The API and infrastructure behind a Medicare plan finder.

Renew set out to simplify the move into retirement across health, wealth and time. As lead backend and DevOps engineer, I designed and built the API and automated infrastructure behind its Medicare Plan Finder.

Role: Senior Software Engineer
Years: 2017 – 2020
Focus: Backend and DevOps

Renew's Medicare plan finder, comparing two Medicare Advantage plans by premium, estimated cost and coverage, with filters for plan type, carrier and benefits. — Plan recommendations with cost and benefit comparisons.

What I built

Plan finder APIA RESTful Flask API, documented with OpenAPI, that unified monthly CMS data and other sources for the front-end team.
InfrastructureHIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure for every environment, defined in Ansible.
DeploymentsOne-command deploys of the API and web app to any environment.
Customer success platformLed the team that integrated the InContact softphone and Salesforce, so agents and brokers could focus on helping customers.