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I am Lando (Xe/Xem);
a software engineer
based in Southeast NC.

About

Play. Learn. Solve.

Intro

Software development is the closest thing to magic in this world and solving problems day in and day out is what drives my passion for secure coding.

Programming Skills

  • 60%
    Bash
  • 60%
    Java
  • 80%
    JavaScript
  • 40%
    PHP
  • 80%
    Python
  • 40%
    React
  • 80%
    SQL/SOQL
  • 40%
    Terraform
  • 60%
    TypeScript

Work Experience

February 2023 - Present

FIFTH THIRD BANK

Principal Product Owner, Officer
  • Lead Cloud Security Automation initiatives for the Bank.
  • Serve as the Technology & Information Security ITLP Representative.

December 2021 - January 2023

BIG HEALTH

Staff Software Engineer
  • Designed and built marketing automations to ensure GDPR / CCPA compliance.
  • Coordinated with marketing team to understand new engagement opportunities.
  • Coached development team on Agile/Scrum practices to increase velocity by 25%.

August 2021 - November 2021

WESCO

DevSecOps Coach
  • Crafted training content on version control, BDD, TDD, DDD, and secure coding.
  • Guided organization on architecting CI pipelines in GitHub Actions and Azure.

September 2018 - July 2021

NCINO

Senior Software Engineer
  • Built loan origination software on Salesforce Platform for retail consumers.
  • Created DDD scaffolding tool to reduce new service development time by 10%.
  • Mentored associate engineers in DDD design patterns and tech debt management.

July 2015 – September 2018

GENERAL ELECTRIC

Staff Software Engineer
  • Built outage predictability web application for nuclear reactors.
  • Implemented CI pipeline to automate application building and testing.
  • Served as code owner for team repositories to ensure code quality.
Digital Technology Leadership Program
  • Gathered requirements from aviation SMEs for private jet owners portal.
  • Developed ETL jobs to automate data ingestion into the Aviation Data Lake.
  • Configured microservices on internal IaaS (Predix) for flight record extraction.
  • Coached Aviation repair shops and remote development teams in Scrum patterns.

August 2012 – June 2015

NC VIRTUAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

Registrar Assistant
  • Resolved help desk tickets relating to registration issues and LMS software.
  • Automated registration tasks to reduce process times by 60%.
  • Built web tool to bundle common registration task execution in a single location.

July 2009 – June 2013

NC PUBLIC SCHOOLS

High School Math Teacher/Band Director
  • Designed math and music lessons and labs incorporating Web 2.0 tools.
  • Presented on how to build low-cost interactive whiteboards using Wii Remotes.
  • Organized single-day marching band competition earning $6,000 in revenue.