# Lucia Grigoli

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/luciagrigoli

I love building new things from the ground up, and I'm not scared of the cutting edge! Right now, I am really enjoying solutioning microservices and diving in to the dev side of devops work, but I have experience in the full stack. I love expanding my skillset for interesting projects. Let's connect!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Optum
Jan 2025 – Present
•	Owned Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, artifact management, and rollback strategies—deploying to multi-stage environments (dev/staging/prod)
•	Developed full-stack web applications with RESTful APIs and modern front-end frameworks, implementing business logic and user interfaces for production applications
•	Architected multi-environment Azure infrastructure with Terraform, from database creation to RBAC, managing state with remote backends and reusable modules
•	Mentored junior engineers and onboarded new team members to maintain code quality and team productivity
•	Built and deployed cloud-native microservices to production Kubernetes cluster, including CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration configurations

### Software Engineer @ Optum
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Software Development Consultant @ Optakit
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
•	Reduced API cost by 50% by implementing caching and request batching, resulting in a significant reduction in external API calls.
•	Designed and wrote ingestion pipeline for multi-platform social media scraper.
•	Implemented site wide error handling, reducing the unhandled error rate by 75%.
•	Built front end features for social media platforms, allowing users to search and filter data.

### Software Developer @ Salute to Life, C.W. Bill Young / Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Rockville, Maryland, United States
•	Primary developer of a ground-up rewrite of a B2C Workflow web application. 
•	Wireframed new application and collaborated closely with users, reducing refactoring time significantly.
•	Creates rigorous automated tests, taking edge cases and future development into account.
•	Manages project priorities and coordinates bi-weekly sprints using agile methodologies.

### IT Specialist @ Salute to Life, C.W. Bill Young / Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Rockville, Maryland, United States
•	Helped create a new internal application to manage COVID-19 testing for over 8,000 university students and staff.
•	Global admin providing support to over seventy employees.
•	Gave bi-annual HIPAA compliance and data privacy presentation to all employees.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Maryland Global Campus


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05