Rally Health/Optum Digital/RVO Health

Platform Engineer | Backend Software Engineer

• Led major effort to remove AWS privatelinks and enhance platform security posture, using Terraform and Atlantis to provision and manage AWS infrastructure. Coordinated with Engineering Managers and Release Captains to minimize impact on existing external connections and schedule removal with 0 downtime.
• Managed releases as Release Captain to push changes from dev to production, delegate bug fixes, and deploy patches/hotfixes. Shortened release cycle time by 50% by streamlining workflows, rewriting documentation, and automating deployments (saving ~8 developer hours per release).
• Automated Helm chart DRY-ing, implemented Datadog monitoring container/package CVE scanning, and improved release automation for SFHC deployments.
• Led AWS PostgreSQL to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL migration with zero downtime, using AWS DMS to manage schema and data transfer.
• Maintained platform stability through proactive monitoring, vulnerability mitigation, and process documentation.
• Launched multiple major health management programs (smoking cessation, hypertension management, maternity support, DTC weight loss) by building scalable APIs, backend services, and database layers. Owned full backend vertical slices of feature implementation: design, routing, service logic, and database migrations.
• Migrated the core member progress tracking service. Designed a backwards compatible system, introduced a new source-of-truth database, and refactored services to reduce the duplicate storage of user data. Added automated backend test to streamline developer testing and verification.
• Migrated the Git process from fork-based to branching. Moved all codebases and engineers to a new organization, wrote automation scripts that saved ~3 developer-hours per migration, and documented the new development/release process.
• Migrated CI/CD process from Jenkins + Mesos to GitHub Actions + ArgoCD/Helm establishing a modern GitOps pipeline.
• Architected an extensible third-party integration framework from scratch. Owned the service design, endpoints, database design, abstraction layers, and integration into the existing platform. Acted as de facto backend lead for the skeleton team during design/development/testing. Directed technical design, code reviews, communication/planning with project and product managers, and delivery coordination. Authored RFCs/PRD, refactored core platform logic for modularity and reuse across new integrations. Addressed technical debt post-release and resolved bugs to maintain product integrity.
• Provided on-call production support, fixed service incidents, and resolved member support requests.
• Created an automated backend API testing service to test end-to-end production workflows using ScalaTest.
• Implemented streamlined policies and automation improvements, significantly reducing development cycle times and improving overall process efficiency and developer happiness.