Joseph Mckenna
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
About
Backend Software Engineer specializing in scalable cloud systems and healthcare data infrastructure.
Currently designing and maintaining AWS event-driven architectures that process thousands of healthcare
transactions daily. Experienced building reliable distributed systems with automated workflows, fault
tolerance, and high-volume data pipelines.
Languages: Python, SQL.
Frameworks: Django, Django REST Framework.
Cloud & Architecture: AWS (Lambda, SQS, Step Functions, SNS, S3), Event-Driven Systems, Distributed Processing.
Databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server, SSMS.
Infrastructure: Docker, Terraform, Git, GitHub.
Industry Experience: Healthcare EDI systems (ANSI X12 837D/I/P), OCR pipelines, automated claims processing.
