About

A college graduate with experience in programming, automation, and mobile application design. Detail oriented and organized with ability to communicate effectively in a team environment.

  • Selected by the Multiple Engineering Co Op Program (MECOP) to work two 6 month full-time software engineering internships with companies junior and senior year of undergraduate study.
  • Selected by the Business Education Compact (BEC) program to work an internship with Intel Corporation freshman and sophomore year of undergraduate study.
  • Appointed the product owner and lead developer of university senior capstone project.

Education

BS in Computer Science (ABET accredited)

2013 - 2018
Portland State University
  • Senior Project: Product owner of id.ly - a cross platform mobile application, self-sovereign identification system and E2E encrypted messenger. Developed by a collaboration of 7 students using an agile development style. Incorporated AES & RSA encryption, Javascript, React Native, Jira & Git. Open Source - github.com/bnelson777/id.ly
  • Java Project, Introduction to Performance Measurement. Designed with 2 other student peers a Java program to simulate bandwidth overhead of log packets over a local network between nodes running synchronously. Did statistical analysis on packet overhead measurements based on numerous traffic patterns.

Experiences

Software Engineer, Finance & Procurement Technology

Sep 2018 – Present
Nike Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
  • Conducted analysis, data modeling and made cloud architecture decisions to enable data flow between many systems.
  • Developed CRUD REST API’s utilizing a serverless architecture, integrated by other teams within Nike to production.
  • Created a continuous delivery pipeline for these API’s enabling sub-minute releases to AWS with zero downtime.
  • Built test automation framework to execute during API deployments ensuring consistent functionality across releases.
  • Integrated Okta Oauth Scope authorization to ensure utmost data and API endpoint security.

Software Engineering Intern, Post-Prospect UX Team

Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
TrueCar Inc., Santa Monica, California
  • Wrote unit tests in Ruby for frontend and backend services, as part of a full stack team.
  • Managed AWS infrastructure and continuous deployment practices.
  • Built process for automated regression tests using Selenium web framework, MiniTest, Docker and Jenkins.

Software Engineering Intern, Silicon Validation Group

Apr 2016 – Sep 2016
Intel Inc., Hillsboro, Oregon
  • Wrote regression tests in Python using pytest framework used in Intel’s silicon validation platform.
  • Implemented Bullseye software to measure code coverage of silicon validation platform
  • Optimized regression run times using synchronous nodes to execute runs reducing time to complete by up to 50%.

Project Management Assistant, Thunderbolt Group

Mar 2014 – Aug 2015
Intel Inc., Hillsboro, Oregon
  • Managed Drupal powered marketing and engineering websites.
  • Facilitated communication between Thunderbolt host/device product and Intel engineers via email and events.
  • Created mobile web application to manage Thunderbolt Developer Conference (Plugfest)

Teaching Assistant, Elements of Software Engineering

Mar 2017 – Jun 2017
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
  • Assisted professor with class material which detailed the process of waterfall and agile methodologies for students new to software engineering and facilitated group student interactions.

Skills & Proficiency

Python

HTML5 & CSS

SQL - ANSI & MySQL

PHP

C++

AWS

Javascript/Node.js + React/React Native Frameworks

Java

C

Shell Scripting

Splunk

Jenkins + Groovy

Ruby

Terraform

Docker

Elasticsearch