Juston C. Davies Address: Littleton, CO, 80120 Phone: +1.303.809.5226 Email: Juston@Davies.dev Web: https://Juston.Davies.dev Technology Keyword Summary: Key Languages: Go, Ruby, SQL Notable Tools: Git, Linux, Docker/PodMan, Terraform, FaaS, AWS, Postgres About: I am an architect / engineer / leader / mentor who likes to build, solve problems and create positive, thoughtful working cultures of expertise. Practices: Problem conscientious, solution focused: Within every project, business and customer engagement lies a problem that needs solving; I strive to cut through the noise to identify a clear problem statement and deliver thoughtful and innovative and solutions that exceed expectations. Scalable systems, scalable business: A good software engineer knows how to build scalable software systems, a skilled leader knows success is building effective teams, and I work to make businesses successful through the experienced application of both. The finish line is only the beginning: Delivering is a critical part of success, but it doesn't end there. Through thoughtful architecture, continuous improvement and a lifelong commitment to quality I help maintain upward momentum while keeping tech debt under control. Formal Education: Colorado State University: Class of 2008 Major: Computer Science / Applied Computing Technologies Minor: Business Administration Accomplishments: Agile champion: Successfully championed and converted three companies and two (additional) teams into a formal agile workflow which radically increased throughput, transparency and responsiveness between teams and stakeholders helping businesses run smoother and more predictably. Team builder: Hired and mentored more than twenty engineers building well gelled teams and helping less experienced engineers grow into senior roles with hands-on directed mentorship. Better, faster software: Re-architected, re-worked and improved more than ten products, reducing costs, increasing throughput up to 100x while also improving reliability up to 99.99%. Business acumen: Worked directly with business owners of five different businesses helping to shape, refine and sharpen key business strategies, identify market/product opportunities, execute important acquisitions, brand enhancements and work directly with stakeholders to help accelerate growth and win investments. Relevant Career Experience: Crash Pad (Unable to secure funding) Denver, CO June 2022 - December 2022 Title: SVP of Technology Technologies: Linux, Docker, Go, Terraform, AWS Summary: Core technological strategist, responsible for comprehensive IT, systems and software development strategies. Accomplishments: Full implementation of unified cloud strategy, utilizing IaC (infrastructure-as-code) for anticipated services and needs. Investigated, budgeted and collaborated with external contractors to deliver a secure on-premise and cloud based systems. Participated in high level design discussions and resolved key technological blockers which could be delivered on an aggressive schedule. Joyn (formerly Tournament Kings) Denver, CO February 2020 - April 2022 Title: Principal Engineer / COO 09/20 - 04/22, Principal Engineer 02/20 - 09/20 Technologies: Linux, Docker, Go, Terraform, AWS Summary: Business leader, architect, active engineer, owner/operator of technical team, owner/operator of multiple teams. Accomplishments: Engineered and handed off more than 6 integral services and APIs. Built new tools and systems to enable much higher levels of business intelligence and decision making. Introduced, dockerized, managed and maintained CI and Deployment processes for multiple products spanning dozens of servers. Full re-architecture of the business cloud strategy; migrated from hand rolled infrastructure to a fully managed automated scalable cloud. Recruit, hire and manage contractors and employees (6 in total) in and outside of the technology team. Guided business through more than 7 strategic acquisitions, served as the technical lead in integrations. Worked directly with the business owners to help shape internal and external business strategies to help accelerate funding and growth. Founded the security team which fixed hundreds of vulnerabilities and helped champion security as a practice throughout the organization. Converted organization into a new monthly agile process that spanned the entire company, with increased transparency, ownership, accountability, throughput and employee satisfaction. FluentStream Technologies Denver, CO June 2019 - February 2020 Title: Director of Engineering Technologies: Go, C/C++, Lua, Terraform, GCP, Digital Ocean Summary: Technical leader and architect for an existing team; helped deliver multiple projects and support growth goals. Accomplishments: Worked directly with owners to help define product and technology strategies. Directed a team of 10 on multiple projects with many stakeholders and timelines. Architected, delegated, documented, reviewed and delivered multiple high-throughput applications. Designed and oversaw the construction of automated / managed / cost-effective infrastructure and policies. Investigated and implemented new technologies to enable the business to reach new markets and increase throughput. Owned and championed multiple cross-departmental teams to help champion best-practice, innovation and security. Worked directly with investors and key technology team