Brett Plemons

Senior Software Engineer

Dictionary.com•  March 2022 - Present

Currently holding Director of Engineering (Backend) Position

Software Engineer

Kansas Department of Health and Environment•  September 2020 - February 2021

Contract

Software Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas•  February 2020 - September 2020

Contract Work - Designed and developed a total solution according to business client's conditions of satisfaction, utilizing data collection, transformation and loading into an API for processing. - Troubleshoot and maintain an internal web application in .NET Framework which was utilized statewide by healthcare facilities. - Maintained, and committed software updates using Subversion version control. - Utilized SQL Server Management System to create queries and manage existing tables in Microsoft SQL Server. - Practiced SQL development techniques in order to leverage utility of data stored in a DB2 database.

Software Engineer

HitchPin•  August 2019 - February 2020

- Applied knowledge of Optical Character Recognition, and Python programming to utilize OpenCV to automate the task of verifying financial account information from a check. - Assisted in and implemented the design of pricing algorithms used to transact products and services between users on a large Agricultural eCommerce web application. - Utilized knowledge of data driven design to refactor and implement new features in a Django backend, and Reactjs frontend. - Maintained clean and optimized code through continuous integration and continuous development via automated pipelines with JenkinsCI and GitHub. - Learned on the job how to develop with Reactjs in order to fulfill a fullstack role and assist with business needs.

Kansas State University

Computer Science, BE•  January 2014 - July 2019

Changed majors from Molecular Biology to Computer Science which drastically extended my college career. Did not graduate, ended up transferring.