Jonathan Tiefer

About Jonathan Tiefer

I am a seasoned software and cloud engineer with over 25 years of experience in the industry. With a background in entrepreneurship, I have extensive experience in business development and a deep understanding of the software industry. I was the co-owner of a dental practice management software company where I played a pivotal role in its growth and success. Throughout my career, I have helped companies identify and tackle complex problems, implement effective solutions, and overcome challenges within teams and at the enterprise level.My background in software and technology is diverse and includes a variety of industries and applications. Applications that I have developed are used in life-critical and highly-sensitive environments, such as those in the healthcare and financial industries.With a strong background in technology, I have a proven track record of assisting businesses in breaking the barriers necessary to reach their objectives. Whether it\'s streamlining processes, improving operations, or developing new strategies, I have the expertise and drive to help companies succeed. In my free time, I love learning new technologies and exploring the different facets of the software and cloud engineering fields. Staying ahead of the curve and engaging in new pioneering technologies is my passion. As technology evolves, so I evolve with it and look at new ways to incorporate it into both my business and personal projects.I am an explorer and love the thrill of challenges, learning, and finding the most efficient solutions to complex problems.

Experience

1. Associate Vice President Lead Software Engineer Aws Cloud Engineer

   LPL Financial

   Mar 2024 — Present · Fort Mill, SC, US

   Was a major contributor to the success of the release of the LPL software system used by Prudential, which was the largest business merger in LPL\'s history with a $300 million investment.Prudential has moved $50 billion of assets to LPL to be managed by the system. Was part of the most critical Account SOR and Participant SOR teams and helped lead them to success for the Prudential release- Helped plan, design, and implement system architecture and develop.Net Event-driven microservices utilizing CQRS, and Event-Sourcing- Developed Kafka libraries to handle the production and consumption of internal and cross-domain event messages and handled Avro serialization into.Net microservices- Built comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests; adhered to TDD principles- Designed and implemented domain models, aggregates, and Sagas to handle data processing to a NoSQL write model event store, write projections to read models, and produce events- Designed and implemented security solutions for microservices and cloud services- Worked as a Cloud Engineer to create and manage various types of AWS Infrastructure with Terraform- Built a multi-stage API Gateway with Terraform- Developed a system to utilize EventBridge to perform database backups- Helped create and manage various other types of infrastructure, including SQS, Helm/EKS deployments, networking infrastructure, etc- Set up IAM security policies for EKS clusters, Lambdas.Net services, and other AWS services- Helped diagnose and resolve infrastructure and security-related issues with both serverless and services running on EKS- Worked with Kubernetes and Helm CLI to diagnose and fix various issues with EKS deployment- Built AWS Sandbox containing emulation of system that integrates serverless and EKS based services- Built AWS Glue ETL pipeline in Terraform for Data Engineering team- Performed Lending app integration into main Angular application using Cloudfront.

Education

• University of Oregon

  Computer Science

  1999 — 2000

Skills

• Html5
• Json
• Transact-Sql (T-Sql)
• System Architecture
• Javascript
• Data Conversion
• Visual Basic for Applications (Vba)
• Jquery
• Git
• Entity Framework
• Visual Basic .net (Vb.net)
• Com
• Databases
• Rdbms
• Line of Business
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Asp.net Mvc
• Extreme Programming
• Encryption
• Language Integrated Query (Linq)
• Winforms
• Css3
• C++
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Visual Basic
• Xml
• Xml Schema Definition (Xsd)
• C
• Win32 Api
• Software Documentation
• Data Analysis
• Mvvm
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Test Driven Development
• .net Framework
• Ooad
• C#