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

- 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.

- 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.

- Company
- Pramerica
- Role
- Cybersecurity Intern
- Date
- Description
- Ireland
- Achievements
- Completed Splunk and Qualys certs; deployed demo Splunk setup.
- Supported intern community via online events.