Work Experience

My professional journey in software engineering, from internships to leading platform development at a Fortune 5 company.

Work History

  1. Company
    Optum (UHG)
    Role
    Software Engineer
    Date
    Description
    Ireland
    Achievements
    • Promoted from Associate to Engineer (Mar 2024) due to leading the delivery of the new platform.
    • Led development of a ticketing/workflow platform for vulnerability management (Golang, Vue, AWS) to streamline processes and produce team metrics.
    • Built scalable serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, Aurora, Cloudfront, and Terraform.
    • Delivered MVP in 9 months; system adopted across 3 teams.
    • Mentored 2 junior engineers and led React frontend migration.
    • Built a tool to automate repetitive triage notes, improving consistency and reducing analyst workload.
    • Delivered improvements to the internal SOC platform (Vue, TS, Python, GraphDB), including new UI components for faster access to key data.
    • Developed features to enhance data quality and resolved critical bugs, including outage related issues.
  2. Company
    TCS
    Role
    DevOps & Security Engineer
    Date
    Description
    Ireland
    Achievements
    • Engineered a fully automated, reusable cyber range on Azure using Terraform and Bash, reducing environment deployment time from 30 mins to 8 mins.
    • Conducted security assessments (black/grey box testing) on web APIs, identifying vulnerabilities to improve system resilience.
  3. Company
    Pramerica
    Role
    Cybersecurity Intern
    Date
    Description
    Ireland
    Achievements
    • Completed Splunk and Qualys certs; deployed demo Splunk setup.
    • Supported intern community via online events.