Mark Stouffer

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Summary

A forward-thinking senior software engineer and innovative business systems professional with full front-end to back-end experience developing user-facing and customer-facing business apps. Possesses an extensive background in developing new line-of-business systems, integrating in-house and legacy systems, gathering requirements, interfacing with users, measuring performance, creating management reports, improving large database performance, as well as overseeing the overall systems integration.

MSSQL, T-SQL, C# | AWS Solution Architect Pro / DevOps / Security | AWS SAM/CDK Python, Lambda, S3, CI/CD | DB/SP Performance and Optimization | Stored Procedures | JavaScript, Nextjs, HTMX | System Design/Requirements | C4/UML/Documentation | UI/UX/Requirements Gathering | Git workflow | PowerShell, Bash DevOps Scripting, automation, monitoring.

Experience

BIZKITE LLC
Brea, CA
Sr Software Architect
2023-Present
Tech used: AWS Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, SAM/CDK, CI/CD, C#, PowerShell, Dot Net Core, ASP.NET, EF Core, MSSQL, HTML, JavaScript
  • Designed, developed, and deployed a variety of AWS serverless services for financial services clients. Used API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, AWS CDK to code, maintain and provide observability to financial processes and calculations, reducing server overhead by 50%, improving performance, reliability, and cross-regional resiliency.
VERYS LLC
Santa Ana, California
Sr Software Architect
2013-2022
Tech used: AWS ECS, Lambda/API Gateway, C#, PowerShell, Dot Net Core, ASP.NET, EF Core, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, HTML, JavaScript
  • Worked with a variety of large corporate clients to design, implement, and migrate systems, including:
    • First American Financial
      • Built and delivered AWS Lambda Loan Modification Report generator in less time than originally estimated, delivering innovative solution to enable loan modification process and streamline loan modification management.
      • Built a new PDF rendering service on AWS S3, Python, Lambda and React.js to replace legacy manual processes, reducing build time from 10 hours to 2 minutes.
      • Created new C#/.Net NTX Service Connector for Loan Modification initiative, allowing further automation.
      • Analyzed and documented NTX connector to Titan API migration requirements, including all existing stored procedures used by current connectors.
      • Converted TX Connector tester from VB form to C# CLI for imp test automation.
    • Vertafore Corporation
      • Completed several new development projects involving data translation, auto-mapping services, and new UI development for Vertafore.
      • Designed and applied SRE scripts and processes to onboard and recreate environments in one-click, cutting 95% of environment start-up time, and eliminating errors and rework.
      • Upgraded data mapping and high-speed implementation for multiple incoming data systems, and automated end-to-end BDD testing with Selenium, Spec Flow and WebDriver.
    • Grantland Corporation
      • Implemented loan initiation system from ground up in ASP. Net MVC for merchant kiosk, using SQL Server and attaching to legacy loan servicing application through SOAP API.
    • Zenimax Media, Inc.
      • Created Twitch Drops admin console and monitored integration to Eldar Scrolls Online account.
    • Option Care
      • Transferred and maintained nurse visit scheduling platform from legacy host, including database optimization, UI improvements, and web service updates. Automated deployment process on system which schedules 9,000 nurses daily.
    • Help at Home Corp
      • Gathered requirements from offices across 9 states and 11 regulatory domains to integrate business systems, policies, and infrastructure into a coherent SaaS initiative. This included gathering business requirements and creating core SaaS architecture.
      • Used existing documentation and interviews to create a unified namespace for disparate newly acquired businesses in novel regulatory environments to provide unique name addressing.
    • Ernst & Young: Rebuilt existing site based on requirements gathered through phone and in-person meetings to satisfy customer’s clients and improve system performance and flexibility for Ernst and Young. Improved system performance by 100%.
    • Advantage Sales & Marketing: Built sales data photo-sharing web application from ground up to present client corporations with photos of sales activity for advanced sales and marketing. Used highly optimized SQL SPs, image storage CDN, ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.
THEFULLERTONIAN.COM
Fullerton, CA
Designer/Lead Developer
2008-2013
Tech used: ASP.Net, jQuery

• Designed and developed local publication website and paper. Integrated website with paper publishing software to automate rendering of weekly print output. Built self-help advertisement purchasing which reduced ad customer service costs by 95% and allowed ad pooling for local businesses to pool the costs of regional ad purchases with other businesses. SIX CURRENT AWS CERTIFICATIONS - credly.com/users/mark-stouffer/badges