I am a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience leading development on telehealth platforms and payment systems. I have a proven track record of improving frontend performance, scalability, and cloud infrastructure costs by leveraging modern technologies like React, TypeScript, Java Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes. I work closely with product managers and clinical teams to deliver digital health features and mentor junior engineers to improve team quality. My background includes architecting and maintaining core components for large-scale payment processing platforms used by top clients globally, as well as migrating legacy monolithic systems to microservices to enhance system throughput and reduce latency. I am passionate about implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and enhancing deployment frequencies while minimizing production incidents.

Joseph Politii

I am a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience leading development on telehealth platforms and payment systems. I have a proven track record of improving frontend performance, scalability, and cloud infrastructure costs by leveraging modern technologies like React, TypeScript, Java Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes. I work closely with product managers and clinical teams to deliver digital health features and mentor junior engineers to improve team quality. My background includes architecting and maintaining core components for large-scale payment processing platforms used by top clients globally, as well as migrating legacy monolithic systems to microservices to enhance system throughput and reduce latency. I am passionate about implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and enhancing deployment frequencies while minimizing production incidents.

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I am a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience leading development on telehealth platforms and payment systems. I have a proven track record of improving frontend performance, scalability, and cloud infrastructure costs by leveraging modern technologies like React, TypeScript, Java Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes. I work closely with product managers and clinical teams to deliver digital health features and mentor junior engineers to improve team quality.

My background includes architecting and maintaining core components for large-scale payment processing platforms used by top clients globally, as well as migrating legacy monolithic systems to microservices to enhance system throughput and reduce latency. I am passionate about implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and enhancing deployment frequencies while minimizing production incidents.

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Senior Software Engineer at Optum
March 1, 2020 - Present
Led development of a telehealth platform serving 2.3 million patients during COVID-19, integrating real-time scheduling, secure video calls, and home health device data. Developed modular React + TypeScript interfaces for virtual care dashboards and patient intake workflows. Improved frontend performance by 28% while meeting WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards, boosting patient task completion rates by 12%. Built scalable backend services with Java Spring Boot and Node.js, increasing appointment throughput by 28% and reducing booking latency from 720ms to 560ms. Integrated backend services with three major EHR vendors and Bluetooth-enabled home health devices, enabling real-time vitals ingestion and automating care plan documentation. Migrated legacy monolithic services to AWS Lambda and Kubernetes (EKS), reducing cloud infrastructure costs by 27% and improving deployment frequency from monthly to weekly. Increased unit and integration test coverage from 82% to 91% using JUnit, Jest, a
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
February 29, 2020 - August 4, 2025
Architected and maintained core components of Stripe Connect and Stripe Billing, enabling seamless payments for platforms including Shopify, Lyft, and DoorDash with PCI DSS compliance. Built onboarding UIs and merchant dashboards using Ember.js, increasing merchant conversion rates by 12%, improving user engagement, and reducing drop-off during signup. Developed a global payout microservice in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, supporting 100+ currencies and achieving 99.9% uptime SLA over 5 years. Migrated legacy monolithic payment systems to Go-based microservices deployed on Kubernetes, improving system throughput by 1.8× and reducing average API latency by 25%. Partnered with risk, tax, and compliance teams to expand Stripe’s global payment coverage to 40+ countries, enhancing fraud detection and regulatory compliance. Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker, increasing deployment frequency from biweekly to multiple times per day, and reducing release-related incidents by

Education

Bachelor's degree of Computer Science at University of California
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014

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Healthcare, Financial Services, Software & Internet