Summary
Samuel Badeau is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput backend systems, currently leading a team at Optum that supports UnitedHealthcare’s claims intake engine processing over five million claims per day. He specializes in Java, Spring Boot, JBOSS/EAP applications, Oracle SQL, CI/CD with Jenkins, and has guided API migrations to AKS while implementing OAuth2 client-credentials and Swagger documentation. A Boston College computer science graduate, he was hired through Optum’s Technology Development Program and quickly moved from intern to technical lead by bridging engineering, DBAs, and business partners to deliver measurable results. Pragmatic and process-minded, he emphasizes code quality via SonarQube coverage gates and has helped make internal APIs client-facing—demonstrating both deep technical craft and stakeholder-facing communication skills.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Boston College
English, Spanish