Hi, my name is

Annika.

I'm a software engineer and nerd.

I’ve spent over a decade working as a software engineer in a variety of fields, from a quick service restaurant data management provider to Fortune 500 companies. I’ve been experimenting with a homelab I have built at home to begin learning how to use technologies that I have not yet used professionally.

About Me

I’m a senior software engineer. I started my career working for a small company while now I work for a company with tens of thousands of employees. Some of the technology I've worked with!
  • HTML/CSS
  • C#
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Vue
  • AWS
  • Kafka
  • Ansible
  • Proxmox
  • Github/forgejo Actions

Experience

Senior Apps Developer - Progressive
Feb 2022 to Present

I am currently a senior software developer at Progressive. I work remotely, with a team spread from Florida to Ohio to Colorado. I am our auth server’s TAO (Technical Application Owner), having written the bulk of the current code base and providing support to other teams who need to add authentication to their services.

  • Developed reliable and maintainable code using C#, VisualBasic, and TypeScript
  • Rebuilt authentication server using Duende’s Identity Server
  • Updated website to use modern REST APIs with a Vue frontend
  • Performed exploration and diagnosis of bugs in order to improve stability of the product
Lead Software Developer - Rural Sourcing Inc
Oct 2021 to Feb 2022

RSI is a consulting firm providing their services to a variety of companies. Nearly every employee had switch to operating remotely, allowing even small teams to have employees working across multiple time zones.

  • Lead a small team getting off the ground on a project with a large enterprise client
  • Implemented easy to read and efficient code to meet requirements provided by client
  • Worked with leadership to find a project manager to fit my team’s needs

This firm was purchased by a company called Spark after I left.

Senior Software Engineer - LinQuest Corporation
Oct 2019 to Oct 2021

Perduco was a smallish contracting firm working to create tools to help with research projects.

  • Worked with a small team to design tooling to assist with research projects
  • Built APIs in Java to link dispirate information storage tools
  • Provided guidance to data analysts and junior developers to help accelerate their growth
  • Built and maintained a small kubernetes cluster running our development environment

I was originally hired by The Perduco Group. Within days of starting, we were purchased by LinQuest Corporation, which my former coworkers inform me has been purchased by KBR.

Senior Software Engineer - J P Morgan Chase
Dec 2015 to Sept 2019

I worked in the ATM group at Chase. While here I worked at a high level adding new functionality to our ATMs and updating exting functionality. I worked at a low level helping determine if our existing hardware supported a feature that the manufacturer did not believe it could do.

  • Researched technology to facilitate rapid, modern, and stable updates to our user interface
  • Determined a mechanism by which existing equipment could be used to support a new feature
  • Assisted another team by creating tooling to automate regular maintenance tasks
Software Engineer II - Vivonet
July 2011 to Dec 2015

Syrus provided above the store level data aggregation and analytics, ingesting data from a variety of point of sale systems and using that to provide ordering, scheduling, and other store management assistance. Syrus was a relatively small company, with under 50 employees when I started. While here, I performed many roles in addition to software development.

  • Maintained and moderenized our server infrastructure
  • Provided desktop IT support
  • Created tools to extract and normalize data from point of sales for our reporting tools
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines

I was originally hired by Syrus Restaurant Information Services, which was purchased by Vivonet while I was there. After I departed it was purchased by Infor.

Education

1
Fall 2006 to June 2011
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Wright State University

Get in Touch

Reach out to me if you have a question or just want to chat me up. I’ll do my best to respond!