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Promoted to technical lead for Availity's primary transaction processing system, which processes billions of transactions per year to connect millions of providers to hundreds of insurers.● Lead a three-developer team, handling task assignment for and knowledge transfer to junior developers.● Used profiling and instrumentation to identify optimizations which reduced CPU utilization by 20%, improving system reliability and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in server capacity and licensing costs.● Led platform stability improvements contributing to double-digit percentage year-over-year reductions in downtime. ● Identified and resolved memory consumption issues using heap dump analysis.● Served as the primary developer point of contact for systems administrators, DBAs, and operations staff.● Automated the provisioning of new servers with Ansible.● Led the application changes necessary for the retirement of a legacy data mart.

● Led a four-developer team managing EDI claims processing. Mentored new developers as they were added to the team.● Worked directly with internal and external clients to gather requirements, design and implement changes, and support new customers.● Diagnosed performance issues with networked storage using strace. Re-designed the application layer to work around these issues, reducing peak write times by 95%.● Converted the application to use asynchronous database writes, improving system reliability and eliminating user impact from routine database maintenance operations.

● Designed and built components for Availity's transaction processing system including the database integration layer (using Hibernate) and real-time payer integration.● Developed software for the validation, transformation, and conversion of administrative and clinical healthcare data in X12, HL7, and proprietary formats.● Supported the operations group by identifying and resolving performance, memory, and business logic issues. ● Created new tools and documentation to prevent and allow faster resolution of problems. ● Modified the application to automate recovery for many issues, eliminating the need for operator intervention.