Allison Braithwaite

Senior Software Engineer, Retention

Virta Health

Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 10 months)

Lead eng design and development of an LLM-based Meal Planning feature, from initial prototype at a hackathon through full productionalization in less than 3 months. Testing in an A/B test showed a 4% lift in our team's core OKR, and an overall 2% lift in DAU in the test group. Approached iteration on the feature with a funnel analysis with the key user engagement steps, and was able to lift the first step by 10% with targeted engineering improvements. This effort introduced a pattern of working with the OpenAI Assistants API, and democratized AI development by establishing internal best practices for working with LLMs in our normal SDLC. Advised on engineering designs for several other projects, emphasizing rapid prototyping an iteration an

Full Stack Engineer, Clinic

Virta Health

Oct 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Fullstack role on the team responsible for our internal EHR system. Contributed to and led rollout of major effort to recreate our clinical intake workflows in the internal system vs an external vendor that was not well suited to the purpose. Effort was delivered ahead of deadline, with major coordination with product and clinical stakeholders for UAT testing and bug fixing. Tech lead project to redefine "baseline" lab values in our system, working cross-functionally with partners on the analytics team, as well as our external vendor for lab data. This allowed deprecation of several data pipelines and ensured all analytical and operational use cases were using the same data. Worked heavily with FHIR objects and presented internally to engin

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Virta Health

Jun 2020 - Oct 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Part of a large effort to migrate our entire system onto Google Cloud Platform. This gave us greater control over the details of our systems' configuration, and unlocked functionality via Google's various managed cloud services. As part of this migration I: - Designed the helm chart to run our app's in Kubernetes, and rolled it out to 20+ microservices. - Lead education and troubleshooting sessions with a group of feature engineers to both ensure they understood the new tools and interfaces used with GCP & GKE, and to leverage their knowledge to test our new systems. Post migration, deprecated several old tools made redundant by GCP, improving cost and security. Wrote a healthchecking proxy service in go, enabling use of external healthchec

Software Engineer - Platform

GE Digital

Aug 2019 - Jun 2020 (11 months)

Developing Kubernetes and CloudFoundry BOSH based PaaS products for internal and external customers. Automated deployment of all major system components using Jenkins, scripts, and AWS SSM Agent. Deployed Prometheus as metric-level monitoring solution, configuring custom dashboards, alerts, and certificates using custom BOSH release

Full-stack Developer

GE Digital

Feb 2019 - Jul 2019 (6 months)

Sole developer building out MVP1 of an internal monitoring product. Backend coded in go with a microservices architecture, frontend in javascript with React. Responsible for gathering and prioritizing requirements from various managers interested in this project, building out features to add additional data sources and insight management, making architectural and UX decisions, and regularly presenting and soliciting feedback from stakeholders.

Site Reliability Engineer - Telemetry

GE Digital

Sep 2018 - Feb 2019 (6 months)

Rotated between several teams to improve their telemetry practices using AppDynamics (Cisco product) and Splunk. After initial examination of a teams telemetry set up, worked with the tools to improve alerting (reducing volume & noise while retaining true alerts) and monitoring. On various teams, improved log quality in Splunk, examined log data to create more useful dashboards from scratch, reduced Splunk license usage, and set up AppDynamics monitoring and alerts.

Full Stack Developer

GE Digital

Feb 2018 - Aug 2018 (7 months)

Full stack development in Polymer, NodeJS, and Java for a new application to assist with data mapping. Experienced building a new product as opposed to augmenting an existing codebase. Once initial development was complete, assisted communicating with other teams to gather additional requirements for further developments, and explored options to reduce redundancy between various mapping microservices within GE.

Front End Developer

GE Digital

Jul 2017 - Jan 2018 (7 months)

Developed front end features in React/Redux. Assisted with front end refactoring from AngularJS to React. Acquired competence in software development basics (github, build pipelines, QA systems, unit testing, automation, etc.).

Software Engineer - Digital Technology Leadership Program

GE Digital

Jun 2017 - Jul 2019 (2 years 2 months)

Leadership program comprised of four six month rotations in various software roles. Outside of day to day work, shaped career counselling aspect of the Roanoke summer intern program. Participated in leadership, agile scrum, product ownership, and data science trainings as part of the program.

Teaching Assitant

Duke University

May 2016 - Jun 2016 (2 months)

Ran the lab section and graded lab reports for a microelectronic devices and circuits class (ECE230). Assisted students with trouble-shooting and understanding the circuits they created. Tested an innovative take-home lab platform to help the Duke ECE program develop labs that can be performed remotely, ideally for use with Duke's Kunshan campus.

Research Assistant

Duke University

Sep 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 4 months)

Pursuing my own independent project of co-culturing endothelial cells with skeletal muscle cells to improve the physiological relevance of the lab's skeletal muscle models, as well as assisting different members of the lab with their work, mainly through immunofluorescent staining, imaging, and subsequent data analysis.

Summer Research Student

University Health Network

Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 (3 months)

Performed lab work at the Moffat lab, part of the Ontario Cancer Institute at the University of Toronto. Here I learned different procedures such as PCR, gel electrophoresis, and cloning bacteria. I independently created a book of western blots for over 100 lysates, testing each for the expression of the protein β-trc.

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Assistant Teacher

Spirit of Math Schools Inc.

Sep 2012 - Jun 2013 (10 months)

Assisted with the instruction of grade two and grade six level advanced math classes. I performed administrative tasks such as taking attendance and grading student work. I also identified students who were struggling in the class and worked one-on-one with them to explain the concepts, allowing them to catch up.

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