Jayson Minard

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ABOUT ME

30+ years experience, top expert in Elasticsearch, Data Engineering, Cloud, and all things Kotlin.

I am a well-rounded software developer that covers many development languages, frameworks, tools, infrastructure and cloud providers. Some of my top areas of focus include Java / Kotlin for languages (but I touch many more including TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Scala, Golang), any SQL database, most NoSQL engines (including MongoDB), Solr / Elasticsearch (expert in both), and working in the Cloud with AWS, Azure, and more recently with Google Cloud.

My top skills are currently: Data Engineering, Back-end development (Microservices, REST, GraphQL), Search, Analytics, Cloud (AWS/Azure/others), and the Kotlin Language.

Spanish, English

Central America (-06:00)

Joined June 2017

EXPERTISE

Kotlin

8 years experience

I am a contributor to Kotlin, have a gold tag for Kotlin in Stack Overflow and in the top 2 for the tag, and I am lead for key Kotlin ope...

I am a contributor to Kotlin, have a gold tag for Kotlin in Stack Overflow and in the top 2 for the tag, and I am lead for key Kotlin open-source projects. I have been writing production server-side code in Kotlin since 2013, and overall on the JVM since the creation of Java.

Elasticsearch

10 years experience

Since the inception of the Elasticsearch project I have built production systems covering every feature of the engine ranging from full t...

Since the inception of the Elasticsearch project I have built production systems covering every feature of the engine ranging from full text and metadata searching to pure large scale analytics. My experience includes deep dives into linguistics for many languages making sure key features of each language is treated with respect. I understand how to balance relevancy and recall, and to build top tier search features such as Query Understanding.

Big Data SQL

6 years experience

Leveraging SQL skills in big-data engines that use the power of SQL over Hadoop, or stand-alone engines such as PrestoDB and U-SQL with A...

Leveraging SQL skills in big-data engines that use the power of SQL over Hadoop, or stand-alone engines such as PrestoDB and U-SQL with Azure Data lake. I can harness any scale of data across a variety of platforms. Covering ingestion, ETL, calculation layers and more. My SQL experience goes even further back to the 90's covering every major database that has existed.

Google BigQuery SQL PrestodbHawqApache Spark Aws athenaAzure data lake analyticsU SqlETL

Java

25 years experience

I was one of the first Java developers and have worked with Java and the JVM ever since. I created JBuilder, the first market dominant I...

I was one of the first Java developers and have worked with Java and the JVM ever since. I created JBuilder, the first market dominant IDE for Java and helped to create key Java specifications. I mostly work Java server-side covering major frameworks and processing at any scale in any environment.

AWS

12 years experience

I have worked with almost every service of AWS since each was incepted. First as an internal user with Amazon.com companies, and then ev...

I have worked with almost every service of AWS since each was incepted. First as an internal user with Amazon.com companies, and then every year since as new features are previewed and released. I also have experience with AWS related infrastructure as code including Cloudformation and Terraform.

React

2 years experience

I have solid experience with React both for web and for command-line interfaces (via Ink project). I typically use modern React, with ne...

I have solid experience with React both for web and for command-line interfaces (via Ink project). I typically use modern React, with new patterns of state management, and React router.

DevOps

12 years experience

Azure AWS Docker

Azure AWS Docker Terraform

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PROJECTS

Summon - web scale search system for researchView Project

ProQuest

2008

Chief Architect and developer for Summon, a product built for ProQuest (SerialSolutions) to provide a search and research system over a b...

Chief Architect and developer for Summon, a product built for ProQuest (SerialSolutions) to provide a search and research system over a billion academic documents. More about Summon: Summon has won the 2011 CODiE Award for Best Enterprise Search Solution by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Responsible for architecture and leading development since the proof of concept. The Summon™ unified discovery service allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content. It goes beyond federated search, beyond next-generation catalogs to create an all-new service for libraries. Through one simple search, it provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content that's the hallmark of great libraries - digital and print, audio and video, single articles to entire e-journals, and every format in between.

Java

SQL

Cassandra

Java

SQL

Cassandra

Big Data

NLP

Apache Solr

Apache Hadoop

Linguistics