# Jesse Thompson

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jessethompson

Collaborative Software Engineer with over 8 years of
experience. Skilled in API development, cloud
services, and startup environments, adept at
crafting scalable solutions and fostering agile
collaboration.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Launch Consulting Group
Jan 2024 – Present
- Contracting for AvalonBay Communities
- Enhanced cloud security and data protection by implementing least-privilege access controls for CloudFormation and CDK stacks and securing sensitive document distribution with signed CloudFront URLs.
 - Significantly reduced the number of production defects and accelerated development cycles by implementing a robust unit testing framework.
 - Optimized microservice communication with event-driven architecture, reducing ETL and API query dependencies.

### Software Engineer @ Grazzy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Collaborated closely with product management, UX design, and front-end deveoper to create robust API endpoints for the Grazzy web application
- Implemented secure endpoint access using Auth0 and Express middleware for various user roles
- Leveraged Temporal for automated recurring tasks, facilitating report processing, payroll services, and automated payouts via Stripe
- Enabled automated fund transfers for Food and Beverage customers through Stripe ACH transfers for same-day pay functionality
- Designed and managed database tables using Prisma ORM

### Software Engineer II @ Digital Turbine
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Lead Back End Developer @ Life by Spot
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area
- Helped bring Spot from early startup to launching a direct to consumer website, building a first of its kind platform to change how insurance is delivered to customers
- Built partnership integration's utilizing 
Agile methodology and collaboration with Founders, UI and UX designers and the business to build a secure and compliant platform
- Developed and maintained dockerized Nodejs microservices and npm modules
- Designed and implemented secure REST APIs utilized by the direct to consumer site and partnership integrations
- Used docker and docker compose to create development environment that closely resembled production stack running on AWS
- Used docker and docker compose to create development environment that closely resembles production stack running on AWS
- Designed and implemented user-facing insurance claims filing system, ensuring HIPAA compliance
- Deployed Jenkins and Buddy to enable Continuous Integration to our staging servers and one click deployment to our production servers

Technologies used: Nodejs, Postgresql, Knexjs, Objectionjs, React-pdf, AWS, EC2, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose

### Software Developer @ The BT Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Logan, UT
Developing software for a top 20 Amazon.com Marketplace Seller such as internal applications, extending existing applications, and identifying and eliminating bugs for increased online company presence and performance.
-	Utilized SQL Servers bulk copy and merge functionality to process reports 4 times faster,
allowing reports to be processed outside business hours.
-	Converted Winforms web scraping application to Python application running in Docker
with Redis back end to improve scalability and reduce hosting costs.
-	Created website using Vue.js and ASP.NET Web API for third party vendors to submit
shipping information and generate shipping labels using Amazons Marketplace Web
Services API.
-	Utilized Google Cloud Vision API optical character recognition to make third party image
and pdf documents searchable.

Technologies used: C#, Winforms, Python, VueJS, Azure, Microsoft SQL


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Computer Science
Utah State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/jessethompson
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jessethompson/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22