The search functionality on our site was going to start showing advertisements to our customers after a certain date, so we needed to replace it with something quickly. We chose to leverage the full-text search capabilities of Solr and add a new microservice to search the existing JSON-based content stored in the Digital Content Repository.

Helped develop a suite of microservices to deliver JSON-based content to mutualofomaha.com, so changes to the site could be made easily without a code deployment. We used a Solr backend for fast retrieval speed, Spring Boot for developing a web application quickly and Spock for unit testing. We added integration tests for shaking out issues with our actual infrastructure configuration and ran load tests using JMeter before moving to production.

Worked with rest of mutualofomaha.com team to develop calculators and quoters to keep the site release on schedule. We learned Vue.js to get us started and delivered a unit tested, accessible calculator package with multi-level validation, graphed results and error handling. We had to work with very minimal design changes since quoters were already filed with the states' departments of insurance.

Helped develop a responsive web application to replace Excel reporting for the group insurance sales force. We used an Angular 1.x frontend and a metadata-based Teradata backend for maximum flexibility.

Gathered technical requirements and worked with actuaries to help develop a Groovy-based rating engine for Mutual of Omaha's accident insurance product. This involved running hypothetical testing scenarios and integrating the new product into downstream reporting systems.

Helped to develop and test a Groovy-based rating engine for Mutual of Omaha's group insurance critical illness product.

Upgraded and added a mapping tool to a Grails application used to store metadata relationships for Mutual's different systems. This showed how data flows between systems and made impact analysis for database changes easier.

Helped develop a batch process to transform group insurance sales data into a format that could easily be used for reporting. We improved this over time to include new insurance products, pull data from our business partners and deliver information to financial systems.

Developed a servlet application for the development team to add their code changes to a software release. This also called a release notes servlet to generate release notes for the code changes.