Project experience

Decades of solving systems that matter.

A selected portfolio of work represented across SoftDomain engagements and the hands-on assignments of its senior leadership and delivery teams.

Results, not buzzwordsEach project reflects a concrete engineering challenge: cloud migration, response time, throughput, continuity, security, integration, or product delivery.

SoftDomain2018–2026

SoftDomain Learning Ecosystem

Designed a Java and Spring Boot platform family for interactive eBooks, institutional automation, online classrooms and exams, tutoring, and multi-role mobile access.

Connected products for students, teachers, parents, schools, and colleges.

VerizonRecent

Single Sign-On & Cloud-Native Modernization

Supported enterprise SSO using OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, followed by migration work toward Docker and Kubernetes.

Unified identity with a modern container operating model.

Fairstone FinancialRecent

Financial Platform Cloud Migration

Helped migrate financial applications to AWS while protecting operational continuity.

A more scalable cloud foundation for financial workloads.

Thomson ReutersRecent

Core Financial Application Optimization

Diagnosed and improved the performance of a main financial application.

40% performance improvement.

Capital OneRecent

AWS Migration Bridge

Built an advanced Linux solution to detect thousands of incoming daily files and immediately route them to the locations expected by newly migrated AWS applications.

Protected business continuity during a complex cloud transition.

JPMorgan ChaseRecent

Hadoop to Google Cloud Migration

Supported the migration of a worldwide client data-processing system from Hadoop to Google Cloud Platform.

Modernized global-scale data processing.

Blue Cross Blue Shield AssociationRecent

Enterprise ETL Platform Upgrade

Migrated healthcare applications from Ab Initio V3 to V4.

Reduced platform obsolescence across member-company software.

Aetna HealthcareRecent

SAS to Ab Initio Conversion

Converted applications written in SAS into Ab Initio graphs.

Standardized enterprise data processing.

FedExRecent

SAS to Ab Initio Conversion

Converted SAS workloads into Ab Initio graphs for enterprise processing.

Improved alignment with the target data platform.

Wells FargoRecent

AWS to Kubernetes Modernization

Supported the migration of AWS-hosted applications toward Docker and Kubernetes.

A more portable, scalable container platform.

ACI Worldwide2016

Fraud Detection Redesign

Redesigned a fraud-detection platform for increasing user volumes and millisecond-level request and response, with an extensible HTML5 interface.

Scalable rules processing and a more adaptable client experience.

Citi2010–2016

Derivatives Clearing Platform

Led development across prime-broker clearing and intermediated credit and rates trades, including FIX gateways, pricing, mobile interfaces, messaging, and regulatory enhancements.

Low-latency pricing with an 18 ms round trip.

UBS2009–2010

Fixed-Income Trading Systems

Built market-data and pricing feed handlers, improved bottlenecks, and supported fixed-income trading integrations.

Major performance gains and vendor-cost reduction.

Bloomberg2007–2009

Real-Time Publishing Analytics

Developed mathematical algorithms and services that predicted publication levels and readership heat for equities in real time.

Global delivery to traders and analysts through Bloomberg terminals.

Dow Jones2004–2007

Digital Financial Publishing

Enhanced WSJ.com, supported Wealth Manager, ported DJNewsPlus from Solaris to Linux, and built deployment and integration components.

Modernized high-visibility publishing and advisory platforms.

CVS PharmacyEnterprise engagement

Retail Server Consolidation

Consolidated store backend servers and applications into one deployable, web-managed package with installation, upgrade, backup, and restore automation.

Simplified deployment and maintenance across stores.

NDCHealthEnterprise engagement

Healthcare Message Processing

Multithreaded a prescription-processing system and optimized its messaging architecture.

500% message-throughput improvement.

BMGEnterprise engagement

Quarterly Billing Optimization

Removed database and concurrency bottlenecks in an accounting and billing system.

Reduced quarterly reporting from two weeks to one day.

AT&T / Sun engagementEnterprise engagement

Multi-Million-Line Platform Port

Helped port a massive C and C++ billing application from HP-UX to Solaris and solved critical Standard Template Library incompatibility.

Avoided a high-risk rewrite of a multi-million-line codebase.

AT&T Bell Laboratories1986–1994

UNIX & Operating-System Engineering

Led and contributed to UNIX installation, multiprocessor I/O, device-driver, X Window, kernel, and networking enhancements.

Foundational systems engineering used in major UNIX releases.

SoftDomainProduct heritage

InfoWIZ Remote Data Platform

Designed a scalable multi-channel server for secure access to private and public information through SMS, email, HTTP, and messaging devices.

Remote access without disrupting existing infrastructure.

Alcatel-Lucent / partnersEnterprise engagement

Fail-Safe Telecom Drivers

Hardened device drivers so difficult-to-reach telephone switches could automatically fail over from a failed device to its replacement.

Improved telecom resilience and service continuity.

Client and company names identify representative environments in which work was performed. Engagements include SoftDomain-delivered projects as well as assignments led or executed by SoftDomain senior leadership.

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