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I’m a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in C#, ASP.NET, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture. I excel at translating business needs into scalable software solutions and balancing rapid delivery with high quality across large initiatives. I’ve led migrations from monoliths to cloud-native microservices, redesigned critical APIs, and improved data pipelines for healthcare, retail, and financial systems, collaborating across product, design, and operations to improve performance and user experience.…I’m a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in C#, ASP.NET, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture. I excel at translating business needs into scalable software solutions and balancing rapid delivery with high quality across large initiatives. I’ve led migrations from monoliths to cloud-native microservices, redesigned critical APIs, and improved data pipelines for healthcare, retail, and financial systems, collaborating across product, design, and operations to improve performance and user experience.

Chris Faust

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I’m a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in C#, ASP.NET, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture. I excel at translating business needs into scalable software solutions and balancing rapid delivery with high quality across large initiatives. I’ve led migrations from monoliths to cloud-native microservices, redesigned critical APIs, and improved data pipelines for healthcare, retail, and financial systems, collaborating across product, design, and operations to improve performance and user experience.…I’m a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in C#, ASP.NET, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture. I excel at translating business needs into scalable software solutions and balancing rapid delivery with high quality across large initiatives. I’ve led migrations from monoliths to cloud-native microservices, redesigned critical APIs, and improved data pipelines for healthcare, retail, and financial systems, collaborating across product, design, and operations to improve performance and user experience.

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I’m a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in C#, ASP.NET, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture. I excel at translating business needs into scalable software solutions and balancing rapid delivery with high quality across large initiatives.

I’ve led migrations from monoliths to cloud-native microservices, redesigned critical APIs, and improved data pipelines for healthcare, retail, and financial systems, collaborating across product, design, and operations to improve performance and user experience.

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Lead Backend Engineer at CVS Health

April 1, 2025 - October 10, 2025

Led migration of legacy monolithic healthcare applications to Azure cloud-native microservices using AKS and Apache Kafka, improving performance and scalability while reducing operational costs by 30%. Re-architected Azure Data Factory ETL pipelines for growth metrics and clinical quality data to capture change data, reducing spend by 50% and improving data freshness by 3x. Re-designed critical API endpoints with gRPC and optimized queries to reduce latency by 25% for high-demand healthcare workflows. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and user experience.

Staff Software Engineer at Forward

October 1, 2024 - October 10, 2025

Developed a secure EHR system with ASP.NET Core 7, RabbitMQ, and Angular 17, ensuring HIPAA compliance through encryption, audit logging, and strict access controls. Built a fully compliant FHIR server with a Document Store and CRUD APIs via REST and GraphQL. Orchestrated labs integration for autonomous clinics via CarePod that collects samples, processes, and returns results. Optimized data pipelines in Databricks with PySpark/Scala for real-time analytics. Implemented caching with Redis, and improved security with OAuth2.0, JWT, and IP whitelisting. Set up automated CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and achieved 85% test coverage and 50% faster testing with xUnit and SonarQube.

Senior Software Engineer at Kroger

June 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025

Migrated a monolithic billing system to a microservices architecture using ASP.NET Core, React, and AWS Lambda, integrating with Microsoft Dynamics 365. Built a Store-and-Forward system by adding an auxiliary bank server to temporarily store failed transactions and automatically reprocess after 1 minute. Applied secure SDLC processes, conducting security reviews with Fortify (SAST) and Acunetix (DAST), and deploying WAF in production. Integrated Datadog APM to trace microservices on Azure Container Apps and configured dashboards to monitor latency and throughput. Enabled interactive financial data visualization by integrating Power BI and Tableau dashboards to improve decision-making efficiency by ~30%.

Onsite Technical Lead at Redbox

June 1, 2020 - October 10, 2025

Conducted code reviews and mentored 3 junior developers, fostering a collaborative environment and strengthening a team of over 10 developers. Deployed a micro frontend system with React, enabling independent module deployment and enhancing scalability and optimizing API communication through lazy loading.

Lead Backend Engineer at CVS Health

April 1, 2025 - October 10, 2025

Led migration of legacy monolithic healthcare applications to Azure cloud-native microservices using AKS and Apache Kafka; optimized performance and scalability, reducing operational costs by 30%. Re-architected Azure Data Factory ETL pipelines to capture change data for growth metrics and clinical quality data, reducing spend by 50% and tripling data freshness. Replaced an EMR management board built on ASP.NET MVC and Blazor with an Angular + ASP.NET Core web app, focusing on HL7 standards for inter-operable data exchange. Redesigned critical API endpoints with gRPC to optimize database queries and reduce latency by 25% for high-demand workflows. Collaborated with frontend, product, and ops teams to improve performance and user experience.

Staff Software Engineer at Forward

October 1, 2024 - October 10, 2025

Developed a secure EHR system using ASP.NET Core 7, RabbitMQ, and Angular 17, ensuring HIPAA compliance through data encryption, audit logging, and strict access controls. Built a fully compliant v4.0.1 FHIR Server with a Document Store database, exposing CRUD operations via REST and GraphQL. Enabled autonomous CarePod clinics via APIs that orchestrated the collection of blood, processing, submission to external labs, and EMR updates. Optimized healthcare analytics pipelines with Databricks notebooks (PySpark/Scala) on Azure Data Lake, improving processing efficiency by 30% and enabling real-time insights. Implemented API security with OAuth 2.0, JWT, IP whitelisting, and secure token storage. Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps, achieving 85% test coverage and reducing testing time by 50% through automated testing with xUnit and SonarQube.

Senior Software Engineer at Kroger

June 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025

Migrated a monolithic billing system to a microservices architecture using ASP.NET Core, React and AWS Lambda, integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 for payments and invoicing. Built a Store-and-Forward system to temporarily store failed transactions and automatically reprocess after 1 minute. Applied secure SDLC practices, conducting security reviews with Fortify at Dev stage, Acunetix at QA stage, and NoName/ WAF for Prod. Integrated Datadog APM to trace microservices running on Azure Container Apps, configuring custom dashboards to monitor latency and throughput. Enabled interactive financial data visualization by integrating Power BI and Tableau dashboards, improving decision-making efficiency by 30%.

Technical Lead, Onsite at Redbox

June 1, 2020 - October 10, 2025