Makai Freeman

Raytheon Technologies Riverdale, MD
Software Engineer 2019 – Present

Supported NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development
Developed and maintained multiple applications primarily written in Ruby on Rails including an authentication service with over 1.5 million users and serving over 1 million requests per day
Architected a migration of a legacy Clojure application with a flat-file data store to a relational PostgreSQL database speeding startup time by 81% and increasing uptime from 98.9 to 99.99%
Authored multiple trade studies comparing SaaS products and providing a recommendation to our customer
Developed for and maintained an AWS Lambda authentication application written in NodeJS leveraging AWS DynamoDB and AWS Cognito
Performed Scrum Master duties through all stages of the Agile Life Cycle including leading daily scrum, writing tickets, and participating in analysis of future features
Developed the guide for the program’s Ruby projects based on the Ruby Style Guide and implemented automated scans into our automated builds

University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor’s of Science
Major: Computer Science | Minor: Statistics