Security-Focused Senior Software Engineer

Gerald Larry

EI Paso, Texas 563-***-**** ************@*****.***

ABOUT ME

Security-focused Senior Software Engineer with 10 plus years of experience building, securing, and operating enterprise platforms across healthcare, financial operations, workflow systems, cloud services, and data infrastructure. Strong background in Python, Go, Bash, Linux, APIs, observability, logging, monitoring, automation, IAM-aware access controls, and production incident troubleshooting. Experienced in hardening systems, improving telemetry pipelines, supporting vulnerability remediation, and building scripts and integrations that improve detection, alerting, and operational reliability. Skilled at partnering with infrastructure, IT, DevOps, QA, and application teams to balance security, reliability, and developer productivity across hybrid and cloud environments. Practical hands-on engineer with strong root-cause analysis, secure engineering judgment, and experience using AI-assisted workflows responsibly to improve engineering speed and quality.

WORK EXPERIENCE

NexusLeap May 2023 - Present

Senior Software Engineer Austin, TX

NexusLeap focused on healthcare workflow and pricing platforms where I helped build, secure, monitor, and support backend services, integration pipelines, cloud environments, and production reliability workflows.

• Designed and maintained secure backend services using Java, Python, Go, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, Oracle, and Linux-based environments for enterprise healthcare workflow platforms.

• Improved observability by strengthening logs, tracing, structured event data, API diagnostics, operational dashboards, and monitoring workflows across distributed services and integrations.

• Supported security baseline improvements by reviewing service configuration, access behavior, environment settings, API exposure, logging coverage, and deployment readiness across DEV and SQA environments.

• Built Python and Bash automation scripts to streamline log review, data validation, environment checks, alert investigation, release support, and repeated operational troubleshooting tasks.

• Investigated production and lower-environment incidents involving API failures, network connectivity, Kafka processing, database mismatches, authentication issues, and pipeline disruptions.

• Partnered with DevOps, QA, infrastructure, and application teams to perform root-cause analysis, contain defects, remediate configuration issues, and validate stable fixes.

• Helped reduce operational risk by improving error handling, retry logic, audit visibility, release validation, and technical documentation for support and engineering teams.

• Applied secure development practices, code reviews, testing discipline, and AI-assisted analysis workflows to improve reliability, maintainability, and engineering velocity.

App Maisters Inc Jan 2018 - May 2023

Full Stack Developer Houston, TX

App Maisters Inc delivered cloud-based web, mobile, API, and workflow platforms where I developed secure application services, integrations, automation tools, and monitoring improvements for enterprise clients.

• Built and supported full-stack and backend services using Python, Node.js, Java, REST APIs, SQL, Redis, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, Docker, and Linux-based deployment environments.

• Implemented secure API integrations with authentication, authorization, token handling, role-aware access flows, input validation, logging, and error handling for customer-facing platforms.

• Improved monitoring and telemetry by adding structured logs, application metrics, failure tracking, dashboard inputs, and workflow visibility for support, QA, and engineering teams.

• Created Python and Bash scripts that automated environment checks, log collection, data validation, deployment support, alert investigation, and recurring remediation activities.

• Supported vulnerability and configuration review activities by identifying weak settings, outdated dependencies, access gaps, and production readiness risks with engineering and DevOps teams.

• Troubleshot security and reliability incidents involving API failures, cloud configuration, database access, network behavior, file processing, and third-party integration errors.

• Collaborated with infrastructure, QA, product, and client stakeholders to balance secure implementation, usability, delivery speed, and operational stability.

• Mentored engineers through code reviews, debugging sessions, secure coding practices, testing improvements, and practical documentation for long-term platform maintainability.

Passare Aug 2012 - Jan 2018

Software Engineer Abilene, TX

Passare supported workflow, case management, reporting, and financial operations platforms where I worked on secure application services, data workflows, integrations, and production support processes.

• Developed and maintained backend services, UI workflows, API integrations, SQL data models, and cloud-hosted application components using C#, .NET, JavaScript, SQL, and automation tools.

• Strengthened application reliability and security by improving validation logic, access-aware workflows, exception handling, logging, audit visibility, and support diagnostics.

• Supported incident investigation by analyzing logs, database records, API responses, service behavior, and user workflow patterns to isolate root causes and coordinate remediation.

• Built internal tools and scripts that helped operations, support, and engineering teams automate repetitive checks, data review, reporting validation, and production support activities.

• Worked with secure authentication flows, permission-driven features, external REST APIs, and database-backed workflows to protect business data while keeping user experience simple.

• Improved monitoring readiness by adding better operational visibility, reporting checks, error tracking, and feedback loops for recurring platform and integration issues.

• Collaborated with product, QA, support, and engineering teams to validate releases, resolve defects, document incident findings, and improve long-term service quality.

• Followed strong engineering practices through code reviews, regression testing, release validation, configuration checks, and careful production change management.

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at EI Paso

Sep 2007 - May 2012

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

EI Paso

CORE SKILLS

Security Engineering: Security Baselines, Secure Configuration, Vulnerability Remediation, Threat Modeling, Incident Response, Root-Cause Analysis

Detection & Observability: SIEM Workflows, SOAR Automation, Log Ingestion, Structured Logging, Tracing, Metrics, Dashboards, Alert Tuning

Identity & Access: IAM, SSO Concepts, Authentication, Authorization, RBAC, Conditional Access, Secure API Access, Token-Based Security

Endpoint & Network Security: EDR/XDR Concepts, Endpoint Hardening, VPN, Firewall Concepts, IDS/IPS Concepts, Network Troubleshooting, Segmentation

Languages & Automation: Python, Go, Bash, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, SQL, Automation Scripts, AI-Assisted Engineering Workflows

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP Exposure, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Hybrid Environments, CI/CD, Infrastructure Monitoring

Data & Platforms: REST APIs, Kafka, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB, Data Pipelines, Log and Event Processing

Engineering Leadership: Cross-Functional Partnership, Security Awareness, Code Reviews, Mentoring, Technical Documentation, Production Support

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