Jason Walker

About Jason Walker

As a pragmatic, passionate, introspective geek that loves to collaborate and think of solutions to difficult problems, I love the challenge of getting things to work. When starting a project, I first seek to understand the problem being addressed, the various use cases involved and the expectations of any solution. Understanding the problem, use cases and expectations requires collaboration, which I feel is very important to designing software. My focus during collaboration is listening to the stakeholders and their concerns to determine situations or constraints that require tradeoffs in the project.I carry some of my enjoyment for design and development into my spare time by working on personal projects involving game development and 3D printing. My passion for technically driven subject matter extends outside of software to include areas of interest in auto racing technology and military technologySpecialties: Software Design, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Microservices, MongoDB, Domain Driven Design, API, JSON, Systems Integration, Team Collaboration

Experience

1. Principal Enterprise Architect

   Convera

   Aug 2023 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Designed, presented and received approval for the Convera enterprise level multi-tenancy authentication/authorization approach through the Convera Architecture Review Board.• Designed, presented and received approval for the public facing file ingest service through the Convera Architecture Review Board.• Evaluated vendors for the public facing file ingest service that is to receive, validate and transform payment files uploaded by Convera customers.• Created a proof of concept using AWS Step Functions, Lambdas and S3 as part of the Convera payment platform to demonstrate possible ways to implement a fee rules application to development teams.• Provided design direction and reviewed proposed updates to the Convera legacy bulk payment system as part of an effort to add OAuth2 capabilities to the existing Webhook implementation. • Redesigned, presented and received approval to update the Convera legacy bulk payment system as part of a system redesign to address recurring production problems.• Collaborated with business stakeholders to define payment related service domains as part of Convera’s business domain taxonomy using the Bank Industry Architecture Network (BIAN)• Reviewed and documented existing order and payment related processes and components to both understand the existing payment system and determine paths to the target state payment architecture.

Education

• University of Phoenix

  Masters, Business Administration

  2004 — 2007

• DeVry University Phoenix, AZ

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

  1997 — 2000

Skills

• J2ee
• Jira
• Github
• Git
• Angularjs
• Oop
• Software Design
• Agile Project Management
• Rabbitmq
• System Integration Testing
• Akka
• Javascript
• Uml
• Maven
• Spring Boot
• Html5
• Postgresql
• Mysql
• Java
• Conflu
• Shell Scripting
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Docker
• Amqp
• Atlassian Jira
• Unix
• Scala
• Spring Framework
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Eclipse
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Mongodb
• Software Engineering
• Intellij
• Herding Cats
• Spring
• Kubernetes
• Apache Kafka
• Sql