sugar2code

Who am I

Full stack developer and machine learning enthusiast working in healthcare environment. I enjoy getting things done, optimizing, innovating, keeping up to date with the state of the art, constantly learning. In my free time I advocate for women's empowerment and more diversity in STEM fields.

Front-end

React
Angular
HTML5/CSS3
jQuery
Sketch

Mobile

SwiftUI
UIKit
React-native
CoreML
Google ML Kit

ML/AI

Tensorflow
Pandas
Keras
Scipy
Numpy
Jupyter Notebooks

Back-end

Node.js
Python
Java/Spring
Docker
SQL/NoSQL
AWS
GCP

How I got here ↓

Software Engineer, SageMaker Studio
Amazon AWS - Seattle, WA Jul 2020 - Present ✔ Delivered crucial SageMaker Studio features for re:Invent 2020.

Co-founder, CTO & Lead Developer
Lite Devices - Portland, OR Mar 2019 - Present ✔ Leading a small team of developers and contributing to the development of an early forest fire detection system. ✔ Developed and budgeted the company strategy for the 2 and 5 year technology roadmap. ✔ Designed and developed the company website and backend integration with map and alerting system. ✔ Pitched the product with the team at TechFestNW and inventOR.

Software Development Engineer III
Cambia Health Solutions - Portland, OR Mar 2018 - Present Innovation Force division - Rapid Prototyping team ✔ Providing market sizing and data analysis reports for accelerating igniter ideas. ✔ Developing a swift ios native provider app for patient centered care, integrated with Salesforce CRM and a modern EHR system. ✔ Developed a react-native mobile app with machine learning and statistical modeling insights. ✔ Audited existing statistical models and developed novel ones to reduce customer overpay by as much as 50%. ✔ Prototyped real-time on-device ML-driven OCR with CoreML+Vision+Tesseract and Google ML Kit for insurance member cards and bill scanning.

Software Development Engineer III
Cambia Health Solutions - Portland, OR Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 DTS Health Plans division ✔ Migrated 5 legacy monolithic web applications from Ant build to Maven, upgrading dependencies and libraries, in less than a month. ✔ Developed a web application with RESTful APIs and Angular interface, increasing interoperability with external vendors and reducing business waiting times by 75% for Regence customer service. ✔ Developed a PoC for migrating a legacy Java on-prem application to Node.js micro services architecture deployed on AWS cloud. ✔ Provided 24h on-call support for claim ingestion and processing nightly batch jobs and monitoring systems.

Front-end Developer
Italian Red Cross Feb 2016 - Sep 2016 ✔ Developed a web-based association management system for the Italian Red Cross, focused on member social networking and community management, by means of an events calendar and volunteer hours tracker.

Full Stack Developer
Reply - Milan, Italy Dec 2014 - Dec 2015 ✔ Designed, developed, troubleshot and debugged software for the Lombardy regions public healthcare system. ✔ Worked with development team to improve process, reducing waste by roughly 20%. ✔ Migrated 10 small projects from Ant builds to Maven in less than 2 weeks. Successfully rewrote applications from Flex to HTML5/CSS3/jQuery.

Full Stack Developer
GPI - Milan, Italy Aug 2008 - Dec 2014 ✔ Designed and developed front-end and back-end of the IE-TERAPIE application used on automated trolley systems in hospitals (Nursy-Trolley). ✔ Developed caretaker mobilization and sensor alert trigger systems for a health monitoring program which provides remote assistance to the elderly. ✔ Developed and maintained a total of 25 different software products. ✔ Provided 2nd-level technical support to emergency room personnel by means of an on-call rotational service.

M.Sc., Technologies for E-Government
Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy Sep 2007 - Jul 2008 Thesis: Information Flow Cleaning System using Data Mining and Data Warehousing

Web Developer
deHalo - Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jul 2006 - Sep 2007 ✔ Developed web pages using Adobe Photoshop layouts, utilizing slicing, image optimization, HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. ✔ Utilized SEO (search engine optimization) to improve page rank, increasing search rank of websites to top 5 in less than one month. ✔ Built 11 websites.

B.Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics
Babes-Bolyai University - Cluj-Napoca, Romania Oct 2002 - Jul 2006 Thesis: Multiple-Choice Test Generator using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning