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

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.

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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