# Max Sciarra > Senior Software Engineer at Vanna Health Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maxsciarra LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES Proficient: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux, Git, Python, Django, Docker, REST, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanna Health Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Full Stack Engineer building workflows to manage and rehabilitate those affected by Serious Mental Illness. • Led initiative to build a patient querying interface using React and Tanstack Query to query the Medplum FHIR REST API, allowing clinicians to easily filter search results and find relevant patients. • Built document uploading infrastructure and user interface using AWS S3, Fastify, and JWT authorization to allow users to confidently upload HIPAA compliant data. • Implemented a Postgres database using AWS RDS to store and serve HIPAA compliant data that originated in a Databricks warehouse as a means of performantly bringing the work of the data team to the client application. • Architected and maintained Admit, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) ETL pipeline using Typescript and the Medplum HL7 Interfacing tool to provide clinical insight to patients’ recent medical activity. • Wrote custom React Hooks for managing client side URL state for FHIR querying and overlays (modals, drawers), making the Vanna web app deep linked. • Engineered JWT Bearer Token authorization mechanism for the Vanna REST API as a means of securely and confidently transmitting data between the client and server. • Designed interview question and subsequently interviewed 30 Full Stack Typescript candidates, leading to a successful hire of the one of the team’s highest performers. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Federato Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Fullstack engineer building commercial underwriting software to better enable a highly fragmented workflow. • Implemented responsive nav in UI using React and Tailwind, allowing underwriters to have a broad navigation overview of their portfolio while still seeing all pertinent information. • Built Underwriting note taking tool using React and Apollo GraphQL to allow documentation on any pertinent subcomponent, covering as many as 10 use cases simultaneously to provide a comprehensive solution . • Utilized NestJS to build GraphQL queries for retrieving emails from an SMTP server for Underwriters to view. • Engineered an Insurance rating tool in the UI using React and MongoDB to build insurance ratings and store proprietary client data, allowing Underwriters to stop using highly fragmented Excel spreadsheet based rating. • Architected GraphQL resolvers in Python and Graphene, allowing engineers to query relevant fields. • Led team of 6 engineers using Jira and Notion to manage workload and knowledge transfer. • Interviewed over 20 Frontend candidates by assessing their Typescript knowledge to narrow the pool. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sweet Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Fullstack Engineer, specializing in frontend, developing a micro-service Blockchain collectibles platform. • Developed Explore page for Sweet, allowing users to discover NFTs based on provided search and sort criteria using a React/Typescript frontend and AWS Lambda written in Python on the backend. • Expanded API functionality by implementing query parameters that affect the returned data using ElasticSearch. • Implemented MaterialUI in conjunction with the design team to provide engineers with a robust library of reusable frontend components, improving developer velocity to match designs. • Architected a 12 column grid for use within the frontend application to provide both users and developers with a fully responsive UI using React and MaterialUI. • Regularly fixed bugs pertaining to APIs from 3rd party integrations, using Datadog to examine logs. • Standardized unit testing on the frontend using Jest, and on the backend using Python unittest. • Performed daily code review using Github pull requests. • Managed 3 direct reports as a frontend tech lead by performing weekly 1:1s, establishing micro and macro career goals, and upholding accountability. • Established Agile planning processes such as Sprint planning, ticket grooming, story pointing, acceptance criteria, and retrospectives using Jira and Confluence. • Wrote extensive documentation pertaining to technical system design, PRDs, cost/benefit analysis, Jira story shaping process, and code standards. ### Software Engineer @ Elation Health Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Fullstack Engineer, specializing in Frontend React/Redux • Engineered account settings page in React to provide users with an intuitive means of managing accounts. • Architected multi state e-Prescription UI in React and Formik, allowing providers to increase their business volume by prescribing medication across state lines. • Maintained APIs that integrate 3rd parties' services to Elation's EMR app using Python and Django to serve frontend contract agreements, standardizing data models across the stack. • Standardized Frontend data modules to all have queries (redux-query), types (Typescript), selectors (Redux), tests (Jest), hooks (React). • Developed patient consent gathering tool for CareQuality data ingestion and sharing, delivering medical providers access to exponentially more data from centralized health data repositories. • Established Frontend automation testing using WebDriverIO, reducing FE regressions by 50%. • Wrote HL7 compliant API contracts, ensuring 100% adherence to medical API standards. • Implemented and maintained a library of reusable React components built on BlueprintJS to force multiply the velocity of the Frontend team. • Worked with Design Systems Engineers to establish a public facing healthcare design system in an effort to improve UX in all healthcare software. • Managed team productivity and tracked work using agile development in Jira to run well groomed sprints - reducing rollover by 80%. • Began transition away from monolithic codebase to a microservice based architecture - positioning the engineering team to scale in the context of Elation's Series-C. ### Software Engineer @ Altitude Systems LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States • Developed front end for ‘Puppy Code’, a tool to track enterprise dog breeding, designed to capture $2B annual pet breeder market utilizing JavaScript, React, Redux, Sass, and CSS3. • Engineered user authentication system with associated RESTful AI route using JavaScript, React, Node.js, and SHA hashing to implement secure means of creating and validating potentially 160,000+ breeding facilities. • Implemented aesthetically appropriate UI features (hamburger menus, navigation bars, reusable components) using JavaScript and React Bootstrap, providing engineering team with standardized library of pre-built CSS3. • Established click detection logic to close menus with React; improving user navigation speed by 20%. • Standardized UI render across all devices using CSS to attain true cross platform compatibility. • Resolved conflicts and merged 70 pull requests to the frontend product using Github to streamline workflow of 2 junior engineers, ensured monolithic codebase. • Developed video kiosk for The Foster museum in Palo Alto to enable museum to serve video on demand to customers utilizing Python and Raspberry Pi, designed to support 15,000+ annual visitors. • Injected script to run at system startup using Linux and Python to interpret user interaction. • Interpreted button push using the Raspberry Pi Python library which provided museum resources for visitors. • Wrote shell command utilizing Python system library to run file from flash drive on media player. • Devised electrical circuit to power kiosk by stepping down 12v car battery to 5v usb and transforming DC to AC. ### Software Engineer @ Eugene Dickey IT Consulting Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States • Redesigned database for True Stone Distributing by exporting MS works to CSV, then importing to MySQL to provide client with cloud accessible database. • Maintained AWS/Azure/GCP/in-house servers by monitoring viability/integrity, reducing downtime by 90%. • Reinforced cloud infrastructure by implementing Exchange hosting, eliminating email bounceback. • Produced cloud networking admin system for CBRE using Cisco's Meraki saving CBRE $200,000 annually. • Constructed IT infrastructure for new management office using Cisco networking hardware to provide redundant internet distribution. ### Software Engineer @ Food Recovery Network Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States • Provisioned Ubuntu to host Webapp using Apache and Node.js in containers to achieve 99.988% uptime. • Managed Git workflow and unit test coverage using custom testing library in JavaScript for 3 person team. • Engineered RESTful API in JavaScript and Node.js to store crowd sourced food waste data from USF students to be reported to the Food Recovery Network. • Leveraged AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS) to deploy application as well as store food waste data on the cloud. ### Software Engineer @ Smart Sourced IT Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States • Provided field and remote support for managed service provider customers. • Used Python scripts to automate daily tasks. • Honed remote work discipline. • Reduced daily ticket load by 20%. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of San Francisco Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxsciarra --- Source: https://flows.cv/maxsciarra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxsciarra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22