Steve Hall

About Steve Hall

My current role is Lead Engineer on Northwestern Mutual’s internal DXP. The platform hosts over two hundred applications used by Northwestern Mutual’s financial advisors and corporate personnel. It provides foundational services to application tenant teams that reduces lead time to delivery. The platform provides: authentication, authorization, search, data APIs, data entitlements, UI design system, static assets CDN and a host of other features.I bring more than two decades of custom software implementation experience that cut across numerous problem domains. Through my career I\'ve been exposed to a broad range of software environments, from Fortune 100 enterprise grade systems to embedded industrial control devices. I\'ve worked in highly regulated industries like Financial Services and Healthcare, so I understand the rigger required to mitigate risk and remain compliant. I have nearly a decade of building and operating cloud native distributed systems at enterprise scale.

Experience

1. Lead Software Engineer

   Northwestern Mutual

   Jan 2022 — Present · Milwaukee, WI, US

   Collaborate with Digital Product and key stakeholders to understand, analyze and refine sometimes ambiguous asks and translate them into clear, quantifiable features and epics. Break features down into technically feasible epics, ensuring alignment with the overall product vision and company standards.Conduct research and analysis to identify potential risks and dependencies associated with the defined epics and propose appropriate implementation architecture and risk mitigation.Act as a subject matter expert, staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends, best practices, emerging technologies, company architectural standards, and effectively apply this knowledge to enhance and align the platform architecture and team development process.Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to established coding and architectural standards.Work closely with teams providing mentorship, direction and guidance on AWS / Kubernetes platform implementation and operations. A tenacious problem solver with experience engaging in high visibility outages, problem troubleshooting and postmortems.Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Node JS, Springboot, Gitlab CI, Dynatrace, Docker

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Parkside

  BS, Business MIS

  1992 — 1997

Skills

• Jms
• Struts
• Java
• Testing
• Soa
• Ajax
• Agile Methodologies
• Spring
• Subversion
• Jstl
• Java Message Service (Jms)
• Tomcat
• Javascript
• Test Driven Development
• Ant
• Continuous Integration
• Integration
• Jenkins
• Sdlc
• Maven
• Jsp
• Apache Ant
• Oracle
• Tdd
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Spring Framework
• Sql
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Jpa
• Jquery
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Web Applications
• Web Development
• Java Enterprise Edition
• J2ee
• Html
• Eclipse
• Weblogic