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Tara Worrell
Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure
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Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.
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Key Strengths
- Designed backend streaming architecture for airline crew messaging in a high-stakes environment
- Strong distributed systems judgment across Kafka, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and Avro
- Reliability-focused engineering with stress testing and operational visibility tooling
- Built custom partitioning and consumer-group strategies for high-throughput real-time messaging
- Able to define backend scope from ambiguity in early-stage environments
- Experience building HIPAA-compliant backend systems for mental health applications
- Cross-functional discovery with clinicians to shape product requirements and data models
- Calm incident ownership under pressure; resolved production outage with targeted hotfix instead of full rollback
- Turned a production incident into lasting DevOps improvements
- Led Jenkins revamp that cut build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency
- Built LeanRAG retrieval layer to improve LLM accuracy while controlling token usage
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