John Carroll - Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer · Tech Enthusiast
Senior Software Engineer at CVS Health, specializing in AI-driven full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership. Outside of work, I build personal projects on the AI frontier and help people integrate technology into their everyday workflows.
Currently Building/AI Agents · Health & Fitness Platform · Financial Modeling
AI Agents · Health & Fitness Platform · Financial Modeling
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Senior Software Engineer · Tech Enthusiast · AI Forward
Senior Software Engineer at CVS Health, specializing in AI-driven full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership. Outside of work, I build personal projects on the AI frontier and help people integrate technology into their everyday workflows.
5 Years Experience · Cambridge, MA
Currently Building/AI Agents · Health & Fitness Platform · Financial Modeling
AI Agents · Health & Fitness Platform · Financial Modeling
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About Me
OVERVIEW
Full-stack engineer with a passion for technology and problem-solving. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at CVS Health.
HOBBIES
Outside of work, I stay active through skiing, running, cycling, and weightlifting. I'm also passionate about new technologies, gadgets, and cars.
MENTORING
I mentor people in software development, emerging technologies, and AI integration into both technical and everyday workflows.
OVERVIEW
Full-stack engineer with a passion for technology and problem-solving. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at CVS Health.
HOBBIES
Outside of work, I stay active through skiing, running, cycling, and weightlifting. I'm also passionate about new technologies, gadgets, and cars.
MENTORING
I mentor people in software development, emerging technologies, and AI integration into both technical and everyday workflows.
Tech Stack
Proficient across full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and the modern AI-driven tools that now shape how I develop software.
Current Favorites
Server Side & Cloud
Containerization & Databases
Experience
Senior engineer focused on technical leadership, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven development.
CVS Health
Senior Software Development Engineer
Nov 2024 - Current• Serve as technical lead and liaison between engineering and business stakeholders, driving feature development for production clinical applications and establishing development standards across teams.
• Lead offshore engineering team, providing mentorship, technical direction, and oversight of feature delivery.
• Reshaped team development workflows with AI by building team-specific agents, skills, and MCP integration. Hosted learning sessions on emerging AI frameworks, workflows, and tooling.
• Designed and automated CI/CD pipelines across the team's codebase with GitHub Actions for code quality, testing, security scanning, and deployments, reducing deployment and release cycles from hours to minutes and achieving 90% reduction in manual workflows.
• Built Terraform-backed automation enabling engineers to independently provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Selected for an enterprise AI-driven development pilot; evaluated tooling, provided direct feedback to leadership, and maintained internal documentation on AI best practices and approved tooling across CVS.
Software Development Engineer
May 2022 - Nov 2024• Architected and developed an internal clinical application on Azure using Kubernetes, serving millions of members across pharmacy operations.
• Served as full-stack developer and cloud architect, implementing infrastructure as code and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines.
Software Engineer Intern
May 2021 - Aug 2021• Developed a minimum viable product for a clinical question set application as full-stack developer.
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Technology Analyst Intern
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020• Built an interactive dashboard using Python and R to analyze server data and present critical network performance insights to Board members.
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Master of Science & Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Chinese Studies
Aug 2018 - May 2022• Master of Science in Computer Science — GPA 3.73 / 4.00
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Chinese Studies — GPA 3.70 / 4.00
• NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2019-2022), Dean's List (2019-2022), Varsity Swim and Dive
Projects
A selection of software projects showcasing my technical skills and problem-solving abilities.
Modernizing health and fitness with AI.
AI-Powered Health & Fitness Platform
Cross-platform health platform (Next.js web + native SwiftUI iOS) where LLMs generate personalized workouts, adapt training to recovery signals, and answer questions over your own health records.
Personal finance, fully instrumented.
Financial Management Dashboard
Financial management platform built for a freelance client — real-time asset tracking, pro forma statements, and budget forecasting, with market analysis across 15+ indicators.
Research to execution, one workflow.
Investment Analysis Platform
Full-stack investment platform pairing a systematic analysis framework with real-time performance tracking — tax-lot accounting, live P&L, and metrics across multiple asset classes.
ML, markets, and the web.
Research Projects
Three research projects spanning machine learning for public-health outbreak prediction, sentiment-driven market modeling, and dependency risk on the web.
Hobbies
A look at my life outside of work.
Some of my favorite activities are skiing, running, weightlifting, and cycling.
In 2024 I completed my first marathon and Ironman 70.3. This year I plan to do a century ride with my dad and more running & triathlon races.