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Christian Talent
@ricksegrest
3d ago
Subject Matter Expert (User Experience, Full Stack Web Application Engineer)
Huntsville, AL
senior
🥞 Full-stack Cloud-based Web Application Architect
❧ Breathing new life into legacy software, by containerizing, re-composing, and resurrecting archiac and peculiar custom software
❧ Freeing dusty old internal software tools to work on any platform, removing any configuration and language constraints by using Docker, APIs, Microservices, and other current technologies
❧ Merging separate software products and services into a single unified system to increase and multiply functional capabilities
💻 User Experience Expertise
❧ Simplifying complex or legacy scientific applications by designing and implementing intuitive Graphical
User Interfaces
❧ Unlocking and augmenting software functionality with Application Programming Interfaces.
❧ Evaluating user stories, and applying best UX practices to interfaces and user workflows from the beginning of the software engineering process onward
💾 Data Distillation
❧ Create tools, functions, and services to extract key insight
❧ Visualize critical outputs and results from massive and intimidating data sets
❧ Use AI tools like LLMs to instantly investigate spaghetti code, harmonize noisy data dumps, and zero in on a golden needle in a field of haystacks.
📝 Technical Writing
❧ Writing and explaining high technology concepts in a way that even your grandmother can understand
Able to translate your Engineering Guru's technobabble into plain English
❧ Breathing new life into legacy software, by containerizing, re-composing, and resurrecting archiac and peculiar custom software
❧ Freeing dusty old internal software tools to work on any platform, removing any configuration and language constraints by using Docker, APIs, Microservices, and other current technologies
❧ Merging separate software products and services into a single unified system to increase and multiply functional capabilities
💻 User Experience Expertise
❧ Simplifying complex or legacy scientific applications by designing and implementing intuitive Graphical
User Interfaces
❧ Unlocking and augmenting software functionality with Application Programming Interfaces.
❧ Evaluating user stories, and applying best UX practices to interfaces and user workflows from the beginning of the software engineering process onward
💾 Data Distillation
❧ Create tools, functions, and services to extract key insight
❧ Visualize critical outputs and results from massive and intimidating data sets
❧ Use AI tools like LLMs to instantly investigate spaghetti code, harmonize noisy data dumps, and zero in on a golden needle in a field of haystacks.
📝 Technical Writing
❧ Writing and explaining high technology concepts in a way that even your grandmother can understand
Able to translate your Engineering Guru's technobabble into plain English
Work Preferences
full-time
part-time
contract
remote
relocation-domestic
relocation-international
Work Experience
| Period | Title | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 - Present | SME / Sr. SW Engineer | Amentum Space Exploration Group |
| 2018 - 2019 | Senior Software Engineer | ASRC Federal |
| 2014 - 2018 | Senior Software Engineer | Wavelink, Inc |
| 2011 - 2014 | Software Engineer | Northrop Grumman |
| 2006 - 2011 | Software Developer | Teledyne Brown Engineering |
| 2003 - 2006 | Marketing Communications, Graphic Design, Web Design | Digium, Inc |
| 2000 - 2001 | Illustrator, Web Designer | Tiger Rags, Inc |
Education
| Period | Degree | School |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 - 2012 | Master of Modeling and Simulation | University of Alabama Huntsville |
| 2002 - 2006 | Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics | University of Alabama Huntsville |
| 1996 - 2000 | Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design | Auburn University |
Member since January 2026