Joan Harrington
Director Of Engineering at Aetna, a CVS Health Company
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoan Harrington is a Director of Engineering based in Denver with eight years of experience blending backend development (Node, Ruby, AWS) and DevOps with team and organizational strategy. She has progressed at Aetna/CVS from backend engineer to senior technical product manager and now leads engineering efforts driving AI-powered search, RAG-based generative solutions, and event-driven designs to improve member experience at scale. Joan excels at translating complex integration architecture into pragmatic team strategies, hiring and managing distributed engineering talent, and delivering parallel solutions to satisfy both progressive and conservative stakeholders. Her background includes hands-on server work and a practical product mindset—she pairs coding fluency with process refinement to speed delivery without sacrificing reliability. An atypical thread in her career is international teaching and an art-history/japanese studies foundation, which contributes to her cross-cultural communication and creative problem-solving.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Art History Japanese Language and Art History, Art History Japanese Language and Art History at Florida State UniversityTuring School of Software & Design
English, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
webpack-config3
php3
sorting3
webpack-plugin1
npm-package1
rails1
tasty1
npm1
object-oriented-programming1
get-started1
scrabble1
quantified-self1
webpack1
ruby1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Aram-Anderson/the_pivot_redux
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 29 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
sidewinder2020/bike-share
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:22 PRs, 54 pushes, 45 branches in 6 days
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