Software Engineer Senior

Joseph Wittman

Senior Software Engineer

****************@*****.*** 215-***-**** Pooler, GA 31322

linkedin.com/in/jo-wittman

Profile

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-performance apps using React and Angular. Skilled in leading UI architecture, integrating REST APIs, and working with JavaScript, TypeScript, and cloud-native tools. Strong in cross-team collaboration and driving frontend best practices.

Skills

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js, Context API, Redux, Python, Go, Node, Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API, GraphQL, WebSocket, IAM, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Jest, Cypress, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, GitHub Actions, Jenkins Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Ford Mar 2021 – Present

•Led frontend development of key modules in the Vehicle Health Dashboard, enabling 150K+ Ford owners and fleet managers to monitor real-time DTC (Diagnostic Trouble Code) alerts, oil life, tire pressure, and service reminders via the FordPass app.

•Delivered resilient, streaming-ready UI components in React and TypeScript, working closely with firmware and product teams to support vehicle modem latency, offline states, and varying data formats across 12+ models.

•Partnered with backend engineers to integrate a WebSocket-based pipeline using Java, Redis Streams, and RxJS, ensuring smooth telemetry updates even under 5K+ event bursts per second.

•Helped design and integrate a shared DTC decoding service with Python and Redis so drivers and service techs could actually understand what the fault codes meant.

•Improved UI performance across garage tablets and mobile devices by reducing load time by 32%, applying bundle optimization, device-specific fallbacks, and code splitting strategies.

•Built fault ingestion and alerting features that run on GCP Cloud Run, using Pub/Sub for real-time streaming, and applied IAM (Identity and Access Management) for scoped access to fleet and vehicle data.

•Wrote and maintained over 200 automated tests using Jest and Cypress, ensuring reliability across edge cases like offline vehicles, partial telemetry, and outdated firmware. Senior Software Engineer, Stripe Sep 2016 – Feb 2021

•Architected financial account dashboards for Stripe Treasury with React and Apollo that enabled businesses to manage over $15B in monthly funds across Treasury-linked accounts.

•Engineered onboarding flows using React and Apollo GraphQL to streamline KYC verification and bill pay setup, allowing thousands of businesses to activate embedded finance features efficiently.

•Built real-time fund transfer and ACH payment systems using Go, scaling throughput to 500K transactions per hour via Kafka.

•Developed internal APIs and background jobs in Ruby for account provisioning and financial data syncing across services.

•Created notification and webhook handling services using Node, enabling instant status updates for wire payments and treasury events.

•Simulated complex money movement workflows using Go and Kafka to validate edge cases in funding, holds, and payouts, accelerating QA throughput and reducing pre-release issues.

•Orchestrated service deployment with Docker on AWS to maintain sub-200ms API latency and 99.99% availability for mission-critical Treasury operations.

•Enforced code quality and deployment reliability across a 25+ engineer organization through rigorous GitHub review practices and CI/CD ownership. Software Engineer, UnitedHealth Group May 2014 – Aug 2016

•Worked on Provider Portal modernization efforts, upgrading large-scale healthcare apps using AngularJS and .NET.

•Migrated legacy jQuery-based features into modular AngularJS components to improve maintainability and consistency.

•Developed responsive UIs in AngularJS with Bootstrap and custom validations for accessible, cross-device experiences.

•Built and maintained RESTful services in .NET and Java (Spring MVC) to support modernized claims and eligibility APIs.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science,

Georgia State University

2010 – 2014

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