Nicole Bush

Tech Lead & Full Stack Engineer

Michigan (Remote)

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Summary

Full-stack engineer and technical lead with 6+ years building production-grade applications in fintech and government defense. Operates at an architectural level—defining API contracts, designing data schemas, leading cross-team integrations, and driving features from requirements through deployment. Known for owning complex, ambiguous work end to end, and for integrating AI tooling (Claude, OpenAI) as a first-class part of the engineering workflow.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Platform & Feature Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton

Remote

Aug 2022 — Present

  • Technical SME on major feature initiatives for a React/TypeScript enterprise application supporting U.S. military personnel management—owning scope definition, API contract design, database schema design, and end-to-end implementation with minimal oversight.
  • Designed a Splunk observability schema from scratch, defining an event taxonomy across API responses, business-logic events, and error states for full-flow request traceability.
  • Architected a standardized error-messaging framework spanning backend to UI, adopted as a codebase-wide pattern.
  • Contributed architectural direction in design sessions, including a complex staffing-calculation rules engine and backend service, API, and data modeling for new systems.
  • Built an MUI theme library adopted across the entire frontend and raised unit test coverage from 50% to 75%, establishing team-wide testing patterns.
  • Integrates Claude as a first-class engineering tool—pressure-testing architecture, generating implementation options, and surfacing edge cases to measurably reduce rework.
ReactTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLSplunkMaterial UIJestReact Testing LibraryClaude

Tech Lead · VA National Call Center AI Initiative

Booz Allen Hamilton

Remote

Aug 2022 — Mar 2024

  • Led engineering on an AI-powered voicebot that triages veteran medical-claims inquiries, integrated into Cisco call-center infrastructure at the VA.
  • Technical lead on a two-person senior team with full architectural ownership and no management layer—system and integration decisions made at the lead level.
  • Designed a distributed architecture across three components: an internal Vue.js CMS, Google Dialogflow NLP, and Google Cloud Functions for serverless response logic.
  • Coordinated Cisco telephony integration with external infrastructure leads through regular cross-team technical sessions.
  • Identified a gap in Dialogflow's native tooling and built a custom tool to flag training-phrase overlap across intents, improving response accuracy for veteran claims inquiries.
  • Managed deployments across AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Google Cloud Functions, and mentored a junior developer on SDLC, architectural decision-making, and code review.
Vue.jsGoogle DialogflowGoogle Cloud FunctionsAWS Elastic BeanstalkCisco

Software Engineer

Autobooks

Detroit, MI

Aug 2020 — Jun 2022

  • Contributed to a large-scale enterprise React/TypeScript fintech platform, integrating payment and invoicing features into online banking products.
  • Designed and implemented GraphQL schemas with TypeScript for safe, predictable API communication.
  • Refactored 120+ legacy React class components to a functional architecture, improving maintainability and performance across a large shared codebase.
  • Scaled the end-to-end Selenium Protractor test suite from 20 to 80+ tests, improving release confidence and regression coverage.
  • Enhanced the MUI theme library and standardized shared component patterns across the application.
ReactTypeScriptGraphQLMaterial UISeleniumProtractor

Front End Engineer

Benzinga

Detroit, MI

Mar 2020 — Jul 2020

  • Built front-end content blocks in Laravel/PHP with Advanced Custom Fields for a WordPress-based fintech content platform.
  • Designed and wireframed components in Figma, and performed manual QA to resolve functionality and UX issues.
WordPressPHPLaravelFigmaACF

Education

B.S. Psychology & Biology

Eastern Michigan University

Apr 2016

Front End Engineering Bootcamp

Grand Circus

Jan 2020 — Mar 2020

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonReactNext.jsVue.jsNode.jsFastAPIAPI DesignDistributed SystemsMicroservicesDatabase Schema DesignAnthropic ClaudePrompt EngineeringStructured Output ExtractionPostgreSQLElasticsearchSQLAlchemyTypeORMAWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud FunctionsGoogle DialogflowVercelDockerInngestSplunkJestReact Testing LibrarySelenium ProtractorFigmaAzure DevOpsGitAgile/Scrum