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Gavin Nitta

Gavin Nitta

Network Operations Specialist

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineering Leader | Front-End Development | Back-End Development

  • Education

    • Brigham Young University

      2013 - 2017
      Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science

  • Experience

    • Brigham Young University

      Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
      Network Operations Specialist

      - Assist in major incident coordination including contacting engineers to troubleshoot outages, keeping a log of decisions made and actions taken, as well as filling out resolution reports used to improve troubleshooting and prevent future outages.- Actively monitor network devices and troubleshoot network alerts through application of Knowledge base.

    • Missionary Training Center

      Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
      Japanese Instructor

      The Missionary Training Center is a religious and language training facility.- Taught Japanese to young adult men and women, ages 19 - 23.

    • Brigham Young University

      Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
      Senior Web Developer

      BYU is a private university with 35,000 students.- Turned abstract ideas and feedback from customers into structured code.- Communicated with development managers on tasks and issues.- Participated in Agile development.- Tracked issues/bugs in JIRA.

    • Lingotek

      Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
      Software Engineer

      Translation management company.- Created custom applications, reporting directly to the CTO.- Integrated Lingotek's products with content management systems.

    • Blip Billboards

      Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
      Senior Software Engineer

      Digital billboards company.- Rebuilt Blip's user-facing application serving thousands of customers.- Managed a team of three developers.- Created and managed CI/CD.

    • App Genies LLC

      Jan 2018 - now
      Co-Founder & CTO

      App Genies is a software development consultancy for healthcare providers.- Partnered with Utah's largest physician-owned network of specialty healthcare clinics, to develop a HIPPA-compliant application that allows physicians to safely and securely annotate and store patient photos and documents in EHR systems.- Identified the need.- Successfully presented the concept to board members.- Articulated project requirements and validated solutions.- Developed in-depth security, HIPAA compliance, technical architecture, and quality assurance reviews. Show less

    • U.S. Xpress Logistics

      Jan 2020 - Jun 2022

      Over-the-road (OTR) trucking and brokerage company.- Led the development of a web application for hundreds of U.S. Xpress brokers and thousands of carriers. - Increased signups 4X by rewriting the onboarding process and integrating it with third-party tools.

      • Engineering Manager

        Sept 2021 - Jun 2022

      • Senior Full Stack Engineer Team Lead

        Jan 2020 - Sept 2021

    • Postman

      Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
      Technical Lead - Growth

      API platform for building and using APIs.- Added generative AI features using OpenAI and Anthropic.- Determined the statistical significance of new features in driving desired outcomes.

    • LVT (LiveView Technologies)

      Apr 2024 - now
      Staff Software Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Full-Time Volunteer Missionary (2 years in Tokyo Japan)

      Issued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Mar 2011
      The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsAssociated with Gavin Nitta