Hunter Houston

Hunter Houston

Hunter Houston

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Hunter Houston

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Lead Engineer at White-Wilson Medical Center PA
September 1, 2025 - October 20, 2025
Led the transition from legacy EMR systems to a scalable, cloud-native Electronic Health Records (EHR) platform built with .NET Core 8, Docker, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support multi-clinic and multi-physician operations. Designed a modular microservices architecture with HIPAA/HITECH compliance, implemented OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and RBAC for secure authentication/authorization, and encrypted data at rest/in transit via Azure Key Vault. Built HIPAA-audit logging, automated deployments with Azure DevOps and Terraform IaC, and containerized services with Docker and AKS with blue-green deployments and health probes for zero-downtime releases. Enhanced observability using Azure Monitor, Serilog, and Application Insights; optimized Azure SQL elastic pools and Redis caching to reduce latency; introduced Azure Service Bus for asynchronous workflows (lab results, notifications, and inter-service events).
Senior Software Systems Engineer at Rivian
October 1, 2022 - October 20, 2025
Architected modular microservices with ASP.NET Core, EF Core, SQL Server, and Azure; designed Event-Driven workflows using Azure Event Grid; developed RESTful and GraphQL APIs; built dynamic UI in Angular 8+ with RxJS and NgRx. Implemented real-time capabilities with SignalR and RabbitMQ; secured access with OAuth2/OpenID Connect; containerized via Docker and Kubernetes; automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform across AWS and Azure for hybrid-cloud hosting.
Software Engineer at Meltwater
April 1, 2020 - October 20, 2025
Built an Enterprise Financial System (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cash Flow Management, Financial Reporting, Payroll Management, Compliance & Security, Taxation, Integration & APIs, Scalability & Multi-tenancy, Localization) with .NET Core, Angular and AWS. Designed distributed microservices for real-time transaction processing and fraud detection, utilizing Confluent Kafka and Kafka Connect for data streaming and integration with ERP/CRM systems; implemented RESTful APIs for external integrations; applied Domain-Driven Design to structure multi-tenant financial domain.
Backend Engineer at Austin Sigma
March 1, 2017 - October 20, 2025
Optimized 10,000+ lines of C# code for performance; leveraged RabbitMQ for asynchronous processing; containerized apps with Docker; implemented a suffix-tree model to accelerate genomic search by fivefold; contributed to Agile SCRUM and Test-Driven Development (TDD); improved SEO tooling and performance.

Education

B.S, Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
August 1, 2011 - December 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Professional Services