Experience

Software Engineer III

2025 - Present

Paycom, Dallas, TX

Full-Stack Engineer

2024 - 2025

Vast Vertex, New York City, NY

  • Built a React / Next.js UI, delivering a responsive web app that loads in under 200 ms and scales to thousands of sessions.
  • Created FastAPI services that combined spaCy NLP, OpenAI API for script generation, and ElevenLabs voice synthesis into a streamlined content-to-audio pipeline.
  • Connected the front end to existing Java Spring Boot services through clean REST interfaces, adding new AI features without touching the core platform.

Software Engineer

2024 - May 2024

University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

  • Created a biomedical data platform on with Lambda, FastAPI, and Terraform that ingested and indexed over 1 TB of DrugBank, FDA, and ChEMBL data, cutting query latency by 40 percent.
  • Deployed spaCy NLP pipelines that parsed more than 1 million PubMed papers and surfaced novel drug–protein links for interactive dashboards used by cancer researchers.
  • Presented the platform to Johnson & Johnson and NIH, winning grant funding and driving its acquisition by Xyant Services.

Software Engineer Intern

2023 - 2024

DCI Consulting, Washington D.C.

  • Built a secure ASP.NET Core + Tailwind CSS customer portal and the supporting SQL queries, reducing support tickets by 30%.
  • Rewrote the workforce analytics engine from C# LINQ to an R.NET package, cutting report runtimes from hours to minutes.
  • Migrated legacy systems into Azure Virtual Networks with layered firewalls, hardening security and meeting compliance mandates.

Software Engineer Intern

2021 - 2022

Intelek Technologies, