A life insurance startup promoting accessible and customizable insurance plans. Amplify aims to democratize life insurance products traditionally reserved for the wealthiest.

• Rapidly developed and shipped quality software solutions in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing product requirements

• Required to be a jack-of-all-trades in a small engineering team

• Acted as the engineering team lead for our internal facing agent portal, working closely with the product team to construct systems and tools to support insurance agents and processes.

• Developed and supported a front-end, customer-facing application constructed from Next.js, React, and Redux.

• Designed, maintained, and troubleshooted a back-end serverless stack of AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway (REST), ECS, DynamoDB (NoSQL), RDS (SQL), Elasticache, and Route 53.

• Led cross-functional efforts with product, sales, rev-ops, and marketing teams to deliver custom solutions that reduce bottlenecks and improve team member workflows and efficiency

• Collaborated with the rev-ops team to develop a custom lead distribution algorithm, increasing lead processing efficiency by over 50% and reducing need for manual intervention.

• Received “Amplifier of the Month” honors for lead distribution efforts.

• Constructed a Microsoft Azure AI-powered assistant specialized in life insurance concepts to facilitate personalized conversations between agents and clients.

• Integrated agent and customer portals with CRM and data aggregation services like HubSpot, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics to facilitate sales processes and data analysis.

• Designed and developed software to handle core company processes like a smart server shutdown protocol, aggregated data reports, and custom data solutions for our many automotive partners

• Led efforts for creation of a full-fledged data API to support our mobile application

• Maintained and modified React Native mobile application

• Developed full-stack software with a Tomcat application server, J2EE core library, and Oracle database

• Small engineering team member with responsibilities ranging from software development, customer technical support, and hardware maintenance

• Led team’s development efforts for the Basel Big Data initiative, tasked with recreating current Basel risk modeling Ab Initio ETL processes with open source ELT tools in Apache Hadoop

• Subject matter expert and main support contact for Big Data Basel processes and datasets for US Card and Kohl’s Card lines of business

• Developed UNIX shell script workflow for graduating datasets through pre-processing, data quality, business data quality, and Hive insertion stages of the Hadoop data sourcing process

• Coordinated data sourcing, profiling, and classification efforts between data stewards and third party vendors

• Primary change coordinator for a fast-paced development production development cycle

• Developed Java framework for handling EBCDIC to ASCII conversion for complex, uniquely structured datasets acquired from mainframe sources

• Assisted in development of internal innovation applications including projects like test data generation, cooperative documentation tools, and metadata lineage and management

• Developed internal web application for monitoring of Capital One's big data environment in its entirety

• Performed Hadoop software installation and Cloudera cluster management

• Designed Hadoop Java applications to perform real time aggregation of counters and other job related metrics

• Performed front end JavaScript development of Ericsson’s Internet Protocol TV solution

• Performed cross platform usability and consistency testing of IPTV solution

• Assisted with initialization and installation of new content management systems