Software Engineer Senior

WORK EXPERIENCE

Allstate Insurance Company – Senior Software Engineer January 2024 – Current – Chicago, IL

Led a large, critical project to migrate applications and data from Cloud Foundry into AWS and Kubernetes as part of a company-wide initiative.

Worked independently to create a delivery plan for AWS migration, complete with timelines, test cases, deployment steps, and developer resource allocation. Communicated progress with manager and product owner to help unblock where necessary.

Investigated and fixed issues with data type mismatches between SQL Server and Postgres.

Introduced important features and several performance improvements to the ratemaking platform, used by internal staff to create policy data for insurance customers.

Cobalt Labs – Senior Software Engineer March 2022 – June 2023 – Remote

Increased API usage by 13% within one year by spearheading critical OKRs and implementing key features such as webhooks, rate limiting, API filtering and sorting, and robust error handling.

Developed REST APIs and services that offer core functionality for pentest management and vulnerability tracking, while allowing integrations with 3rd-party ticketing software such as Jira Cloud, Azure DevOps, and Workato.

Improved engineering practices and the developer experience by adding E2E tests, updating API documentation, contributing to coding guidelines, and enhancing application monitoring.

Arity – Senior Software Engineer March 2019 – March 2022 – Chicago, IL

Created the Developer Portal application to unlock potential customers and external developers and to simplify the integration experience with Arity APIs, products, and services.

Led a team to build a full-stack application with backend APIs in Kotlin and Go, and a UI in React. The application offers user management via Auth0 as well as secure proxy communication and resource management via Apigee.

Improved product and API documentation by building a self-service headless CMS app using Strapi and leveraging a Postgres database and AWS S3 for image storage.

Simplified fleet management and vehicle tracking for the car sharing product by building microservices which helped grow the product and scale out to new business areas in Texas, Florida, and Washington.

Added important features such as notification alerts, impact detection and real-time GPS, which helped lot operators and fleet managers investigate issues faster and react to customer demand in real time.

Implemented a robust API that handles consumer privacy requests which allows users to view and delete stored data, in accordance with California Consumer Privacy Act.

Compunetix, Inc – Support Engineer Aug 2015 – Nov 2018 – Pittsburgh, PA

Investigated and fixed more than 150 issues over 3 years using Java and SQL, in core audio applications. Reduced delivery time by 5% on patches and releases by using Git version control.

Improved log analysis by developing new Python scripts that produced daily reports of total conference transactions and billing data. Rebuilt conference chat history via Python to show participants’ activity.

Collaborated directly with 6 international customers and ensured proper testing and debugging of core functionality of Java applications for account creation and conferencing APIs.

Gateway Health Plan – Data Architect Oct 2014 – Aug 2015 – Pittsburgh, PA

Led a team of developers and ETL data engineers to design a data mart and create reporting and analytics solutions for membership and case management.

Consulted with business units to understand reporting needs and developed 32 complex Cognos reports with advanced SQL analytics functions and crosstab layouts. The reports followed precise regulatory state requirements.

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University

MSIT - Software Design and Management

January 2016 - May 2018 Pittsburgh, PA

SKILLS

Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, PCF, GCP, Python, Go, Ruby on Rails, Kafka, React, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, MySQL.

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