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Senior Software Engineer

Northwestern Mutual Contract via Genesis10 · Contract · Full-time 2020-02 - 2022-07 Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Highlights

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  • 1 Delivered Digital Innovation initiatives in a remote-first model, including approximately 2 years fully remote and about 6 months on-site.
  • 2 Built Northwestern Mutual's Revel in Tech conference website using React, Tailwind CSS, Strapi, and Prisma
  • 3 Created project management software using React, TypeScript, Hasura, and Postgres
  • 4 Created speech-to-text dictation platform for note-taking used by field reps using React Native, Electron, Node
  • 5 Created multi-platform tool to analyze and help reassign orphan clients using React and Electron
  • 6 Completed NM’s AWS DevOps Practitioner training program. Utilized AWS services in production including RDS, Route53, KMS, EC2, and Kubernetes. Used Terraform to script infrastructure.
  • 7 Mentored developers helping them more quickly become productive members of the team
  • 8 Investigated idea submissions and built cases around the feasibility, market timing and possible impact they could have on the business
  • 9 Championed GraphQL adoption (Hasura on AWS) across Digital Innovation teams, reducing time-to-market by 90% while improving application reliability and performance.
  • 10 Built multi-platform applications with Electron for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows

Details

  • Delivered Digital Innovation initiatives in a remote-first model, including approximately 2 years fully remote and about 6 months on-site.
  • Built Northwestern Mutual's Revel in Tech conference website using React, Tailwind CSS, Strapi, and Prisma
  • Created project management software using React, TypeScript, Hasura, and Postgres
  • Created speech-to-text dictation platform for note-taking used by field reps using React Native, Electron, Node
  • Created multi-platform tool to analyze and help reassign orphan clients using React and Electron
  • Completed NM’s AWS DevOps Practitioner training program. Utilized AWS services in production including RDS, Route53, KMS, EC2, and Kubernetes. Used Terraform to script infrastructure.
  • Mentored developers helping them more quickly become productive members of the team
  • Investigated idea submissions and built cases around the feasibility, market timing and possible impact they could have on the business
  • Championed GraphQL adoption (Hasura on AWS) across Digital Innovation teams, reducing time-to-market by 90% while improving application reliability and performance.
  • Built multi-platform applications with Electron for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows

Skills & Technology

AWS EC2 Electron GraphQL Hasura KMS Kubernetes Node.js Postgres Prisma RDS React React Native Route53 Strapi Tailwind CSS Terraform TypeScript React Tailwind CSS Strapi Prisma TypeScript Hasura Postgres React Native Electron Node.js AWS RDS Route53 KMS EC2 Kubernetes Terraform GraphQL