Tyler H. Flaherty

Arlington, MA

Professional Profile

Technical Skills:

Languages – Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Bash, SQL, HTML/CSS, XML/XSL
Frameworks – AWS, ActiveMQ, Confluent Kafka, Apache Camel, Node.js, Spring Boot
Tools – Git, Docker, Jenkins, JFrog, qTest, Confluence, Jira, Postman, Maven

Work Experience

FOUNDATION MEDICINE, Cambridge, MA 07/2015 – 07/2024

Senior Software Engineer, Integrations and Data Products

Designed, developed, and maintained a cloud native, FDA validated, report generation and transmission application capable of generating and transmitting files via multiple protocols. Scaled the solution as daily transmitted reports went from tens to thousands.
Collaborated with senior architects to design and build highly-available integration microservices in both Java and JavaScript using well known enterprise integration patterns.
Implemented CI/CD workflows using Git, Jenkins, qTest, and CloudFormation to automate application deployment to an FDA validated environment.
Worked in multiple team frameworks within the last six years in a DevOps modeled agile Scrum team responsible for full software development lifecycle of IEC-62304 compliant, FDA validated medical device software.

Accomplishments:

Modernized outdated reporting engine, replacing a collection of scripts with an event-driven Java web application that allowed report volume to increase 100-fold.
Maintained and enhanced application, redesigning it as a Docker container in AWS ECS and integrating it into a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub and Jenkins.
Continuously improved and maintained standards as the company transitioned from a startup culture with 20 technology employees to an enterprise technology stack with over 200 employees.
Built, maintained, and supported multiple custom microservices and APIs to allow for rapid integration of new applications and systems.

MORNINGSTAR, INC. (formerly ByAllAccounts, Inc.), Woburn, MA 09/2009 – 07/2015

Software Engineer

Enhanced and maintained knowledge-based aggregation technology, including patented natural language processing, to collect, normalize, and enrich complex data from over 4,500 sources, such as banks, brokers and dealers, and independent financial advisors.
Became team expert on data representations and transfer methods (SOAP/REST, SFTP, HTTPS).
Developed strong foundational knowledge of financial products and transactions.
Handled sensitive financial data requiring annual background and credit checks.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA