# Sam Gottuso > Senior Software Engineer @ Budgie Health Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samgottuso Creative software engineer with a passion for refactoring systems and building great tools. Received BA in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University, May 2016. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Budgie Health Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Oscar Health Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ● In addition to continuing IC work, as asked to be the tech lead for a team of 6 engineers. ● Responsible for running Agile ceremonies, managing engineers and incorporating client feedback. ● Led 2024 planning exercise to determine complexity sizing and engineering weeks of effort for projects. ### Software Engineer @ Oscar Health Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States Member of the data infrastructure team, focused on projects around how data moves and is used at Oscar. Projects include: • Lead engineer on revamping data anonymization process at Oscar. Designed system to be used by hundreds of engineers, as well as leading technical integration with vendor and deploying the hosted version of their product. • Lead engineer on data reconciliation process: proving that data in our RDS databases matched what was replicated into our data warehouse. • Early adopter of Kubernetes at the company, led early effort to deploy onto the platform and assisted with documentation + bug finding. • Member of Data Governance Working Group that helped define data usage policies for the entire organization. • Infrastructure expert with Google BigQuery: developed documentation + implemented technical best practices for the company. • Created and led mentoring program for engineers in the operations team. ### Operations Engineer II @ Oscar Health Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Promoted to technical lead for Insurance Operations Automation team, October 2020. ### Operations Engineer @ Oscar Health Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Shifted role to focus on large scale automation for data pipelines, file exchanges and engineering integrations. Lead engineer on operations' ETLs. • Technical lead for Operations team: stood up code review processes, documentation, technical best practices. • Wrote python package to enable operations team to make use of GRPC and Thrift API endpoints. • Designed, stood up and maintained first team GRPC microservice that serviced hundreds of clients per day. • Overall winner of Oscar Hackathon March 2020 ### Operations Associate @ Oscar Health Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 • Lead discrete areas of process improvement across claims,eligibility and billing departments. • Developed multiple internal web-applications with hundreds of users through Flask and React frameworks. • Responsible for modernizing large pieces of technical infrastructure, including reconciliation with government exchanges for hundreds of thousands of members. • Served as operations counterpart for Oscar engineering launches. ### Operations Analyst @ Oscar Health Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area • Designed and supported operations processes for team of 15+ claims processors. • Created tooling and dashboards across 5 different platforms to speed up work and automate portions of workflows. • Automated complete workflows through Python scripting. • Queried large SQL databases for insights around areas of risk and potential large-scale improvements. ### Senior Consultant @ Booz Allen Hamilton Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Continued work on the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) contract. Developed more complex analytical techniques and data management skills, including the creation of automated reports, a natural language processing tool, and data visualization/analyses for both internal team members and clients. Accepted into Booz Allen's internal Data Science 5K program which includes a General Assembly data science/Python training in addition to program specific events and projects. Developed a final project that used machine learning to predict upsets in Premier League soccer matches. ### Consultant @ Booz Allen Hamilton Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Primarily worked in Health Account on the CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) project which is the largest ever initiative to strengthen primary care in the United States. Tasks include leading the management and manipulation of large databases/spreadsheets, analytics (visualization) and reporting for all Learning events. Also worked on engaging providers on a large Salesforce platform and analyzed content, trends and other metrics from custom generated reports. ### Policy Intern @ White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Part of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison Team. Wrote, researched and designed policies directly related to the Presidential Memorandum on Opioids and adjoining private commitments. Tasked with creating and organizing public-private task force for prevention messaging and programming through national sports and medical organizations. Assisted with health related communications. ### Behavioral Health Intern @ Park Place Behavioral Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Asbury Park NJ Ran daily treatment groups for 25 patients with serious mental illness and chemical addiction. Created educational activities that included psychological research, conducted lectures and lead discussion. Interviewed patients and clinicians to implement improvement in treatment length, diversity of options and selection. Wrote final paper on stigma reduction and policies on behavioral healthcare issues along with suggestions for system improvements. ### Assistant Research Coordinator @ Johns Hopkins Hospital Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Recruited numerous patients for the study. Ran basic diagnostic tests (visual acuity, glaucoma screening). Learned how to organize an effective study. ### Ophthalmic technician @ Del Negro and Senft Eye Associates Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Performed basic diagnostic tests and survey measurements on 100s of patients. Managed transfer of all patient information from paper to electronic records. Trained technician staff on new electronic medical system. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Public Health The Johns Hopkins University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sam-gottuso-39a13698 - GitHub: https://github.com/samgottuso --- Source: https://flows.cv/samgottuso JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samgottuso/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22