# April Feirman

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aprilfeirman

Versatile and results-driven Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering production-ready full-stack web applications. Skilled across the entire development life cycle—from front-end and back-end development to infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and launch planning. Known for technical ownership, clear communication, and a bias toward thoughtful, high-impact solutions. Experienced in climate tech, insurance platforms, and enterprise web applications.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Uplight
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Flex Portfolio:
- Sole engineer on a greenfield initiative introducing a new "Energy Trader" persona to Uplight’s platform.
Prototyped and built a modern Next.js front-end to visualize large-scale electrical usage data from solar arrays and battery systems.
- Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Terraform, Kubernetes, and CircleCI to support continuous deployment from the outset.
- Collaborated closely with product and design to define MVP scope, de-risk features, and iterate quickly on feedback.
- Developed a new internal data model and built an anti-corruption layer to translate and normalize source API data for front-end use.

Thermostat Enrollment:
- Key contributor on the engineering team that owned the thermostat enrollment application. A Web app for utility companies' customers to integrate their smart thermostats with Uplight's energy demand response system.
- Technical ownership across the whole stack, including DNS, hosting, container orchestration, CI/CD, cloud storage, automated tests, React front-ends, Python back-end, secrets management, databases, and CMS tools.
- Designed and built a tool utilizing Circle CI that automated the deployment of CMS updates made by the Operations team. Our engineering pod was spending an average of 13% of our capacity on these tasks, and the new tool reduced that to 4%.
- Partnered closely with Product Manager to plan a redesign of our application's architecture to enable us to scale from 250,000 thermostats on the platform to over 1,000,000.

EV Data Delivery:
- Lead Front-end engineer in developing a new feature that allowed utility companies to analyze electric vehicle charger telemetry data.
- Implemented a full suite of unit tests for the feature using Jest and React Testing Library — increasing test coverage from 40% to 65%. Set a precedent for checking in all new code with unit tests.
- Collaborated with data analysts to build performant data visualizations for high-volume telemetry data.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Maxwell Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Senior Software Engineer | Jul 2020 - Sep 2021                                                                    
Software Engineer | Oct 2018 - July 2020

Employee Benefits Portal:
- Key contributor in a two-year effort to replace legacy Backbone front-end with a new TypeScript, React, and Express app.
- Collaborated with designers to build new customer-facing features.
- Worked across the full stack, including a PHP/MongoDB back-end.
- Implemented a browser testing process that decreased browser compatibility bugs by 50% and was
ultimately adopted by three engineering teams.
- Introduced the use of Clean Architecture and led the effort to restructure the application using Clean
Architecture methodology.
- Replaced legacy PHP endpoints with more performant routes built with Go; decreased initial application
load time by 75%. 

DocuSign Integration:
- Developed a feature to automate form distribution after employee insurance enrollment using an Event-driven messaging pattern and Amazon’s SQS service.
- Used APM tooling to identify and strategically improve slow routes; increased document processing speed by 30% via replacement of old routes in a PHP monolith with a Go microservice.

### Software Engineer @ Patient Price
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Partnered with the CEO in the product's ideation, design, prototyping, and development.
- Owned front-end web application, including technology choices, testing, and architecture.
- Migrated jQuery prototype to a modern JavaScript stack; introduced webpack, React/Redux, and testing
frameworks.
- Implemented and maintained a REST API written in Python with Flask.


## Education
### Electronic Production and Design
Berklee College of Music
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Web Development Immersive Certification
General Assembly
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aprilfeirman

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Last updated: 2026-03-22