Edwin Gustafson

Prinicpal Web Engineer,Cayman Chemical,2017-present

React development with TypeScript. Spring Boot development in Java. Apache Solr administration. Azure DevOps and Apache HTTPD web server administration.

Web Systems Architect,EJ,2013-2017

IBM WebSphere Commerce development and adminstration; Apache Solr customization; monthly technology talks for non-technical staff.

Lead Application Developer,Cayman Chemical,2001-2013

Primary responsibility for analysis, architecture, development, deployment, and administration of multiple websites representing the web presence of organization and various partners hosted on a combination of physical and virtual servers both inside and outside the organization's network.

• Cayman Chemical
• Cayman Pharma
• Sapphire Bioscience
• Sapphire North America

Full-stack development with duties spanning system architecture, Java EE web application development, search engine optimization, PostgreSQL database administration, CentOS Linux system administration, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript implementation of web designs specified by artists and business staff. Occasional supervision of junior staff. Key projects:

• Instant product search with jQuery and Apache Lucene SolrFull-stack development of product search feature: data import by custom SQL implementing client business rules; interface affordances for entry of non-keyword characters required for chemical names; jQuery.ajax() retrieval of instant results ("as you type"); DataTables presentation of full search results.
• Website optimizationOngoing website optimization focused on high-traffic pages with various techniques including: image optimization; JavaScript and CSS minification in the build process; CSS sprites; selective CDN migration; general HTTP request conservation; views for database request conservation.
• Mobile interface to legacy web applicationCross-device mobile interface to legacy web application using jQuery Mobile. Analyzed legacy application capabilities to develop streamlined mobile feature set.
• Multiple credit card processing integration projects for Microsoft Dynamics AXCredit card processing implementations integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX with a series of credit card processors, most recently SkipJack. Used three different mechanisms: vendor-supplied .NET SDK, custom C# web services library using WCF, custom RESTful web service client as X++ class via AX's CLR Interop facility.
• Telephone system migrationManaged phone system upgrade for 120-person organization including: analysis of usage patterns among different types of users (office workers, lab workers, road warriors); soliciting and evaluating bids; making recommendations to upper management; acting as liaison between vendor, local exchange carrier, and staff; writing user documentation and conducting training for staff; performing basic system administration.
• Scientific markup libraryCustom Java library transforming plain text product descriptions into HTML implementing numerous proprietary rules. JUnit tests for individual transformations.
• Custom Java EE web applicationCustom Java EE web application with product search, customer accounts, ecommerce capability, periodic product data synchronization, and product image processing publishing pipeline (rsync + ImageMagick + optipng). Continuous maintenance and enhancement for ten years. Dual ERP system integration projects, most recently to Microsoft Dynamics AX leaning heavily on web services.

Web Developer,InterConnect of Ann Arbor,1998-2001

Staff web application developer implementing web applications using proprietary web application framework written in object-oriented Perl. Wrote custom Apache HTTPD module in C.

Software Developer,Sleeplab Software Ltd,1996-1998

Developed Windows interface and installer for APL statistical application. Ported web-based clinical questionnaire from Userland Frontier on Mac OS to LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP).