Most recently, over 14 months, I developed a complex integrated web application for WBS Connect, named the fastest growing company in Colorado for 2 years. The system is used internally and externally to manage network contracts, usage accounting, and agent commissions. This was developed with Ruby on Rails on top of Oracle and included integration with existing CRM and accounting systems.

• I developed a wide variety of web based applications, mainly LAMP/LAMR based, for many different clients.
• For a detailed list of all my past projects, see: http://balest.com/resume

I was fortunate to join Akamai Technologies, in 1997, prior to their IPO. As part of the original 100 employees, I was deeply involved in the development and deployment of parts of their core software infrastructure.

• Created fault-tolerant distributed component systems comprising core enterprise infrastructure. The system ran on a global network of over 12,000 servers. C++ and XML were the primary languages used.
• Mentored and led developers in modern design patterns, implementation, debugging, documentation, and testing practices.
• Developed various configuration management, simulation, and testing tools utilizing a variety of technologies.

• Implemented CORBA based systems for clients in the Bioinformatics industry. The project involved design and implementation in Java and C++. The project required detailed knowledge of CORBA core and CORBA-Service specifications.

• Developed distributed multi-user collaboration system with pure Java implementation over Java RMI, used by intelligence analysts.
• Ported a secure e-mail bridge to TrustedSolaris operating system. This was part of adistributed intelligence analysis platform. As technical lead, I received the highest level of commendation based on timely delivery and successful certification testing of this system by the Defense Intelligence Agency.