About Me
Nine years inside healthcare, insurance, and banking systems.
StellaWatson
I live in Houston. Most of my adult life has been spent close to other people's healthcare and money — which is another way of saying I think about the person on the other side of the system, not the system for its own sake.
Projects
Projects
Flagship · HMS
Referral status API
Flagship case. An illustrative composite of HMS healthcare work: the operator screen that asked whether a referral had moved — Java, Spring Boot, SQL, React, AWS.
35% faster APIs · 40% shorter deploys
- Java
- Spring Boot
- SQL
- REST APIs
- React.js
care.internal/referrals
members.internal/enroll
Florida Blue
Enrollment intake
Member-facing insurance applications on Java, Spring Boot, React, and AWS — owned from the first requirement through production support.
5+ insurance applications · 20+ APIs · 25% faster processing
services.internal/transfers
U.S. Bank
Ledger post APIs
Secure banking applications for customer services and transactions — 25+ Spring Boot APIs, with authentication and automated tests in the delivery path.
25+ REST APIs · 25%+ faster transaction workflows
internal.local/queue
USAA
First serious rooms
Early full-stack work on enterprise financial applications in Java, Spring, JavaScript, and SQL — the week as it actually is.
3 financial applications · 10+ APIs · 20+ production fixes
Years
Years
HMS
Senior Full Stack Java Developer
Irving, Texas · Referral status API.
Jan 2022 — Jul 2026
Florida Blue
Senior Full Stack Java Developer
Jacksonville, Florida · Enrollment intake.
Oct 2020 — Dec 2021
U.S. Bank
Senior Full Stack Java Developer
Los Angeles, California · Ledger post APIs. Master's at night.
Jul 2018 — Sept 2020
USAA
Full Stack Java Developer
San Antonio, Texas · First production rooms.
Jan 2017 — Jun 2018
2018 — 2020
M.S. in Computer Science
Texas Tech University
2014 — 2018
B.S. in Computer Science
Texas Tech University
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Write to me.
Open to senior full-stack roles — healthcare, finance, and teams that care how software actually ships.
+1 (425) 553-2922 · Houston, TX. The 425 number is the one that reaches me.