Brandon Shirah

Software Engineer

Florida Blue•  September 2019 - December 2020

• Primarily worked on Dashboard application for Medicare Call center team to improve work efficiency by giving the advocates all needed systems i.e., Timeclocks service, performance scores, and daily work items assigned to advocates in one SPA using React NodeJS and PostgresSQL. • Performed code reviews. Created and reviewed application design documents. • Coordinated with the Quality Assurance (QA) team to introduce end-to-end testing using Postman. Introduced TDD (Jest/Enzyme) into the UI development process. Increased code coverage of React unit tests to 100%. • Created async API services with NodeJS and Express to feed metric data for various scores like customer survey results, time on the phone, time to complete work items. • Integrated graphs and charts using Recharts.js for advocates to view their performance metrics to improve work performance. • Implemented security policies in Express APIs to restrict data to those who have proper data entitlements with the use of JSON Web Tokens. • Created proxy services created with Express to restrict data to those who have proper data entitlements with the use of JSON Web Tokens. • Uses Material UI for react components such as work item lists, live data refreshing. • Worked in Agile driven environment with a team of 8 to ensure project deadline and use of resources. • Analyze Product Owner requirements to groom User stories and get solid acceptance criteria.

Software Engineer

Availity•  March 2020 - September 2020

• Updated legacy Frontend Features Using HTML5, CSS and React.JS framework. • Worked on Cross browser • Worked in agile environment with daily scrums, and used tools Jira, confluence for project tracking. • Updated API’s written in JAVA 8. • Use Bootstrap for grid layout and components. • Handled State management using MOBX. • Fixed and debug production issues in a timely manner. • Worked directly on updating Patient cost estimator converting from Angular 1 to React.js. • Use Axios to make calls to internal and third-party API’s. • Use Gulp as an automation tool. • Worked on team that incorporated Agile methodologies like daily scrum stand-ups and Kanban boards.

Software Engineer

LiveRes LLC•  January 2018 - January 2019

• Successfully Convinced stakeholders to switch to cloud based deployment saving them cost on infrastructure. • Using React to lifecycle methods and Axios to make calls to server. • Experience developing API with CRUD services . • Created a production ready Kubernetes cluster with load balancer. • Used Kubernetes / Docker orchestration and CI/CD methods to continuously deploy code daily with little to no downtime in between. • Containerized services with Docker i.e. UI service , proxy service, mongodb pod, • Worked in GCP (Google Cloud Provider) environment to monitor app health and service containers when needed. • Integrated Material UI and React Router libraries to build Well Designed UI elements for SPA’s in mobile, tablet and desktop views. • Experienced in developing React components. Used Axios with ReactJS for making AJAX Calls. • Worked on Webpack for build and webpack-dev-server for a server. • Set up State Management using subscriber pattern in Redux. • Developed web app using HTML5 and ECMAScript 6 features. • Worked on Cross Browser Issues for different versions of IE, Mozilla and Chrome. • Worked with modules like MongoDB and mongoose for database persistence using Node.js to interact with MongoDB. • Maintained states in the stores and dispatched the actions using Redux Architecture. • Worked with Passport and JSON web tokens for authentication and authorization security configurations using Node.js. • Integrated with 3rd party API’s such as SendGrid, Twilio. • Created RESTful API services such as authentication and CRUD operations requests to database Using express and MongoDB.