I'm a senior software engineer with over seven years of experience building scalable web applications and services. I’m passionate about code quality, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring others, always aiming to ship reliable software with a strong product mindset. I’m a lifelong learner who enjoys tackling complex requirements, advocating for safe spaces, and continuously improving processes and standards across applications. When I’m not coding, I enjoy sharing knowledge and helping teams grow.

Galacia Pokos

I'm a senior software engineer with over seven years of experience building scalable web applications and services. I’m passionate about code quality, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring others, always aiming to ship reliable software with a strong product mindset. I’m a lifelong learner who enjoys tackling complex requirements, advocating for safe spaces, and continuously improving processes and standards across applications. When I’m not coding, I enjoy sharing knowledge and helping teams grow.

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I’m a senior software engineer with over seven years of experience building scalable web applications and services. I’m passionate about code quality, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring others, always aiming to ship reliable software with a strong product mindset.

I’m a lifelong learner who enjoys tackling complex requirements, advocating for safe spaces, and continuously improving processes and standards across applications. When I’m not coding, I enjoy sharing knowledge and helping teams grow.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance (Acquired by Travelers)
August 1, 2023 - September 9, 2025
Led development on cyber insurance platform; discovered complex requirements and rapidly developed features in an existing web app (Elixir, Elm, GraphQL, Python, AWS, Figma, HTML, SCSS) to unlock crucial business relationships and foster a long-term relationship with Travelers, while communicating expectations and delivering updates through Agile workflows.
Senior Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance (Acquired by Travelers)
May 1, 2025 - September 9, 2025
Engineered a smarter cyber-insurance digital platform, empowering multiple user types via a scalable digital system, leveraging Elixir, Elm, GraphQL, Python, AWS, and Azure, and driving partnerships that contributed to long-term business value with Travelers.
Senior Software Engineer at Independent / Personal Project
July 1, 2025 - September 9, 2025
React refresher project to practice and showcase end-to-end React, Elixir, GraphQL, and CI/CD workflows; implemented a maintainable UI with comment history and change-tracking features.
Software Engineer at Manufacturing Plant (Client)
August 1, 2021 - September 9, 2025
Delivered on-site automation software for critical outcomes (C# / .NET, SQL, React, TypeScript, RabbitMQ, Entity Framework, Azure, JavaScript); collaborated with management, automation and electrician teams; coordinated large-scale upgrades to production plants while mitigating downtime, resulting in significant time and cost savings for the client.
Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance
August 1, 2021 - September 9, 2025
Delivered, installed, and trained on-site customers on critical outcome automation software (C#, .NET, SQL, React, TypeScript, RabbitMQ, Entity Framework, Azure) and collaborated with management, automation and electrician teams to coordinate upgrades to production plants while mitigating downtime.
Senior Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance
August 1, 2023 - September 9, 2025
Drove pivotal UI/UX and backend enhancements for the risk platform, prototyping with Elm and React, implementing back-end services (Elixir, GraphQL, AWS, Python), and leading features that enabled cross-team business relationships and platform scalability.
Senior Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance (Acquired by Travelers)
May 1, 2025 - September 9, 2025
Led a team through designing, building, testing, and releasing brand-new cyber insurance products; architected UI (Elm, Cypress, HTML, SCSS), back-end (Elixir, GraphQL, AWS, Python), email (HTML, SCSS, SQS, Oban), docs (Python, PDF), and endorsement upgrades; rebranded the policy holder experience (OAuth/Okta integration, SQL) and improved client management, adopting scalable architectures (LiveView/Phoenix/Elixir) and CI/CD.
Senior Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance (Acquired by Travelers)
May 1, 2025 - September 9, 2025
Led rapid development of complex cyber insurance features across UI, backend, email, and documents. Built new cyber products with Elm, Cypress, HTML, SCSS, Elixir, GraphQL, AWS, Python; delivered scalability tooling; oversaw rebranding of policyholder experience including OAuth/Okta integration, SQL, UI styling, and partner integrations.
Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance (Acquired by Travelers)
August 1, 2023 - September 9, 2025
Revitalized API and documentation for public resources; delivered API-driven partner capabilities, improved performance and compatibility; created data visualizations for Risk Capital Partner platform using Elm; supported Looker integrations.
Software Engineer at Interstates Control System
August 1, 2021 - September 9, 2025
Delivered, installed, and trained on-site automation software for manufacturing; led major upgrade of main software suite, adapting to changing DB schemas, architecture (microservices/monolith), build/test scripts, added external barcode input and printing; exposed experience with C#, .NET, SQL, React, Typescript, RabbitMQ, Azure, SignalR, REST; additional technologies included Vue, XAML, Javascript, Node.js; practiced Agile methodologies.
Senior Software Engineer at React Refresher (personal project)
July 1, 2025 - September 9, 2025
Enabled deletion and editing of comments in a legacy system, maintained tagging system and related features, designed and implemented UI for validated comment deletion/editing with history, tested with unit, E2E, and UAT. Tech: React, Elixir, Evergreen, GraphQL, JSON, API, GCP, Git, CI/CD.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science at Dakota State University
January 1, 2017 - December 1, 2017
B.S. in Mathematics for Information Systems at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013
B.S. in Computer Game Design at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics for Information Systems at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013
Bachelor of Science in Computer Game Design at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013
B.S. in Mathematics for Information Systems at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 31, 2013
B.S. in Computer Game Design at Dakota State University
May 1, 2009 - December 31, 2013
B.S. in Computer Science at Dakota State University
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Financial Services, Travel & Hospitality