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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Picwell takes a data-driven approach to help people choose better health insurance, making the enrollment process painless and helping users save over $600/year on average. I led two teams of software engineers and designers, front-end and backend, and was responsible for all real-time interactions with our services. I regularly represented team capabilities and projects to stakeholders and management team, and worked with management team to determine company roadmap.• Achieved 25% infrastructure cost reduction by redesigning ML data storage model, simultaneously enabling development of a broad category of new features relying on real-time calculation of costs using high-dimensional data.• Executed accessibility-first redesign of our front-end application experience. Managed design, execution, and seamless rollout of multiple major version releases, including significant functional changes and features, and incorporating a11y vendor guidance and stakeholder feedback.• Reduced risk and improved customer trust, and improved team decision making by developing SLO monitoring and observability strategy. Managed onboarding to chosen observability vendor.• Reduced user-impacting error rate and improved developer decision-making speed and confidence through development of a comprehensive front-end error monitoring and triaging strategy.• Opened new sales channels by developing OAuth-based communication with clients.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Technical leadership of our core API team, providing healthcare recommendations to clients and internal systems. Led design and development of features as well as significant architectural and structural changes, helping to secure new customers while reducing cost and improving scalability. Maintained team focus on value delivery and project delivery plans, ensured adherence to SLOs and SLAs, and led cross-team collaboration.• Opened new B2B market segments leading to a 10x increase in client subscriptions. Developed infrastructure and API to support an end-user product based on Picwell's core B2B API offering.• Designed framework for training, deploy, and customization of machine learning models, used by data science and engineering teams. Enabled 5x increase in model updates in the subsequent year and eliminated Data Science team involvement in model deploy, saving 2 engineer-hours per update.• Led project rearchitecting a distributed monolith to a Docker-based microservices approach deployed using CI/CD patterns. Designed thoughtful change management using effective software patterns, enabling efficient company growth and organization.• Reduced customer onboarding costs by 50% through the design of a flexible insurance plan definition and configuration system.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Development, deploy, optimization, and maintenance of a service-oriented architecture deployed over AWS that served up to hundreds of requests per second. Development and maintenance of Spark/PySpark pipelines performing feature extraction and machine learning model training

Led teams in design and execution of functional and technical specifications of custom Java, SQL, and web-based projects for corporate pharmaceutical and hospital system clients.Develop algorithms for collation and reconciliation of unstructured data into structured knowledge using clustering, classification, and expert systems.Maintenance and optimization of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Solr servers.Designed, implemented, and now provide ongoing development of the SpeSo Health website using Java, JSP, Jetty, SQL, and Solr.