Donald Bacon
Retired Application Architect
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Bacon is a retired application architect with over four decades of hands-on experience designing enterprise architectures, systems, and integrations across telecommunications, retail, healthcare, insurance, and eCommerce. He combines deep practical expertise in Java/J2EE, microservices, SOA, API management, and cloud-native tooling (notably AWS) with extensive data modeling and requirements analysis skills. Throughout his career he led architecture and delivery for large-scale systems, driving extensibility, scalability, and process efficiency while also guiding DevOps, CI/CD and release management practices. He has hands-on experience with modern stacks (Angular, Spring, Docker, Jenkins, Gradle/Maven) as well as integration platforms like Talend and Boomi and BPM with Pega. Since retiring in 2021 he remains active locally as president of a community dragon boat club, reflecting a continued leadership mindset outside of tech. His background in mathematics (BS magna cum laude and an MS) underpins a methodical, analytical approach to complex systems and requirements.
8 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry, Chemistry at State University of New York CortlandBS, Mathematics, 3.8 (Magna cum laude), BS, Mathematics, 3.8 (Magna cum laude) at Saint John Fisher CollegeMasters, Mathematics, 4.0, Masters, Mathematics, 4.0 at State University of New York College at Brockport
Github Skills (5)
notation8
theory8
composition8
java6
game-development4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dwbzen/commonlib
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Math and utilities used by other projects.
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 10 months
mathmathematicsmathsmath-library
dwbzen/careers
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Careers Game Editions
Contributions:29 reviews, 96 commits, 24 PRs in 6 months
editionsgamegame-development
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