Resume
Experience
Tech Lead / Software Engineer 3 — Availity, LLC
February 2023 - Present | Jacksonville, FL (Remote)
- Promoted to Tech Lead in March 2024, leading a combined team of 6 developers, 2 QAs, a product owner, and a scrum master
- Led migration of legacy Java monolith services to AWS microservices architecture using EKS, Kubernetes, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for HIPAA-standard X12 claim status transactions
- Oversee UI and backend development for multiple product teams supporting configurable search forms, response tables, and detailed views for X12 transactions
- Manage application with 100k daily users, contributing over 10% of Availity Essentials web portal traffic
- Co-host weekly internal meetup (30-40 attendees) focused on improving technical culture among UI developers
- Mentor junior developers, hold office hours, and contribute to internal and open-source platform libraries
Software Engineer 2 — Availity, LLC
August 2021 - February 2023 | Jacksonville, FL (Remote)
- Primary UI developer for product team focused on medical attachment X12 transactions
- Built unified UI application enabling provider and payer users to request and send documents through the platform
- Implemented streaming upload protocols to improve file transfer reliability
- Optimized custom infinite-scroll component using virtualization, significantly reducing memory usage in production
- Redesigned upload workflow from blocking single-file process to parallel, non-blocking system
- Modernized build process from custom Java SSR to company-standard CI Jenkins pipelines
Software Developer — Availity, LLC
April 2019 - August 2021 | Jacksonville, FL (Remote)
- Solo UI developer on clinical software team building internal tools for pre-authorization workflows
- Led and executed rewrites of applications from Angular and legacy Java-based UI pages to React
- Provided estimates, production support, and technical design feedback
Software Developer — Prevail Health, Inc
October 2017 - November 2018 | Chicago, IL
- Full-stack developer building interactive video and chat features for mental health platform
- Collaborated with CTO to rearchitect chat infrastructure from Postgres to Firebase for improved performance
- Built frontend features in React for marketing landing pages and guided learning modules
- Implemented scheduling feature for secure patient/provider video chat
QA — Prevail Health, Inc
February 2017 - October 2017 | Chicago, IL
- Sole QA for mental health company supporting multiple websites and mobile apps
- Created processes for defect identification and tracking
- Evolved manual acceptance testing into automation testing framework with prototype regression tests
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
- Frontend: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS
- Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Scala, Spark
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3), Kubernetes, Docker
- Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Amazon Aurora
Technical Expertise
- Full-stack web application development
- Microservices architecture and event-driven design
- Component architecture and performance optimization
- REST APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets
- Healthcare EDI standards (ANSI X12)
- High-volume transaction processing (100k+ daily users)
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Observability & monitoring (Splunk, New Relic)
Leadership & Collaboration
- Technical leadership and team mentoring
- Translating complex business requirements into technical solutions
- Technical writing and documentation
- Cross-functional collaboration with product and business teams
- Production incident triage and support
- Building technical culture and developer communities
Education
Certificate in Computer Science
Dev Bootcamp - Chicago, IL | 2016
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Chicago-Kent School of Law at IIT - Chicago, IL | 2010-2012
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Pomona College - Claremont, CA | 2003-2007