Lead Software Engineer — Collective HealthAugust 2022 – Present

Healthcare benefits and claims administration · Applied AI, Backend & Data

• Well-versed in the Applied-AI stack: Gemini, Vertex AI, Google ADK, RAG retrieval.
• Runs the team's Flask tooling hub: remediation, test data, and prod support in one auditable UI.
• Ships claims visibility: an Express/GraphQL dashboard across every processing state.
• Built the Databricks + Spark SQL source of truth for accumulator data.
• Automates daily client reporting with Airflow over warehouse queries into Looker datasets.
• Builds and runs Spring Boot adjudication + X12 837 services on Kafka/RabbitMQ — DLQ replay, Grafana alerts, rollback tooling.

Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Gemini, Vertex AI, LangChain, Python, ReactJS, Express, GraphQL, Databricks, Airflow, Looker

Software Engineer — Glueup.com (Event Bank)October 2021 – August 2022

Events, CRM, webinars, and networking · Backend

• Rewrote Play APIs in Kotlin + Spring Boot.
• Database modules on Maven/Liquibase; shared jOOQ DAOs.
• MongoDB dynamic-property APIs with TDD design docs.

Kotlin, Spring Boot, Play Framework, MongoDB, jOOQ, Liquibase, Maven

Software Engineer — VerizonApril 2018 – September 2021

Telecommunications and network provisioning · Backend & Network Provisioning

• Created the Spring Boot template the org builds services from.
• Moves provisioning events over Kafka; async APIs for long-running flows.
• Graphs network devices in Neo4j; serves Yen's shortest-path routing.
• Cleans Fortify findings; locks transactions against activation races.
• Pipelines to Kubernetes; shared Hibernate libs; AOP audit layer.

Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Neo4j, Hibernate, Activiti, Kubernetes, Fortify

Application Developer — General ElectricOctober 2015 – March 2018

Energy and pipeline operations · Full-Stack

• Wired SAML SSO for internal + external providers.
• Lifted lower envs to EC2 with scripted on-demand test envs.
• Slashed log noise with new logging standards.
• Solr search on Spring Boot, refreshed from Oracle on schedule.
• Moved services off Karaf; Jenkins pipelines.

Java, Spring Boot, AWS EC2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Apache Solr, SAML, Jenkins

🧠 RAG-powered claims guidance assistantApplied AI · Healthcare

Claim reviewers search policy documents by hand, while ungrounded models cannot be trusted with benefits answers.

A retrieval-first pipeline that grounds Gemini answers in cited policy and claim evidence, with human review on every output.

🤖 AI-assisted business-rule automationApplied AI · Healthcare

High-volume routine cases consume reviewer bandwidth, while ambiguous cases still require judgment.

Gemini and ADK evaluate business rules to resolve standard cases automatically and escalate exceptions for review.

📊 Member data platformData · Healthcare

Accumulator data spanned multiple systems, complicating consistent analytics and reporting.

A Databricks + Spark SQL source of truth feeding Looker datasets and Airflow-driven daily client reports.

⚡ Event-driven Java service platformBackend · Distributed systems

Long-running business processes span services that must coordinate reliably.

Spring Boot microservices communicating over Kafka and RabbitMQ, designed for asynchronous failure and replay.

🧰 Developer operations platformInternal platform · Production tooling

Operational scripts lived in scattered locations with no safe, consistent way to run them.

A unified Flask console with reusable execution patterns, rollback support, and full audit trails.

🕸️ Network graph and pathfinding serviceTelecommunications · Network provisioning

Network provisioning depends on viable routes through complex device topologies.

A Neo4j device graph with a REST API for Yen's K-shortest-path queries.