Christian Gorton

• Technical Leadership: Served as the primary OutSystems technical expert, providing mentorship and knowledge transfer to team members on platform capabilities, best practices, and development workflows, resulting in faster onboarding of new team members and increased team multi-functionality.
• Drove on-time project delivery by collaborating across international Agile teams, efficiently managing workflows, ticketing (Jira), and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) for core app enhancements.
• Back Office Tool Development: Designed and implemented an administrative panel for the production environment using OutSystems, enabling support teams to perform CRUD operations on user data without requiring support tickets, reducing resolution times by 65% and saving approximately 20 hours per week in support resources
• Monitoring Infrastructure: Created comprehensive Dynatrace dashboards to monitor environment health metrics and onboarding statistics, enabling proactive issue identification and reducing system downtime by 40%
• Incident Management: Led troubleshooting efforts for user-reported issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing sustainable solutions that decreased recurring incidents by 75%
• Compliance Oversight: Maintained financial industry compliance and risk standards for a consumer-facing payment application, implementing fraud monitoring protocols and security best practices that ensured zero compliance violations

Delivered innovative agricultural technology solutions through OutSystems and Python development, transforming complex business requirements into scalable, user-friendly applications that revolutionized seed management processes for enterprise clients.

• Web Application Development: Spearheaded the development of the first web-based application on OutSystems for an existing customer from inception to execution, making critical architecture and data model decisions that resulted in a 40% increase in user productivity and 99.9% system uptime
• Large Scale Application Architecture: Led the development of CoverCross, a large-scale application serving 5,000+ users, designing a scalable data model and implementing robust user management functions that reduced data processing time by 60% and improved data accuracy by 35%
• Data Pipeline Development: Engineered robust ETL pipelines using Python and PostgreSQL to process and transform agricultural data from multiple sources, implementing automated data validation and cleaning procedures that reduced manual data entry by 80%
• Database Integration: Designed and optimized PostgreSQL database schemas and queries for efficient data warehousing, resulting in 50% faster data retrieval times and seamless integration with existing business intelligence tools
• Application Codebase Refactor: Executed a major code refactor for a complex product, improving performance by 75%, reducing technical debt by 40%, and enhancing development efficiency by implementing modular architecture and optimized database queries
• Client Relationship Management: Served as a primary technical point of contact for key clients, assisting in translating business requirements into technical specifications and delivering solutions that exceeded expectations, resulting in two contract renewals worth $1.2M

• Seed Quality ML Model: Developed a bespoke predictive model for assigning quality codes to batches of seed using PyTorch and Amazon SageMaker. The model was trained on historic seed data collected by SeedBin.
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