Strategic and collaborative software engineer with a record of success in developing efficient, scalable, and secure software solutions and managing all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Scope, prioritize, and deliver new software solutions, enhance existing platforms, automate processes, and build and extend APIs. Advocate for reliability and continuous delivery through robust visibility, rigorous testing and monitoring, and efficient workflows. Offer a wealth of knowledge about best practices to help a startup or early-stage company establish technology strategies and processes, design products, make build vs. buy decisions, and implement a culture of collaboration and excellence to optimize software team effectiveness. Combine business acumen with software expertise to bridge the gap between business units and software development teams.
Known for entrepreneurial spirit, high-quality service, transparent communication, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking. Decisive leader who demonstrates adaptability, agility, and strong relationship-building skills. Passionate about contributing to social justice and equity causes and developing technology solutions that support a promising future.
Known for entrepreneurial spirit, high-quality service, transparent communication, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking. Decisive leader who demonstrates adaptability, agility, and strong relationship-building skills. Passionate about contributing to social justice and equity causes and developing technology solutions that support a promising future.
Work History
Software Engineer III
Ad Hoc LLC
September 2019
to April 2023
Full-time
Remote
- Gathered project-specific requirements from stakeholders, prepared action plans and estimates, and developed clean, scalable code to extend the API and automate processes for a recently deployed client application: Medicare.gov Plan Finder. Diagnosed and resolved critical incidents, deploying code solutions that minimize downtime. Prepared approachable documentation and wrote unit, integration, and smoke tests. Communicated technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders during product demo meetings. Observed user research sessions, integrating insights into product development and improvement roadmaps. Participated in post-incident retrospectives to identify opportunities for continuous process improvement.
- Contributed to development of a robust solution that maintained 100% uptime during 2022 Open Enrollment, served a peak of 80,000 requests per minute, and enabled 982,000 people to enroll in Medicare coverage.
- Played a key role in developing custom extract, transform, load (ETL) process, written in Go and Bash, which imported millions of health insurance plan data points from multiple providers daily and optimized data storage in Postgres.
- Facilitated informal discussions between engineering and product teams to improve non-technical stakeholders’ understanding of technical processes in an Agile/Scrum environment. Provided talking points to product managers.
- Reviewed job applicants’ technical submissions as part of the interviewing/hiring process.
Company Description
Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people.
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