Graham Anderson
Evergreen, CO · gramman87@gmail.com · grahamanderson.dev · linkedin.com/in/graham-anderson-denver
Based in Colorado (remote) · available for extensive travel to customer sites
Summary
Solutions-focused engineer with a hybrid background in enterprise software delivery and large-scale program leadership. Combines hands-on experience designing and integrating Java/Spring and TypeScript systems for federal and enterprise clients with 13+ years leading $80M+ commercial programs end-to-end: owning discovery, scoping, executive presentations, business cases, and customer-facing delivery. Builds production-minded proofs-of-concept with LLM APIs, RAG, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and translates emerging agentic capabilities into measurable business outcomes. Equally comfortable embedded with a customer, in the architecture whiteboard session, and in the IDE.
Core Strengths
- ·Customer Discovery & Solution Design: requirements workshops, current-state analysis, architecture diagrams, technology roadmaps, business cases
- ·Customer-Facing Communication: executive presentations to C-level sponsors, technical reviewers, and end-user audiences; navigating ambiguity across complex, cross-organizational environments
- ·Applied AI & Agentic: production LLM patterns (prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, RAG, MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills)
- ·Enterprise Software Delivery: Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, JavaScript, REST APIs, microservices, systems integration, SQL, AWS; Python for AI prototyping
- ·DevOps & Platform: Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, HashiCorp Vault, Agile/Scrum
- ·Program Leadership: $80M+ portfolio ownership, forecasting, budgeting, procurement, scheduling, cross-functional stakeholder management
Professional Experience
- ·Partnered directly with federal client stakeholders to modernize legacy enterprise systems, translating ambiguous business requirements into Java/Spring Boot microservice architectures and integration patterns.
- ·Designed and built scalable RESTful microservices, increasing system maintainability and enabling integration with existing client infrastructure.
- ·Enhanced GitLab CI/CD pipelines through parallelization and caching, reducing deployment time by 40% and accelerating iteration speed for client demos and prototypes.
- ·Implemented secure secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, strengthening security posture and meeting federal compliance requirements.
- ·Acted as the feedback loop between client teams and internal product/architecture stakeholders to keep solutions aligned with real-world operational needs.
- ·Developed Java-based applications with SmartGWT/JavaScript front-ends for deployment on embedded/IoT devices serving enterprise data-center customers.
- ·Authored and consumed RESTful APIs supporting real-time device communication and integration with adjacent enterprise systems.
- ·Streamlined deployment workflows by optimizing integration scripts, improving release efficiency and reducing manual handoffs.
- ·Built full-stack applications in Java, Spring Boot, and JavaScript deployed on AWS with RESTful service architectures.
- ·Served as Scrum Master and Database Administrator, enforcing Agile cadence, facilitating ceremonies, and driving robust schema design.
- ·Owned end-to-end delivery of $80M+ commercial and industrial programs, leading discovery, scoping, business-case development, executive presentations, and stakeholder management.
- ·Built customer-specific delivery roadmaps and forecast models that quantified scope, cost, and schedule trade-offs for C-level sponsors.
- ·Presented progress, risk, and value narratives to executive leadership on a regular cadence; routinely defended business cases under pressure.
- ·Coordinated across procurement, engineering, manpower, and scheduling functions in complex, cross-functional environments.
Applied AI & Agentic Solutions: Independent Work
- ·Build hands-on proofs-of-concept with LLM APIs and agent frameworks: RAG pipelines, tool/function calling, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, sub-agents, and agent skills.
- ·Stand up lightweight evaluation harnesses to measure prototype quality and iterate prompts and agent behavior against customer-style requirements.
- ·Track the evolving agentic landscape (agent-to-agent protocols, multi-agent orchestration, repeatable deployment patterns) and rapidly assemble bespoke, customer-specific demos that demonstrate tangible AI value.
Certifications
- ·Kubernetes: Cloud Native Ecosystem
- ·Spring Boot 1.0 Essential Training
- ·Software Architecture Foundations
Education
- ·Skill Distillery: Certificate, Java Full Stack Development (2021–2022)
- ·Emily Griffith Technical College: Certificate, Electrical Apprenticeship (2008–2012)
- ·Metropolitan State University of Denver: Computer Science (coursework)