David Swenson
Ten-plus years designing and building cloud-native applications for healthcare, SaaS, and nonprofit organizations. I take systems from design to production — cloud migrations, legacy modernization, CI/CD pipelines — and mentor the engineers around me.
Experience
01 / 03- 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Global Unity Impact Mar 2023 – Present 3y 6m · Remote- Own the architecture and development of a full-stack platform supporting nonprofit operations, built on React, TypeScript, Bun, Hono, and MongoDB.
- Designed the platform's REST API layer in TypeScript with Hono, establishing type-safe, maintainable patterns for backend services.
- Own the MongoDB data layer end to end, from schema design and indexing strategy to query performance and operational reliability.
- Led adoption of AI-assisted development across the team, integrating a range of coding assistants and LLMs into daily workflows to speed up delivery and strengthen code review.
- 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Evive Health Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 1y 2m · Remote- Designed and deployed a cross-service auditing layer that enforced data integrity across the microservice platform and became a core reliability safeguard.
- Engineered an automated messaging system that replaced manual communication workflows, removing a bottleneck as the platform scaled.
- Led development of a demo sales site for myevive.com to prototype product direction, shaping UX decisions for the core product.
- Built and maintained production microservices and web applications across Python, Java, C#, and TypeScript on AWS and PostgreSQL.
- 2021
Software Engineer II
Evive Health Jul 2021 – Jan 2022 6m · Remote- Designed and built an external authentication service that lets partners generate access tokens and call APIs on behalf of end users, enabling partner integrations.
- Migrated internal authentication to Auth0, strengthening security and improving scalability.
- Mentored an intern from onboarding through production launch, guiding the design and build of a serverless medical code mapping API.
- Cut CI/CD build times by introducing ephemeral GoCD agents, speeding up automated testing and deployment.
- 2019
Software Engineer
Evive Health Aug 2019 – Jun 2021 1y 10m · Remote- Launched Evive Care in response to COVID-19: a real-time search tool for state and county testing sites, used by thousands of employees.
- Led the migration of internal tooling from Rackspace to AWS, improving infrastructure management and performance.
- Established infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation, standardizing and automating environment provisioning.
- Architected serverless services on AWS Lambda, improving scalability while reducing operational overhead and infrastructure cost.
- Built the CI/CD foundation for the engineering team by integrating GoCD into the development pipeline.
- Championed TypeScript for backend development, improving type safety and long-term maintainability.
- Drove company-wide adoption of an accessible frontend framework, raising WCAG compliance across the product.
- 2018
Software Engineer
WiserTogether Apr 2018 – Jul 2019 1y 3m · Boston, MA- Built and owned the Cordova-based iOS and Android app for mywiserhealth.com, maintaining feature parity across platforms.
- Migrated analytics from Adobe to self-hosted Matomo, bringing user data in-house for stronger privacy and control.
- 2015
Junior Software Engineer
WiserTogether Dec 2015 – Mar 2018 2y 3m · Boston, MA- Designed and implemented a public-facing API with an emphasis on security, scalability, and clear developer documentation.
- Containerized backend services and migrated infrastructure from OpenShift to Apache Aurora.
- Introduced TypeScript to the frontend codebase and moved CI from Travis CI to Jenkins.
- 2014
Software Engineering Intern
Continuum Managed Services Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 11m · Boston, MA- Shipped features for the Continuum Cloud Console (C3) and Sync247 in PHP and JavaScript, including integrations with additional cloud providers.
- Helped fellow interns get up to speed on RESTful API development.
Stack
02 / 03- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, SQL
- Frontend
- React, Svelte, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS, Accessibility (WCAG)
- Backend
- Node.js, Bun, Hono, REST APIs, Microservices, Serverless, Auth0
- Data
- MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cloudflare Workers KV, Redis, Memcached
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS, Lambda, ECS, CloudFormation, Cloudflare Workers, Docker, GitHub Actions, GoCD, Jenkins, Travis CI
- Testing
- Vitest, Jest, Pytest
- AI tooling
- AI coding assistants, LLM workflows, Local LLMs
Education
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Wentworth Institute of Technology
B.S. Computer Networking · 2011 – 2015 · Boston, MA