Sam Redmond

I was hired as a full-time member of the Homesite team in January of 2021. My role in the company did not change; I remained in the team lead role. My team and I were tasked with adapting one of our other codebases to be used for a new project for OnStar Insurance. My team and I were heavily involved in many critical front-end features to allow us to sell insurance in all 50 states. Our hard work achieved one of the fastest nationwide rollouts of any insurance product.

I was also responsible for creating our entire logging and alerting mechanisms for multiple high-value projects. To do this, I integrated the DataDog platform into our applications. I was also responsible for setting up our logging and alerting systems for a UI On-Call rotation.

During the second half of 2022, I worked as a member of the Homesite Discovery Lab. We focused on researching cutting-edge technologies and processes to help the business become more efficient and expand into different markets. I have been working on insurance "widgets," which are small embeddable pieces of code that will generate quotes on any website. I have also been investigating insurance chatbots as an alternative to the traditional UI flows.

In the first quarter of 2023, I was needed to expedite the transfer of an application from a different operating company to ours. I led the effort of transferring the actual code, setting up our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and configuring our Terraform deployment files.

As a front-end engineer, I was responsible for all maintenance, refactoring, and testing our web applications.

I was tasked with modernizing an existing web application using React, React Material UI, and React Hooks. The goal is to use this refactor to give a framework for other front-end teams working within the company to follow. I have worked on refactoring class-based react components into functional react hooks components. This will help simplify our code and make it more easily readable and maintainable. I have also worked on building a brand new user experience from scratch utilizing React with Redux style data patterns.

During my time contracting for Homesite, I was moved to a new web application development project. This was a brand-new project called Choice UI. The Choice UI project was a business-critical project to win the company a deal to sell insurance through Costco. I started as a team member working on components and pages for the front end. We were

I was a Senior Software Engineer responsible for working on large scale dashboarding for physical building controls.

I was responsible for full-stack development utilizing C# in conjunction with Angular in order to create a meaningful dashboard for users to control their buildings and create their own automation flows.

I helped to modernize their main dashboard application on the front-end using Angular 2 and Angular Material in order to create a dashboard experience that was easier to use and more maintainable. I also helped to modernize their back-end architecture by migrating their codebase from a monolithic structure to use microservices across both C# and Node.JS.

Cove Insurance is a small start-up working with modern chatbot technology.

I was integral in building a chatbot that sold insurance VIA Facebook Messenger. I helped create chatbot flows using Node.JS, deploying the code to AWS, and utilizing Azure Bot Builder to build the entire flow of the application. I was also instrumental in helping modernize our database design to make the flow of data more efficient.

Over the course of working at Cove Insurance, I used NodeJS, React/Next, Microsoft Bot Framework, along with various AWS offerings, including DynamoDB, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, and EC2.

I transformed a monolithic application into a distributed microservice architecture using NodeJS, real-time Socket.IO services, and cloud-based serverless architecture to increase usability and decrease system outages.

I opted to modernize the existing codebase by implementing the front-end in Angular 2 and utilizing Angular Material to build a more modern dashboard experience. The front-end was written initially using AngularJS; however, I decided in late 2016 that it would be better to transform the front-end to use Angular 2 as I knew that AngularJS support was going to be coming to an end.

I was able to leverage the ability to understand and translate big-picture business needs into actionable high-ROI business solutions to deliver a highly-effective solution that meets or exceeded business goals with highlights including:

• Architecting, developing and implementing a solution that increased target user engagement
• Slashing custom-feature development times by 50%+ in releasing 10 new custom/specialty features.
• Reengineering/releasing a new front-end for a mission-critical public-facing app that increased end-user applications by 12,000+/month per month while reducing the application time by 50-70%
• Delivering these high-impact business results in 90-days, whereas QPS had commissioned an outside vendor in 2013 that had not produced the desired results over the course of 36-months

I was chartered with broad scope front-end and back-end web development responsibilities supporting both internal systems and customer projects.

I was an instrumental contributor in performing back-end development across multiple applications utilizing Umbraco CMS and ASP.NET MVC as well as front-end application development using JQuery and Bootstrap.

I leveraged a strong passion for website development in designing websites and website components that consistently met or exceeded the high demands and expectations of customers.