# Daniel Lepkofker > Senior Software Engineer @ Amplify Life Insurance | Full-stack Development, AWS Services Location: Smyrna, Georgia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/daniellepkofker Senior Software Engineer with over four years at Amplify Life Insurance, contributing to full-stack development and system support for a growing life insurance startup. Skilled in Java, JavaScript, AWS services, and web and mobile application maintenance, with a focus on creating innovative solutions for security, data, infrastructure, and user experience. Passionate about leveraging technical expertise to design and enhance core business processes and tools. Dedicated to collaborating with teams to build scalable and efficient software solutions that drive organizational success. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amplify Life Insurance Jan 2022 – Present A life insurance startup promoting accessible and customizable insurance plans. Amplify aims to democratize life insurance products traditionally reserved for the wealthiest. • Rapidly developed and shipped quality software solutions in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing product requirements • Required to be a jack-of-all-trades in a small engineering team • Acted as the engineering team lead for our internal facing agent portal, working closely with the product team to construct systems and tools to support insurance agents and processes. • Developed and supported a front-end, customer-facing application constructed from Next.js, React, and Redux. • Designed, maintained, and troubleshooted a back-end serverless stack of AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway (REST), ECS, DynamoDB (NoSQL), RDS (SQL), Elasticache, and Route 53. • Led cross-functional efforts with product, sales, rev-ops, and marketing teams to deliver custom solutions that reduce bottlenecks and improve team member workflows and efficiency • Collaborated with the rev-ops team to develop a custom lead distribution algorithm, increasing lead processing efficiency by over 50% and reducing need for manual intervention. • Received “Amplifier of the Month” honors for lead distribution efforts. • Constructed a Microsoft Azure AI-powered assistant specialized in life insurance concepts to facilitate personalized conversations between agents and clients. • Integrated agent and customer portals with CRM and data aggregation services like HubSpot, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics to facilitate sales processes and data analysis. ### Senior Java Developer @ Auto Auction Services Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 • Designed and developed software to handle core company processes like a smart server shutdown protocol, aggregated data reports, and custom data solutions for our many automotive partners • Led efforts for creation of a full-fledged data API to support our mobile application • Maintained and modified React Native mobile application • Developed full-stack software with a Tomcat application server, J2EE core library, and Oracle database • Small engineering team member with responsibilities ranging from software development, customer technical support, and hardware maintenance ### Associate Data Engineer - Enterprise Data Services BASEL @ Capital One Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Led team’s development efforts for the Basel Big Data initiative, tasked with recreating current Basel risk modeling Ab Initio ETL processes with open source ELT tools in Apache Hadoop • Subject matter expert and main support contact for Big Data Basel processes and datasets for US Card and Kohl’s Card lines of business • Developed UNIX shell script workflow for graduating datasets through pre-processing, data quality, business data quality, and Hive insertion stages of the Hadoop data sourcing process • Coordinated data sourcing, profiling, and classification efforts between data stewards and third party vendors • Primary change coordinator for a fast-paced development production development cycle • Developed Java framework for handling EBCDIC to ASCII conversion for complex, uniquely structured datasets acquired from mainframe sources • Assisted in development of internal innovation applications including projects like test data generation, cooperative documentation tools, and metadata lineage and management ### Associate Software Engineer - Analytic Platform and Engineering @ Capital One Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Developed internal web application for monitoring of Capital One's big data environment in its entirety • Performed Hadoop software installation and Cloudera cluster management • Designed Hadoop Java applications to perform real time aggregation of counters and other job related metrics ### TV Presales Intern @ Ericsson Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Alpharetta, GA • Performed front end JavaScript development of Ericsson’s Internet Protocol TV solution • Performed cross platform usability and consistency testing of IPTV solution • Assisted with initialization and installation of new content management systems ### Real Estate Intern @ Heritage Select Homes Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Atlanta, GA • Helped manage a $5 million dollar budget of real estate investments • Performed field work by scouting foreclosure listings in the Atlanta and Metro Atlanta area • Assisted in improving company real estate and scouting database software ### Field Applications Engineer Intern @ Rohm Semiconductor Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Alpharetta, GA • Answered technical support questions regarding Rohm products for its Engineering HelpDesk • Compiled a cross-reference database of acceptable replacement parts for competitors’ products • Maintained the inventory of components available at the local office ### Private Tutor @ Self-employed private tutor Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Johns Creek, GA • Tutored students in mathematics (algebra II, pre-calculus) and in sciences (biology, physics) • Helped 3 students improve at least one letter grade each ### Laboratory Assistant, School of Physics @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Atlanta, GA • Designed robots trained to vary movement on different types of granular media • Built a fluidized particle bed to study interactions of different types of spherical particles in granular media • Created a robot prototype to be modified and used in a future scientific journal publication ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science - Machine Learning Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-lepkofker --- Source: https://flows.cv/daniellepkofker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/daniellepkofker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22