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DENNIS GERALD

Rochester,NY

Summary

  • Versatile and results-driven Dev Lead Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience, combining deep expertise in front-end development with strong contributions to cloud-native, event-driven architectures using Azure Functions, Kafka, and Salesforce.
  • Skilled at building both rich user interfaces and scalable back-end systems, with a proven record of leading cross-functional teams, mentoring developers, and delivering enterprise applications in the healthcare domain.
  • Pioneered the company’s shift from batch to real-time integrations, improving system responsiveness and data accuracy.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

DEV LEAD – SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Excellus BCBS, Inc
05.2016 - Current
  • Team Leadership & Cloud Modernization: Led a team of 5 engineers for over 3 years, delivering multiple high-impact initiatives—including the migration of Java Spring Boot services to Azure Functions—driving cloud adoption and modernizing the company’s application landscape.
  • Innovation & Architecture Leadership: Designed and implemented Provider Sync application - the company's first event-driven integration, streaming provider updates from Salesforce to Facets through Kafka and Azure Functions.
  • Process Optimization and Documentation: Implemented a new documentation for local VDI setup and Coding standards, eliminating the need for a 3-week onboarding course and streamlining the onboarding process.
  • Mentorship and Team Collaboration: Mentored 10+ developers in event-driven patterns, Kafka fundamentals, and Azure Functions.
  • Professional Development: Handpicked by leadership to enroll in Dale Carnegie's Skill for Success course that honed my skills as an influential communicator, adept problem solver, and focused leader.
  • Technologies: AngularJS, Typescript, C#, Azure Functions, Cosmo DB, Apache Kafka, Express JS, XUnit, GraphQL, Gradle, Azure CI/CD Pipelines

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Egen Solutions, Inc
06.2015 - 04.2016
  • Developed a member dashboard application, enabling members to access and comprehend their plan information, benefits, and spending using React JS and Express JS.
  • Transformed a static shopping page into a dynamic eCommerce application to assist members on choosing a health insurance plans with features like Sorting, Filtering and recommendation based on their specific needs.
  • Integrated Redux for efficient state management, optimizing application performance and reducing load time by 40%.
  • Enforced code quality standards in the React codebase using ESLint, resulting in a 23% reduction in code review time and improved overall code base health and maintainability.
  • Integrated Jest and Jasmine for comprehensive unit testing to ensure robust application functionality.
  • Increased website accessibility through implementation of WCAG 2.0 guidelines and ARIA attributes.
  • Established seamless user experiences across multiple platforms by ensuring compatibility with various browsers, operating systems, and devices.
  • Designed and executed a responsive website, leading to a 25% surge in mobile traffic, while also eliminating the need for a separate mobile website.
  • Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, jQuery, React.js, Jest, Jasmine, Spring Boot, Maven.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Brooklyn, NY
05.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

J J College of Engineering And Technology
Tamil Nadu, India
05.2013

Skills

  • Front End : Reactjs, AngularJS, TypeScript, jQuery
  • Back End : C# (Azure Functions), Nodejs (Express), Java (Spring Boot)
  • Cloud Platform : Azure, AWS
  • Databases : PostgreSQL, Cosmo DB, GraphQL, MongoDB
  • Testing : xUnit, Jest
  • Enterprise Systems: Liferay, Salesforce, Facets

Timeline

DEV LEAD – SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Excellus BCBS, Inc
05.2016 - Current

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Egen Solutions, Inc
06.2015 - 04.2016

Master of Science - Computer Science

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

J J College of Engineering And Technology

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