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  • Sr. AI Software EngineerCURRENT

    @ Ingram Micro

    July 2024 - present1y 11mo

    Integrated AI solutions and automated workflow creation. Manage and mentor distributed teams across the US, EMEA and LATAM

    • Built AI-powered features using Claude and Vertex AI, including recommendations, summarization, image/text analysis, RAG pipelines, and prompt evaluation workflows
    • Integrated AI-driven chatbots and intelligent platform capabilities to improve user experience and operational efficiency
    • Led migration of legacy applications to React and TypeScript, improving maintainability and scalability
    • Developed a workflow studio to automate vendor intake and onboarding processes
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  • Senior Software Engineer

    @ Elevance Health

    Dec 2022 – July 2024

    Architected conversational AI workflows on the Broker Portal using AWS Bedrock Agents, automating processes for thousands of brokers. Built a scalable Node.js/TypeScript BFF with GraphQL (Apollo Server) that cut API latency by 60% and reduced cold-starts in critical workflows. Designed a serverless backend (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) powering both Producer Toolbox (web) and Broker Plus (React Native) from a shared API surface, and established CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline/CodeBuild plus CloudWatch dashboards to improve deployment cadence and observability.

  • Software Engineer

    @ College Board

    Jul 2022 – Dec 2022

    Built responsive, accessible React UI components for the TDTK platform integrated with GraphQL backend services, optimizing rendering performance and a11y compliance to improve Lighthouse scores and reduce Time-to-Interactive.

  • Sr. Software Engineer

    @ Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

    Jul 2019 – Jul 2022

    Designed and shipped reusable UI component libraries and middleware packages (authenticators, token validators) as modular NPM packages using Yarn Workspaces, adopted across Broker Portal and Provider Finder to reduce duplication and dependency drift. Contributed React Native features to Sydney Health, the consumer-facing Anthem mobile app on App Store and Google Play used by millions of members, and migrated backend logic to AWS, modernizing legacy systems with added security layers (MPT) for enterprise releases.

  • Mobile Applications Engineer

    @ Walmart

    Jul 2018 – Jul 2019

    Built and shipped native iOS/Android apps (FixIt, Express Returns) for store associates, enabling order creation, payments, monitoring, and operational workflows at scale. Developed Node.js BFF middleware bridging web/mobile clients and microservices, reducing client-side complexity and improving response times through targeted caching. Designed secure, compliant payment flows for Express Returns (Sam's Club) to safeguard user data, and integrated React with Microsoft Power BI dashboards for Asset MDN to deliver real-time analytics and interactive visualizations.

  • Sr. Software EngineerCURRENT

    @ Independent · Remote · Full-time

    2022 - present4y 5mo

    Leading AI-native product work — agentic booking, identity verification, and MCP integration.

    • Designed and shipped the MCP integration layer connecting agentic flows to backend services and external APIs.
    • Led a 4-engineer team building the agentic booking system end-to-end, from data model to chat-driven UX.
    • Cut identity-fraud onboarding incidents ~60% by introducing a multi-signal verification pipeline.
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  • Senior Engineer

    @ Confidential · Hybrid · Full-time

    2019 - 20223y

    Led API modernization and CI reliability work on a high-throughput service.

    • Reduced p95 API latency by 40% via query plan tuning and a Node 18 runtime upgrade.
    • Cut CI flake rate from ~12% to under 2% by isolating stateful test fixtures and parallelising the slow path.
    • Mentored two junior engineers through their first production on-call rotations.
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  • Software Engineer

    @ Confidential · Onsite · Full-time

    2016 - 20193y

    Shipped cross-platform mobile + web features in Swift, Kotlin, and React Native.

    • Built shared React Native modules consumed by both the iOS and Android store-published apps.
    • Owned the in-app payments flow end-to-end, integrating Stripe SDKs on both platforms.
    • Collaborated with design to implement the first dark-mode pass across all primary user flows.
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