James Desmond

Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About

Devops Engineer creating a FHIR API deployment and regression testing framework using pytest

Experience

  • Liberty Mutual Insurance (5 yrs)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

      - Member of the Architecture team, defining best practices for k8s deployments throughout the organization - Developed ‘fitness functions’ to quantify adherence to technical standards across the company - Presented and communicated to senior leadership on my work output and impact - Developed a Spectral openAPI linter ruleset to enforce enterprise naming standards in openAPI specs - Benchmarked legacy Java APIs using JMeter before and after mainframe migrations - Integrated Open Telemetry’s APM to Node, C#, Java, and Python projects - Maintained widely used software patterns, adding canary deployments, buildpacks, framework upgrades

    • Cloud Engineer
      Jul 2021 - May 2022 · 11 mos

      Contracted through Whitridge Associates

  • Devops Engineer at MedicaSoft
    Oct 2020 - Jul 2021 · 10 mos

    -Designing and implementing a regression testing framework, using pytest -Implement SSO solutions utilizing AWS Cognito, Azure AD, and SAML -Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, R53,Cognito, RDS supporting application, database, and CI/CD servers

  • Intern - IT Distribution Systems at Eaton Vance
    Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 · 5 mos

    I returned to EV for my second co-op during my undergraduate studies at Wentworth. -Created new data visualization features for a company website using AngularJS and Tableau -Developed Python scripts to automate data import from many different filetypes to a DB backend

  • Intern - IT Distribution Systems at Eaton Vance
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2019 · 4 mos

    -Implemented a file upload screen for tabular data using Typescript, PHP, Oracle DB, and MSSQL -Created SQL Views and Stored Procedures in MSSQL as well as Oracle

  • IT Intern at Kaman Corporation
    May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

    -Developed bash scripts for server health monitoring on Suse Linux as well as RHEL