
    "url": "https://edgebound.dev/",
    "summary": "Experienced polyglot engineer and team lead with a focus in JavaScript and Java. Comfortable in multiple layers of an application’s stack including front- end, back-end and DevOps development.",
    "location": {
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "Texas",
      "city": "Austin"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "colbywhite",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/colbywhite"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "colbywhite",
        "url": "https://github.com/colbywhite"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Fractal Software",
      "highlights": [
        "Fractal is a venture studio creating vertical SaaS companies.",
        "Worked with the portfolio's CTOs in order to coach and advise companies on effectively creating software and teams from scratch.",
        "Created architecture best practices that served the basis of the portfolio's startup products.",
        "Led workshops on architecture design, interviewing, domain modeling, and other topics relevant to early-stage startups.",
        "Worked with several companies to simplify processes in order to maximize velocity."
      ],
      "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2022-12-06",
      "location": "Remote",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fractal-software/"
    },    
    {
      "name": "Blackbaud",
      "highlights": [
        "Led team tasked with integrating legacy fundraising product with Facebook Fundraisers in increase adoption",
        "Created tool for customer wealth calculations that heavily leveraged Kafka for asynchronous processing",
        "Led front-end team for latest donation form product aimed at allowing users to customize look and feel of forms",
        "Prompted the formation of a company UI Guild in order to spread UI best practices among teams in multiple locations",
        "Led cross-team presentations to educate Austin’s previously back-end teams on UI development and testing",
        "Led non-engineering team in efforts to modernize cross-product strategies for help content",
        "Served as engineering contact with external departments for the presentation and deployment of help content"
      ],
      "position": "Principal Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2017-05-31",
      "endDate": "2022-11-26",
      "location": "Austin, TX",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/162724"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2017-05-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Completed work for different companies: Whole Foods (Austin), Nike (Portland) and Xferall (Austin)",
        "Worked on different types of projects, including front-end, back-end and DevOps tasks",
        "Used common Java frameworks (Spring, Guice, JAX-RS) in order to quickly build web-based microservices",
        "Maintained a ReactJS-based web application while prototyping a React Native mobile app"
      ],
      "name": "Independent Contractor",
      "position": "Contract Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2016-05-31"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanning Cloud Apps",
      "location": "Austin, TX",
      "endDate": "2016-05-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Contributed features as a senior member of the development team for company’s Google Apps Backup product",
        "Created Chef recipes to help enforce consistency between the team’s multiple environments, including local developer-focused Vagrant machines and production stacks",
        "Diagnosed and corrected front-end performance issues in order to scale SaaS application for large, enterprise customers"
      ],
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2015-09-30",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1350874"
    },
    {
      "name": "CA Technologies",
      "endDate": "2015-09-30",
      "location": "Austin, TX",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed infrastructure and libraries for browser-based Selenium testing of a SaaS application",
        "Coordinated REST-driven interaction between dynamically scaled microservices of different languages (Java and JavaScript)",
        "Created Vagrant-based environments to encapsulate dependencies and encourage rapid, iterative development",
        "Built several custom Gradle and Rake plugins to put project’s deployment procedures into code"
      ],
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-03-31",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1372"
    },
    {
      "name": "Allure Energy, Inc.",
      "endDate": "2014-03-31",
      "location": "Austin, TX",
      "highlights": [
        "Built RESTful APIs to facilitate communication between multiple types of devices in order to sync several types of data",
        "Used OSGI platform for deployment of Java software to allow for dynamic removal and inclusion of different modules",
        "Created XMPP messaging schemas to facilitate communication between thermostat and mobile devices",
        "Implemented user interface designs via Qt on an embedded device",
        "Developed in-house admin application leveraging the Django framework"
      ],
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2010-11-30",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/467235"
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "Open Austin",
      "position": "Freelance Software Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.open-austin.org/",
      "startDate": "2016-05-01",
      "endDate": "2016-08-01"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "The University of Texas at Austin",
      "url": "https://utexas.edu",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science (BS)",
      "startDate": "2010-12-31",
      "endDate": "2012-12-31"
    },
    {
      "institution": "The University of Texas at Austin",
      "url": "https://utexas.edu",
      "area": "Journalism",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Arts (BA)",
      "startDate": "2006-12-31",
      "endDate": "2010-12-31"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "edgebound.dev",
      "description": "A blog to chroncle thoughts and brainstorm around edge technologies and Jamstack concepts.",
      "url": "https://edgebound.dev",
      "keywords": [
        "Jamstack",
        "Edge",
        "CDN"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Harris County Booking Data Gathering",
      "description": "An Open Austin serverless project that accumulates the book- ing information published in Harris County’s daily JIMS 1058 reports into a search-friendly format. The intent is to aide non-profit organizations looking to do data research across time spans greater than a day.",
      "url": "https://github.com/open-austin/harris-county-bookings",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "AWS Lambda"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "aws-cf-monitor",
      "description": "A wrapper around the AWS CloudFormation Node.js API that monitors the progress of the CloudFormation commands while providing smart logging. The intent is to remove a lot of boiler-plate code to poll the progress of a stack.",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cf-monitor",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "CloudFormation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [],
  "publications": [],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Front-end",
      "level": "Experienced",
      "keywords": [
        "JavaScript",
        "TypeScript",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Angular",
        "11ty",
        "Jasmine",
        "Redwood",
        "Next.js",
        "11ty",
        "Gatsby",
        "Prisma"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Back-end",
      "level": "Experienced",
      "keywords": [
        "Java",
        "Spring",
        "Gradle",
        "Ruby",
        "Ruby on Rails",
        "rspec",
        "Rake",
        "Python",
        "Django",
        "Node.js"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DevOps",
      "level": "Experienced",
      "keywords": [
        "AWS",
        "Azure DevOps",
        "Docker",
        "Netlify",
        "Vercel",
        "Render",
        "JAMStack",
        "CI/CD",
        "Jenkins",
        "TravisCI"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Project Management",
      "level": "Proficient",
      "keywords": [
        "SCRUM",
        "Lean Startup",
        "Cynefin Framework"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "fluency": "Native Speaker"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [],
  "references": []
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