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Perry Bredeson

@perrybredeson

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Distributed & Mainframe Senior Software Engineer

United States

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What I'm looking for

1. The ability to grow further in my career.

2. Benefits

3. Compensation

I am a distinguished senior software engineer with over three decades of experience across Mainframe and Distributed platforms, excelling in systems analysis, architecture, development, refactoring, testing, deployment and technical leadership. I have led migrations and transitions (Mainframe to Distributed), delivered robust payment and transaction systems, and consistently improved code quality through reviews and mentoring.

I have hands-on expertise with Java/Spring Boot, WebSphere, z/OS/CICS, IMS/DB2 and modern toolchains including Git and Jenkins, and I provide reliable 24/7 on-call support for mission-critical systems. I seek to bring pragmatic engineering, mentoring, and proven delivery to teams modernizing legacy systems or building resilient distributed applications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Garnet River LLC / AITG

Aug 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Provided 24/7 primary on-call support for Cubic’s AFC, Debit/Credit and PATH mainframe systems on z/OS/CICS, managed CICS task schedules for maintenance windows and restored operations after outages.

CIC MQ Series Incident Response Scheduling Troubleshooting

Senior Software Engineer

Millennial Specialty Insurance

Oct 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Designed, implemented and refactored Spring Boot J2EE macroservice and microservices for the LeaseTrack system, led code reviews and executed environment migrations using Git and Jenkins.

Spring Boot Java J2EE Microservices Git Jenkins Code Review

Software Engineer

Travelers Insurance

Oct 2020 - Sep 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Developed and refactored Spring Boot services to replicate mainframe (IMS/DB2) data to MongoDB, led code reviews and mentorship, upgraded Spring and JUnit and remediated Log4J vulnerabilities.

Spring Boot Java MongoDB Junit Git Jenkins

Senior Engineer

Target Corporation

Sep 2019 - Jul 2020 (10 months)

Resolved incidents and delivered development stories for Item mainframe and distributed systems, provided 24/7 on-call support, performed code reviews and mentored engineering staff.

APIs Postman Incident Management Code Review Mentoring Deployment Troubleshooting

E-Business Engineer IV

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Apr 2006 - Apr 2019 (13 years)

Technical lead on Payments transition rewriting FedACH back-office from mainframe to SOA J2EE on AIX/WebSphere, developed DDA messaging solution using MQ and DB2 and led environment deployments and training.

Java Websphere JMS MQ Series Oracle SOA Data Modeling

Technical Engineer

The Musicland Group

Apr 1994 - Apr 2006 (12 years)

Led analysis, design and development of numerous mainframe systems using CICS/COBOL/DB2/VSAM, converted IMS databases to DB2, optimized batch windows and provided 24/7 support.

CIC COBOL Mainframe Optimization Data Modeling