# James Salvatore

> Senior Software Engineer II at EverQuote

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamessalvatore

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Distributed Systems, Event Driven Programming and Serverless technologies.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ EverQuote
Jan 2025 – Present | Cambridge, MA
Develop critical internet-facing APIs using Go, AWS and Kubernetes to provide traffic partners with a platform to sell insurance leads to the company’s distribution network.

Led an effort to migrate all traffic on the company’s website to a new API, as part of a long-term objective to consolidate validation, enrichment and bidding into a single pipeline for all traffic sources.

### Senior Software Engineer @ EverQuote
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, MA
Led the development of a reporting pipeline using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and SQS to provide traffic partners with near real-time conversion and revenue metrics. Enabled 95% of partners to use a simpler payout model, reducing weekly traffic operations overhead by 15%.

Led an initiative to replace a legacy component in a real-time critical system path supporting 30% of the company’s revenue with a scalable event-driven system using AWS Kinesis and Redis.

### Software Engineer II @ EverQuote
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, MA
Developed a replacement system to host the company’s static web pages using AWS Cloudfront and Lambda, reducing infrastructure costs by $30k/mo.

Led critical system migrations to AWS as part of a company-wide engineering objective.

### Software Engineer I @ EverQuote
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, MA
Collaborated with product and design teams to A/B test user experiences on a website using React.js, increasing conversion by 5% and revenue by $17K/day.

Collaborated with insurance carriers to integrate external quoting systems with the company’s distribution network, increasing revenue by $10K/day.

### Software Engineer @ Walden Local Meat Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | North Billerica, MA
Collaborated with external engineering and design leadership at Cook’s Illustrated to develop an exclusive content integration for the company’s website using Ember.js, Node.js and MySQL.

Designed and developed a RESTful API for the company’s website using Stripe, Node.js and MySQL to provide executive leadership with the ability to test new products for select customers.

### Full Stack Engineer Co-op @ Walden Local Meat Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | North Billerica, Massachusetts, United States
Collaborated with executive and engineering leadership to replace the company’s monolith with separate services.

### Software Engineer Co-op @ Gerber Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Tolland, CT
Developed a cloud-based platform for remote machine diagnostics using AWS, Node.js and Angular.js to reduce manufacturing downtime and maintenance costs for customers.

### Systems Architect Co-op @ Eaton Vance
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA
Assisted in the testing and roll out of a security platform that provided centralized threat detection and policy management for applications used by systems throughout the company.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Wentworth Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-28