Isabella White

About

Software engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end internal products at State Farm, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, AWS Lambda serverless backends, and Postgres data layers. Stands out for combining strong systems thinking with product sense: they improved a policy rerate platform with measurable performance gains, built a reusable rerate API adopted across teams, and also shipped an internal LLM chatbot MVP with built-in user feedback loops.

Key Strengths

• End-to-end ownership across frontend, serverless backend, and Postgres
• Built automated policy rerate system with reliability safeguards
• Strong cross-layer debugging using correlation IDs and CloudWatch
• Designed for idempotency and auditability in event-driven workflows
• Performance optimization in Lambda/Postgres systems
• Delivered 30-40% processing time reduction through batching
• Reduced downstream API throttling with architectural changes
• Product-minded UX improvement for automotive compatibility flow
• Measured UX impact via drop-off, time-to-value, repeat usage, and add-to-cart metrics
• Shipped ambiguous 0-to-1 internal LLM chatbot MVP quickly
• Created real-time user feedback loop with thumbs up/down and text input
• Recognized repeated needs and abstracted them into reusable rerate API
• Balanced configurability with guardrails through validation and predefined action types

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