My resume

resume.json

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        "name": "Alessandro Aiezza II",
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        "email": "a.aiezza+recruit@gmail.com",
        "phone": "(585) 698-⚃⚁⚁8",
        "degree": "Masters of Science in Bioinformatics",
        "website": "https://github.com/aaiezza",
        "summary": "My professional objective is to join an organization that is focused on their mission, cultivates a culture that rallies around that mission, and values growth and collaboration for their team members.",
        "location": {
            "_address": "64 Allandale Drive",
            "_postalCode": "14624",
            "city": "Rochester",
            "_countryCode": "USA",
            "region": "New York"
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        "profiles": [
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                "network": "LinkedIn",
                "username": "alessandro-aiezza-7586b8100",
                "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-aiezza-7586b8100/"
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            {
                "network": "GitHub",
                "username": "aaiezza",
                "url": "https://github.com/aaiezza"
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            {
                "network": "Dev",
                "username": "aaiezza",
                "url": "https://dev.to/aaiezza"
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            {
                "network": "ResearchGate",
                "username": "Alessandro-Aiezza-Ii",
                "url": "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandro-Aiezza-Ii"
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            {
                "network": "StackOverflow",
                "username": "aaiezza",
                "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/2787584/aaiezza"
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    "work": [
        {
            "name": "USAA",
            "position": "Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead",
            "image": "https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/USAA-Symbol.png",
            "url": "https://www.usaa.com/",
            "startDate": "2023-02-05",
            "summary": "Support and mentor a team of engineers to provide value to our members",
            "highlights": [
                "Senior Software engineer on the Digital Voice team that develops and maintains microservices for IVR (Interactive Voice Recognition) technologies; Automated phone services for member account self-management",
                "Scrum work methodology",
                "Java/Spring backend microservices, Javascript, VXML (Voice XML), GitLab CI/CD DevOps Pipelines, Various AWS components."
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Ramsey Solutions",
            "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
            "image": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/MGf6jUB1u-TpAs-x_9aUQJ7gcG_Qvjo_upr0uL1-1CDNdhN-zdBOtyqtOeDdJzPiiIS-XklQMA=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
            "url": "https://www.ramseysolutions.com/",
            "startDate": "2018-01-08",
            "endDate": "2023-01-05",
            "summary": "Engineer on a team that develops and maintains platform microservices used by several customer-facing web applications that helped users with their finances",
            "highlights": [
                "Position entailed collaborating with multiple teams and business stakeholders within the company to discover needs and designing and implementing solutions.",
                "KanBan work methodology",
                "<em><a href=\"https://www.ramseysolutions.com/corporate-wellness/smartdollar\">SmartDollar</a></em> — Financial Wellness App — Java/Spring backend microservices; Various AWS components",
                "<em><a href=\"https://www.ramseysolutions.com/money/everydollar\">EveryDollar</a></em> – Budgeting App — Java/Spring backend microservices; Various AWS components",
                "<em><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYDfX9Xn8V0\">Gazelle</a></em> – Debit Card App - Kotlin backend serverless (AWS API Gateway); Various AWS components - Native iOS app (SwiftUI) / Native Android app (Kotlin)"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "volunteer": [
        {
            "organization": "Calvary Assembly",
            "position": "Greeter and Kids Ministry Leader",
            "website": "https://rcalvary.org/",
            "startDate": "2023-09-01",
            "summary": "Greeter at the front door to welcome guests to Sunday morning service and other church events. Kids ministry leader; essentially have fun with the kids and assist in teaching content related to the service or event.",
            "highlights": [
                "Sunday Morning greeting at the front door.",
                "Camp counselor at Kids ministry events."
            ]
        },
        {
            "_organization": "Various Christian Churches",
            "position": "Ministry Student Leader/Event Planner",
            "_website": "",
            "startDate": "2006-07-01",
            "endDate": "2017-12-15",
            "summary": "Assisted with a number of tasks as it pertained to running a ministry with a focused outreached to student-aged young adults.",
            "highlights": [
                "Ran the tech booth as well as schedule others to do so; lights, audio-visual elements, sound board.",
                "Prepare sermons and deliver them during church service.",
                "Provided mentorship and community with young adults at events or gatherings outside of church.",
                "Assisted with programming of service, on and off-campus events.",
                "Created, planned, executed a variety of games and skits for the purposes of entertaining young adult attendees and including them in activities."
