# Tracy Russell

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Collingswood, New Jersey, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tracyrussell

A full-stack developer and tech lead with 15 years of experience. Specializes in figuring out the perfect blend of stakeholders’ essential business requirements in order to lead teams to deliver elegant, technology-enabled workflows right on time. Known at work for her gold-standard organization and communication, her adherence to quality standards through automated testing and documentation, and her positive impact on social culture and engagement across the team.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Datavant
Jan 2025 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Reforge
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
• Designed and led the team to overhaul how we defined a source of truth for content creator profiles, working with Product, Data, UX, and Operations to combine three original sources of data into one, with more straightforward user-facing and operations-facing interfaces
• Led enhancements for our internal search tool, which utilized vector search via Pinecone and embeddings via OpenAI, to improve the perceived quality of search results and to direct our users away from legacy content
• Collaborated with other cross-functional team leads on quarterly roadmapping, including matching tech leads to open projects

### Principal Software Engineer @ Firefly Health
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
• Architected a design for and led a cross-functional team to build new tech-enabled workflows for referring members to specialist providers, integrating across the APIs of both an electronic medical records system and a third-party health plan administrator, enabling a five-fold increase in membership over two years
• Responsible for quarterly project planning and subsequent execution, including managing expectations of stakeholders across the company and the senior leadership team
• Interfaced closely with analytics to define metrics and review dashboards that helped our team measure project success, as well as helped discover where future project investments could have the best impact to the business
• Coded primarily in Python/Django paired with Typescript and React, and utilized tools like JIRA, Snowflake, Looker, Whimsical, DataDog, and FullStory

### Technologist @ Devoted Health
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
• Paired closely with multiple internal stakeholders to design, build, and quickly iterate on workflows to achieve our company’s goal of being a 5-Star insurance plan, as rated by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
... • Transformed clinical data manually extracted by medical record reviewers as well as systematically parsed from flat files in order to provide the organization with accurate, timely insights into CMS Quality Measures and projected Star ratings
... • Automated work queues for pharmacy technicians so that they could help prevent members’ prescriptions from lapsing 
... • Maintained an interactive portal for providers to review their practice’s Star performance and submit Star-relevant documentation for their members
• Coded primarily in Go, but also used React, Typescript, and GraphQL, and utilized tools like JIRA, Snowflake, Airflow, LogDNA, and FullStory
• Led, documented, and trained the on-call rotation, in which engineers triaged customer-reported issues as well as responded to OpsGenie/DataDog alerts

### Principal Member Of Technical Staff & Scrum Master @ athenahealth
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
• Led and mentored a team of developers through Agile ceremonies and project execution for athenaClinicals, a web-based electronic health record-keeping system
• Developed workflows to aggregate and submit nearly 40,000 Quality Payment Program submissions via the API of CMS.gov, and built dashboards over this data using Angular and TypeScript
• Profiled and improved end-to-end render time of features using techniques like object caching, SQL query optimization, and JavaScript performance enhancements
• Routed data from an Oracle database to the client using deferred data calls and a multi-layer object-oriented architecture, utilizing technologies like Moose, Backbone, and Mustache
• Analyzed user behavior to evaluate if features met predefined adoption benchmarks

### Staff Developer @ athenahealth
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
• Led and mentored a team of developers for athenaClinicals, a web-based electronic health record-keeping system
• Built new custom workflows for specialties including nephrology and ophthalmology, allowing the sales team to expand the company’s addressable market and improve lead-to-meeting ratios

### Senior Developer @ athenahealth
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
• Developed complex, multi-release projects in Perl, Oracle SQL, Mustache, Backbone (Javascript), and Less (CSS) for the product athenaClinicals, a web-based electronic health record-keeping system
• Ingested data following technical specifications from First Data Bank’s drug database to develop complex medical calculators, using extreme caution to reduce the potential for patient safety risk
• Managed an intern through his summer project to improve our internal documentation system

### Developer @ athenahealth
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
• Developed in Perl, Oracle SQL, HTML, and Javascript/jQuery for the product athenaClinicals, a web-based electronic health record-keeping system.
• Built new workflows and improved product usability by implementing a variety of functionality enhancements

### Instructor @ Girl Develop It
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Girl Develop It is an organization that provides affordable and accessible programs to learn software through mentorship and hands-on instruction.

• Designed content for and instructed classes including: Introduction to Algorithms, Introduction to Programming Concepts, and Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
• Guided students using interactive techniques during weekly recitation sections and problem solving “head-banging sessions”
• Guest lectured to a class of approximately one hundred students on the characteristic equation method for solving recurrences

### Course Developer and Instructor @ Rutgers University
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004
(First-Year Interest Group Seminar in Computer Science)
• Developed and executed a ten-week course targeted towards freshmen students
• Highlighted theoretical concepts and problems of computer science
• Encouraged students’ individual exploration into ongoing research at Rutgers University

### Web and Print Media Intern @ IEEE: Power Engineering Society
Jan 2003 – Jan 2003
• Migrated the content of the Power Engineering Society’s existing website into a Content Management System
• Designed various pamphlets and brochures in Pagemaker

### Administrative Assistant @ The RSCB Protein Data Bank
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002
• Implemented a new filing system
• Prepared a series of presentations using Photoshop and PowerPoint


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008

### BS in Computer Science, Mathematics
Rutgers University
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tracygraumanrussell

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Last updated: 2026-03-22