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Jason Wu

@jasonwu

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Senior software engineer specializing in scalable backend systems and HR-focused enterprise platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles focused on scalable backend/platform work, reliable operations, cloud migrations, and mentoring in security-conscious, collaborative teams.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building backend platforms and APIs for enterprise healthcare and HR operations, focused on reliability, data freshness, and operational quality. I have led modernizations, migrations to cloud platforms, and secure integrations while mentoring teams and establishing paved-road engineering standards.

My work includes accelerating large-scale ingestion workflows for 100k–400k+ users per run, implementing resilient microservice boundaries, improving incident response and observability, and driving Spring Boot migrations and Azure cutovers. I bring a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to delivery and a track record of measurable performance and stability improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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UnitedHealth Group

Dec 2021 - Present (4 years 6 months)

Shipped and operated employee-facing platforms and HR ingestion APIs that improved data freshness and access for hundreds of thousands of employees, cutting large-run processing from days to hours and improving operational stability.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs Azure Kubernetes CI CD Splunk OAUTH2 Microservices

Senior Web Application Developer

Optum

Jul 2016 - Dec 2021 (5 years 5 months)

Built employee-facing medical questionnaire and backend services supporting 200,000+ employees, optimized batch processing to reduce runtimes by ~50%, and sustained mobile and gateway products for production reliability.

Java Spring Android REST APIs SQL DevOps Backend Development

Technology Development Associate

Optum

Jun 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 1 month)

Prototyped Android geofencing and executed Salesforce and Big Data discovery work, contributing Apache Pig ETL and Elasticsearch indexing to enable scalable provider search and validated prototypes for leadership.

Android Elasticsearch Salesforce Prototyping ETL Data Engineering Documentation

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Rutgers University

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology & Informatics

2010 - 2014

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology & Informatics with emphasis on IT and programming, covering software development and data processing concepts.