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Brian Schoonmaker

@brianschoonmaker

I build secure API, identity, and cloud platforms for complex systems.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build secure, reliable platforms and authorization systems, especially where cloud infrastructure, APIs, and complex data products intersect.

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

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Current

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

May 2026 - Present (3 months)

- 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

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Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2026 - May 2026 (4 months)

• 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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Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2023 - Jan 2026 (2 years 10 months)

- 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

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Software Engineer

Aug 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 7 months)

- 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

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Data Analyst

Jan 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 7 months)

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

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Freelance Back End Developer

Jun 2015 - Jan 2019 (3 years 7 months)

• 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

WU

Western Connecticut State University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

2010 - 2015

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