Vince Nicoara

Experience

1. Software Developer Iii and Scrum Master

   Workday

   Oct 2018 — Present · US

   Contributed to the development of efficient and scalable infrastructure for the big data/analytics Prism product, with a focus on distributed systems. Responsibilities included query lifecycle management, optimization of YARN and Spark usage, tenant management, and building foundational cloud infrastructure. • Refactored a significant portion of our core regularly running maintenance job, implementing object-oriented design principles and improving code readability and maintainability. • Designed and implemented a major refactoring of the Budgetary Control engine, a foundational element of the Budgets product, improving performance by 98%. • Spearheaded a crucial performance testing initiative, creating python scripts to help seed and orchestrate the upload of millions of entries. This complex project was essential for a critical federal customer • Successfully led a Design Partner Group meeting, presenting a new reporting feature to key customer stakeholders. The presentation helped validate and reinforce the functionality of the feature, receiving positive feedback from the audience. • Worked closely with the PM to define functional use cases and create a working prototype for the Revenue Driven Budgets feature, a vital component for expanding to Federal Government customers. The successful prototype provided product and engineering management with the assurance that the feature could be completed within the deadlines. • Experienced in presenting to diverse audiences in various settings, including Sprint Review meetings, Developer Team Meetings, Brainstorm sessions, and Application Health Reviews. Presentations well-received by audiences ranging from development teams and product managers to customer support staff, industry strategists, and various levels of management up to VP level. • Experienced Scrum Master, responsible for facilitating team meetings, addressing impediments, and collaborating with PM and engineering managers to prioritize the backlog.

Education

• El Camino Fundamental High School

  High School Diploma, 4.33

  2008 — 2013

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  2013 — 2017