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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Work with a cross-functional product team to build & launch products that remove the friction from commercial insurance. Our users are commercial insurance agents and insurance carriers who use our product every day to efficiently provide commercial insurance for small business owners.• Build and maintain powerful APIs that are used by agents to quote and bind policies for small business owners.• Passionate and delivery-focused on building resilient, high-quality features for the Partner-Engine application that drives the core of our business.• Write clean, well-tested code and automated unit tests using Ruby on Rails.• Integrate with third party APIs to generate real-time quotes through the robust Carrier-Engine application for multiple carriers to increase our revenue potential.• Integrations with new carriers in key geographical areas to bring our products to more small business owners in new markets.• Worked on NAICS class code override feature that allows agents to manually change assigned class codes per-carrier, per line of business greatly reducing the number of denied claims due to incorrect class codes assigned during the application process.

Portland, Oregon Area

Member of the core development team working to reconstruct the legacy New Business system (NBX) from the ground up. Collaborate with Business Analysts in user story development. Research APIs or processes of different company systems for future integration points. Capitalize on domain expertise in 3rd party products for insurance applications to better understand required features. Outstanding performance resulted in promotion to Senior Engineer in 2019.Notable Accomplishments:Accelerates the feature development process for the NBX application currently in development which will be the system of record for policy information for the company, by reusing the code already written, tested, and used in the FLEX legacy production system.Develops an internal event-driven system that creates business events from incoming sources, enabling real-time policy updates to business users. Facilitates software implementation and reduces the impact of future changes by implementing Agile best development practices that keep the development process within the scope of the user story.Enables access to web services, utilizing digitally signed authorization and authentication with JSON Web Token (JWT).Updates insurance agents in real-time on their policies, feeding internal XML files to downstream sources.Builds a binary tree of Agent reporting hierarchy to improve application processing time from hours to minutes.Upgrades application performance by contributing to the transition from JRuby to CRuby to access the legacy database. Improves productivity by designing software that transitions from the complexity of batch processing to making each data request the moment the information is needed. Spearheads project management and development on the I-Score project to more accurately determine when the underwriting team can save the company money by not requiring medical testing for policy approval.

Beaverton, Oregon

Supported multiple application products as Level 2 Support, using Jira Service Desk and Confluence to help cases move from identification to remediation. Introduced to Rails 1.2.1 and 2.3.2 applications and gained further experience with VI and VIM while working on remote servers. Promoted from the Software Apprenticeship program to become a Software Engineer.

Portland, Oregon Area