Jeff Getzlaff

About Jeff Getzlaff

Results oriented Software Engineering director with a solid foundation in software development, project management (PMP) and Agile methodologies (CSM) for program and business initiative executions. 22 years of professional work experience in the development and management of software programs coupled with advanced research and development.Proficient in software system architectures, software designs, and Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC). Extensive experience with the waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), 12207, Agile software methodologies, and Scrum software development.Proven results in program management of integrated software development teams. Multiple experiences managing and participating in the implementation of lean and Agile software development initiatives. Previous experience in Agile/Scrum software development teams as scrum master, product owner, and stakeholder.Specialties: Creation of PC software applications, Software as a Service (Saas), and Web thin client applications. Architecture and development of mobile (Android) software applications connected to intelligent processing and reasoning cloud infrastructures.Creation of secure IT platform networks for information collection, Big Data analysis, semantic and artificial intelligence reasoning, and custom portrayal of information based on user profile ontologies.Skills:JAVA, Golang, C#, C++, OOA/OOD, SaaS, HCIs, RTOS

Experience

1. Senior Director of Software Engineering - Observability

   Walmart Global Tech

   Feb 2018 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Come join the Walmart Observability team and assist us in changing the way the World shops! Currently, we are looking for a Distinguished Software Engineering with a strong background in Java, API/SDK development, Observability, Kubernetes, and distributed systems to join our of Software Engineering - Observability Management of enterprise wide deployment of telemetry for Ecommerce customer journey and integrated Omni channel. Monitoring and alerting of large-scale cloud native Kubernetes and VMs deployments with infrastructure and application metrics.Management of distributed teams across multiple geographic locations for integrated development and delivery of organization and business initiatives.Full stack monitoring and autonomous cloud management. Public and private cloud deployments and real-time monitoring with APM, Logging, and metrics with TSDBs. Data aggregations and fusion for ML and trend forecast analysis. Service Dependency graphs with anomaly detection and Open Telemetry Trace Collector to trace object store with Jaeger UI.Kubernetes, docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, TSDBs, Graphite, Cassandra, M3, IBM MQ, fluentbit, FluentD, Open Telemetry Collector Stanza, ELK, Telegraf, Micrometer, Kafka, Spark, Splunk, DynaTraceJava, Javascript, Node.js, Python, Go, React Native, Ansible

Education

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  BS Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Minor Mathematics

  1990 — 1994

• Arizona State University

  MBA, Project Management / Finance

  1999 — 2001