# Gavin Nitta

> Software Engineering Leader | Front-End Development | Back-End Development

Location: Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gavinnitta

As a software development leader, I create software strategies that drive business outcomes. I'm equally comfortable talking to business leaders and technical teams. My work experience includes healthcare, translation, transportation and the tech industry.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ LVT (LiveView Technologies)
Jan 2024 – Present

### Co-Founder & CTO @ App Genies LLC
Jan 2018 – Present | Orem, Utah, United States
App Genies is a software development consultancy for healthcare providers.

- Partnered with Utah's largest physician-owned network of specialty healthcare clinics, to develop a HIPPA-compliant application that allows physicians to safely and securely annotate and store patient photos and documents in EHR systems.
- Identified the need.
- Successfully presented the concept to board members.
- Articulated project requirements and validated solutions.
- Developed in-depth security, HIPAA compliance, technical architecture, and quality assurance reviews.

### Technical Lead - Growth @ Postman
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
API platform for building and using APIs.

- Added generative AI features using OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Determined the statistical significance of new features in driving desired outcomes.

### Engineering Manager @ U.S. Xpress Logistics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Over-the-road (OTR) trucking and brokerage company.

- Led the development of a web application for hundreds of U.S. Xpress brokers and thousands of carriers.

### Senior Full Stack Engineer Team Lead @ U.S. Xpress Logistics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
- Increased signups 4X by rewriting the onboarding process and integrating it with third-party tools.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Blip Billboards
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Provo, Utah Area
Digital billboards company.

- Rebuilt Blip's user-facing application serving thousands of customers.
- Managed a team of three developers.
- Created and managed CI/CD.

### Software Engineer @ Lingotek
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Lehi, UT
Translation management company.

- Created custom applications, reporting directly to the CTO.
- Integrated Lingotek's products with content management systems.

### Senior Web Developer @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Missionary Training Center
BYU is a private university with 35,000 students.

- Turned abstract ideas and feedback from customers into structured code.
- Communicated with development managers on tasks and issues.
- Participated in Agile development.
- Tracked issues/bugs in JIRA.

### Japanese Instructor @ Missionary Training Center
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Provo, Utah, United States
The Missionary Training Center is a religious and language training facility.

- Taught Japanese to young adult men and women, ages 19 - 23.

### Network Operations Specialist @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Brigham Young University Data Center
- Assist in major incident coordination including contacting engineers to troubleshoot outages, keeping a log of decisions made and actions taken, as well as filling out resolution reports used to improve troubleshooting and prevent future outages.
- Actively monitor network devices and troubleshoot network alerts through application of Knowledge base.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Brigham Young University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22