# Schaffer S. > Senior/Lead Software Engineer Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/schaffer Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack products in healthcare and biotech. Experienced leading distributed teams through product launches with an emphasis on clear technical planning. Looking to bring technical depth and team leadership to a mission-driven engineering organization. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer Mentor (Part Time) @ Formation Jan 2023 – Present - Mentored groups of 1-6 Fellows, teaching Algorithms, Data Structures, & System Design Topics - Evaluated Fellows on programming fluency, solution generation, & effective communication - Helped place over 60 Fellows in roles at top tech companies ### Lead Software Engineer @ Catch Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Guided a team of five off-shore engineers to enable the beta launch of product, ensuring features were delivered quickly and with high quality - Improved user onboarding experience by architecting and building a new questionnaire system, improving the user experience and increasing the onboarding completion rates - Designed and implemented a Temporal powered maintenance job system allowing developers to safely modify production systems, improving developer velocity, and increasing system reliability - Authored technical planning documents to align system architecture with product requirements and breakdown work to enable the team to build and ship features iteratively and in parallel - Contributed to on call rotations, responding to incidents, paying down tech debt, and improving system resiliency ### Senior Software Engineer @ Fountain Life Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Architected & implemented back end services & UIs to provide members & clinicians with reliable access to medical results as structured data, PDFs, & reports - Migrated a legacy genomics ingestion pipeline to Python, improving readability & maintainability - Developed Slack automations to improve data accuracy & reduce manual labor - Created UI monitors to catch regressions & ensure continuity of care, reducing permission errors by 90% - Built a Medical Device Platform, making key architectural decisions & collaborating with stakeholders & customers - Authored tutorials & demos with over 600 views to support sales & drive Medical Device Platform adoption - Led on-call incident response, resolving issues, performing root cause analysis, deploying fixes, & streamlining on-call processes - Wrote Terraform providers in Go to declaratively manage internal resources ### Senior Software Engineer @ LifeOmic Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Acquired by Fountain Life in 2023 ### Software Engineer @ LifeOmic Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States ### Software Developer @ IBM Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area - Developed an infrastructure capacity management application from proof of concept to production - Led the application through the security & privacy-by-design process, ensuring safety, security, & compliance - Implemented features & bug fixes for a production blockchain application, improving user experience, performance, & reliability - Introduced Ansible to automate management of Linux servers, reducing toil & ensuring servers remained updated & secure - Promoted best practices, such as code reviews, test writing, & continuous deployment - Replaced IBM MQ with Apache Kafka to enhance application performance, reliability, & scalability ### Co-Captain/Open Source Developer/Technical Project Lead @ CodeForGreensboro Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area At CodeForGreensboro I contributed to a project called GoVoteGSO - an open source web app for finding information about local elections Contributed to GoVoteGSO using React, Express, and Postgres Used Docker & Docker-Compose to standardize project development environment and simplify project set-up for new users Lowered annual AWS costs by 70% Created GitHub issues based on user stories and bug reports Reviewed code and pull requests from contributors Ran meet-ups, introduced new contributors to CodeForGreensboro and the GoVoteGSO project ### IT Support Specialist @ Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Hillsborough, NC Created JavaScript web scrapers to automate data retrieval and save weeks of manual labor Automated complex asset management processes saving time and removing human error Used Azure Functions (JavaScript) to sync devices between mobile device management service and asset management service Used NodeJS, Postgres, and Docker to process county GIS records to identify customers who qualify for financial assistance Created documentation for IT Department processes leading to increased standardization Desktop support including AD account creation, password resets, computer deployment, etc. ### Web Development Intern @ Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hillsborough, North Carolina Developed Drupal 7 module that helped users quickly find and contact elected officials. Other duties and projects include: creating a performance dashboard of useful operating statistics, improving the employee review process using digital forms, a Drupal module for finding Board Members based on member addresses, and more. ### Freelance Web Designer @ Freelance Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Burlington NC WordPress/LAMP web hosting and website creation Linux server management ### Customer Service Clerk, and Home Shop Order Selector @ Harris Teeter Supermarkets Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Burlington, North Carolina Managed cashiers and baggers; operated registers; shopped customer orders; Handled returns, complaints, and rainchecks ### Web Development Intern @ Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hillsborough, North Carolina Used Drupal 7 to create an employee portal to consolidate important personnel and HR documents ## Education ### Associate’s Degree in General Education Alamance Community College Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ### Certificate of Web Design in Web Design Alamance Community College Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/schaestewart --- Source: https://flows.cv/schaffer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/schaffer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29