{"id":14,"date":"2026-10-25T03:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:27:05","slug":"work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/work\/","title":{"rendered":"Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Software Engineer <br>Healthcare &amp; EdTech Startup | Contract (2024 \u2013 Present)<br>Architected and delivered a HIPAA-compliant virtual care platform from concept to production. Built scalable .NET \/ ASP.NET Core microservices, secure authentication (OAuth 2.0 \/ JWT), real-time video consultation flows, and cloud infrastructure (Azure \/ AWS, Docker, Kubernetes). Partnered directly with founders and clinical stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lead Full Stack Engineer<br>Lululemon (Mirror) | Seattle (2020 \u2013 2023)<br>Contributed to revenue-critical global e-commerce and fitness platform. Designed scalable backend services in C# \/ .NET 7\/8, ASP.NET Core, and microservices. Led Shopify integrations (reduced platform maintenance ~60%), Stripe payments, Auth0 identity, and cross-region CI\/CD deployments with Docker + Kubernetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lead Software Engineer<br>Cerence Inc. | Bellevue<br>Built enterprise AI voice automation platform (VBNA). Developed ASP.NET Core microservices, React frontends, and integrations with Salesforce, RabbitMQ, and Kafka. Implemented CNN-based deep learning model for voice-command classification (improved accuracy ~20%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software Development Engineer<br>Universal Instruments Corporation | New York (2016 \u2013 2019)<br>Developed .NET applications for UFlex industrial automation platform used in electronics manufacturing. Built real-time control, event processing, and modular workflows for pick\/place, dispensing, and inspection systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier Experience<br>Software Engineer at Comcast \/ Tata Elxsi (2012 \u2013 2014) \u2014 large-scale video and set-top box platform automation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Software Engineer Healthcare &amp; EdTech Startup | Contract (2024 \u2013 Present)Architected and delivered a HIPAA-compliant virtual care platform from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljohnson.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}