Adam Pieniazek - Software Engineer Leader

Full-stack developer supporting PHP/JS/Python web applications and a sophisticated WordPress installation.

• Migrated BU's homepage to S3 and web routing to NGINX in AWS from legacy on-prem servers.
• Refactored homepage CMS application to publish to S3 and enabled https.
• Created coding standard for our non-WP PHP applications.
• Created API for BU Calendar to allow decoupling the application from our WordPress servers.
• Reduced BU Calendar API requests served from ~1.5 million daily requests to ~100,000 daily requests via implementing caching in WordPress and within the calendar application, eliminating redundant calls, fixing bugs and improving logic to utilize already cached data.
• Reduced average response times for BU calendar requests by ~67%, increased uptime from weekly outages to rare outages, stopped memory leaks and reduced timeouts by 90%.
• Worked with systems to stand up new virtualized hardware, updated legacy PHP 4 / MySQL 4 applications to MySQL 5 / PHP5 and migrated to new backends.
• Provided tier 3 technical support to clients including students, staff and faculty via bug fixes, security patches and incident management.
• Setup uptime monitoring for our applications and servers leading to higher exposure of outages and in turn less outages.
• Support and debug HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL and PHP incidents with our web applications and WordPress sites, themes and plugins.

Jack of all trades role responsible for marketing, business development, accounting, server administration, front & back-end development, design, information architecture, search engine optimization, consulting, customer service, and other roles as needed.

• Met with clients, translated requirements into wireframes/mockups, converted mockups into dynamic cross-browser compatible CMS based sites.
• Built additional back/middle/front facing functionalities into client's CMS to manage events, products, & other objects as needed.
• Operated LAMP based hosting environments based on Ubuntu - Linode VPSs capable of serving 200+ concurrent users.
• Automated deployment of new databases, WordPress installations, Virtual Hosts, & backups via BASH scripting.
• Consulted to implement marketing strategies for SEO, social media, & online ads.
• Developed CRM/task management WordPress based application for managing client invoices, tasks, projects, & hosting information. [ http://wp42.com/ ]
• Created libraries for adding standard html forms to back-end/front-end of sites programmatically.

• Prepared and co-ordinated client accounts for conversion into State Street, including clients from acquisitions of Deutsche Bank Global Securities Services and Investors Financial Services (IBT).
• Analyzed and forecast probability of conversion for internal and external clients.
• Compiled & distributed security settlement instructions to investment managers & clients.
• Enforced compliance with international and domestic accounting regulations.
• Maintained integrity of client data via daily and weekly reports to colleagues and management.
• Provided technical support to teammates and colleagues.
• Received Outstanding Performance Award for early settlement of multi-billion dollar asset transfer.