Jp (John) Barela Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

Assisted clients in improving software development process and improving security through implementing modern authentication strategies.

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

As a software engineer at Virta, I worked on a variety of systems as we transitioned to a microservice-based architecture. I maintained our service code-generation system after a senior architect left the company. I also contributed our application productionizing two clinician focused predictive models from developing the operational data model through developing an API endpoint structure and React based user-interface. I also contributed to bug fixes throughout our stack from the React-Native mobile application to the legacy web interface to the API and database layers.I also significantly improved my Postgres knowledge rearchitecting our Flask-Postgres implementation as well as fixing or queue resiliency but enabling workers to reconnect after a database outage.

Greater Denver Area

At CommercialTribe I participated in our initiative to modernize our technology stack. This included transitioning our infrastructure from EC2 to Google Kubernetes Engine, introducing a GraphQL API, developing a component library in React and maintaining one React Native App using a legacy REST API while developing a new React Native application.

Greater Denver Area

As one of the first full time instructors for the Denver branch of General Assembly I created lesson plans, taught lessons, and provided one on one instruction for students in the Web Development Immersive course.Course materials included Angular, jQuery, Express, MongoDB, and Ruby on Rails.

Greater Denver Area

At Oppenheimer, I participated in the redevelopment of multiple legacy architectures including reimplementing a new authentication system and finishing the transition to an Oracle database. As part of the rearchitecture I helped the team focus on creating RESTful architectures to simplify future development.

Greater Denver Area

Provided full stack support for web and mobile interfaces including implementing MDM solution in legacy mobile codebase.

Greater Denver Area

Participated in the full software development life cycle for implementing the web based portal Provided state and federal policy guidance

Greater Denver Area

Lead a stakeholder work group on health carrier issuesDeveloped initial policy and technical requirements for health plan certification on the exchangeProvided state and federal policy guidance

Analyzed rate filings for actuarial content to ensure that all Colorado statutes and regulations are followedTrained new hires in rate review methodologyDeveloped regulatory interpretations including PPACA regulationsWorked with multiple organizations on the development of rate review reporting standardsParticipated in multi-stakeholder workgroups on the development of future rate data standards

Revised trend model for national health carrierDeveloped data analytics package for staff practice HMODeveloped predictive model underlying individual underwriting questionnaire for state high risk poolDeveloped Medicare Advantage rate bids for small HMO

Analyzed rate filing for compliance with regulationsAided in determination of compliance issues

Developed reserve estimates, projections, utilization analyses, and rates for a variety of commercial, self-funded, and public health plans.Aided in regulatory filings for commercial health plans.

Implemented new database for client contact and asset trackingDeveloped RFP process and began implementation of new CRM program

Ma, Mathematics

Ba, Economics, Mathematics

High School