Benjamin Darfler

Current

Software Engineer at LocaModa

Past

Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, inc.
Senior Web Developer at Envirocycle

Education

Cornell University
State University of New York at Binghamton

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Industry

Computer Software

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Benjamin Darfler’s Summary

Software Engineer with strong experience in a Java projects ranging from small 1-2 person agile projects to large 50+ person projects following CMMI/ISO. Particular experience in lightweight infrastructure and middleware using frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Interested in new JVM trends such as Groovy and Scala, code generation and agile development processes.

Benjamin Darfler’s Specialties:

Java, SQL, XML, JUnit, Spring, Hibernate

Benjamin Darfler’s Experience

Software Engineer

LocaModa

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

LocaModa Platform
Java, Ruby and ActionScript platform connecting people and places through web and cell phone interaction with digital displays.
• Designed and implemented highly scaleable Java services supporting interactive flash applications with thousands of concurrent users.
• Collaborated with a senior engineer in driving the companies continued use of Scrum while increasing management buy-in.
• Designed and implemented a Ruby based, YAML driven, JUnit test generator enabling simple, declarative test code generation.
• Introduced a continuous integration server for running builds with automatic static analysis, code metrics and unit test coverage.
• Contributed a patch to the open-source ActionScript SSL library enabling support for wildcard SSL certificates.
Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, inc.

(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

September 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Expert Agent – SIP based call routing solution
A Cisco Contact Center add-on enabling the transfer of calls to agents, outside the contact center, based on multi-dimensional routing.
• Contributed to and coordinated multiple engineers in developing a web back-end for the system's configuration tool.
• Fought and won approval for the using the Spring web framework in developing the configuration tool.
• Designed and implemented a configuration change logging and notification system, leveraging Hibernate, enabling real time updates.
• Designed and implemented a flexible, declarative, xml driven framework, using Apache Commons, for migrating data during upgrade.
• Received three Cisco Achievement Program awards.
Senior Web Developer

Envirocycle

(Renewables & Environment industry)

February 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 4 months)

Internal Asset Management Application
A web based application for tracking e-waste from end to end as it moved throughout the processing floor.
• Gathered requirements, wrote design documents, developed, tested, and released code with minimal oversight.
• Consistently met or exceeded quarterly goals.
• Trained system users and a replacement developer.

Benjamin Darfler’s Education

Cornell University

MEng , Computer Science , 2005 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

Cornell Glee Club
State University of New York at Binghamton

BS , Computer Science , 2000 — 2004

Activities and Societies:

Harpur Chorale, Kaskeset (A Capella Group), Golden Key Society, Computer Science Honor Society, National Freshman Honor Society.