Michael Ephraim Email & Phone Number

Cedar Rapids, IA, US

• Full-stack engineer on the Headspace Care product (formerly known as Ginger), which provides patients with virtual coaching, counseling, and therapy services.
• Maintained the Python/Django backend for supply of clinicians
• Owned the Clinical Availability Search service. Created REST and GraphQL APIs used by the front ends to search for licensed clinician availability and schedule appointments, as well as an internal user interface for.
• Contributed components to the React SPA for coaches and clinicians to manage and interact with patients
• Ensured test coverage in Pytest and Jest for all code deployed
• Automated a manual clinician supply/demand matching process. Added a CircleCI workflow to a Scala git repository to publish an assembly JAR file to an AWS CodeArtifact repository. Set up AWS lambdas to generate inputs.

• Provided architectural design and decisions for product advancement.
• Worked with functional product teams and users to analyze trends, understand needs, and prioritize resultant roadmap items
• Routinely reviewed and audited code for security holes; ensured proper encryption or anonymization of FERPA protected information and other sensitive data
• Knowledgeable in industry standard accessibility techniques and best practices for WCAG compliance (WCAG 2.0 Level AA) and expanding compliance using ARIA, included accessibility feedback with code reviews to ensure.
• Conducted dozens of engineer employment interviews; strong intuitive ability to quickly gauge candidate aptitude, with 80% retention rate for hired candidates
• Extensive experience integrating with Higher Education SIS systems, such as Ellucian Banner (including Ethos), Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, and legacy, home grown systems

• Coded in pure JavaScript environment, both front and back end
• Analyzed client specifications with an emphasis on understanding why certain items were requested, in addition to how to implement them
• Created a form builder system with an extensible widget factory framework for rapid deployment of forms and user interfaces
• Built robust RESTful APIs for integration into the software
• Created content blending and editing user interface and back end, to have free form user formatted content display seamlessly with highly structured, data driven content to produce accessible, responsive output
• Produced thorough and thoughtful software documentation for a wide variety of purposes and audiences, including API documentation

• Proactively maintained relationships with cross functional teams to understand and address current pain points, bottlenecks, and short- and long-term goals; collaborated with leadership to recommend solutions and.
• Set team goals in alignment with organization; monitored team and employee progress to ensure on-time project completion and consistent progress to meet organization goals
• Advanced and supported the team through day-to-day guidance, performance review communication, and empowerment to foster leadership qualities

Student developer in the IMU Information Systems department.