# KC Glick > Staff Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Location: Greater Orlando, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kc I'm a Lead Software Engineer with experience in numerous industries including Big Data, Insurance, and Radio. I've worked at companies of every size from seed-stage to large enterprise. My experience in open source gives me a sharp eye for developer experience and reducing cognitive load. My leadership style is people-first, treating adults like adults, transparency, and honesty. And as a product-engineer I understand that business and product partners are just that: partners, and building and maintaining trust with those stakeholders is key to the success of any team or organization. My experience and leadership style has created an environment where autonomy and trust are paramount, and one that produces high quality, maintainable code while meeting both product and technical goals. My passion for high quality code paired with my people skills allow me to thrive in any environment, bridge gaps across an organization, and deliver stellar outcomes that respect everyone's time and ability. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual Jan 2026 – Present ### Lead Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual Jan 2023 – Present • Led and managed a team of five engineers across skill levels to accomplish core company goals and objectives. • Worked closely with product, design, and other engineer organizations to build cross-enterprise products. • Created and consumed messages from Kafka to ensure accurate client account balances. • Leveraged RabbitMQ and Kotlin to generate resilient audit logs so any money movement within the application is traceable. • Built replayable user-action storage in Mongo to ensure long-running or async user actions’ eventual consistency. • Played a central role in short-, mid-, and long-term planning across my organization to direct resources and set delivery expectations. • Oversaw a 300% increase in department staffing, managing interviews, onboarding, and engineering resource allocation. • Optimized build-time tooling resulting in a 500% improvement to build times as well as a 700% reduction in bundle size. • Architected and built complex cross-system permissions to secure client banking information and PII. • Built and maintained Playwright tests across several apps. • Migrated CICD pipelines to enterprise-standard and improved pipeline speed by 15%. • Migrated unit tests from Jest to Vite improving pipeline run speed by 2 minutes. • Owned and maintained several internal shared SDKs including a typed backend SDK to provide access to the paychecks API, and a reusable UI component library built on react-hook-form. • Championed feature flags across the org to ensure minimal downtime and optimal user experiences. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbyte Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Elevated engineering standards across a large-scale TypeScript/React codebase by introducing modern practices and tooling. • Optimized data flows, hoisting data into contexts to improve readability and reduce code complexity, improving render speed across the app by 0.3 seconds and lowering first contentful paint to 0.5 seconds. • Brought and built a culture of through code reviews to the team, improving internal development outcomes as well as reducing time-to-review for open-source contributions. • Led cross-team product initiatives to build new features and tackle technical debt. • Mentored team members of all skill levels to upskill the engineering org. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Grouparoo (acquired by Airbyte) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote • Vastly improved Typescript support throughout the codebase by moving away from the use of any as well building a method to import types from server calls to ensure data integrity across the application. • Brought relevant applications up to modern tooling standards to improve developer experience. • Optimized React usage and data loading across codebase to bring down first contentful paint by 0.7 seconds. • Built type-safe integrations across a variety of databases including Postgres, MongoDB, and MySQL. • Built a cloud-based reverse ELT system utilizing nextjs. ### Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead) @ iHeartMedia Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Orlando, Florida Area • Rebuilt the primary web-client facing application serving millions of with a custom React + SSR solution resulting in a Lighthouse performance score improvement of 60 points and a Lighthouse SEO score improvement of 40 points. • Built an at-edge A/B targeting solution to allow the server-side rendered application to accurately A/B test. • Optimized webpack builds and precisely leveraged lazy loading to reduce bundle size from 6MB to 200KB. • Functioned as Team Lead, managing sprints, ticket prioritization, triage, hiring, and stakeholder communication. • Rebuilt backend infrastructure serving client-facing content, reducing cold load times from 5s to 2s. • Built, maintained, and upgraded internal tools using Angular 2. ### Senior Software Engineer Contract @ Riptide Software, Inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Orlando, Florida Area • Built out greenfield application serving learning content with AWS lambda and Node. • Defined and architected ES6+ coding practices to reduce bugs and improve iteration time. ### Web Software Engineer @ GolfNow, a division of Golf Channel Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Orlando, Florida • Refactored legacy applications to improve data access performance by 200%. • Utilized message queuing technology to ensure durable and reliable user requests. • Worked on various Node applications ranging from Node v0.10 to v7. • Built an internal caching layer against ElasticSearch to improve tee time searching by 40%. • Spearheaded modernization efforts across legacy applications to reduce maintenance needs throughout the department. ### Applications Developer @ Commercial Services, Inc. - Fire Life Safety Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Jacksonville, Fl • Built a modern web UI to access legacy and modern system data with Ember.js. • Developed high-throughput data exchange system using Node.js and RabbitMQ to migrate legacy data in Filemaker to a Postgres DB. ### Software Engineer @ Ascentis Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Built and maintained .NET applications for web clients. • Optimized legacy TSQL queries to improve user load times. • Modernized legacy APIs to provide JSON data to greenfield systems. • Built mobile-first web app utilizing jQuery Mobile and knockout.js • Integrated legacy systems with modern offerings to ensure a seamless user experience. ### Quality Control Intern @ Ascentis Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • Tested developed features to ensure quality products. • Found and diagnosed bugs within software systems. • Functioned as sole QC employee during transitory period. • Designed, created, and implemented a PowerShell based application greatly improving regression testing speed. • Provided software support for Ascentis clients over email and phone. • Contributed to overall planning and feature development of mobile software. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computing and Information Sciences University of North Florida Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ### Internet Services Tech (Formerly Computer Programming) Santa Fe College Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/krishnaglick --- Source: https://flows.cv/kc JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kc/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29