Carl Barbee
Seattle, WA
Client-focused Support Engineer. Always ready to learn more, currently working on development-related skills.
Professional Experience
Senior Support Engineer || Developer
SAP Concur - Bellevue, WA (Remote)
December 2018 - Present
- Troubleshoot technical issues for SaaS applications
- Provide guidance around product configuration and best practices for technical and non-technical audiences
- Contribute to internal and external knowledge base and documentation
- Perform under strict SLAs for business clients
- Manage client expectations around bugfix releases and feature implementations
- Work with other product teams worldwide to resolve issues and events
- Contributed to product enhancements and bug fixes in a microservices environment
- Created internal service APIs for use by support teams to reduce response/delivery time for recurring client issues
- Managed AWS infrastructure for microservices, using S3, SQS, and DynamoDB,
- Participated in on-call rotation in 24-7-365 production environment responding to critical incidents
Skills and Tools
Development Tools & Languages
- Amazon Web Services - Familiar with S3 (object storage), SQS (message queue), Cloudwatch (event logs), DocumentDB and DynamoDB (NoSQL databases)
- Java - Stack traces, debug code. Creation and consumption of REST APIs. Familiar with Spring + SpringBoot, Swagger
- GitHub - Code repo's, GitHub Actions, issue tracking
- HTML5 & CSS3 - Basic page creation
Troubleshooting
- SQL - Direct DB queries for reporting or troubleshooting
- Kibana - Event log queries for troubleshooting, Dashboards for trends and Watchers for alerting
- Postman - Troubleshooting API calls and responses
Communication & Issue Tracking
- Slack - Team communication, automations and integrations with other platforms
- Jira - Internal bug and issue tracking
- Salesforce - External client case management and communication
Education
Colorado Technical University - Information Technology, General
- Information Technology, General - Fundamentals of project management, networking, security, and systems design