Software Engineer Senior

John Joseph

Senior Application Engineer, Full-Stack

+1-727-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Lake Worth, FL Summary

I’m a Senior Software Engineer, which basically means I get to solve other people’s problems and pretend I know all the answers. From businesses to government projects, I’ve tackled everything from backend headaches to frontend puzzles, always finding ways to make things run smoother. Whether it’s optimizing processes or building something new, I’m all about making things work better. Looking forward to connecting—let’s make some magic happen! Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Python, Golang, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Django, FastAPI, Spring (Boot, MVC, Data, Security), Node.js, React.js Cloud Environments

AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS/SNS, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CDK), Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Firestore), Microsoft Azure DevOps

Git, Github, GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD

Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Database Design & Normalization, Query Optimization Special Skills

Healthcare Interface Engines (Qvera, Redox), Workflow Engines (Camunda, Maestro, jBPM), MVP Solutioning, Large Language Models, Agentic AI, AWS Textract, AWS Bedrock Work Experience

Senior Web Application Engineer

Alpha Omega 03/2023 - Present

Designed BPMN workflows in Java and Camunda to automate the USCIS I-131 form submission process, streamlining case intake, approval routing, and status tracking across federal systems.

Integrated Camunda with Java and Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs to enable dynamic task handling, document validation, and real-time updates between DHS platforms.

Deployed Camunda-based workflow orchestration and Spring Boot services on AWS using ECS and CloudFormation, ensuring high availability, scalability, and secure IAM configurations.

Leveraged observability and DevSecOps tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, ArgoCD for GitOps- based deployment, Vault for secrets management, and SonarQube for static code analysis and quality enforcement.

Designed an agentic workflow orchestration layer using SNS/SQS and Camunda, enabling AI-driven decision branching and dynamic task assignments for applicants and adjudicators.

Developed a Schema Management Service backed by Amazon DynamoDB to version and validate form definitions and enabled on-the-fly support for new form types without code changes.

Architected an Automated Code Generation Service that auto-generates React-based form components from JSON schemas, accelerating front-end delivery and achieving a 50% reduction in time-to-market for new forms.

Configured a CI/CD pipeline with JUnit/Mockito testing, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, achieving 90%+ code coverage on critical backend services and ensuring secure, reliable deployments.

Implemented a Workflow & Rules Engine leveraging Amazon SNS/SQS for event-driven orchestration, driving conditional branching and role-based form steps for both applicants and adjudicators.

Engineered an Agentic Bot Service powered by AWS Bedrock to provide real-time, natural language guidance and continuous field-level validation, improving form completion rates by 35%.

Wrote unit tests using JUnit 5 and Mockito, ensuring 90%+ code coverage across critical backend services and improving test reliability during CI/CD.

Configured user tasks, service tasks, and external task workers to support a scalable, rules-driven review process, reducing manual errors and improving case processing efficiency.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to conduct technical briefings and solution demos for clients, aligning technical features with their business outcomes.

Led and mentored junior/middle-level developers, fostering growth through pair programming, code reviews, and targeted knowledge-sharing sessions.

Senior Software Engineer

Bellese Technologies 08/2018 - 02/2023

Engineered Case Review workflows utilizing microservices architecture with Golang, Python to ensure efficient case handling for appeals and complaints.

Applied intake systems for collecting beneficiary data via RESTful APIs for data transfer between beneficiaries, providers, and the QIO for case review.

Led the development of a bulk-upload system using React and Redux to manage and optimize the upload of large datasets, ensuring seamless integration with backend services and enhancing the user experience with real-time progress tracking and state management.

Established an intuitive front-end interface using Material UI to create a user-friendly bulk-upload interface, allowing users to easily upload and validate large files while ensuring proper data formatting and error handling.

Optimized high-volume file processing pipelines with Go’s concurrency model—goroutines and channels— achieving a 30% improvement in throughput for CMS compliance reports.

Designed backend services with Python, FastAPI and Uvicorn to synchronize measure calculation data between QMARS and external CMS systems via RESTful APIs.

Utilized Python Pandas for data manipulation and Pydantic for data validation while processing large CSV files, upgrading configuration-based validation mechanism into Pydantic-based model.

Accelerated a robust authentication and authorization mechanisms using Node.js and JWT for secure access to sensitive healthcare data in compliance with industry regulations.

Incorporated a service external to Pega and performed a scheduled pull of PRS 2.0 data from the API and perform ETL to conform to the existing PRS 1.0 schema.

Leveraged Kubernetes and Docker for containerization and orchestration of microservices to scale and deploy case review platform across multiple QIO regions.

Deployed and managed microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by leveraging Helm for packaging and scaling workloads across multiple environments.

Implemented secure data pipelines using Azure Functions and Azure Service Bus to enable real-time event processing between case review systems and CMS platforms.

Configured Azure Key Vault and Azure Active Directory for secrets management and identity-based access, ensuring HIPAA-compliant protection of healthcare data.

Led the integration of external hospital and provider systems for data exchange, ensuring compliance with healthcare standards such as HL7, FHIR, and HIPAA regulations. Interface Engineer

Alere Inc. 05/2016 - 07/2018

Rearchitectured the data exchange system by replacing custom-scripts with Qvera Interface Engine, enabling real- time HL7/FHIR data synchronization through webhook-driven architecture.

Configured the integration service to map data elements from the EHR system to the appropriate HL7 messages or FHIR resources.

Generated a webhook listener using Golang and goroutines, facilitating real-time data exchange with Qvera; ensured concurrent processing of over 50,000,000 patient record updates per week while maintaining system integrity.

Led the interface engine team which consists of 4 members to manage the real-time data exchange workflow.

Monitored over 10 millions of ADT and DFT message flows of the interface engine per week to troubleshoot and resolve interface discrepencies between the EHR system and external systems.

Integrated different channels into the interface engine that are connected with various types of healthcare data vendors like PointClickCare and MatrixCare.

Collaborated closely with external engineering teams to integrate their open API into our EHR platform, co- defining API contracts and aligning on authentication and data schemas.

Interviewed, evaluated, and helped select high-performing candidates by assessing technical skills, cultural fit, and growth potentials.

Back End Developer

Alere Inc. 03/2013 - 04/2016

Maintained microservices for Altea Healthcare’s EHR platform using TypeScript, Node.js, and Go (gRPC), exposing RESTful APIs for core patient and appointment-management workflows.

Optimized a Go-based progress-note upload service with goroutines and channels, boosting concurrent file throughput by 35%.

Deployed a high-throughput webhook listener in Go to process over million patient record events per week, ensuring zero data loss and maintaining end-to-end system integrity.

Containerized Go and Node.js services with Docker and deployed them to Kubernetes (Helm charts), reducing deployment times and improving service resilience.

Implemented JWT-based authentication and fine-grained authorization in Node.js to secure all API calls in compliance with healthcare data regulations.

Automated back-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform IaC, cutting feature release cycles by 22% and standardizing AWS resource provisioning.

Tuned multi-table SQL schemas and indexes to support complex queries on patient records, reducing average query latency by 40%.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Johnson & Wales University-North Miami 08/2009 - 05/2013 Certifications

CompTIA A+ ce Issued 04/2014, Expired 07/2018

CompTIA Security+ ce Issued 07/2015, Expired 07/2018 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Issued 10/2021, Expired 11/2024 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Issued 10/2021, Expired 11/2024

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