Dave Krick

Build and maintain custom Java components for the U.S. Navy's Liferay DXP platform, focusing on maintainability, secure integrations, and compliance-aware delivery.

• Build custom Java portlets, themes, and Service Builder modules for a Navy platform serving roughly 4 million personnel.
• Integrate secure Liferay forms with external Navy systems through SOAP services and middleware, using PostgreSQL mock data and SoapUI stubs for safe development.
• Write test cases for legacy code, run SonarQube scans, troubleshoot defects, and close integration failures through the team's ticketing workflow.
• Apply RMF, STIG, and Section 508 requirements throughout development and work directly with security teams to close findings early.
• Maintain technical documentation and conduct code reviews focused on architecture, correctness, and maintainability.

Functioned as the sole engineer on a client delivery team, owning architecture, integrations, infrastructure, deployments, and production issues end to end.

• Architected a full delivery stack for custom Saba LMS integrations: Vue/Nuxt SSR, AWS ECS/ECR, RDS, Route 53, and Application Load Balancer.
• Built embedded Vue/Nuxt applications inside Saba through iFrames, using token-based APIs to extend enterprise learning data.
• Designed branch-based GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and documented the setup publicly at blog.davekrick.com.
• Shipped 20+ client-facing projects as the primary engineer while owning scoping, full-stack development, and deployment.
• Owned MySQL schema design and query optimization for reporting, integrations, and performance at scale.
• Built diagnostic logging into integration points so support teams could identify missing fields, incorrect formats, and unexpected values quickly.

Built internal applications and integrations across React, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Apigee, Oracle-backed systems, and Boomi.

• Built a React warehouse label-scanning application from scratch with OneLogin SSO and barcode scanning libraries.
• Implemented a secure reverse proxy using Apigee to centralize and monitor backend service access.
• Built Node.js AWS Lambda functions to replace a fragile manual data pipeline and load data into DynamoDB with proper error handling.
• Integrated Oracle-backed systems through Boomi and implemented custom Boomi APIs for internal services.
• Authored architecture diagrams, integration flows, operational runbooks, and conducted code reviews across junior and senior developer work.

Led customer experience and outage management solution delivery for nationwide utility and government clients.

• Owned projects from client discovery through implementation and release.
• Identified and replaced a major geospatial shapefile rendering bottleneck with an FME pipeline that made processing near-instant.
• Built diagnostic logging into ingestion workflows so malformed customer data could be identified quickly.
• Mentored approximately 6 junior developers and conducted code reviews across the team.
• Designed and maintained MySQL and Oracle databases, seed scripts, and outage event processing pipelines.

Built a production debugging foundation through support escalations, release QA, and geospatial data processing for utility customers.

• Handled production escalations that support could not resolve, diagnosing data mismatches, bugs, and root causes.
• Processed and transformed ESRI Shapefiles using FME and QGIS for multi-layer polygon mapping in Google and Bing Maps.
• Supported product releases through test execution, defect reporting, and validation before go-live.