What you may not know

  • I’m a Software Engineer by trade, and a Summoner Wars nerd at night. I have too many hobbies to count but I’ll try my best to outline my interests.
  • I’m an open book so please feel free to reach out if you want to get to know me, or if you need someone to confide in! I want to make quality online friendships, and I love making people smile. I’m also sarcastic to a fault.
  • Spending time with my GF Friends and family!
  • Video/board games
  • Movies
  • Volleyball
  • Hunting (waterfowl, deer)
  • Lake life (pontooning, swimming)
  • Anime (I have Naruto tattoos haha)
  • Spending time with my cat

Charles

Deniger

Dev Manager & Sr. Software Engineer

charlesmdeniger@gmail.com

Skills

Java/J2E Technologies: Groovy, Hibernate, Java Beans, JDBC, JMS, JSP, JUnit, Log4j, Servlets

Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring 4 (Beans, Batch, Data, MVC, REST), OCF

Web Technologies: AJAX, CSS, DOM, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, Web Services (SOAP, REST), XML, JSON,

Application Servers: Npm, Gatsby, Netlify Apache Tomcat, AWS, Jboss

RDBMS/Tools: DBeaver, DBVisualizer, Erwin, JDBC 4.0, MySQL, SQL Server

Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript (React), Python, Groovy/Spock, SQL, HTML/CSS, C++

Database Technologies: MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, MongoDB

IDE: Intellij, Visual Studio, Android Studio

Version Control: Github (https://github.com/charlesDeniger)

Dependency Management: Node/NPM, Maven, Gradle

Messaging Queues: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ

Continuous Integration/Project Management: Jenkins, CA Agile Rally

DevOps/Metrics: Splunk, Dynatrace

Experience

Optum Technology | Dev Manager

MARCH 2023 - PRESENT |  Remote

  • Facilitating the growth and development of engineers as they progress through their career.
  • Encouraging my direct reports to step outside their comfort zone technically to push them to be their best selves.
  • Handling dissonance between the business and the delivery team while also facilitating difficult and necessary conversations.

Optum Technology | Sr. Software Developer

MARCH 2021 - PRESENT |  Remote

  • Owned the overall design strategy, implementation, and delivery of countless features in my delivery team.
  • Overseeing the kanban board and overall progression of Stories/Features as they progress from grooming, delivery, testing, and deployment.
  • Implementing all changes in the most complicated features of my delivery team in the health care domain while incorporating new and technical design patterns.
  • Developed, tested, and maintained multiple microservice architecture-based RESTful APIs with end-to-end ownership.
  • Utilized knowledge of Object-Oriented Design Patterns to best solve business requirements

Optum Technology | Software Developer

OCTOBER 2016 - FEBRUARY 2021 | Eden Prairie, MN

  • Migrated transformed JSON from legacy application to new healthcare platform.
  • Worked with business, architects, and system analysts to translate functional requirements into story/task-based work.
  • Simultaneously developed and tested two seperate code stacks of the core application to meet the needs of multiple downstream partners.
  • Triaged production and non-production related defects using tools including Splunk and Dynatrace.
  • Thrived in an Agile environment using both sprint and Kanban-based task delivery management.
  • Continuously integrated code into microservices, core application, and custom framework using Jenkins.

Leadership

  • Consistently leads active discussions concerning best coding practices, and consistent design pattern methodologies.
  • Held sessions for teaching developers, quality engineers, system analysts, and business partners about the data flow and transformation of secure customer-sensitive data in the form of JSON through RESTful-based API transactions.
  • Took charge in designing billing architecture and business logic layer of next generation health insurance platform.
  • Actively reach out to development team and management when identifying issues with framework, potential defects, and metrics/performance.

Education

University of Wisconsin – Stout |B.S. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics

SEPTEMBER 2011 - MAY 2016,  Menomonie WI

References available upon request