# Chijioke Okonkwo

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chijioke

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2024 – Present | United States
- Contributing to a middle-layer Typescript API to support frontend templating for Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and other Disney Entertainment streaming applications 
- Implemented a consent management API for Disney+ in accordance with international standards, ensuring data rights compliance for platforms used by tens of millions, and safeguarding Disney from legal violations and fines.
Contract via Beacon Hill

### Frontend Engineer III @ Charter Communications
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote
- Supported modernization of critical audio-visual communications testing software for major telecommunications company, Charter Communications, addressing urgent feature and bug requests.  
- Introduced end-to-end test automation with Cypress to provide crucial coverage across core user flows.
Contract via pureIntegration

### Software Engineer @ Shef
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote
- Solely developed and released a crucial direct-to-consumer delivery flow to enable consumers in previously shut down regions to use Shef, thereby rejuvenating once closed markets.
- Worked across the stack in a small start-up organization, bringing essential front-end expertise to the core application flow, in conjunction with fully delivering all technical aspects for back-to-front features.

### Software Engineer II @ Vimeo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Directly worked with streaming hardware and software to provide millions of end consumers with a seamless video watching experience across a multitude of platforms and streaming applications.
- Introduced essential contemporary features to the core streaming application in addition to introducing critical microservices to the core application’s multifaceted middle layer of supporting systems and tools.

### Frontend Engineer Consultant @ Buildit @ Wipro Digital
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY
- Refreshed client development process via a collaborative and measured Agile transformation effort.
- Converted an email-to-email inter-organizational approval process into a release-ready, modern web application within three months—exceeding client expectations and enhancing business relations.

### Software Engineer @ Dow Jones
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | South Brunswick, NJ
- Prototyped and developed a new legacy-replacing web-based editorial tool for the Wall Street Journal’s newsroom and writers, utilizing a contemporary React, Node.js, and GraphQL development stack.
- Accurately and precisely integrated UI/UX mockups—giving a prototype a production look and feel

### Applications Developer @ UnitedHealth Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Basking Ridge, NJ
- Singularly revamped entire UI/UX of a major consumer-facing web application used by thousands of medical providers for attestation—significantly improving their user experience.
- Built key components of provider-facing web applications, working significantly in all areas: creating and interacting with APIs in Node.js, developing the AngularJS front-end, and polishing the UI/UX.

### Software Development Intern @ UnitedHealth Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Basking Ridge, NJ
- Wrote and released a JSP-based web application meant to interact with internal databases and APIs, working primarily with Java, HTML/CSS, and SQL and acting as the functional UI/UX developer.

### Java Developer @ CATT Lab (Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | College Park, MD
- Maintained and optimized the Java backend of a multinational transportation network used to relay, record, and model tens of thousands of daily traffic events—unifying differing transit systems.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Maryland
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Linguistics
University of Maryland
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/chijioke
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chijioke/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22