# Jay McMahon

> Backend-leaning python developer

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jaymcmahon

5+ years of backend python development, mainly for data focused applications.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ UtilityAPI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
▪ Maintain and implement improvements to celery based task system collecting and parsing high volumes of
energy usage data
▪ Create monitoring and metrics applications to increase visibility into system performance
    o Interpret metrics to plan and implement efficiency improvements
▪ Lead incident response

### Lead Software Engineer @ UtilityAPI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
▪ Acted as technical resource and mentor to team of entry level engineers
▪ Participated in incident response and post mortem investigations

### Software Engineer @ UtilityAPI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
▪ Built and maintained selenium and/or request based web scrapers as well as PDF parsing code
▪ Added features and documentation to public facing API
▪ Planned and implemented coverage tool assessing quality of internal data lake

### Software Engineer @ Inspected
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
▪ Maintained and extended web application facilitating remote HVAC inspections
    o Django API based backend
    o React front end
▪ Scoped, planned, and executed integrations with 3rd party websites

### Python Software Engineer @ Pazien
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
▪ Maintained data pipeline ingesting credit card transaction data
    o Integrated with 3rd party APIs for data collection
    o Parsed and normalized data from a variety of sources (csv, xml, etc.)
    o Adapted flexible document based (mongo) data models to suit needs

### Software Developer @ MassMutual
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area
▪ Converted legacy insurance policy models written in APL to Python


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jay-mcmahon-4561272a7

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Last updated: 2026-03-28