I'm an experienced, hands-on, dedicated, and results-oriented software engineer based in Seattle with 15+ years of professional experience in distributed systems, web and desktop development. I'm reliable, committed, and innovative; able to adapt to new environments and learn new technologies quickly. I'm an attentive listener with great communication skills and a strong ability to work well both independently and collaboratively with teams.

☎️ Contact information

📬 1067 E Lynn St, Seattle WA 98102

📞 (713) 427-2915

📧. [email protected]

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfeston/

🔗 https://jfeston.dev

🎂 11/08/1981

👩🏻‍💻 Work experience

02/2021 - Present

Software Engineer III

Amperity (Seattle, WA)

Software Engineer in the MAX Team. Developed AmpIQ features. Supported migration to AmpIQ v2

11/2020 - 02/2021

Lead Software Engineer

Starbuck Corp (Seattle, WA)

Lead Engineer of the Card Team, responsible for digital closed-loop card operations.

06/2018 - 11/2020

Senior Software Engineer

Starbucks Corp (Seattle, WA)

• Refactored and maintained legacy CardManagement API. Supported new fraud checking and eventing flow.
• Developed a solution to ingest Near Real-Time Messages from First Data and integrated them in the auto-reload decision making, account balance check, and record-keeping project.
• Developed new hybrid auto-reload micro-services to support the transition to a cloud-based solution.
• Refactored CardAPI to integrate GooglePay in the reload/auto-reload flow.
• Maintained SvcGateway project, a closed-loop card transaction gateway Service Fabric application. Refactored the micro-services in the project to improve reliability, performance, and throughput.
• Maintained ReloadApi, ReloadProxy and CardEventBridge services