Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Spearheaded and directed a high-performing team of developers to successfully rewrite a native mobile app into React Native, achieving a notable 50% reduction in development time while elevating overall app performance.
• Crafted and implemented sleek UI/UX components using React Native, delivering a seamless and sophisticated user experience that transcended seamlessly across both iOS and Android platforms.
• Collaborated closely with product managers and key stakeholders to meticulously gather requirements, define project scope, and strategically prioritize features, ensuring alignment with the broader organizational goals.
• Architected and developed robust, scalable backend APIs, seamlessly integrating them with the React Native frontend. This meticulous approach ensured a fluid data flow and synchronization, underpinning the app's optimal functionality.
• Instituted and refined agile development methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement that resulted in the consistent and timely delivery of project milestones.
• Led comprehensive code reviews, providing insightful feedback, mentoring junior engineers, and championing best practices to elevate overall code quality and maintainability within the development team.

May 2022 – Mar 2023 · 10 mos

• Led a team of engineers in maintaining and enhancing a portfolio of native mobile applications, ensuring high code quality, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborated closely with product owners, designers, and stakeholders to define project requirements, prioritize features, and align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Developed and implemented effective development processes, leveraging agile methodologies to ensure efficient project delivery and meet tight deadlines.
• Conducted regular code reviews, identified areas for improvement, and implemented refactoring strategies to enhance maintainability and scalability.
• Actively researched and evaluated emerging technologies and trends in the mobile app development landscape to drive innovation and stay ahead of the competition.

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr

• Continuously developing centralized Components library for sharing between all .NET Core services.
• Increasing triage productivity by aggregating error data from GCP storage and publishing messages to MS Teams.
• Building SLO’s and SLI’s in Dynatrace to measure availability and latency across Author’s service layer.
• Establishing standardization around code use, patterns, best practices, as well as styling and conventions.
• Developing new API’s following REST standards to integrate with Humana’s Core services and expose data to consuming teams within Author.

Nov 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• As a Senior Software Engineer/Applications Architect for Humana I oversee three consumer facing applications (MyHumana, Humana Pharmacy, and RxMentor) along with their cloud hosted micro-services.
• Oversaw three mobile applications (MyHumana, Humana Pharmacy, RxMentor) through full life cycle iOS/Android development, App Store releases, Ad-Hoc and In-House distribution, and AppCenter management.
• Delivered solution concepts, estimates, and integration architecture for large and small IT projects.
• Reduced API response time by implementing Redis caching and migrating .NET Framework applications to .NET Core.
• Designed and developed multiple proof of concepts for the business that were chosen to be implemented into production applications (androidx, material design components, dark mode, product search, pricing calculator).
• Supported production outages, energized and enabled new developers via paired programming and peer reviews.
• Implemented native, reusable, TFA (Two-factor Authentication) into the MyHumana mobile app introducing Kotlin and coroutines.

Jan 2018 – Nov 2018 · 10 mos

• As a Software Engineer 2 on the mobile development team at Humana I worked to develop functionality for the MyHumana Android mobile application that had around 110,000-150,000 active monthly users.
• Tracked/resolved production bugs, maintained code quality, and collaborated with designers to build new user experiences.
• Refactored legacy code including handling the migration from Java to Kotlin all while developing new features and eliminating bugs with test coverage.
• Utilized Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies such as test-driven development, paired programming, code peer reviews, and week-long development cycles.
• Guided the migration from Git hosted repo’s to TFS including the setup of CI/CD pipelines for 15 micro-services.
• Experience with data security for PHI and credit card transactions.
• Develop new features that utilize both SOAP/REST API's.
• Work with UI/UX designers to improve existing apps and overcome hurdles to meet design goals before reaching implementation.
• The mobile team works in a lean agile software engineering environment with the following of Extreme Programming (XP) practices: test driven development, paired programming, co-location and week-long development cycles.

May 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Over two summer internships and extended internships through three college semesters, I worked on two projects.
• The first project was the development POC application named FoodDiary.
• Paired programming in a full-stack environment, creating an Android application
• Created a cloud database on PCF to allow user information backup/retrieval on application login.
• Implemented Facebook’s Android SDK to allow login with Facebook improving app usability.
• The second project involved moving to a consumer production application MyHumana and programming on a lean agile development team with co-location and weekly sprints.
• Migrated micro-services to both QA and Production PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry).
• Implemented touch-id and fingerprint login for MyHumana
• Researched and implemented IBM’s Watson Campaign Automation into the MyHumana mobile application on iOS and Android to enable custom push notification services.
• Created bash scripts to improve machine setup time for new associate developers.