Devon Welcheck

Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP

RIT Software Engineering Class of 2020

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering
2015-2020

Skills

Programming Languages: Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, C/C++, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Swift
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android
Development & Project Management Tools: Git, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Atlassian Suite (Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira)
Development & Process Methodologies: Agile, Scrum

Projects

  • Developed a natural language processing-based writing style assistant catered to the needs of deaf/hard-of-hearing students with a year-long senior project team.
    • Open-source and available on GitHub.

Experience

Software Engineer
Bloomberg LP, New York, NY
July 2020 - Present

Course Assistant, Department of Software Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
January 2019 - May 2020

Software Engineering Intern
Datto, Rochester, NY
May - August 2019

  • Member of the Rochester software engineering team for the Business Continuity & Data Recovery products.
  • Developed backup and data recovery software applications with PHP, JavaScript, Symfony, Twig, and other web technologies.
  • Participated in an agile Scrum team to deliver on committed product objectives each sprint.
  • Developed JSON-RPC web API endpoints for use in web applications.
  • Gained knowledge in data redundancy and integrity, especially using the ZFS filesystem, as well as hypervisor technologies.

Software Test Engineer Co-op
Thomson Reuters/Maverick Software Consulting, Rochester, NY
June - December 2018

  • Member of the Rochester quality assurance teams for the Thomson Reuters CLEAR and Westlaw software products.
  • Verified and validated system functionality against business requirements by performing both manual and automated system testing on an agile development team.
  • Documented testing processes and system behavior in enterprise project management and time-tracking tools such as Atlassian Jira.
  • Communicated with developers and business/product development teams on resolving requirements and functionality discrepancies.
  • Developed automated regression tests to test system functionality.
  • Performed maintenance and improvements to automated regression suites.

IT Application Services Co-op
Johnson & Johnson, Somerset, NJ
June - December 2017

  • Developed and designed reusable, scalable mobile automation frameworks for web and mobile testing using the Appium, Selenium, TestNG, and Cucumber testing frameworks on an agile development team.
  • Integration of the above mobile automation frameworks with enterprise project management and development tools, such as Jenkins CI, Atlassian Jira, and AWS Device Farm.
  • Authored technical documentation explaining the development, design rationale, and use of the frameworks described above.
  • Developed a customer-facing Confluence web portal for the IT Application Services Software Engineering Excellence (ITAS SEE) department to detail its roles and responsibilities.
  • Communicated with external and internal partners to develop organization's hackathon participation and sponsorship strategy.