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Frank Chang

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I am an experienced Staff Software Engineer with over 12 years in healthcare, observability, and fintech startups.

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I am an experienced Staff Software Engineer with over 12 years in healthcare, observability, and fintech startups. I’ve led the creation of large-scale digital health platforms serving millions of users, optimized data pipelines for thousands of customers, and built secure fintech APIs that significantly reduced unauthorized access. I excel at mentoring, streamlining deployments, and ensuring HIPAA and PCI DSS compliance in fast-paced Agile environments.

Throughout my career, I have engineered scalable microservices, integrated complex data systems, and utilized cutting-edge AI technologies for improving personalized healthcare and telehealth services. I thrive on solving challenging architectural problems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering robust solutions with high uptime and reliability.

  • 9 years' experience
  • Joined August 2025

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Software & Internet

Work experience

Staff Software Engineer · Elevance HealthJun 2025 – Aug 2025 · 3 mos

Led the creation of Sydney Health, a cloud-native digital health platform serving 16 million users and delivering AI-driven personalized features like provider search, 24/7 telehealth, benefits and claims management, and social determinants of health check-ins. Architected and deployed microservices-based APIs integrating with FHIR/HL7-compliant EHR systems, reducing query latency by 30% through Redis caching. Engineered WebRTC-based telehealth capabilities facilitating 1.5 million virtual visits with HIPAA-compliant encryption and third-party integrations, achieving 98% case resolution in pilot programs. Implemented generative AI-powered Personalized Match algorithm and My Health Check-in NLP-driven questionnaires improving care access and resource matching. Constructed ETL pipelines processing 40 million monthly claims and SDOH data for real-time analytics. Streamlined CI/CD pipelines ensuring 99.99% uptime, cut deployment times by 40% through blue-green deployments. Integrated IoT w

Site Reliability Engineer · DatadogMay 2020 – Aug 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Designed high-throughput data pipelines using Spark and Kafka to process trillions of daily metrics and logs for Datadog's observability platform, maintaining 99.99% uptime for over 28,000 customers across multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Optimized Spark jobs and Kafka configurations to reduce processing latency by 30% and increase throughput for high-volume telemetry data. Automated pipeline monitoring and alerting with Datadog tools, decreasing mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 35% for pipeline incidents. Collaborated with data engineering teams to create cost-efficient workflows leveraging Kubernetes and Terraform, reducing infrastructure costs by 20%. Enhanced pipeline reliability by introducing retry mechanisms and dead-letter queues, ensuring 100% data delivery for critical customer metrics and analytics. Led blameless postmortems to identify root causes and deploy preventative measures reducing pipeline failures by 40%. Mentored junior engineers in debugging

Full Stack Engineer · ItexusAug 2016 – Aug 2025 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Built secure API endpoints using C# and .NET, reducing unauthorized access incidents by 40% for fintech platforms. Created real-time financial dashboards using Angular and D3.js, improving user data interaction speed by 30%. Configured Azure-based cloud security policies ensuring PCI DSS compliance for payment processing systems. Performed penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, resolving 95% of identified client application risks. Refined SIEM integration with Azure, shortening threat detection time by 25% through automated monitoring.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science · University of Texas at Austin2009 – 2013

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