Bjorn Loftis

Director of Engineering at ABC Fitness Solutions

Flower Mound, Texas, United States

About

15 years experience in various IT roles - across several industries: Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, and Financial. This includes: supervisory experience leading teams of 10 - 35 developers working on multiple concurrent, complex, projects; architecture; development; and project management (Scrum Master). Waterfall and Agile development experience with Core Java, and Java EE technologies, open source projects / frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, JUnit) and tools (Maven, Eclipse, JBoss, WAS), and design patterns beyond the standard Java EE (i.e. GO4). Specialties: IVR (Interactive Voice Response) Development: Nuance, Nortel. CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) Genesys.

Experience

  • ABC Fitness (7 yrs 3 mos)
    • Director of Engineering
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      Leads a team of 50+ software engineers, team leads, and engineering managers to deliver high quality scalable solutions for ABC Fitness' core Billing platforms (Payments and Payment Gateway). Drives the technical roadmap for Payment and Payment Gateway systems ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices. Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritize requirements, ensuring the delivery of customer centric solutions.

    • Senior Engineering Manager
      Mar 2021 - Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Lead development team to delivering taxation and delinquency remediation services for the Nextgen software development organization. Partner with internal teams, vendors, and business partners to implement solutions for Revenue Cycle Management, Member Management, and Reporting for the fitness industry.

    • Solutions Architect
      Apr 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs

      Architecting micro-service payment and billing solutions for a leader in the fitness software industry.

  • Clearent (Clayton, MO)
    • Enterprise Architect
      Aug 2018 - Apr 2019 · 9 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Jun 2014 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Developed the Gateway (RESTful) API - a developer friendly payment platform enabling merchants to seamlessly integrate payment processing into their applications.

  • Sr. Software Engineer at Savvis
    Aug 2012 - May 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at Express Scripts
    Jan 2012 - Aug 2012 · 8 mos

    SCRUM Master for the Pharmacy of the Future project team.

  • Sr. Software Engineer at MasterCard
    May 2011 - Jan 2012 · 9 mos

    Develop applications which integrate with Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business (LDAP, Policy Server, Web Seal) for authentication and authorization of services. Applications rely heavily on Pdjrte, cryptography, and processing of XML messages in both RESTful and SOAP Web Services.