Parastoo Karacic
Carlsbad,CA
Summary
Accomplished Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record at companies like Thomson Reuters, specializing in full-stack development and cloud infrastructure management. Expert in React, and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP), I excel in leading projects to successful deployment and mentoring teams for peak performance. Praised by team mates for innovative solutions and a commitment to excellence, I bring both technical mastery and collaborative leadership to every role.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Truepill
03.2022 - Current
- Led multiple projects from design to deployment, delivering scalable and maintainable software solutions.
- Managed on-call responsibilities, diagnosing and resolving production issues to maintain system reliability.
- Mentored team members, promoted engineering best practices, and contributed to process improvements for enhanced development efficiency.
- Developed and maintained full-stack applications using React (frontend) and Koa with TypeScript (backend).
- Designed, deployed, and managed cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Cloud Build for CI/CD.
- Ensured code quality and reliability by writing comprehensive unit and integration tests with Jest.
Senior Software Engineer
3 M
11.2021 - Current
- Develop backend API’s for medical application (Saber)
- Developed UI for medical application (Saber) used by medical staff using Angular
- Implemented BDD tests using Cucumber framework
- Languages and frameworks used: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 11, Typescript, Cucumber
Senior Software Engineer
Medimpact
06.2019 - 11.2021
- Design and develop backend API’s for America's Pharmacy ecommerce application
- With each code change added new unit test cases to cover changes and add to the code coverage of the application
- Work on integrations with Cybersource payment system
- In part designed containerized microservices deployed on AWS ECS and Kubernetes
- Developed and designed UI for internal support tool used by call center support staff using Angular
- Work with off-shore team and vendors to gather requirements and use cases for the application
- Facilitate meetings with developers and vendors to design and implement new features based on business needs
- CI/CD development of new microservices
- Designed and developed alerting and metrics gathering pipeline based on logs for America's pharmacy application
- On-call for application troubleshooting and support for on-prem infrastructure and AWS ECS
- Designed and implemented queue based API's for microservices
- Languages and frameworks used: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 6+, Typescript
Panoramic - Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
02.2017 - 03.2019
- Made design recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code
- Worked with the back-end developers in the development of the RESTful APIs
- Interacted with product owners to ensure the product met requirements for each new feature
- Created custom components and modules by extending the elements and modules of Angular 7
- Implemented Redux pattern using NgRX libraries
- Wrote unit tests for components, reducers, and effects
- Participated in prod support rotation
- Participated in story jamming to understand the customer's needs based on wireframes and divided the work into different journeys
- Took part in planning to break down journeys into stories and tasks
- Continuously worked with CSS team as new features were implemented
- Languages and frameworks used: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Typescript, Javascript, Groovy
Court Management Solutions - Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
06.2015 - 02.2017
- Developed web application with MVC architecture using Spring framework
- Used Hibernate framework for data persistence involved in creating Hibernate POJO objects and mapped using Hibernate Annotations for data persistence
- Developed front end user interfaces using JSP, HTML, JavaScript
- Used JSP tag libraries for the user interface
- Developed RESTful web services
- Developed Form Beans/Java Beans, Spring controller classes and configured with corresponding JSP pages
- Wrote unit test cases using JUnit, PowerMock, and Mockito framework
- Languages and frameworks used: Java, Spring Boot, Javascript
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
University of St. Thomas
Saint Paul, MN2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Azad University
Tehran, Iran2008
Skills
- AWS Cloud: ECS, EKS, EC2, RDS, Code Commit, SQS
- GCP Cloud: GKS, Cloud Build, Compute Engine
- Observation stack: Datadog, Splunk
- Programming Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Groovy, Ruby
- Methodologies: Agile, TDD
- Version Control: Git, GitHub, SVN, Bitbucket
- Databases: Oracle 9/11, MSSQL server 2012, MySQL
- Tools: Jira, MS TFS
- Logging: Amazon Cloud Watch, Splunk, ELK stack
- Frameworks: React, Koa server, Spring boot, Angular 2
- Messaging Platforms: ActiveMQ
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Truepill
03.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
3 M
11.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Medimpact
06.2019 - 11.2021
Panoramic - Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
02.2017 - 03.2019
Court Management Solutions - Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
06.2015 - 02.2017
Master of Science - Software Engineering
University of St. Thomas
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Azad University
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