Louis Duran

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I spent many years working at Intel as a "systems software" engineer on various hardware/software projects. During that time I wrote most of my code in C and C++. About halfway through my time at Intel I started doing more development in C# and doing front end development in WPF/XAML/C#. I implemented a rather large project to update the Intel graphics control panel utility. It was originally targeted to the Larabee discrete graphics card and included things like 3-D settings configuration and a cutting edge 3-D before and after side-by side demo of settings. It also included graphics adapter overclocking similar to the Intel Extreme Tuning utility. Sadly that project never shipped and as re-purposed as the graphics control panel for Intel's weaker Integrated graphics products from 2009 until mid-2012.

After I left Intel I found a love for developing full-stack web applications. I first worked as a front end developer using Angular JS, TypeScript and HTML5/CSS. I also developed Web APIs with ASP.NET with a backend to a SQL Server. At that point I became a full stack developer for about 3 years.

Now I mostly work on web services. The last year and a half I have been working on WebAPI REST APIs for use by Banfield's Corporate website. I develop the backend services that handle about 3 million API requests per day. I also have recently started migrating these web services from on-premises servers into the Azure cloud. In this process I have become familiar with the TFS CI/CD pipeline and with building Azure resources automatically using Terraform. I am currently a tech lead with responsibility over the Operational Data Store service as well as our client document storage and retrieval service. One of these is a legacy monolithic API that is currently under re-design to become a set of microservices. The other is a set of services for document retrieval and storage that is implemented as a set of .NET Core services as well as some Azure Function Apps.