James Repking

Background

About James Repking

Cloud and API Experience (15+ years) • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, MuleSoft Architect, Microsoft expert • Global Pharmacy EDA for Walgreens in Azure with Java, Confluent Kafka, and Cassandra • Lift-and-shift and AWS Cloud migration of all Applications at McDonald’s to AWS • Capital One “Cloud First” to AWS, shifting to a technology company that provides financial services • MuleSoft API Architecture and Performance tune for Canada’s largest Airline, global and multi-cloud Scaled and Available, Large, Enterprise Applications (20+ years) • $2B Pharmacy Management System for Walgreens: Java, Kafka, Cassandra, Reactive Microservices • $1B’s to McDonald’s Market Cap by US replicating Pattern of Delivery used in China, McDelivery • Allstate.com.NET applications for Quote and Buy, Agent Locator, Java for Agency Applications • Native mobile apps for iOS/Android to support Digital through APIs/MuleSoft/Apigee • Programmer history: started coding in 1982 in BASICA, then C++.NET, Java, SQL, and JavaScript Architecture Standards and Roadmap (20+ years) • First to put Global Architecture Standards in place at McDonald’s across 118 countries • Created Reference Architectures such as: API-Led Connectivity, Kafka, OOD, Reactive Architecture, Customer Data Replication, SonarQube, MVC, Integration Patterns, Caching, Security, Cloud … • Technology Roadmap for Capital One, connecting leadership guidance through to developers • CEB Roadmap Builder used for Global SaaS Roadmap Platform at McDonald’s Consulting Executive Technology Leadership (20+ years) • Walgreens Express Pass, bringing $100M in EBITA through mobile and dedicated line at store • Established Architecture Review at McDonald’s with 17 Architects across domains,$5M in savings • Governance and Architecture for all of Allstate.com,$1B in premium through the Digital Channel • KPIs and CIO Dashboard for Customers showing Velocity, API re-use, and Value Savings in $$ Innovation Leader (20+ years) • At Walgreens, led the Device Strategy with cutting-edge hardware and software from Apple, Zebra, Microsoft, Google, Sony, Crossmatch/HIDGlobal, and HP • Created a “Paper Pharmacy” in the technology working space for interactive discussions • Introduced user-journey mapping, application building blocks and capabilities, TOGAF • 10-year member of Innovation in Large Organizations, a senior executive round-table