Kelsey L. Plyler
Full Stack Developer, Insurance technology
Chicago, IL · (312) 555 0115 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/kelseylplyler
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years building web applications for insurance operations
INDUSTRIES
Insurance technology, claims administration
SPECIALTIES
React interfaces, Node services, database design, performance work
SYSTEMS
React, Node, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services, TypeScript, Jira
CREDENTIALS
Amazon Web Services Certified Developer Associate
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in computer science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Executive Summary
Full stack developer building claims and policy software for an insurance technology company. Nine years in React on the front end and Node with PostgreSQL behind it. Ships features that adjusters use all day, so the work is judged on how few clicks a claim now takes.
Signature Achievements
- Rebuilt the claim intake screen and cut average handling time for adjusters from eleven minutes to six.
- Cut page load on the policy dashboard from four seconds to under one by reworking queries and caching.
- Shipped a document upload service that now carries ninety thousand files a month without incident.
- Raised automated test coverage on the claims service from thirty percent to eighty two percent.
- Replaced a vendor rating integration and saved one hundred sixty thousand dollars in annual fees.
- Reduced production defects reported per release by half over four quarters.
Professional Experience
Full Stack Developer
Lakefront Claims Technology, Chicago, IL 2021 to present
Product team of seven building claims software used by fourteen regional insurers.
- Build features across React screens, Node services and the PostgreSQL schema behind them.
- Design the application programming interfaces other product teams and client systems consume.
- Review pull requests and pair with two junior developers on their first production work.
- Investigate production issues on rotation and fix the cause rather than the symptom.
Software Developer
Halsted Street Digital, Evanston, IL 2017 to 2021
Client project work at a development shop of forty people.
- Built web applications for clients in retail, logistics and professional services.
- Migrated two legacy applications from server rendered pages to React interfaces.
- Wrote the deployment scripts and database migrations for six client projects.
Licensure and Certification
Amazon Web Services Certified Developer Associate
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Education
Bachelor of Science in computer science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017
Core Skills
React · Node · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Application programming interface design · Automated testing · Performance tuning · Amazon Web Services · Code review · Debugging