Brandon Antillon

Summary

Software Engineer with several years of experience responsible for working with web applications both frontend and backend. Experienced in working in a fast-paced, collaborative software development environment with teams.

Interests

Full Stack Development DevOps Engineer

Skills

  • PHP, Python, Java, C#
  • JavaScript, jQuery
  • HTML5, CSS3, AJAX
  • MySQL, Redis, MongoDB
  • Laravel, Lumen, Symfony, Node.js, .NET Core
  • Vue.js, React.js
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Vagrant, Terraform, AWS
  • Git, Bash
  • Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology

Minor in Geographic Information Science
California State University, Northridge
California, USA
September 2013 - May 2018

Master of Science in Software Engineering

Arizona State University
Arizona, USA
January 2021 - December 2023

Experience

Corporate Travel Management - US

Senior Software Engineer
August 2021 - Present
  • Decomposed monolithic application systems into micro-services, and contributed to company's micro-service architecture.
  • Architected CI/CD pipelines for our applications from development to deployment with Azure DevOps, AKS, and Azure Pipelines.
  • Worked extensively with Docker containerization and Kubernetes to deploy our next-generation applications and microservices.
  • Developed internal applications and supported other departments with both PHP/Lumen and NodeJS APIs. Categories include rebuilding our flight, hotel, car, and other travel related reservation systems.
Software Engineer
December 2018 - August 2021
  • Contributed to the development of an api dedicated to searching/booking flights, now currently in use for Wells Fargo's loyalty points system using Laravel/Lumen.
  • Aided in the development of the front-end for Wells Fargo loyalty points system, as well as front-end clients for other smaller clients like PNC and Harvard Rewards Alumni card.
  • Worked with a team in an agile envionment, and used task tracking tools like Jira, Confluence for documentation, and Git for version control.
  • Worked on transaction monitoring systems using NodeJS back-end, MongoDB, and React front-end.

Cable Engineering Services (CES)

Full Stack Developer
May 2018 - November 2018
  • Collaborated with one other developer in an Agile environment to create, deploy and support an in-house ERP system written in PHP that 80+ users access every day.
  • Used source control to manage code changes, and branches.
  • Developed successor to old ERP system with one other developer. ERP system takes care of things like timesheets, company projects, employee management, and much more.
  • Also in charge of fixing bugs within the ERP system, and consistently reported back to superiors about fixed issues.
  • Communicated with staff and management to convert their requirements into code and features for the new ERP system.
  • Other developer and I are the sole maintainers of the application, therefore we're the main points of contact whenever an issue arises.
  • Used Vagrant/Ubuntu as a main development environment.

USAePay

Junior DevOps Engineer
May 2015 - January 2017
  • Work with a development team in an Agile environment fixing bugs and implementing new features into the main product (a credit card processing web application).
  • Extensively use source-control (Git) to manage code changes.
  • Set up a sandbox environment comprised of Linux VMs with web servers, databases, load balancers, and other services that are successfully being used for product testing and prototyping.
  • Quickly eliminated any assigned bugs ranging from backend PHP bugs to frontend JavaScript and UI bugs.
  • Improved developer workflow by successfully implementing Vagrant virtual machines for use on developer local machines that mimic the production environment.
  • Developed several tools for the company including a REST API that allows LDAP authentication between in-house applications and the central LDAP server.

META+Lab

Student Assistant Developer
November 2013 - May 2015
  • Created web applications with a software development team in an Agile oriented environment.
  • Technical environment included Laravel (PHP framework), JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
  • Worked with Test Driven Development using Codeception for PHP, and extensively used source-control to keep track of projects.
  • Developed a Faculty Finder system, with the development team, for students to easily locate professors, classes, office hours, and other relevant information.
  • Developed an application that facilitates students to submit homework and for professors to confirm homework and assign grades.
  • Participated in automating the deployment process of virtual machines for testing; employed Cobbler and Ansible to expedite the process and ensure consistency when creating Testing, Staging and Production environments.