Joshua Schniper
joshua@schniper.com1.205.937.1524
jschniper
About Me
One of my favorite authors is Kurt Vonnegut. I've got a dachshund named and I will show you a picture of him at the drop of a hat.
Things I Love
- Vim
- Elixir
- Postgres
- Linux
- K8s
- Functional Languages
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Cycling
Things I Use
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Typescript
- Go
- Ruby
- Java
- React
- Node
- C#
- SQL
- Git
- Erlang
- Zsh
- GraphQL
- and more...
Things I Hate
- Cycling
Education
Hampden-Sydney College
English / 2003 - 2007
At A High Level
An engineering lead with nearly 20 years of experience across a broad swath of technology.
The Timeline
Incentivize Health (Oct 2023 - Now)
Incentivize Health is a startup founded by a former executive at ChipRewards. The goal was to build a platform from the ground up and pursue some similar market opportunities.
VP of Engineering
First time wearing all of the hats.
- Responsible for just about every aspect on the engineering side of the house including choosing the tech stack, defining the architecture, setting up the infrastructure, writing code and managing a small development team
- Working closely with business development and product to make sure everyone is aligned on goals and ensure the development team is given the lead time necessary to build out features
- Participating in sales and partner meetings to help provide technical expertise and support business development
BUILT (Nov 2022 - Oct 2023)
BUILT offers development consulting services to clients across a wide variety of industries.
Senior Software Engineer
Worked as an individual contributor on consulting projects and some internal skunk works projects.
- Helped lay the groundwork for an internal telemetry application that was going to be used to collect and aggregate metrics, tracing and log data from other applications that were in development
- Worked as an individual contributor on several client projects across a variety of tech stacks
- Aided in the defining the architecture for the internal tech stack
Icario (Jun 2021 - Nov 2022)
Icario acquired ChipRewards in June of 2021. Icario is a healthcare technology company that focuses on gaps in care for CMS programs.
Senior Director of Engineering
Engineering leader responsible for teams in Birmingham and Minneapolis.
- Helped coordinate the migration from several legacy platforms onto a new consolidated platform
- Worked with others in senior leadership to make sure that priorities were consistent within the organization
- Managed 12-15 employees and worked to retain them during a period of very high turnover
ChipRewards (Jun 2011 - Jun 2021)
ChipRewards was a healthcare technology company that initially focused on incentive programs in the commercial healthcare space and expanded into running similar programs in the Medicaid and Medicare space.
Senior Developer & Team Lead
Manager for a team that was focused on the ChipRewards member portal. This application started as a Ruby on the Rails application that experienced several major upgrades over the years. Finally, decided to rewrite the existing application using Elixir with a React frontend and GraphQL at the API layer. The migration was a major success and provided the same basic functionality while cleaning up the major technical debt and providing a much better foundation for new feature development.
- Managed the roadmap and development priorities to make sure they aligned with the business needs
- Worked with the development team to handle technical debt and improve processes
- Tracked down requirements and ensured everything was ready for the development team
- Mentored younger developers and provided them with the type of the work that allowed them room to grow
- Managed team priorities across several competing clients and projects
Cloud Engineer
The AWS Years (2018 - 2021)
Generally responsible for setting up and maintaining our AWS environment. Also, led the charge on moving from Rackspace to AWS.
- Migrated several large Postgres databases while minimizing impact to live programs
- Built several Kubernetes clusters and set up live "replicas" of existing environments to provide for a near seamless cutover
- Ensured that existing integrations with clients and third party vendors weren't disrupted and data processing continued with minimal interruption
- Replaced existing Infrastructure as Code with terraform and overhauled the CI/CD process
The Rackspace Years (2011 - 2021)
Responsible for maintaining our cloud servers and improving the process so that the onboarding of new clients was less odious.
- Containerization of all of the applications and the setup of the CI/CD processes
- Developed the procedure for provisioning new servers using Ansible to provide standard baseline configurations with alarming and monitoring baked in and a path for easy upgrades
Naia Corporation (2010 - 2011)
Naia offered software development outsourcing and consulting to small businesses in the Birmingham area
Front End Developer
- Focused mainly on cleanup of existing client applications and worked on modernizing the front end technology stack away from Silverlight towards modern HTML, JS and CSS
- Embedded with a client for a prolonged period to help launch a mobile browser application that interfaced with their existing web services
Insercorp (2008 - 2010)
Insercorp built and maintained small business websites.
Full Stack Developer
Responsible for several new client implementations as well as new modules for the proprietary CMS used by Insercorp