Robert Buten

Experience

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  Thinkronize, Inc.

  May 2000 - Jul 2006

  Junior/Senior Programmer
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  Academic Benchmarks

  Jul 2006 - Feb 2016

  - project management- primary product design, implementation, testing, and deployment- front line technical support to clients and other internal divisions - manage all programmers on a day-to-day basis- develop and manage a working development road map- transition from full- to part-time programmer, with strategic R&D programming tasks only- work with product and project managers and department heads to prioritize road map items- develop a skill set for engaging prospect- and client-facing conversations

  • Lead Software Architect

    Sept 2015 - Feb 2016

  • Director of Development

    May 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Senior Programmer

    Jul 2006 - May 2014
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  Certica Solutions, Inc.

  Feb 2016 - Jan 2021

  Senior Software Engineer

  - primary product design, implementation, test, and deployment- devops/prodops- technical/client support- team/group lead- api evangelist

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  Instructure

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Senior Software Engineer

  - improve and maintain a proprietary Ruby on Rails/React.js deployment tool- improve and maintain Jenkins builds for primary product (Canvas LMS)- provide technical support for internal development environments- intern interviewing and mentoring

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  Radiance Technologies

  Jan 2023 - now

  - manage 4 divisions of 50+ software engineers, testers, scrum masters, and product owners- technical lead across two teams spanning multiple contracts- lead proposals and capture management- run primary point for group hiring - manage 10+ software engineers- technical lead across three teams that span two contracts- designed & launched Jenkins based CI/CD pipeline w/Slack & Nexus integration- built Atlassian Bamboo pipeline for repository mirroring- influenced designs for migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch- built SV-1 architecture and SV-4 dataflow diagrams to document applications functionality- lead technical writer on winning proposal for contract rebid - developed python based micro-services- containerized multiple micro-services (Angular, Vue, Go, Python) and streamlined start-up- designed and developed workflows in Argo- deployed microservices, events, and workflows in Kubernetes

  • Operation Manager/Software Tech Lead

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Division Manager/Software Tech Lead

    Jul 2023 - Oct 2024

  • Full Stack Software Engineer

    Jan 2023 - Jun 2023