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Collin Kleest

Software Engineer & Technical Lead

Hello, I’m Collin Kleest, currently a Software Technical Lead at Vanguard located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With over four years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership, I specialize in full-stack development and excel at solving challenging problems.

Work Experience

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Vanguard

Aug 2021 - Present
Software Technical Lead - Americas FAS
Aug 2023 - Present
  • Oversee the technical delivery of a full stack team using AEM and Angular, managing Vanguard Americas FAS secure and public sites.
  • Review pull requests, contribute to system architecture and implementation, develop new features and tools, and address security vulnerabilities.
  • Lead strategic planning and team upskilling initiatives to ensure high-quality, secure software delivery.
Software Engineer - Technology Leadership Program
Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
  • Enhanced Scalability and Modularity: Implemented micro frontend architecture using module federation, scaling portfolio and fund comparison tools for 20,000+ portfolios.
  • Developed Secure Portals: Led development of serverless portals for Canadian financial advisors and multi-country data lake integration, leveraging Angular, AWS Firehose, Glue, and Python for robust security and optimized data processing.
  • Optimized Mission-Critical Systems: Supported 10,000+ containerized business applications, improving ECS platform reliability, reducing cloud dependencies, and engineering cost-saving insights tools.
  • Improved API Performance: Built and optimized Java REST APIs for financial fund data, enhancing response times, stability, and overall application performance.
  • Engineered Cloud-Native Solutions: Designed event-driven microservice architectures and cloud-native ETL jobs, performing resiliency and performance tests to ensure reliability.
Application Developer Intern
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
  • Contributed to a full-stack Angular-based College Cost Estimator web app that helps advisors and clients get an estimated cost of college for their children.
  • Lead development of an electron application with a group of interns that manages Vanguard's community gardens.
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Pfizer

Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Associate Software Engineer
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
  • Contributed to a web based micro-service data processing platform that is utilized by finance and manufacturing teams
  • Improved data-processing services that were used by manufacturing facilities producing COVID-19 vaccinations
Software Engineer Intern
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
  • Engineered a full stack web application that dynamically updates API documentation with latest releases of a set of micro-services
  • Designed a front-end user interface using individual React components and built out a back-end that exposes a spring boot rest API
  • Collaborated with an intern to build a static content site for multiple teams.

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