As a Software Engineer at Symetra, I focus on enhancing application performance and reliability through innovative cloud solutions. By leveraging AWS Lambda, SQS, and Infrastructure as Code, we’ve optimized computational workflows.

Experience

SymetraSoftware Engineer

2025 — Now

Founding member of the Digital Communication Platform team; co-architected a scalable messaging system that consolidated all client communications.

Enhanced application responsiveness by leveraging AWS Lambda functions for computational tasks via SQS.

Developed unit tests with Pytest to ensure API reliability and performance.

Implemented DevOps workflows using Azure and CloudFormation, optimizing scalability.

Horizon MediaFull-stack Developer

2023 — 2025

New York City Metropolitan Area •

Developed Django REST APIs and internal web applications for analytics reporting, streamlining workflows for the marketing ops team.

Led the containerization of legacy services using Docker and AWS ECR, enhancing deployment consistency and reducing environment-related issues by 70%.

Designed and maintained Airflow-driven ELT pipelines, integrating Google Ads and other marketing APIs, improving data freshness by 60% for over 50 stakeholders.

Columbia University in the City of New YorkAudio Visual Coordinator/Lead Systems Programmer

2020 — 2023

New York City Metropolitan Area

Programmed classroom AV equipment using Python libraries to automate projector and camera functions.

Utilized data structures like arrays and dictionaries to enhance classroom functionality.

Conducted routine code maintenance to improve overall classroom efficiency.

Education

Brooklyn College

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

2016 — 2020