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Chris Loverchio

@chrisloverchio

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Experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for backend architecture.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking a remote position focused on backend architecture and performance engineering.

I'm Chris Loverchio, an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and infrastructure optimization. I have a proven ability to design and implement scalable solutions that improve system performance and enhance developer tooling.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Collective Medical

Jan 2020 - Present (5 years 4 months)

Led initiatives to enhance the resiliency of Kafka consumer applications and implemented compression strategies for legacy applications, significantly reducing storage costs and improving data retrieval. Upgraded application dependencies for security and provided on-call monitoring to reduce system downtime.

Kafka Amazon S3 Splunk Grafana Security Automation Microservices

Software Engineer

Symantec

Sep 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 4 months)

Developed monitoring solutions using AWS CloudWatch and automated infrastructure provisioning with AWS CloudFormation. Built a Kafka consumer application for secure data backup to Amazon S3, enhancing data reliability.

AWS Cloudwatch AWS CloudFormation Kafka Amazon S3 Automation Monitoring Java

Software Engineer

Overstock.com

Nov 2017 - Aug 2018 (9 months)

Developed an adaptive pricing engine using Kafka and led the migration of legacy applications to a microservices architecture. Integrated Redis caching to enhance application performance and managed CI/CD pipeline configuration.

Kafka Microservices Java 8 Spring Boot Redis CI CD Jenkins Performance Optimization

Software Tester (SDET)

Overstock.com

Nov 2014 - Nov 2017 (3 years)

Designed and implemented automated test suites for backend applications using Java frameworks. Conducted load testing to identify performance bottlenecks and contributed to production-level bug fixes.

Java Spring Hibernate JMeter Load Testing TestNG Automation Testing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Western Governors University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2017 - 2021

Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, focusing on software development, algorithms, and system design. Developed a strong foundation in programming languages and software engineering principles.