Austin Leligdon

Senior Software Engineer

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Experience

Bold Penguin

January 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Engineer on the Carrier Integrations team.

  • Implemented a new bindable Worker’s Comp product for a major client
  • Lead a new Client integration to fill a gap in our BOP product offerings
  • Collaborated to build a market intelligence API, ingesting data through AWS S3
  • Interviewed and helped onboard new team members

Storable

July 2023 - December 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Tech lead for a team of 5 engineers supporting a key Storable client.

  • Lead designer and architect for multiple new client features
  • Helped unblock and improve team member's technical and soft skills

Storable

January 2021 - June 2023

Software Engineer II

Developed software supporting storage facility managers on a Ruby/React team.

  • Led a team of 6 developers to implement a key client feature over 9 weeks
  • Fixed a performance issue leading to a 30% decrease in execution time for an API endpoint, saving over 50 processing hours/week
  • Researched and led effort adding tests to our React app; led a workshop to include unit tests in our normal development flow
  • Mentored and helped onboard various new team members as our team grew
  • Helped lead and implement a new corporate delinquency feature

Cerner

March 2020 - December 2020

Software Engineer

Worked on HealtheHistory team to create PDFs of patient data for Insurance/Legal clients.

  • Investigated and created reporting framework to convert patient JSON data to consumable PDFs
  • Assisted in creating the release process using AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline, as well as performed over half of the teams releases
  • Created AWS survival guide to assist others after helping multiple teams get started in the AWS ecosystem
  • Mentored and onboarded new team members to our product and AWS

Cerner

February 2019 - March 2020

Software Engineer

Worked in the Care Management group on a number of Rails microservices, public APIs, and a Java processor.

  • Maintained and implemented features for four Ruby services and one Java data processor
  • Wrote scripts to migrate thousands of rows of production data to AWS
  • Automated our operation review process, reducing metrics collection from 20 to 2 minutes/ week
  • Mentored new software engineers with Cerner’s Dev Academy program
  • Performed support operations for clients and development team; investigated and performed defect correction

Education

Iowa State University

Bachelors Software Engineering

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Study Abroad