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Carl combines technical depth with project leadership, mentoring, and a focus on delivering software that solves consequential problems and empowers the people using it\. Across his career, Carl has improved system reliability by redesigning pipelines for explicit failure handling and targeted retries, reducing manual intervention by more than 50%\. At Two Six Technologies, he led Android application development serving thousands of active users globally, achieved 65\.5% month\-to\-month Cassandra hosting\-cost savings through compression research, reduced web\-UI integration\-test throughput time by more than 90%, and expanded a sensor network by more than 300%\. He also secured more than $1 million in expanded project scope through stakeholder proposals\. Carl is seeking a faster\-paced builder environment where he can maintain technical depth in backend architecture while taking on new challenges\. ## Services - C\+\+ - Java - Scrum - Unreal Engine - Unity - Front\-end - User Interface - Game Development - Game Design - JavaScript - HTML5 - CSS - Web Development - Scripting - Android ## Highlights - Leads a document\-intelligence platform that processes more than 10,000 clinical PDFs per day and owns its backend architecture end to end\. - Reduced manual intervention by more than 50% through reliability\-focused architectural improvements, including explicit failure handling and targeted retries\. - Led development of multiple Android applications at Two Six Technologies that supported thousands of active users globally\. - Researched Cassandra compression optimization at Two Six Technologies, delivering 65\.5% savings in month\-to\-month hosting costs\. - Created an automation\-testing framework that enabled non\-technical users to write web\-UI integration tests and reduced testing throughput time by more than 90%\. - Integrated sensors from multiple third\-party vendors end to end, expanding Two Six Technologies' network of unique sensors by more than 300%\. - Contributed as a Senior Software Engineer to SIGMA, a radiological and nuclear detection solution at Two Six Technologies\. - Led a small multidisciplinary team integrating wearable sensor technology for health\-trend analysis, illness prediction, and physiological\-anomaly monitoring\. - Developed and maintained multi\-tier architecture for wearable\-sensor data ingestion, processing, and analysis across distributed online and localized offline environments\. - Wrote stakeholder proposals that resulted in more than $1 million in additional project scope\. - Interviewed and evaluated numerous candidates' technical skills to fill critical team vacancies\. - Engineered more than 50 unique production features across two large\-scale projects at Immersed Games\. - Developed an automation test suite and more than 100 unit tests at Immersed Games\. - Improved build\-processing time by 200% with customized shell scripts at Immersed Games\. - Voluntarily mentored six interns at Immersed Games\. ## Experience - **Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Oscar Health** (2023\-11\-01–present) - **Software Engineer III at ngrok** (2022\-11\-01–2023\-11\-01) - **Lead Software Engineer at Two Six Technologies** (2021\-11\-01–2022\-11\-01) — Led a small, multidisciplinary team in the integration of cutting\-edge wearables sensor technology to help analyze trends in a user’s health, predict illness, and monitor for physiological anomalies\. • Developed and maintained multi\-tier system architecture for handling the ingestion, processing, and analysis of wearables sensor data in both distributed online and localized offline environments\. • Wrote and submitted numerous proposals to expand the scope of work with stakeholders, resulting in $1M\+ for increasing project scope\. • Routinely interviewed and evaluated the technical skills of numerous candidates to fill critical team vacancies\. - **Senior Software Engineer at Two Six Technologies** (2018\-11\-01–2021\-11\-01) — Strong individual contributor on revolutionary radiological/nuclear detection solution called SIGMA\. • Throughout my tenure at Two Six Technologies, I piloted multiple business\-critical initiatives\. • These included: • Leading development of multiple Android applications, supporting thousands of active users globally\. • Researching new compression optimization for Cassandra, resulting in 65\.5% savings in month\-to\-month hosting costs\. • Creating an automation testing framework for non\-technical users to write integration tests against the web UI, reducing testing throughput time by over 90%\. • Devising end\-to\-end integration of multiple sensors from different third\-party