JOHN STEELE URBAN

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PROFILE

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in designing scalable, event-driven systems in cloud-native environments. Strong track record of delivering secure APIs, orchestrated workflows, and real-world integrations across fintech and healthcare. Primary expertise in C#/.NET with some experience scripting in Python and PowerShell to support clinical operations, data workflows, and vendor interoperability. Known for leading cross-functional efforts, mentoring engineers, and driving long-term platform growth through practical architecture.

TECHNOLOGIES

WORK EXPERIENCE

Henry Meds, October 2023 – present (Remote)

• Domain lead for the internal pharmacy platform, driving the architecture and rollout of core prescription services and complex third-party integrations with national pharmacy, EHR, and lab vendors.
• Redesigned the prescription delay system to support complex, asynchronous workflows across multiple services using Google Cloud Task Queues, enhancing throughput and reducing manual intervention in prescription processing.
• Designed and implemented a distributed event handler system using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to ingest messages from vendor-facing APIs. Built foundational .NET services to process those events, now used as a base template across teams.
• Architected inbound status sync systems using GCP Gateway, Cloud Functions (Node.js) and Pub/Sub to handle both webhook and polling-based updates from pharmacy and lab vendors. Designed Scheduled lab polling workflows using Cloud Scheduler to ensure up-to-date order visibility.
• Actively mentor engineers across seniority levels. Act as a go-to resource on pharmacy-related systems and service patterns.
• Participate in backend engineering interviews, with a focus on assessing technical depth, design, clarity, and cross-team collaboration skills.

AvidXchange August 2021 – August 2024 (Remote)

• Key contributor (small team - 2 devs) in delivering the MVP Bank Account Management (BAM) product; an event driven. domain used as the one-stop resource for storing and validating bank account information for payment processing.
• Lead and organized cross-team collaboration to adopt Authn/Authz platform integration for BAM.
• Helped Standardize encryption for BAM and documentation to be used as new company standard for MS SQL in Avid.
• Built the CI/CD for BAM in Azure DevOps leveraging Terraform for Azure infra – (App Service/functions/Redis/MsSql/Blobs/KeyVault/ManagedIdentity etc.)
• Built and designed buyer migration from Legacy to NextGen services/db’s with an ETL process leveraging Azure Data Factory and CI/CD in Azure DevOps using Terraform.

Learn on Demand Systems, June 2017 – August 2021 (Remote)

• Lead all platforms to transition to a central authentication token server - Azure AD B2C – this included organizing monolith cut overs and standalone API’s. Shared knowledge and documented to help facilitate cut over for every platform/team.
• Created a simple SAML consumer endpoint in one of the core product monoliths (planned to migrate to use Azure AD B2C).
• Implemented multiple integrations including Microsoft’s Graph API, Zoom, and QuickBooks.
• Designed a system of event driven services for capturing billable events.
• Building API and RESTful services and web apps used to synchronize. business processes across enterprise systems for various clients.

Pima Association of Governments, February 2016 - June 2017

• Supporting and creating regional planning activities through software and assisting technical staff in the production of spatial analysis tools, procedures, services, and products to help the growing Tucson community.
• Implementation and design of complex cash flow analysis, project performance tracking, financial budgetary control reporting in the Regional Transport Authority for jurisdictional users with novice to expert computer skills.

EDUCATION

University of Arizona  Degree: English Literature  Minors: Spanish & Music Theory

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