Julius K.

Experience

• Rush University (Health System)

  Sr. Workday Data Conversion Consultant / Integration Engineer (Contract)

  Oct 2025 - Present

  Contract engagement via Community Roots Holdings. Leading end-to-end migration of multiple legacy ERP systems (Lawson/Infor, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Meditech, PointClickCare) AP/Supplier/SCM data to Workday — extraction, cleansing, transformation, mapping, and conversion using Workday DCDD and EIB across a complex multi-entity hospital environment.

• Amazon (Prime Video & MGM Studios)

  Sr. Software Engineer / SRE — App Resiliency (Contract)

  Mar 2025 - Oct 2025

  Contract engagement via Avant-Garde Consulting. On the Prime Video / MGM App Resiliency team, built automated resiliency and disaster-recovery solutions across AWS, implementing circuit breakers, automated fallbacks, and availability monitoring for critical Prime Video services (Java, distributed systems, CDN).

• Biogen

  Sr. Software Engineer / SRE — AWS Cloud (Contract)

  Jun 2024 - Mar 2025

  Contract engagement via Avant-Garde Consulting. Designed and built a scalable, secure Quilt data platform on AWS for genomics/omics data, including a Python ingestion pipeline, metadata architecture, and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, S3, EC2, Elasticsearch) with security best practices.

• Google

  Lead DevOps & Senior Developer (Contract)

  Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

  Contract engagement via Avant-Garde Consulting. Built enhancements and new features across Google Cloud modules (Magic Modules, Terraform/DCL integration), developing internal tools and code-generation automation in Python, Go, Ruby, and .NET, and leading a team of developers.

• LexisNexis

  Lead / Sr. Full-Stack Developer (Contract)

  Apr 2021 - Feb 2022

  Contract engagement via Avant-Garde Consulting. Built microservices and Lambda APIs (Java, Node.js, Python) with React/TypeScript and GraphQL front-ends; managed AWS infrastructure as code (CloudFormation), EKS/Kubernetes deployments, and Elasticsearch, with Jenkins CI/CD.

• Eli Lilly

  Lead Software Engineer / Cloud Architect (Contract)

  Feb 2020 - Feb 2021

  Contract engagement via Avant-Garde Consulting. Led a team building .NET Core/C# back-end services and React/Node front-ends for clinical trial management, drug discovery, and supply-chain systems; designed SQL Server/Oracle data layers and AWS Lambda serverless automation, and ran CI/CD via CloudFormation and GitHub.

• NBCUniversal

  AWS Cloud Architect & Lead Software Engineer (Contract)

  May 2019 - Jan 2020

  Contract engagement via Avant-Garde Consulting. Built back-end microservices (Node.js, JVM, GraphQL) and React/TypeScript touchscreen apps, and managed real-time data streaming pipelines (Kafka, NiFi, Hadoop) on AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB) with Jenkins CI/CD.

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  Cornerstone OnDemand

  (Founding Engineer) Manager of Web Application Development

  Feb 1999 - Nov 2004

  Cornerstone OnDemand is now a billion-dollar, publicly traded enterprise SaaS company. As one of its earliest engineers, I led development of the consumer-facing platform from the ground up, managing a team of 6+ engineers, a designer, and a DBA across full-lifecycle web application development.