Zachary Auclair
work Experience
2011
present
Senior Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems Inc. location_on Norwalk, CTWealth Engineering (member)
- Focused on speeding up client-facing web applications.
- Extended core symbology web-service, used by growing number of teams.
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2018, Q4 recipient of SpeedSprint award
- Implemented web asset bundling, server-side pre-fetching, debouncing, lazy fetching, and Javascript opitimization.
- Saved
2sec
and0.6MB
of data per page load.
Platform as a Service Team (member)
- Updated Golang code for our Docker scheduling service to interoperate with AWS EC2.
- Built and enhanced ecosystem addons like database as a service, status monitoring, oauth gateway, log aggregation, job scheduling, self-updating CLI, and web dashboard.
- Leveraged open source tooling like Postgres, Zookeeper, Redis, Heroku infrastructure services, OpenStack Swift, TravisCI, Jenkins, Git, Kafka, Grafana, ReactJS.
- Trained new employees with my lectures and labs.
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2018, Q3 recipient of SpeedSprint award
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Integrated
facebook/dataloader
in web dashboard to save2.5sec
and33KB
of bandwidth per page load. - On another page, profiled, refactored, and optimized code to reduce Javascript execution time by over
5sec
.
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Integrated
FactSet on UNIX Team (member)
- Created a central build service that generated events (build breaks, code promotions, installs) to improve visibility for developers.
- Created a custom, self-service, Mercurial-backed deployment tool that reliably pushed and synchronized files on 7 clusters.
- Created monitoring for our host fleet via a healthcheck service on each; tied in with Cfengine, host-categorization service, and package-rollout service.
- Enhanced open-source websites including Redmine, OSQA, and ReviewBoard, while administering their Postgres databases.
Developer Services Web (sole member)
- Increased reliability of Postgres setup via streaming replication, backups, and monitoring.
- Created multiple single page, api-backed, infrastructure portals.
- Enhanced web services to provide self-service functions: signoff-driven configuration deployment, and custom curatorship management.
- Led various bake-offs: chat services, Git hosting, and continuous integration.
- Enhanced and productionized open-source site deployments.
Online Build Team (team leader)
- Managed team of 6, prioritizing, delegating, leading projects, and coaching junior members.
Perforce Admin (member)
- Improved the tooling and server performance for developers.
- Created automated monitoring, a self-service web portal, and statistics collectors for issue detection, diagnosis, and mitigation.
- Trained new employees with my lectures and labs.
- Enabled streaming replication to cut potential outage time from hours to minutes.
2010
Software Engineer Intern (member)
IBM Software Group location_on Poughkeepsie, NY- Part of Websphere Application Server team, tasked with enabling J2EE app security accross all unit tests in custom framework.
- Achieved goal and presented results to greater team at the end of Summer.
school Education
2007
2011
Software Engineering B.S. (Information Technology Minor)
Clarkson University location_onPotsdam, NY
GPA:
3.7/4
Dean's List every year.