J. Brett Kalbacher

Experience

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  Day-Star School

  Aug 2012 - Jul 2013

  4th Grade Teacher

  Instructed a class of thirty Honduran children with varying abilities in the English language.Created and executed a curriculum as well as daily differentiated lesson plans for a program of nine subjects in support of students’ comprehension in an English language immersion program.Developed formative and summative performance reporting for parent-teacher conferences.

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  Conard High School

  Aug 2013 - May 2014

  Math TA/Tutor

  Acted as the in-house TA and tutor for the Math Department. Worked as a substitute teacher when others were absent.Ran the after school homework club in the library.

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  Day-Star School

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  Math Teacher

  Developed and implemented a standards-based curriculum for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade.Created differentiated lesson plans for classes of around 28 highly diversified ESL learners.Collaborated with fellow educators to cultivate a cross-discipline learning environment.

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  Farmington High School

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2017

  Math Teacher

  Worked on a team to develop and provide a standards-based curriculum for Geometry that focused on investigations and hands-on lessons.Utilized Google Classroom to provide an interactive syllabus as well as web-based assignments and notifications to both students and parents.

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  Goffstown High School

  Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

  Math Teacher

  In addition to my duties as a Math Teacher, I also independently developed a semester course in Architectural Design.In my free time I worked on developing an after school Hiking Club to encourage students to get outside and lead healthy lifestyles.

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  Geologie

  Dec 2018 - Jun 2019

  Jr. Software Developer

  - Build dynamic pixel perfect pages for all screen widths based on design team's specs.- Develop reusable and customizable sections that can be placed anywhere on the site.- Collaborate with a remote lead developer to build, test, maintain, and improve features.- Research, coordinate with, and integrate third party apps such as Talkable for marketing and Xporter for data analysis.- Refactor code in a React frontend combined with Shopify's Liquid template language.- Follow an organized workflow of receiving tasks through Asana and pulling/pushing code changes with Beanstalk. Show less

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  Wayfair

  Jun 2019 - Jan 2024

  - Develop a deep understanding of a complex legacy monolith codebase with limited testing and work to design, build, and maintain highly covered event-based decoupled services to support pivotal label printing operations within our warehouses- Communicate and collaborate with multiple upstream and downstream teams across multiple time zones to understand request/response needs and work to diagnose and triage critical issues that arise, requiring an on-call schedule of 1 full week per month- Have personally led the design and implementation of three tool improvements that have allowed us to deprecate old legacy code, increase user efficiency, and improve visibility into our systems Show less

  • Senior Software Engineer (L3)

    Jul 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Software Engineer II (L2)

    Mar 2021 - Jul 2023

  • Software Engineer I (L1)

    Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
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  Centene Corporation

  Oct 2024 - now

  Lead Application Engineer

  Collaborate closely with product manages, UX/UI designers, application users, and backend developers to build high-performance, responsive web solutions in an agile environement. My focus is on optimizing user experience while ensuring compliance with healthcare industry standards and regulatory requirements.