Experienced Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience and a strong track record of designing and implementing innovative solutions for healthcare management and insurance industries.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Home/auto insurance company predominately built on Ruby/Ruby on Rails, with greenfield development/microservices in TypeScript/Node/Express.
• Architected and led development of greenfield document generation platform using TypeScript, Node/Express, Angular, and Drizzle ORM, migrating from monolith to microservices for 25-50+ insurance document types across multi-state operations
• Built custom drag-and-drop visual editor from scratch, enabling business self-service for document design and eliminating engineering bottlenecks for routine changes
• Engineered reusable component system using LiquidJS partials, reducing document maintenance time by 80% (5 days to 1 day) through one-time fixes across all templates
• Served as technical lead for 6 months during management transition, driving code quality and mentoring 2 junior developers across 5-6 person team
• Delivered document system enabling auto insurance launch in TX and FL, supporting new product line expansion
• Improved deployment efficiency through system enhancements, such as breaking templates into reusable components, using AWS Amplify preview environments, reducing spin-up time from 30 minutes to 2 minutes while cutting infrastructure costs
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Road trip company helping people discover new places and activities. Streamlines discovery, planning, booking, and navigation into an engaging and intuitive process. Built with Ruby on Rails and React.
• Led greenfield development of the front end for the only new feature of late 2023/early 2024, which would allow users to be able to build a road trip/vacation with planned sites/activities along the way, as well as main activities/lodging at the destination
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Small startup specializing in healthcare risk management, using React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and RSpec for testing.
• Led and architected the back end development effort to integrate with Black Kite, a vendor risk database, to proactively notify companies of potential breaches.
• Collaborated closely with the Product team to define and refine project requirements.
• Enhanced existing automated healthcare questionnaire flows.
• Led multiple new features, actively contributing to design, architecture, and delegating tasks to other developers using JIRA.
• Mentored junior developers through pair programming and code/PR review.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
Columbus, Ohio Area
Automated insurance company using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and RSpec for testing.
• As part of the Pricing team, I designed and implemented new pricing rules and underwriting implementations by crafting detailed engineering plans.
• Successfully created and launched new rating plans in a production environment.
• Led multiple feature projects, including integration with third-party car analytics. Delegated tasks to other developers using Shortcut.
• Developed automation scripts to expedite pricing engineering tasks.
• Collaborated closely with Product teams to refine requirements and address engineering concerns before feature development.
2019 — 2019
2019 — 2019
Columbus, Ohio Area
Collaborative team at Cardinal Health/Fuse working on healthcare inventory solutions using Ember.js and Java.
• Contributed to the development of a comprehensive drug tracking and management system, enabling efficient item management across facilities and tracking drug expirations.
• Assisted with regression testing to ensure code quality.
Education
Cedarville University
Bachelor of Science - BS
2012 — 2016