Hiram Neal

United States

@hkneal

Django/Python Backend Developer

Badges

Problem Solving
Java
Python
Days of Code

Certifications

Work Experience

  • Python Developer

    Experian•  June 2023 - Present•  San Jose, CA

    Designed and developed optimization algorithms and their respective dependency applications for Machine Learning (ML) feature and model registration. Stakeholder collaboration to design, build, and support new and existing software applications. Integrated RESTful APIs into applications with Python Fast-API and building deployment pipelines for applications in Jenkins on Kubernetes & AWS EC2 instances.

  • Software Engineer (Python)

    Noyo Technologies•  January 2022 - February 2023•  San Francisco, CA

    Improved the platform to carrier synchronization rates through automation, validation, platform to carrier integrations, and RESTful APIs. Designed & implemented automation and validation system application. Developed platform interface applications to reduce operation team workloads (Retool/JavaScript). Improved application business logic using development best practices (Python/Flask). Google Cloud Services (GCP).

  • Full Stack Developer

    WarriorMade•  October 2018 - January 2022•  Santa Cruz, CA

    Python/Django - Angular Application Development. Designed & Coded a video transcoding and delivery algorithm and application that provides customized workout videos per user, per workout level, from a selection of thousands of videos. Designed, developed, and built RESTful API's. Improved CRM & API integration, database efficiency, and overall web application performance. Migrated Flask web applications into Django. Designed, developed, and improved overall UI/UX via backend optimization. Database Schema design, development, and maintenance, input validation/verification. Angular / Django integration into seamless single page applications to improve customer interactions / satisfaction. AWS Cloud Services(Lambda, API-Gateway, MediaConvert, EC2, S3...).

  • Software engineer

    IBM•  August 1998 - May 2016•  San Jose, CA

    Exceeded quality assurance goals as Team Lead by coding and developing workload scenarios, environments, and drivers to evaluate new and existing code functionality. Utilized monitoring and development tools such as IMS Performance Analyzer (IMSPA), Resource Measurement Facility (RMF), Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA), Eclipse IDE, Rational Developer for System Z, JMeter, and Wireshark. Improved workload scenario test cases and environments by coding workload automation configurations and programs for mainframe/Windows and Java TPNS Script. This effort reduced a 1-week testing process into an 8-hour shift. Evaluated new IMS functionality within an IMS Performance evaluation scope.

Education

  • University California

    Java Programming Certification•  December 2018 - December 2018

  • Grambling State University

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in computer science•  August 1998 - August 1998

Skills

Amazon AWS
Google Cloud Services
Jenkins
Docker
RabbitMQ
Elasticsearch
MySQL
Postgres
Redis
Angular
Django
Flask
Celery
Python
JavaScript
Typescript