Summary
Joseph Kotanchik is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of Java/J2EE experience and a strong track record modernizing complex government and healthcare systems. Based in State College, PA, he has driven full lifecycle development from legacy migration to cloud-native ETL and real-time data pipelines, combining Java Spring backends, NoSQL datastores, Kafka, and React front-ends. His work spans both hands-on implementation and test automation—refactoring Cucumber suites and building parallel, low-latency data mappers for high-volume JSON/XML ingestion in AWS. He excels at bridging legacy architectures (GWT, Rails, Oracle WebLogic) to modern stacks while ensuring compliance with standards like FHIR and QMIG. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design decisions that balance operational performance with maintainability across regulated domains.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Sciences and Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University