Blue Cross Blue Shield of North CarolinaSenior Full Stack Engineer
Nov. 2013 - Aug. 2022Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaRelevant Technologies: Core - Java 8 and 11, Python, Linux
Web - J2EE, SOAP/REST, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC and JPA, JPA/Hibernate
Database - Oracle, IBM DB2
Front End - AngularJS & Angular CLI, Typescript, Javascript, JSP, HTML, CSS
Testing - JUnit and Mockito
build/Deploy - Maven, GIT, RTC, Jenkins with SonarQube & Jacoco, Openshift on AWS
Big Data - Hadoop, HDFS, Python, Hive, PySpark, Sqoop - Managed diverse payment systems for shoppers, members, and agents.
- Fostered partnerships across departments and with external vendors for seamless integrations.
- Mentored teams on payment application best practices.
- Led the design of a new payment system with vendor backends as the primary middleware expert.
- Developed a voice-activated payment system for Medicare members using Spring Framework.
- Redesigned member payment systems and introduced agent-centric features.
- Achieved 50% savings per transaction by transitioning to efficient payment validation tech.
- Resolved critical payment issues and automated daily finance reporting.
- Implemented monitoring for shopper purchases to preempt payment issues.
- Contributed to diverse team-owned apps and led Hadoop data ingestion innovations.
- Streamlined Hadoop processes, reducing development/testing durations.
- Implemented multiple Ratings microservices using Spring Boot.
- Created a configurable PySpark template for Hadoop data transformations.
- Assisted in recruiting efforts, ensuring team growth with qualified talent.
- Championed code quality and unit testing for enhanced application integrity.