# Kerri Crawford

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Dayton, Ohio, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kerricrawford

Software engineer, problem solver, and lifelong learner. Currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, diving into machine learning and advanced software engineering concepts. By day, I’m a Staff Software Engineer at AIQ, specializing in backend development, system architecture, and making sure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

When I’m not debugging code, I’m adding books to my ever-growing TBR list (but never reading them), eating an unreasonable amount of pasta, or hanging out with my cats. #ActuallyAutistic

https://kerricrawford.dev || https://github.com/kerriannercrawford

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ AIQ (Alpine IQ)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
- Designed and operated cloud-native systems supporting large-scale e-commerce platforms and retailer integrations
- Led migration to Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform, standardizing AWS infrastructure management and improving deployment reliability across services
- Designed and implemented MongoDB Atlas Search indexes, reducing product search latency by 90% and improving catalog query performance at scale
- Built full-stack features across React and Node.js, delivering new product management workflows and resolving production UI issues affecting retailers
- Integrated multiple external payment processors and retail POS APIs, designing resilient service interfaces and error-handling strategies for third-party integrations
- Implemented observability and monitoring systems using Cloudwatch dashboards and alerts to improve operational visibility across services

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dispense
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
(Acquired by AIQ)

### Software Engineer @ Doohickey AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area
- Early engineer responsible for building core platform tooling and developer infrastructure
- Designed and built a VSCode Extension using TypeScript that provided an interactive interface for applying JSONata queries to JSON payloads, reducing integration mapping time by 50%. 
- Developed CLI tooling for integration automation, enabling developers to scaffold and deploy integrations using Kubernetes and the Open Integration Hub platform 
- Contributed back to Open Integration Hub, an open source Node.js platform for managing cloud-based integrations
- Built and deployed cloud-native applications on AWS EKS, managing infrastructure using CloudFormation and containerized services

### Senior Processing Specialist @ Assurant
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Springfield, Ohio
- Automated repetitive tasks in loan documentation and homeowner communication, reducing manual workload and improving operational efficiency.
- Developed a pattern-based identification system using Visual Basic and Excel to match insurance providers to policies across 20,000+ loans, achieving an 85% match rate preventing erroneous placement of Lender Placed Insurance (LPI)
- Ensured compliance with mortgage and insurance regulations, verifying policy coverage and proactively mitigating financial risk by applying LPI only when necessary.

### Processing Specialist @ Assurant
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Springfield, OH


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Western Governors University

### Software Engineering Immersive
Codesmith
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Business Administration and Management, General
Western Governors University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kerriannercrawford
- Website: https://kerricrawford.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-22