# Susie K.

> Software engineer | Machine learning | Registered nurse

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/susiek

- Experienced senior software engineer and team lead
- Master's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focusing on data science and machine learning
- Critical care charge nurse & PACU nurse for almost a decade, active registered nurse

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Privy | REAL Real Estate Investing
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
- Build, test, and support SaaS platform for real estate investors and realtors
- Integrate Tailwind and Storybook for unified UI/UX experience
- API integrations with HubSpot, Stripe, Awin, Intercom, Google Maps, Amazon SES

Technologies used: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Tailwind, Storybook, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, MySQL, PostgreSQL (Postgres), AWS, Terraform, Sentry, Git (GitHub)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Catalytic
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Used Google Vision (optical character recognition) to intake medical records and perform Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) audits while maintaining > 96% recall. Notable individual work included: 
- Building cloud computing process to evaluate data from model results via MapReduce and parallelization
- Adjusting keyword matching for HEDIS measures using medical domain knowledge, stemming, and NLP techniques

Technologies used: C#, .NET, Azure, Google Vision

### Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead @ AVIA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chicago Area
Team lead (Dec 2018 - July 2020) and senior full stack software engineer
- Facilitated workflow between product, engineering, QA, design to establish roadmaps and iterate features
- Mentored recent hires, junior engineers, and interns
- Built, tested, and debugged single-page web application and API
- Modeled, cleaned, and queried data with SQL

### Software Engineer I & II @ AVIA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area
Full stack engineer responsible for code design, implementation, debugging, and testing a responsive single-page web application in an agile method. Responsibilities included:
- Building and maintaining front end application and back end RESTful API in NodeJS
- Automating and tailoring emails to users with Mandrill API
- Creating and supporting testing system for front end and back end functionalities, including app-wide permissions
- Establishing company and health care system profiles for consulting pipeline and due diligence processes using Crunchbase and Salesforce API

Technologies include: Angular 7/8, Bootstrap 4, Karma, Jasmine, NodeJS, MySQL, Sequelize, Git, Github, JIRA

### Registered Nurse III @ Centegra Health System
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | McHenry, IL
Staff nurse in pre-operative and post-anesthesia care unit. Member of Surgical Services Professional Council focusing on promoting growth, excellence, and innovation for the nursing profession.

### Registered Nurse @ Advocate Health Care
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Elgin, IL
Staff ICU nurse in 30-bed critical care unit focusing on cardiovascular, pulmonary, stroke, and sepsis care. Competent with IABP, CVVHD, and cardiovascular surgical patients.

### Registered Nurse III @ Centegra Health System
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | McHenry, IL
Charge and staff ICU nurse specializing in cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgical care. Experience with intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), coronary artery bypass (CABG) & valve replacement patient recovery, continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (CVVHD). As charge, responsible for patient flow, cross unit organization, and shift staffing; rapid-response and code blue team member. Mentor for new graduate and new to ICU nurses.

Secretary for Critical Care Practice Council (4 years). Responsibilities: meeting agendas, minutes, and council communications. Reviewed critical care policies to align with evidenced-based practice and collaborated with Education Council for continuous staff education. 

Poster presentation at AACN National Teaching Institute (May 2012): Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention: How Oral Care Helps to Reduce VAP Rates


## Education
### Master of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Oregon State University

### Bachelor of Science  (B.S.) in Nursing
Illinois Wesleyan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/skuretski
- GitHub: https://github.com/skuretski

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Last updated: 2026-03-23