            ]
        }
    ],
    "education": [
        {
            "institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
            "url": "https://rit.edu",
            "area": "Science",
            "studyType": "Master of Bioinformatics",
            "startDate": "2014-09-01",
            "endDate": "2016-08-01",
            "gpa": "4.0",
            "courses": [
                "Software Engineering",
                "Computational Biology",
                "Domain Driven Design",
                "Fundamental Theory of Statistics",
                "Fundamental Theory of Data & Data Management",
                "Machine Learning & Genetic Algorithm Development"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "publications": [
        {
            "name": "The FLiCK framework; enabling rapid development and performance benchmarking of compression applications for genetic data files",
            "publisher": "The Rochester Institute of Technology",
            "releaseDate": "2016",
            "url": "https://repository.rit.edu/theses/9258",
            "summary": "A JVM framework for developing plugins for compression/decompression of genetic data files. Improved compression over 80% over traditional Bioinformatic compression software. https://github.com/aaiezza/FLiCK"
        },
        {
            "name": "Vascular smooth muscle cell contractile protein expression is increased through PKG-dependent and -independent pathways by G6PD inhibition and deficiency",
            "publisher": "AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology",
            "releaseDate": "2016",
            "url": "https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpheart.00335.2016",
            "_summary_": "Homeostatic control of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) differentiation is critical for contractile activity and regulation of blood flow. Recently, we reported that pre-contracted blood vessels are relaxed and the phenotype of VSMC is regulated from a synthetic to contractile state by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) inhibition. In the current study, we investigated whether the increase in the expression of VSMC contractile proteins by inhibition and knockdown of G6PD is mediated through a protein kinase G (PKG)-dependent pathway and whether it regulates blood pressure. We found that the expression of VSMC-restricted contractile proteins, myocardin (MYOCD), and miR-1 and miR-143 are increased by G6PD inhibition or knockdown. Importantly, RNA-sequence analysis of aortic tissue from G6PD-deficient mice revealed uniform increases in VSMC-restricted genes, particularly those regulated by the MYOCD-serum response factor (SRF) switch. Conversely, expression of Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is decreased by G6PD inhibition. Interestingly, the G6PD inhibition-induced expression of miR-1 and contractile proteins was blocked by Rp-β-phenyl-1,N2-etheno-8-bromo-guanosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate, a PKG inhibitor. On the other hand, MYOCD and miR-143 levels are increased by G6PD inhibition through a PKG-independent manner. Furthermore, blood pressure was lower in the G6PD-deficient as compared to wild-type mice. Therefore, our results suggest that the expression of VSMC contractile proteins induced by G6PD inhibition occurs via PKG1α-dependent and -independent pathways."
        },
        {
            "name": "Exercise promotes a cardioprotective gene program in resident cardiac fibroblasts",
            "publisher": "American Society for Clinical Investigation",
            "releaseDate": "2019",
            "url": "https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/92098",
            "_summary_": "Exercise and heart disease both induce cardiac remodeling, but only disease causes fibrosis and compromises heart function. The cardioprotective benefits of exercise have been attributed to changes in cardiomyocyte physiology, but the impact of exercise on cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) is unknown. Here, RNA-sequencing reveals rapid divergence of CF transcriptional programs during exercise and disease. Among the differentially expressed programs, NRF2-dependent antioxidant genes — including metallothioneins (Mt1 and Mt2) — are induced in CFs during exercise and suppressed by TGF-β/p38 signaling in disease. In vivo, mice lacking Mt1/2 exhibit signs of cardiac dysfunction in exercise, including cardiac fibrosis, vascular rarefaction, and functional decline. Mechanistically, exogenous MTs derived from fibroblasts are taken up by cultured cardiomyocytes, reducing oxidative damage–dependent cell death. Importantly, suppression of MT expression is conserved in human heart failure. Taken together, this study defines the acute transcriptional response of CFs to exercise and disease and reveals a cardioprotective mechanism that is lost in disease."
        }
    ],
    "skills": [
        {
            "name": "JVM Languages",
            "level": "Master",
            "keywords": [
                "Java",
                "Kotlin",
                "Groovy"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Frameworks",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Spring",
                "Spring Boot",
                "Spring Security",
                "Spring Batch",
                "jOOQ",
                "Hibernate"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Programming Languages",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "SQL",
                "Regular Expressions",
                "Javascript",
                "AJAX",
                "Python"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Programming Languages",
            "level": "Intermediate",
            "keywords": [
                "Swift (iOS)",
                "Kotlin (Android)",
                "C#",
                "Shell Scripting",
                "R",
                "Perl",
                "Golang"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Markup, Data, and Other Languages",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "JSON",
                "HTML",
                "CSS",
                "XML",
                "VXML",
                "YAML"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Cloud Computing",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Terraform",
                "Pulumi",
                "Amazon AWS",
                "Lambda",
                "Event Bridge",
                "API Gateway",
                "SQS",
                "Kinesis",
                "DynamoDB",
                "CloudWatch",
                "RDS",
                "ECS/EC2 Containers",
                "Connect",
                "Lex Bots"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Databases",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "MySQL",
                "Postgres",
                "Microsoft SQL Server",
                "MongoDB",
                "SQLite"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Other Tools",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Twilio Segment",
                "Loggly",
                "New Relic",
                "OpenShift",
                "Websphere",
                "Mixpanel",
                "Postman",
                "Elastic Search",
                "Git version control",
                "GitHub",
                "GitLab",
                "GitHub Actions",
                "GitLab Pipelines",
                "Docker",
                "Kubernetes",
                "REST APIs",
                "OpenAPI",
                "Swagger",
                "Maven",
                "Gradle"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Softare Engineering Paradigms",
            "level": "Advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "AI Prompt Engineering",
                "Test Driven Development (TDD)",
                "Domain Driven Design (DDD)",
                "Object-Oriented Programming",
                "Agile Methodologies",
                "KanBan",
                "Scrum",
                "Waterfall",
                "Continuous Integration",
                "Continuous Deployment",
                "CI/CD",
                "DevOps"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "languages": [
        {
            "language": "English",
            "fluency": "Native speaker"
        },
        {
            "language": "Italian",
            "fluency": "Conversational"
        }
    ],
    "interests": [
        {
            "name": "Sports",
            "keywords": [
                "Snowboarding",
                "Ultimate Frisbee",
                "Road Biking",
                "Improv Comedy"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Software Development",
            "keywords": [
                "Personal iPhone apps",
                "Blogging",
                "Other personal projects",
                "Coding challenges (Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com)"
            ]
        }
    ]
}