Bram Hampton

Software Engineer II

bramhampton@gmail.com | https://bramhampton.com | (606) 207-9339

Experience

Citizens

Software Engineer II | Jan 2023 - Current

Software Engineer I | Jun 2021 - Jan 2023

• Promoted to Software Engineer II in January of 2023
• Designed, developed, and deployed 5 Spring Boot REST APIs to Openshift via Hoover, Bitbucket, and Jenkins. These APIs created net new functionality for both users and other internal services within the team.
• Remediated hundreds of security vulnerabilities in various applications and languages such as PHP, Java, and Javascript. As a result, my team was able to stay in compliance with operational risk and safety.
• Worked within an agile environment utilizing both scrum and kanban workflows, averaging around 8-11 story points completed per sprint
• Mentored fellow colleagues in both formal and informal settings, leading 3 Knowledge Transfer sessions and helping others in at least one one-on-one session per day. This allowed team members to expand their skills and take on new responsibilities.

Kentucky Community and Technical College System

Web Specialist Intern | May 2019 - Jun 2021

• Proposed and wrote dozens of web pages and web-based applications for use of faculty and/or students
• Raised quality assurance and web accessibility scores by 40%
• Lowered web ticket response times by an approximate average of two weeks

University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences

Help Desk Technician | Mar 2018 - May 2019

• Contributed to the development of in-house inventory system by eliminating bugs
• Researched and implemented new software to be used by other help desk technicians
• Closed hundreds of tickets from all 100+ faculty and staff in the department efficiently and reliably
• Explained difficult computing concepts to faculty in ways that they could understand and recommended solutions that worked for their specific use cases

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science | Aug 2017 - May 2021

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Minor in Mathematics

Skills

Expert In: Troubleshooting, Java/Spring Boot, Python, OpenAI API, Linux

Intermediate In: PHP, HTML/CSS, Node.JS, Docker, Microservices, Amazon Web Services, C++, C, Documentation, Django, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, MSSQL, Kafka

Basic Knowledge With: SQL, Perl, Jenkins, MySQL