# Desmond Lightfoot

> Software Engineer @ Bloomberg

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/desmondlightfoot

Software Engineer with experience in full stack development, cloud services and cybersecurity. Extremely passionate about all aspects of the constantly evolving technology space, consistently seeking knowledge regarding the latest tools and technologies.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ OptiMedHealth Plans
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta Metropolitan Area
•Collaborated with an agile dev-ops team to maintain and create highly scalable software that allows hundreds of brokers to simultaneously quote insurance rates. Tech stack includes Java/Scala, Node.js, Microsoft SQL Server and React.
•Continually improved the UI by debugging issues that were negatively impacting the user experience. Wrote clean, modular, and reusable components with JavaScript and TypeScript to improve the developer and user experience.
•Implemented a Quick Quote feature to our rating engine application that streamlined the rate-quoting process by allowing brokers to quote all available products with minimal input.
•Handled the deployment of production services to GCP, including enterprise level Node.js APIs along with our full-stack React application.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Axio
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
•Worked with an agile team that developed and maintained a performant and responsive React application with multiple modules to enable hundreds of companies and thousands of users to understand, prepare for, react to, and recover from cyber risk. 
•Ensured best practices were being followed and contributed to team growth by implementing a test notification system for our development team with Azure DevOps API and Google Cloud Platform.
•Ensured a high-quality initial release and subsequent release by implementing Cypress as our all-purpose e2e and integration test framework.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Georgia State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29