Nicholas Jeske

Senior Software Engineer

• Designed and developed an AI-powered menu optimization platform, forecasted to launch in 4,000+ senior living facilities, with a projected 5–8% reduction in food costs through intelligent ingredient substitutions and nutrition-aware recommendations • Led daily standups and mentored two new engineers, accelerating onboarding and enhancing team cohesion in a fast-paced agile environment • Implemented in-memory caching in the menuing API to offload pricing service dependencies and boost response times • Technologies Used: TypeScript, C#, Python, PostgreSQL, Terraform, AWS

Freelance Android Developer

• Produced an ATV/Snowmobile trails app, "The Next Trail," on the Google Play Store achieving over 3,000 downloads. • Developed vital features like subscriptions, event/business sign-up, and cloud-based trail recordings to enhance value for users. • Tested multiple mobile devices to ensure the app is compatible with the latest version of the Android OS. • Technologies Used: Java, XML, SQLite, Google (Maps API, Sign-On, & Billing), and debugging using Google Play Console.

Software Engineer

• Designed and implemented a streamlined data flow pattern in collaboration with Financial Data Resources (FDR) for processing 28 policy and billing systems, along with 16 claim systems, across 7 ecosystems. • Utilized Jest test framework to surpass 80% code coverage target for premium and loss AWS CDK stacks. • Created an Error Hospital UI to enable source system users to resubmit invalid data through premium and loss flows. • Integrated OAuth 2.0 to accounting date service to ensure API calls are secured for General Ledger Processors. • Technologies Used: JavaScript (React & Node), Java, AWS CDK (Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway & Aurora), and debugging using Datadog & CloudWatch logs.

Associate Software Engineer

• Reduced technical debt and defects by 50% by integrating SonarQube to CI/CD pipelines for Risk Servicing Ops team’s repositories. • Converted Insured Service Accounts (ISA) bank lock box Unix scripts from FTP to SFTP which transfers 2.8 million dollars of daily payments to insurance batch jobs. • Redesigned ISA Data Aggregator utilizing Spring Framework and Docker container to reduce security vulnerabilities and technical debt. • Mentored 3 associate software engineers on the team on VB. Net, GitLab CI/CD, Mainframe, and documentation best practices. • Technologies Used: VB. Net, Java, Linux, Docker, Git, and debugging using Autosys logs.

Software Engineer Intern

• Built SOAP & RESTful web services that served data to our JavaScript front end teams that handled over 4,000 daily users. • Delivered 7 new portfolio and variable Universal Life products which surpassed sales by 11.5% of target by utilizing mainframe technologies on billing and collections team. • Wrote reusable unit test cases to ensure quality control and identify bugs. • Technologies Used: SOAP, REST, DB2, and Mainframe (PL/1, JCL, SAS).

Software Engineer Intern

• Developed a GUI application to show a directory of folders which contained warehouse parts to perform CRUD operations on SQL database. • Technologies Used: C#, XAML, and SQL with Microsoft Visual Studio.