Wade Carlson

Software Developer | U.S. Marine Veteran

Experience

Software Developer

Optum Serve

Led an enterprise-wide migration of multiple mission-critical Angular applications from v12 to v20, ensuring architectural integrity and long-term maintainability while championing best practices across the engineering team.

Collaborated directly with business stakeholders to define requirements for a document-viewing solution. Architected and led the deployment of an automated process allowing Veterans to securely access documents previously restricted to manual mail/email workflows, significantly improving accessibility.

Engineered a responsive, unauthenticated availability solution that minimized user friction for Veteran appointment scheduling, resulting in a measurable reduction in appointment no-shows.

Contributed to the modernization of the legacy worksheet library by decomposing it into a scalable microservice. Managed the transition, including containerization and successful deployment to a Kubernetes environment.

Jan 2021 - Current

Software Developer / Consultant

Centare

Modernized a legacy WinForms provider credentialing tool by architecting a new Angular application. Implemented Angular Reactive Forms to streamline state management and reduce form submission errors.

Partnered with global engineering teams to enforce rigorous unit testing standards and CI/CD pipelines, directly improving build reliability.

July 2018 - Jan 2021

Freelance Web Developer

Upwork

Managed a critical Rails upgrade (v4.2 to 5.1) for Key Lime Toolbox, ensuring long-term system stability and security compliance.

August 2017 - October 2017

Education

Scrum.org

Certificate - PSM-I

devCodeCamp

Certificate - Web Developement

The FireHose Project

Certificate - Web Developement

Mississippi State University

Bachelor of Business Administration

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Experience With
  • Front-End: Angular, JavaScript, Blazor, Rails
  • Back-End: C#, Ruby
  • Databases: SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB