Adam Mertz

About Adam Mertz

Graduated with a B.S. in Finance from KU in May 2012 and began working as a Market…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer i

   LTK

   Sep 2021 — Present

   Developed and executed on a migration strategy for a Python/Thrift RPC application from single EC2 instances to a scalable ECS network load balanced application. This included cron jobs that were migrated into Fargate tasks, integrating with the company build process, and deeper DataDog integration and monitoring dashboard- Developed and executed on a migration strategy for a Python/RabbitMQ/Celery ETL application to an ECS/SQS based service. This included cost and timeline estimation. Increased reliability, scalability and testability. This led to less developer interactions to reload data and faster development times- Developed a training curriculum (TDD, design patterns, Python, MySQL, etc.) for interns and new grads on team so they can be effective engineers. Hosted TDD katas to train developers- Integrated multiple legacy systems with DataDog to increase visibility. Developed KPIs for systems to allow for alerting.

Education

• The University of Kansas

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering

  2014 — 2018

• The University of Kansas

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, General

  2008 — 2012

• Johnson County Community College

  Engineering

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Sales
• Microsoft Access
• Time Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Apache Spark
• Leadership
• Management
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Word
• Powerpoint
• Data Analysis
• Analysis
• Marketing
• Accounting
• Python
• Reddit
• Social Media
• Social Networking
• Microsoft Office
• Facebook
• Access
• C++