Owen Eldridge
Resume
Full Stack Software Engineer
Remote, US-based (Tampa Bay Area, Florida)
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Skills
- Languages and frameworks
- Go, GORM, Python, PyTest, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, GraphQL (gqlgen), gRPC/Protobuf, Django, Ember.js, Redux
- Infrastructure and data
- AWS (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, ECS, CDK, IAM, Secrets Manager), PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB
- Tools and practices
- AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) with test- and review-gated output, local models via Ollama, GitHub Actions, Docker, Podman, Datadog APM/Logs, Statsig, Playwright, Vitest, SonarCloud, CI/CD, microservices, feature-flag rollouts, Agile/Scrum
Experience
SmithRx
2025 to present
Software Engineer
Healthcare technology, pharmacy benefits management
- Engineering lead on a historical claims import platform in Go: designed the data model so adjudication, accumulators, and reporting could consume imported claims with no code changes from those teams
- Designed a phased workflow for running engineering projects through AI coding agents (plan, ticket breakdown, review gate before every pull request), and used it to lead a four-repository claims import that finished development more than three weeks ahead of schedule
- Owned cross-team data-integrity validation for a claims data migration: built a Go CLI validation suite with two dozen automated checks and a thorough unit test suite, wrote the source-to-target mapping and validation guide the team adopted, and independently verified the full dry-run at production scale
- Found and fixed a migration defect, heading off downstream eligibility, accumulator, and reporting errors
- Led cross-system data quality initiatives across the claims pipeline, finding and fixing systemic issues, with production corrections delivered through formal change control
- Root-caused an inflated member cost-share estimate in a claims recovery, and tuned the PostgreSQL join behind the analysis from over 20 minutes to about 15 seconds
- Investigated and resolved production reporting incidents through root cause analysis, and wrote the correction runbooks so the fixes outlived the incidents
- Built Python automation for production claims analysis that turned hours of manual batch work into minutes, adopted as the operations team's standard workflow
- Built full-stack features from GraphQL schema design in Go (gqlgen) through React and TypeScript frontends, bringing cost calculation transparency to pharmacy claims, with Relay-compliant patterns, graceful degradation for older data, and shared fragments that cut frontend duplication
- Led features that spanned several repositories, planning backward-compatible rollouts so backend and frontend changes shipped with zero downtime
- Performed 100+ code reviews per quarter across 8 repositories, catching security vulnerabilities, data integrity bugs, and race conditions before they shipped
Indigo Tech Group, a Mindbody company
2023 to 2025
Technical Lead, Full Stack Software Engineer
Payments platform, since renamed Kite Technologies
- Technical lead on merchant onboarding for the payment facilitator, including beneficial-ownership verification and sanctions screening
- Authored Python coding standards based on PEP 8/257 that became the team baseline, covering layout, naming, error handling, and documentation while keeping the payments platform PCI compliant
- Engineered a webhook subscription management system on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB, enabling real-time payment event notifications to external systems
- Built card-present transaction processing by integrating the TriPOS Cloud API with Payrix, from POS terminal communication through transaction storage
- Architected a secure, responsive iframe payment component in Next.js and TypeScript for credit card and bank account management inside the core application
- Restructured monolithic Lambdas into modular microservices with PyTest suites at 80%+ coverage, surfacing 60+ bugs along the way
- Designed the Datadog tagging schema and monitoring strategy across payment services, cutting incident response time through structured, contextual logging
- Mentored junior engineers through reviews and pairing, on Pythonic idioms, data structures, and test-driven development
Mariana Tek | Xplor Technologies
2022 to 2023
Full Stack Software Engineer
Boutique fitness studio management SaaS
- Developed the Ember.js admin application and Django REST APIs for a multi-tenant platform serving national boutique fitness brands
- Implemented cart and checkout features including line-item discounts, quick-sale modals, and payment flows for in-studio point of sale
- Built automated end-to-end suites in Selenium and Python covering check-in, checkout, and class reservation flows
- Engineered a multi-tenant customization framework letting franchise clients ship white-labeled apps with their own styling and feature sets
Spearmint (OS Labs open-source accelerator)
2021 to 2022
Software Engineer
Accessibility-focused GUI for generating JavaScript tests, 1,000+ GitHub stars
- Materially improved application performance and cut code editor memory use by roughly 60% by replacing heavyweight dependencies while preserving full terminal emulation
- Extended TypeScript coverage through the React-Redux layer so action creators, reducers, and state were checked at compile time
- Implemented Redux for immutable, predictable state, eliminating unnecessary re-renders and prop drilling
Education
Florida Atlantic University, Computer Science coursework. Johnson & Wales University, BS.
Off hours
Homelab and self-hosting, open-source tinkering, classical guitar, adventure cycling, travel, and cooking most of the world's cuisines at home.