# Nick Ding > Software Engineer @ Headway Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nickding Contact me: bnding@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Headway Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States Helping untangle the chaos of health insurance claims for patients and providers ### Software Engineer II @ Wheel Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Austin, Texas, United States Patient Journey • Led integration and implementation of event tracking and data gathering for research and AI initiatives. • Followed security compliancy and stood up client-side key fetching via Kubernetes in all environments. Eligibility and Billing (E&B) • Served as project lead for a project that provides insurance benefits and copays to patients. • Built background Kafka process that fetches insurance eligibility with cross functional services in under 15s. • Collaborated cross functionally with engineering, product, and design teams in discussion of edge cases and alignment of MVP. • Updated and organized tickets with dev notes to streamline engineer productivity and ease pointing. Pediatrics • Served as back end lead for project that provides pediatric care to over 1m children and dependents across the USA • Integrated height and weight data across dependent applications and third-party systems such as EMR and DoseSpot. • Created design documentation and led discussions on Statsig integration into back end. Scheduled Sync • Key contributor for providing patients with scheduled virtual appointments for our provider network. • Led Kafka consumer design and delivery w/ DLQ integration; processes 40k+ messages weekly achieving 99.99% uptime. • Developed idempotent event handlers and RESTful APIs for critical operations such as payments, reducing risk. • Created DataDog monitors and logs for triaging production issues, enhancing troubleshooting and team support. Multi-Tenant Patient Experience • Delivered a one-stop single platform to multiple major clients including Walgreens, J&J, Tylenol, and Amazon. • Guaranteed the security, safety, and uniqueness of confidential API keys for multiple clients in a single platform. • Led front end development and contractor onboarding to reduce bottlenecks by 50%. ### Software Engineer @ Vault Health Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States • Created RESTful APIs with Python using Flask, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy that serviced over 6 major clients. • Developed UPS data tracking application with AWS infrastructure involving AWS SQS, SNS, and Lambdas. • Achieved 95% code coverage with Pytest framework to deliver quality and reliable coding standards. • Contributed to documentation and pull request reviews each sprint to streamline development time. • Mentored junior engineers and demonstrated subject expertise with domain knowledge. ### Software Engineer @ General Motors Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States Digital Retail Platform (DRP) Ultra/UltraX • Led the development of a scalable form authoring functionality that reduced engineer development time by over 30%. • Conducted project management responsibilities by creating and keeping track of tasks with Azure. • Developed scalable web components and widgets using React, Next.js, GraphQL, and Strapi CMS. ### Software Engineer @ General Motors Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States Customer Care and Aftersales (CCA) OSWAT • Developed a system responsible for managing bulk deliveries in PDCs to over 7000 GM dealerships across the USA. • Redesigned existing front-end using Angular and significantly reduced negative feedback on system. OpEx LoadClose • Contributed code to central system that processed thousands of delivery documents to dealerships each day. • Reduced more than 100 hours of wait time and costly supply chain errors to dealers across the USA. ### Web Developer Internship @ Local Wisdom Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Titusville, NJ ### Information Technology Consultant @ Rutgers New Brunswick Computing Services Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Piscataway, New Jersey ### Residential Network Dispatch @ Rutgers New Brunswick Computing Services Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Piscataway, New Jersey ### Web Development Intern @ Language Pilgrim LLC Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Princeton, New Jersey ### Research Experience @ University of California, Santa Barbara Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Barbara, California ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science Rutgers University–New Brunswick ### Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Rutgers University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bnding --- Source: https://flows.cv/nickding JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nickding/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05