members to evaluate multiple acquisitions, some well above the $10 million mark. Converted multiple teams to a new agile process with measurable goals, transparency, ownership and accountability resulting in increased throughput. Aspen Digital Life Denver, CO 2018-2020 Title: Principal Engineer Technologies: Go, C/C++, Terraform, Serverless, AWS, React Summary: Co-founder, technical lead and senior engineer of a new team; built multiple products and shaped the business. Accomplishments: Architected, built, documented and delivered multiple high-throughput applications. Worked directly as a founder to help define product, branding and technology strategies. Built automated / managed / cost-effective infrastructure to host multiple applications for native run-times and in the cloud. Recruited, hired and managed contractors and employees (5 in total) in and outside of the technology team. Investigated and implement new technologies to enable the business to reach new markets and increase throughput. Conjectural Technologies Denver, CO 2017-2022 Title: Technical Consultant Technologies: Go, Ruby, Terraform, Serverless, AWS Summary: Technical adviser / consultant for multiple small businesses; delivered prototypes and strategy for new projects. Accomplishments: Integrated business critical services and providers. Architected, built, documented and delivered multiple high-throughput applications. Consulted with small business owners to help define product, branding and technology strategies. Built automated / managed / cost-effective infrastructure to host multiple applications on premise and in the cloud. Teliax Inc. Denver, CO 2011-2017 Roles: Director of Engineering Technologies: C/C++, Lua, Swift, Ruby/Rails, Python, SaltStack, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, FreeSWITCH, ZeroMQ, HTML/CSS/JavaScript Summary: Company technology lead, architect, engineer and cross-departmental leader; built teams, products and culture. Accomplishments: Worked with business leadership and executives to establish requirements for multiple new products designed to exploit emerging markets. Worked with and enhanced existing systems and services already in place. Reviewed architecture, design and code for potential issues and risk assessment, improving performance and reliability across the company. Managed and trained team of 6 to help develop large scale applications and distribute tasks. Solved real-time and distributed computing problems using Rails, C, Lua and ZeroMQ to build a highly elastic and reliable platform capable of being deployed on and off network. Davita Denver, CO 2010-2011 Title: Software Engineer Technologies: Flex, Air, ColdFusion, OracleDB, Ant Summary: Technical contributor and software engineer; helped champion best practices, modern software architecture. Accomplishments: Designed, documented, wrote, debugged and reviewed exiting application code for new and existing applications/features. Developed and enhanced existing feature sets to satisfy customer new needs and to fix existing issues. Reviewed architecture, design and code for potential issues and risk assessment. Worked directly with physicians, nurses and technicians to design intuitive electronic health record interfaces for recording, referencing and reporting on medical encounters. Lead meetings and tasks dedicated to continuous improvement and introduce new policy. Brandwise Lakewood, CO 2009-2010 Title: Software Quality Engineer Technologies: C#, .Net, SQL, JavaScript Summary: Technical contributor and quality engineer; helped review code and architecture to de-risk and champion quality. Accomplishments: Complex data manipulation and integration via SQL and various integration software. Implemented automated testing procedures and infrastructure. Defined and executed continuous software testing for quality assurance. Code reviewed of lengthy SQL stored procedures and C# applications identifying issues and potential risks and working with the engineering team to repair applications before go-live. Integware Fort Collins, CO 2008-2009 Title: Quality Engineering Manager Technologies: Ruby, Java, Python Summary: Technical lead and quality engineer; served as quality leader and helped to automate and modernize process. Accomplishments: Coordinate testing resources while preforming risk analysis, develop long-term test plans and annual budgets. Review code from software engineers and architects to help identify and fix bugs. Research new technologies and coding strategies to establish and streamline business processes. Review engineering documents from local teams and foreign partners to assess risk and implement new test strategies to eliminate potential issues due to change. Create and maintain customized automated test software. Automation engineering. Software testing, bug analysis, quality evaluation and automated reporting. Review and work with industry experts on medical device manufacturing compliance regulation and requirements. Brandwise Lakewood, CO 2003-2008 Title: Data Specialist / Tier 3 Support Engineer Technologies: Bash, C#, .Net, SQL, JavaScript Summary: Senior product and customer expert; helped to grow a positive, knowledgeable and customer-centric culture. Accomplishments: Customer engagement / on-boarding / integration Automation of common tasks for support and customer on-boarding. Complex data manipulation and integration.