Lawson Caudill
Software Design Developer
Lawson was born in Kentucky and grew up in Dubai. He has led a very eclectic life and has developed a wide range of skills. He is tenacious, adaptable, and experienced. Above all, he loves to write software that is solid and makes people's lives easier.
Portfolio
Experience
C# - 20 yearsJavaScript - 20 yearsT-SQL (Transact-SQL) - 20 yearsArchitecture - 15 yearsSoftware Design - 15 yearsWindows PowerShell - 15 yearsAmazon Web Services (AWS) - 13 yearsAzure - 6 yearsAvailability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio, C#, Windows
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is a mesh network route uptime and health monitoring system for all the networking equipment in Windows Azure.
Work Experience
Open Source Project Founder & Contributor
Naos Project
- CI, packaging, and developer standards delivery paradigm for ensuring consistency in team management of code and deployments.
- MS SQL Server backed stream style data layer supporting various types of database interaction. Can be used for document storage, event sourcing, stream processing, message bus, producer consumer queue, et al.
- MS Windows automation via Powershell and WinRM for complete server setup.
Software Architect
CoMetrics
- Led developers on a system redesign to support new scale and market sectors.
- Migrated co-lo hosted software to AWS.
- Mentored junior developers to improve their skill level.
- Moved business logic from MDX into a new ETL process.
- Integrated SSAS cubes into Tableau reports.
Technical Architect
Global Information System, LLC
- Led developers on multiple initiatives supporting clients in the natural gas pipeline industry.
- Created replacement infrastructure to support business in multiple new sectors.
- Converted all WCF services to WebAPI2 RESTful services.
- Mentored junior developers.
- Integrated continuous integration and package management into workflow.
Java Data Developer (Contractor)
Vivaki Nerve Center (Division of Publicis Groupe)
- Partnered with Google for a proprietary data feed of dart search tracking data.
- Handled core code (Java deployed on AWS) throughout the project.
- Used core processing to load data into an RDS store.
- Allowed the RDS data to feed an ETL from the main store into client isolated cubes to support reporting, data-driven analysis, and data visualization platforms.
- Implemented system processes with ~10 million unique dimensions and ~100 million unique pieces of factual data per day.
Software Development Engineer IV (Contractor)
Microsoft Windows Azure
- Partnered with the director to lead a project from proof-of-concept to a production system.
- Handled initial design and implementation of a system to monitor network device and route states and provide alerting, analysis, and reporting through a dashboard and APIs.
- Partnered with MSR (Microsoft Research) to add anomaly detection using machine learning.
- Partnered with LCA (Microsoft’s Legal Group) to review software licenses with 3rd party code.
- Scaled to support all network hardware in all Azure datacenters.
Software Developer
Microsoft Advertising R&D (Formerly aQuantive, Inc., Acquired in 2007)
- Engaged in full life cycle development, including acquisition, assistance, team absorption, initial integration, scaling, architectural spike, re-architecture for full integration, release, re-scaling, and support.
- Consolidated the data of multiple search engines pulled through their APIs and represented in a canonical form.
- Worked in all levels of development on the product, including UI, middle tier components, data acquisition, data access services, and databases for multi-dimensional reporting to support 200 million records/day.
- Selected for a specialized team to redesign a currently used binary storage format to track data in a more flexible manner without sacrificing performance.
- Authored connectivity software to run deployment and scale testing in a multi-node cluster.
Experience
Windows Azure Infrastructure - Network Route Monitoring
Skills
Languages
C#, SQL, Java, JavaScript, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C#.NET, F#, Objective-C, C++
Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio, Android Studio, Git, SSAS, Tableau, NAnt, MSBuild, MSTest, CC.NET, Subversion (SVN), TFS, DTS, Visual Studio, Eclipse IDE
Platforms
Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android, Azure, Oracle, Amazon EC2, iOS
Storage
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, ASP.NET MVC, NUnit, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, REST APIs, Log4Net, Windows Forms (WinForms)
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Extreme Programming, Design Patterns, Kanban
Other
Architecture, Software Design, APIs, Windows Services, IIS 6, IIS 7, SOAP
Education
Unfinished Degree in Computer Science
Southern Polytechnic State University - Marietta, GA
Unfinished Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA