Software Engineer — Boston, MA
Joey
Rocaberte.
I'm a software engineer who's spent 8 years building and maintaining enterprise web apps at Athenium, and lately that work has meant using AI daily to move faster. Outside of work, you'll usually find me at a concert, tinkering on something, or reading up on personal finance.
Experience
Insurance technology — Dover, NH / Remote
Software Engineer
May 2021 – Present- Built the Multi-Reviewer workflow in TEAMThink — lets multiple reviewers assess a single file independently and consolidates their results into one output for reporting.
- Helped ship Secondary Calibration Reviews in GaugeQuality, allowing senior reviewers to verify the results of existing reviews before they go to reporting.
- Set up AI tooling across the dev workflow to automate repetitive tasks and move faster on both reviews and new feature work.
- Migrated the TEAMThink application suite from CVS to Git, modernizing version control for a codebase that had been on CVS for decades.
- Introduced pre-commit hooks, EditorConfigs, and a real unit testing suite to a 20+ year old codebase that had essentially none of those things.
- Wrote and organized technical documentation from scratch — onboarding new engineers went from painful to manageable.
Associate Software Engineer
Jan 2020 – May 2021- Transitioned from client-facing work into the core product team, picking up Angular and Spring Boot development.
- Wrote unit tests for Angular components and services and started contributing to refactoring efforts to reduce bundle sizes and improve load times.
Professional Services Engineer
Jul 2018 – Jan 2020- Built custom reports and application configurations for clients using JavaScript and SQL, working closely with account managers to scope and deliver what each client needed.
- Handled technical support and delivered monthly metric reports directly to clients.
Projects
Resonate
A social app for music people — follow friends, see a personalized feed, and get a taste-match score based on what you both listen to. Message friends directly, track which shows you're going to, and see who else from your circle will be there. Under the hood, it syncs and dedupes playlists across Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube by ISRC, so a song is the same song no matter where it lives.
Skills
Frontend
Backend
Database
Testing
Tools & Infra
AI & Automation
Outside of Work
Live Music
I go to a lot of concerts — electronic music is my main thing, but I'll show up for pretty much anything interesting. I played piano and drums growing up, which probably explains a lot. The concert tracker below has the full list.
Fitness
I try to get to the gym consistently. It's a good reset from staring at a screen all day.
Personal Finance
I've been teaching myself the basics — investing, retirement accounts, eventually real estate. It's one of those topics where the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.
Gaming
Currently into Rainbow 6 Siege, Predecessor, and Arc Raiders. Mostly competitive shooters and anything with a decent learning curve.
Tinkering
I write Python scripts for things I find annoying to do by hand, and I'm the default IT person for my family. I actually enjoy it.