Eric Standley
Principal Software Engineer
Erie,CO
Summary
Principal Software Engineer/Solutions Architect with strong customer focus and deep expertise in designing and implementing efficient, scalable solutions within the highly regulated federal space. Strong background in large enterprise backend systems, system architecture, and complex problem-solving. Demonstrates methodical approach to development, with focus on optimizing performance and ensuring robust code quality. Brings passion for continuous learning and technical excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
Broadcom
Denver, CO
12.2023 - Current
- Continued the consultant role from before the merger also assigned as an Engineering Practice Lead at the Army Software Factory
- As a Engineering Practice Lead created and updated processes of the Software Engineering learning track for Army Solders at the ASWF
- Lead presentations teaching solders various software development tools (Spring JPA, NoSQL databases, GraphQL, Disturbed Systems, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Worked collaboratory across platform, security, and app teams on the CI/CD pipeline to improve app security and developer experience
- Helped defined what skills the Army should look for to differentiate between a Junior, Associate, and Senior software engineer
- Came up with innovative engineering solutions in order to connect a demo Android app to VA help desks via a VOIP call
Senior Solution Architect
VMware
Denver, CO
11.2020 - 10.2023
- Worked as a post sales SA within the SLED/Federal group helping clients convert their legacy software systems to a Microservice based system running on VMware Kubernetes with Tanzu Developer platform or Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Lead client stakeholders through an Event Storm to break down the existing system into domains based upon domain driven design and discover the best domain/subsystem to start the conversion
- Would then lead a team of client developers and possibly VMware supplement developers through the full SDLC using Agile/Scrum methods
- Worked cross various groups; platform, security, infrastructure to insure software could be delivered on time
- Taught a wide array of software development tools to the client developers like, but not limited to: Spring Boot, unit/integration tests, REST, gRPC, React, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, OpenAPI
- Ensured software written was in compliance with industry regulations ex: FedRAMP, PII, PHI, HIPAA, et
- Would also guide the client developers to design and develop a reference CI/CD pipeline to work with the new microservices
- Demonstrated how track server health metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and network traffic using monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
- Kept client stakeholders informed of progress to assure alignment between business and technical goals
- Lead checkpoint presentations to client executives and high level military stakeholders at the end of the contract to display the value provided by the new architecture running on VMware/Tanzu platform
- Completed above work well enough that all contracts that had a possibility of an extension received one
- Highlights include: lead the re-architecture of one of the largest event driven system in the DoD and adding VOIP functionality to the VA app
Spring Academy Instructor
Broadcom
Denver, CO
11.2020 - Current
- Wrote multiple articles for the public facing Spring Academy webpage
Senior Software Engineer
Pie Insurance
11.2019 - 11.2020
- Worked in the user experience team as a full stack developer using React and C#/ASP.NET focusing mostly on the backend system in this fast moving start up
- Designed and wrote the backend for the frontend system in order to fix timing issues that could occur between the event driven backend and synchronous user flow on the webpage
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Maxar Technologies/DigitalGlobe
Westminster, CO
07.2018 - 11.2019
- Was in charge of gathering requirements, architecting, testing and supporting deployments of our suite of satellite scheduling microservices
- Continued to maintain, monitor and add features to the existing satellite scheduling microservices
- Lead a team of 5 other senior develops from multiple teams in creating an automated dependency management tool to auto update all Maven build microservices
- Continued to lead the Java Community of Practice
- Mentored junior developers on the team to write clean testable code
- Contributed to defining how we would integrate AWS IAC into Maxar's CI/CD pipeline
Staff Software Engineer
Maxar Technologies/DigitalGlobe
Westminster, CO
01.2017 - 07.2018
- Contributed to the architecture, design and test suites of new features and functionality for the satellite scheduling system
- Refactored multiple services to speed up processing time in order to deal with the ever increasing demand of imagery data coming through the system.
- Performed code reviews to ensure quality assurance of the software development process
- Utilized the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology principles throughout all stages of the SDLC
- Lead the Java Community of Practice group
- Integrated microservices with existing functionality that was still on a J2EE server
Senior Software Engineer
Raytheon
Longmont, CO
10.2015 - 01.2017
- Worked as a contractor to DigitalGlobe to aid in their rewrite of the existing satellite ground system
- Developed and implemented software solutions for various business needs using Java, Spring Boot, and Cloud Foundry
- Performed code reviews to ensure quality standards were met by development teams
- Created automated unit tests using JUnit and Mockito frameworks for robustness of the codebase
Software Engineer
Boeing
02.2005 - 10.2015
- Rewrote a key batch job to translate data between two different system, improved processing time from 4 hours to 20 minutes
- Maintained databases by writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures
- Added automated unit tests to streamline the testing process and improve test coverage
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science
University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CASkills
Java
Spring Boot
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
AWS
Azure
C#
ASPNET
Reactjs
React Native
Kubernetes
Cloud Foundry
undefinedCertification
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Active DoD TS/w SCI eligibility
Active DoD TS
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer
Broadcom
12.2023 - Current
Senior Solution Architect
VMware
11.2020 - 10.2023
Spring Academy Instructor
Broadcom
11.2020 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Pie Insurance
11.2019 - 11.2020
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Maxar Technologies/DigitalGlobe
07.2018 - 11.2019
Staff Software Engineer
Maxar Technologies/DigitalGlobe
01.2017 - 07.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Raytheon
10.2015 - 01.2017
Software Engineer
Boeing
02.2005 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science
University of California-Santa Barbara
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