Experience

General Motors

Staff Software Engineer

2025 - present

Software and Sales, Integration & Microservices team

Architected FAA (Failover Advisor Application), a high-availability emergency backup system enabling OnStar emergency advisors to handle critical vehicle services during primary platform outages. Led team of 6 as architect, technical product manager, and developer.

• Designed mission-critical failover solution with <5-minute recovery requirement, supporting crash detection, stolen vehicle recovery, vehicle commands (lock/unlock, remote start), and call routing functions
• Served as technical product manager: collaborated with emergency services stakeholders to define requirements, created comprehensive technical documentation, and prioritized feature delivery
• Developed 20-30% of backend services while leading team on microservices, front end, security and connectivity designs
• Engineered PKCE OAuth SSO architecture integrating multiple token providers (Azure AD + GM connected cloud vehicle systems)

Completed several application migrations from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to OpenShift Kubernetes with a team of 4, enabling GM's retirement of legacy OCF platform.

• Architected containerized deployment strategy for applications with on-prem dependencies (Oracle, Kafka), designing GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments
• Deep-dived Kubernetes pod configuration, performance tuning, and load testing to meet production SLAs

General Motors

Application Architect

July 2015 - 2024

Global Advisor Application

Led architecture and full-stack development for OnStar's mission-critical call center platform serving 1600+ concurrent advisors processing ~100,000 daily customer interactions. Served as technical architect for the platform's enterprise account and customer master data source, supporting 35+ service endpoints across emergency services, vehicle connectivity, and multi-channel CRM operations.

• Cloud Modernization: Spearheaded transition from on-premises monolithic architecture to cloud-native microservices on Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.  Mentored developers on DevOps practices, security standards, and cloud-native design
• Security Transformation: Led multi-year initiative to harden security across customer-facing applications serving North American OnStar subscribers. Implemented end-to-end authentication, authorization, and encryption; ensured compliance with privacy data protection laws and achieved PCI compliance.
• Architected solutions spanning telephony integration, call routing, emergency services support, location-based services, biometric authentication, decision management, security, mapping and vehicle connectivity using Spring/J2EE, Node.js, Oracle, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and various front end frameworks and libraries deployed across WebLogic, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Azure Cloud platforms.
• Served as technical lead and subject matter expert for 70+ batch workload solutions using Spring, Python and Shell Scripting in Linux/Tidal environments, automating critical business processes including customer/account offboarding, product lifecycle management, vehicle configuration updates, data synchronization, and operational reporting.

General Motors

Global Integration Tech Lead

March 2014 - July 2015

Technical lead for a data center migration project that successfully migrated over 20 applications and platforms from European data centers to US locations.

Transformed middleware solutions built on the SeeBeyond platform into IBM's integration tool suite, which includes IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere Transformation Extender, and Sterling File Transfer Service.

Compuware

Consultant at Blue Care Network

October 2013 - March 2014

Refactored team’s source code repo, software build practices, and dependency management solutions. Modernized projects to GIT, Maven, and implemented Nexus Repository Manager into the organization.

Tek Systems

Consultant at General Motors

October 2012 - September 2013

Migrated applications and server environments into GM's enterprise datacenter, led development efforts, updated applications that did not adhere to GM IT technical and security standards.

Minacs

Tech Lead/Senior Developer

April 2007 - September 2012

Developed software products that enable users to create direct, email, and web-based marketing campaigns. Responsible for designing and implementing the application architecture, source control, testing solutions, build, and deployment processes.

Senior Developer

September 2006 - March 2007

Development and production support for insurance claims OCR System at Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan.

Phoenix Group

Senior Software Developer

January 1999 - August 2006

Application developer for automotive clients. Member of the team responsible for implementing source control, development tools, application frameworks, and security standards.

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Profile ⚡

Versatile and experienced technical leader

25 years of enterprise-level architect, development, and IT operations experience.

Experienced in leadership roles ranging from Development Manager, Technical Architect, Senior Developer to Product Owner.

Expertise in diverse areas of software development including cloud, desktop, mobile, middleware products, ETL and build/deploy engineering.

Deep domain knowledge in connected vehicle, emergency services, marketing, and insurance industries.

Technical leader of multiple build/test/deployment automation engineering projects.

Skills 🧙‍♂️

20+ years architect and development expertise in Java/Spring ecosystem, microservices, SOAP/REST Services, messaging solutions (Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS)

20+ years developing Oracle and Postgres SQL/PLSQL solutions

Skilled in modern DevOps practices: Kubernetes/OpenShift orchestration, Docker, CI/CD, infrastructure as code

Expert platform administration in Azure Cloud, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud, Linux, Windows, enterprise application servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat)

10+ years experience in UI technologies; Node.js ecosystem, React, Polymer, JQuery, Adobe Flex/Flash

Education 📚

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Completed BSIT from the University of Phoenix in 2003