Selected Success Stories
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The following are a few brief success stories for organizations that I have worked with. If you want more information, feel free to reach out to me and lets talk about how my experience can help you solve yours.
Microservices and Serverless Transformation
Brought on-board to provide the vision and implement a strategic technology and architectural plan to transform the companies' product suite in an effort to streamline processes, expand industry footprint, and improve corporate flexibility.
The company initially had a mixed technology stack including monolithic services written in PHP, Java, nodeJS, and Python. In addition, the stack also included 8 separate database platforms along with dozens of complex and brittle 3rd Party integration points.
Annual costs in Amazon Web Services exceeded $2.4 million. This could primarily be attributed to the fact that the original implementation was essentially a direct "lift and shift" of the original data-center product suite into the cloud.
Working with corporate leadership and the engineering teams, we identified the current challenges and defined a set of measurable target goals and processes. Those goals included: cost reduction, improved speed and responsiveness, and improved delivery timelines.
By aggressively revamping the composition of the engineering teams and working to include the corporate product teams as part of the delivery Agile processes, we were able to dramatically shorten delivery lifecycles and improve the quality.
Working closely with Engineering leadership, I developed and implemented a set of technical roadmaps to transition major portions of the legacy systems into a microservices-based serverless platform and reducing costs by over 60% while at the same time improving engineering satisfaction.
The cost savings and improvements to quality allowed us to futher capitalize on our success to expand our offering and deliver products that really improved customer satisfaction. We embraced a more comprehensive strategy for our customers including Progressive Web Apps and full mobile access to our entire suite.
“Adopting Jerry's Cloud Transformation plan embracing Serverless has really had an amazing impact on quality and satisfaction. We can do more and at less cost than we thought possible.”
— Director of Engineering
"It's nice to finally have comprehensive guidance to follow!"
- Engineering Manager
SOA and Organizational Transformation
Brought on-board to address significant challenges in a largly monolithic and tightly coupled environment. The companies' products and technologies were in a legacy status, were hard to maintain, and fairly brittle in practice.
I was tasked with bringing them back into the top 5 of performance rankings as well as improving and addressing the challenges caused by the monolithic nature of the system. Developer productivity and satisfaction were low and they were mired in a collection of legacy technologies which significantly hampered their ability to deliver high quality solutions at the speed which the business and our customers demanded.
The first goal was to map out a comprehensive technical strategy to deliver against clearly identified business targets. A provisional future-state acted as the roadmap on how engineering was going to deliver solutions and functionality moving forward.
Working with key members of the engineering teams, we were able to create proof-of-concept service-based solutions that far exceed the performance and scalability of the existing solutions. We targeted new functionality first at the edge of the enterprise, and then worked our way in as part of the roadmap execution.
Performance steadily improved with the new approach, ending at nearly a 500% gain and pushing them to a #1 ranking in their space.
“Wow!”
— Chief Technical Officer on news of being ranked #1
“It was amazing to have someone like Jerry work with us so closely - he was able to understand our needs and just make it happen.”
— Manager of Financial Products
“[Jerry's] ability to explain the key concepts to employees across the spectrum of seniority and technological skill makes him a valuable member of a team and leader.”
— Engineering Team Lead