David Johnson
Senior Manager / Principal Software Engineer
Granville,TN
Summary
Experienced leader, team builder and problem solver with 20+ years broad experience in information technology and industry best practices. Passionate about helping team members grow their technical and professional skills.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Architect, Cloud Engineering
Asurion Insurance Services
Nashville, TN
1 2018
Senior Manager / Principal Software Engineer
Architect, Infrastructure Engineering
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2016
Architect, Enterprise Services, vMWare Automation
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2014
Architect TIBCO Message Middleware, BusinessWorks
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2012
Senior Manager / Principal Software Engineer
Asurion Insurance Services
1 2012 - Current
- A broad background in software design, infrastructure architecture, and DevOps automation brings a holistic insight of how to design, build and operate secure, performant, reliable and manageable systems
- Collaborated cross-team to solve broader problems such as employee retention, fungibility of engineers, training plans, cost management, cross-platform monitoring, analytics for KPIs, standardized tools and workflows, and taking a proactive approach to security and stability issues
- Technical lead in requirements gathering, solution design, and execution.
Manager / Principal DevOps Architect
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2014 - 01.2022
- Built automation for stack provisioning, CICD pipelines, monitoring/alerting, and security patching for a cloud infrastructure that hosts five-hundred REST micro-services on AWS
- Technical lead in effort to refactor legacy systems to run on cloud.
Manager / System Engineering
Merrill Lynch
01.1997 - 01.2011
- Given task of solving 'multicast storms' related to TIBCO message middleware
- Investigated and documented root cause, network infrastructure and all trading systems that were using this network
- Solution proposal included timelines, personnel, and budget
- Formed operations team to stabilize network, support the solution, and provide rapid response when problems occurred.
Manager of Web Security
Merrill Lynch
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Worked with vendors to address identity and access management needs
- Formed a team to support chosen solution which became standard at firm for federated auth and web services security
- This solution also provided federated sign-on to client's employees to access their 401K, which helped grow total funds under management.
Manager Web Development
Merrill Lynch
01.1997 - 01.2000
- Led team of developers to create automated solution that pulled from data-warehouse to produce factsheet for investment banker whenever client called
- This saved time, produced up-to-minute intelligence about clients, and improved coordination between Directors working with same client.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BA MIS
Southern New Hampshire University
Skills
Employee Development
Project Management
People Leadership
Software Engineering
DevOps Engineering
Cloud Engineering
Technical Profile
- AWS automated stack provisioning
- GitHub automation with hooks, actions & workflows
- Kubernetes container orchestration
- CICD for REST micro-services
- TypeScript, Java, C/C++, Go, SQL, shell script
Timeline
Architect, Infrastructure Engineering
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2016
Architect, Enterprise Services, vMWare Automation
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2014
Manager / Principal DevOps Architect
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2014 - 01.2022
Architect TIBCO Message Middleware, BusinessWorks
Asurion Insurance Services
01.2012
Manager of Web Security
Merrill Lynch
01.2002 - 01.2006
Manager / System Engineering
Merrill Lynch
01.1997 - 01.2011
Manager Web Development
Merrill Lynch
01.1997 - 01.2000
Architect, Cloud Engineering
Asurion Insurance Services
1 2018
Senior Manager / Principal Software Engineer
Senior Manager / Principal Software Engineer
Asurion Insurance Services
1 2012 - Current
Bachelor of Science - BA MIS
Southern New Hampshire University
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