Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead with 15 years of commercial software engineering with a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and the importance of meeting business needs. I have 4 years of experience in leading teams of various sizes. This includes but is not limited to the creation of technical design, planning and coordinating team implementation efforts and ensuring that the team follows the best development practices, and collaboration with other teams (engineering, product, leadership). Key skills and areas of expertise: distributed systems architecture and development, microservices, software engineering, API design, OOP, TDD, Java (including multithreading)/Scala, Spring Boot, SQL/NoSQL