Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer
- Interoperability Architecture: Designed and implemented a next-generation healthcare API based on NIEM 4.0/PMIX 3.0 standards, authoring schemas and documentation for 40+ state integrations.
- Protocol Proxy: Built a specialized Java-based proxy service implementing NIEM/PMIX model generation via JAXB, XML encryption, and mutual TLS authentication.
- Platform Modernization: Led the migration to Spring Boot 4 and Java 25, upgrading shared libraries and establishing new microservice patterns adopted across the engineering organization.
- State-Level Gateway: Architected and built a high-throughput healthcare gateway microservice from scratch as the first production service on the Spring Boot 4 stack.
- Accessibility Leadership: Drove WCAG 2.1 Level A/AA compliance across core Vue.js applications, remediating 20+ audit findings for screen readers and keyboard navigation.
- Security & Compliance: Triaged and merged Renovate dependency PRs across 10+ repos; participated in FedRAMP audits and penetration test remediations (CSRF fixes).
- Infrastructure Optimization: Migrated Docker builds to BuildKit (buildctl) and optimized Kubernetes deployments via Helm/FluxCD for faster CI/CD cycles.
- High-Throughput Integration: Debugged and fixed cross-state prescription data sharing for multiple US state systems, processing millions of queries.
- Collaborative Engineering: Regularly co-authored PRs and mentored teammates; authored technical documentation for certificate authentication and secure configuration patterns.
- Feature Engineering: Developed a next-generation integration API with phased rollout via feature flags and built integrated third-party bed-tracking tools for risk assessment reports.
Software Engineer 3 / Principal
- Offshore Leadership: Led an offshore engineering team in delivering a customer-facing self-installation project using C# WebAPI and React/Redux.
- Infrastructure Modernization: Deployed .NET Core containers to AWS ECS using CloudFormation; rebuilt EC2 hosting infrastructure for improved stability.
- Authentication Strategy: Aided migration of enterprise services from Okta to OneLogin; educated teams on OAuth and REST abstraction layers.
- Process Improvement: Introduced the "Deployment Playbook" concept to track downtime window tasks, ensuring safety in production releases.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Worked directly with warehouse staff to implement shipment workflows and warehouse vendor REST endpoints.
- User-Centric Development: Interviewed technicians to gather requirements for improving internal tools and call center web applications.
Technical Lead of Acquisitions
- Banking Modernization: Delivered a full rewrite of banking loan applications replacing legacy ASP.NET MVC with .NET Core and React.
- Security Tooling: Developed a mission-critical AES-256 encryption tool for secure PII data transfer during legacy system deprecation.
- ADA Initiative: Spearheaded ADA compliance for single-page applications and integrated PDF viewers for customer terms and conditions.
- Performance Tuning: Resolved API load balancing issues by fixing encryption, proxy, and F5 routing bottlenecks with network engineers.
- Agile Transformation: Guided legacy developers into modern Agile practices, driving planning sessions and establishing team velocity.
- Legacy Migration: Built batch processes to migrate the company from unmaintainable web apps to a partner's new framework.
Sole In-House Lead Developer
- Practice Building: Established internal development practices and CI/CD pipelines from scratch for a small team.
- Third-Party Integration: Led integration of ASP.NET MVC systems with ADP REST APIs and implemented Google Analytics for client portals.
- Protocol Security: Secured internal payroll tools using OAuth 2.0 and JWT protocols to prevent unauthorized business logic access.
- Infrastructure Consolidation: Brought source code in-house from multiple contractors and established centralized Git source tracking.
- Database Optimization: Optimized T-SQL queries and upgraded object mapper dependencies (LLBLGen) for the staff portal.
- Product Advocacy: Incorporated support staff into the design process by gathering requirements for report adjustments.
Earlier Career Experience
- MVP Delivery: Successfully deployed the initial customer onboarding portal for Series A funding release.
- Payment Integration: Integrated Braintree payments and Google Analytics using AngularJS 1.5 and Bootstrap 3.
- SEO Optimization: Improved organic search performance via robots.txt management and Twitter card metadata integration.
- Technical Mentorship: Coached junior developers and established remote development practices for a distributed team.
- Build Automation: Configured a custom Jenkins Linux build server to automate C# and Node.js application deployments.
- Shared Tooling: Extracted 3rd-party fraud integration logic into a shared, versioned NuGet library.
- Shipment Tracking: Developed a green-field AngularJS front-end for real-time customer shipment tracking.
- Linux Administration: Managed CentOS server security via firewalld and optimized Node.js service configurations.
- Vendor Integration: Led technical communications with 3rd-party vendors to improve automated forecasting software.
- Mobile Healthcare: Developed a cross-platform mobile medical app for onsite patient data collection using VB.Net and ASP.NET.
- Data Sync: Built complex medication synchronization logic using Backbone.js, jQuery, and JavaScript promises.
- Infrastructure Refactoring: Overhauled the reporting system, reducing production hot-fixes from daily to weekly.
- Claim Systems: Implemented specialized web interfaces for standardized medical claim forms (UB04, CMS-1500).