Senior Software Engineer focused on platform engineering and developer productivity; shipping reliable systems, automating operational workflows, and improving delivery speed.

Experience

Software Engineer – Platform Engineering, BlueCross BlueShield SC

July 2024 to Present

Infrastructure Modernization: Architected migrations of artifact management, data ingest, and ticketing systems from VMs to Kubernetes, reducing maintenance overhead and enabling self-service via GitOps. Benchmarked storage options, identified NAS/network bottlenecks, and secured on-cluster storage to keep builds fast and predictable.

Performance Engineering: Diagnosed CPU throttling in CI/CD runners that impacted developer velocity; reduced throttling by 80%, adding alerting to prevent regression.

Strategy & Leadership: Prototyped and socialized improvements such as event-driven secret rotation and Prometheus-based monitoring; drove GitOps and self-service adoption to reduce operational silos.

Security Automation: Automated service account password and certificate rotation workflows, removing recurring maintenance windows and minimizing manual steps in high-security environments.

Compliance & Monitoring: Developed tamper-prevention monitoring for Medicare workstations (SR-10) and integrated cloud identity data into on-prem reporting, closing compliance gaps and enriching alerts with user context.

Software Developer – Full Stack, Krumware

March 2021 to October 2023

Delivery Acceleration: Championed Go and TypeScript adoption and built standardized templates/CI patterns, improving delivery speed by 20%. Introduced a schema-first API workflow (OpenAPI → generated interfaces) to make correctness compiler-enforced.

Product Engineering: Led development of new web and mobile apps (React, React Native) and backend services; automated iOS/Android releases with Fastlane and implemented design systems for consistent UI.

Complex Systems: Built offline-first sync, real-time socket streaming, and Bluetooth integrations; reverse-engineered legacy software to support modernization.

Research Assistant, AI and Systems Laboratory

August 2020 to April 2021

• Researched transfer learning, causal inference, and machine learning
• Analyzed cross-platform performance of deep-learning recommender
• Replicated prior research on highly configurable systems

Software Developer – Intern, Velocity

June 2018 to August 2018

• Developed AWS storage primitive for simplified cloud orchestration
• Built storage optimization solution for Amazon Elastic Block Storage

Projects

• Home Kubernetes cluster: github.com/cjshearer/k8s-gitops
• Custom wireless keyboard: github.com/cjshearer/cweep
• A simple, content-driven resume builder: github.com/cjshearer/modern-hugo-resume

Education

BS Computer Science, University of South Carolina

August 2017 to May 2021

• Graduated magna cum laude with a minor in mathematics
• Received Outstanding Senior Award and Palmetto Fellows Scholarship
• Honored with President’s List, Dean’s List, and Phi Beta Kappa membership
• Served as President and Treasurer of the Carolina Movement Club (parkour!)

Skills