vendors, expanding our network of unique sensors by over 300%\. - **Software Engineer at Two Six Technologies** (2017\-10\-01–2018\-10\-01) - **Software Engineer at Immersed Games** (2015\-02\-01–2017\-02\-01) — Engineered over 50 unique features to production on 2 large\-scale projects • Developed automation test suite and over 100 unit tests for ensuring feature integrity • Improved build processing time by 200% with customized shell scripts • Voluntarily mentored 6 interns to accelerate their learning process ## Education - Bachelor's degree, Computer Science — University of Florida ## FAQ ### What does Carl do? Carl is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Oscar Health\. He works on backend architecture and document\-intelligence systems, with particular strengths in distributed systems, reliability engineering, Kafka\-based orchestration, Python data pipelines, and TypeScript\. ### What has Carl built at Oscar Health? Carl led a document\-intelligence platform that processes more than 10,000 clinical PDFs per day\. He held end\-to\-end ownership of the platform's backend architecture\. ### What are Carl's reliability\-engineering strengths? Carl improved reliability by diagnosing risks in messy data flows, redesigning a pipeline for explicit failure handling, and advocating targeted retries instead of duplicate work\. These architectural improvements reduced manual intervention by more than 50%\. ### What is Carl looking for next? Carl is looking for new challenges in a faster\-paced environment while preserving technical depth\. He wants to continue building and owning backend architecture in a builder\-oriented setting\. ### What did Carl do as a Senior Software Engineer at Two Six Technologies? At Two Six Technologies, Carl was a Senior Software Engineer and a strong individual contributor on SIGMA, a radiological and nuclear detection solution\. He also piloted multiple business\-critical initiatives\. ### What were Carl's measurable results on SIGMA at Two Six Technologies? Carl led development of multiple Android applications that supported thousands of active users globally\. He researched Cassandra compression optimization that produced 65\.5% savings in month\-to\-month hosting costs, created a web\-UI integration\-testing framework for non\-technical users that reduced testing throughput time by more than 90%, and integrated sensors from multiple third\-party vendors to expand the network of unique sensors by more than 300%\. ### What did Carl do as Lead Software Engineer at Two Six Technologies? As Lead Software Engineer at Two Six Technologies, Carl led a small multidisciplinary team integrating wearable sensor technology to analyze health trends, predict illness, and monitor physiological anomalies\. He developed and maintained a multi\-tier architecture for ingesting, processing, and analyzing wearable\-sensor data in distributed online and localized offline environments\. ### How did Carl contribute beyond engineering delivery at Two Six Technologies? Carl wrote and submitted proposals to stakeholders that resulted in more than $1 million to increase project scope\. He also routinely interviewed and evaluated candidates' technical skills to fill critical team vacancies\. ### What other role did Carl hold at Two Six Technologies? Carl also held a Software Engineer role at Two Six Technologies before his senior and lead positions\. ### What did Carl accomplish at Immersed Games? As a Software Engineer at Immersed Games, Carl engineered more than 50 unique features to production across two large\-scale projects\. He developed an automation test suite and more than 100 unit tests, improved build\-processing time by 200% with customized shell scripts, and voluntarily mentored six interns\. ### What was Carl's role at ngrok? Carl worked as a Software Engineer III at ngrok\. ### What technical skills does Carl have? Carl has skills in C\+\+, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Python, TypeScript, Android development, Kafka\-based orchestration, distributed systems, reliability engineering, front\-end and user\-interface development, web development, scripting, Scrum, Unreal Engine, Unity, game development, and game design\. ### Where did Carl study? Carl earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida\. ### What professional values guide Carl? Carl describes himself as a technologist, problem\-solver, and mentor who is motivated by developing software solutions that create positive change\. He emphasizes lifelong learning, complex problem\-solving, strategic thinking, collaboration, project leadership, and team mentoring\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ACoAABQF2BAB5bg8Uk3R4wz0Epmi1AbhUysSXgo