Brian Schoonmaker
@brianschoonmaker
I build secure API, identity, and cloud platforms for complex systems.
What I'm looking for
At Uplight and League, I've built secure API, authorization, and cloud platforms for energy and healthcare products. At League, I standardized identity and access management, reducing configured RBAC roles by 90% while preserving permission granularity for more than 800K monthly active users.
I've built Go, Python/FastAPI, React, and Angular applications; implemented OAuth, OPA, Cedar, mTLS, and delegated agent access; and developed infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, and EKS. My background also includes insurance-data analytics, ETL troubleshooting, SQL, Kotlin, Groovy, and LAMP-based freelance backend development.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
- Managing, developing, and improving core compute platform via Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS, Transit Gateways / PrivateLink, and other AWS managed services to connect pipelines between AWS, GCP and Azure
- Building standardized Terraform Modules for teams to easily deploy, secure and monitor new services regardless of the underlying language / framework, and streamline transition of existing servic
• Standardized Identity and Access Management tools for League, reducing the number of configured RBAC roles by 90% while offering the same permissions granularity to support over 800K Monthly Active Users
• Built the Caregivers Auth Platform, allowing caregivers to securely act on behalf of clients.
• Integrated authorization middleware using Golang / Cedar based model for all backend services
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- Builds Uplight API Platform that externalizes a diverse portfolio of API capabilities through a centralized, secure, reliable and consistent framework
- Implemented business specific Authorization model using Role and Rule based Access Control and OPA
- Implemented standardization of a suite of internal API capabilities, ensuring that multiple capabilities built by different teams had a consiste
- Built FastAPI microservices deployed to GCP Cloud Run / Kubernetes clusters to support communications to electric customers based on usage, alerting and other business specific information
- Built Front End applications to provide energy partners with white-listed applications to handle configurations related to Service Devices
- Standardized API Interfaces to enable third party consumers to eas
Led the onboarding of insurance policy data, troubleshooted ETL discrepancies, developed client reports, and trained offshore teams on ETL processes.
• Onboarded insurance policy data from various source systems to a standardized analytics platform.
• Troubleshooted ETL discrepancies using SQL, Groovy, and Kotlin Code.
• Leveraged AWS Data Pipelines, Redshift and ElasticSearch to handle analytics
• Developed and integrated CMS for websites and ecommerce using LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Managed client databases, handled migrations, and executed integrations.
• Collaborated with a number of companies in the Greater New York City Area.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Western Connecticut State University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
2010 - 2015
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
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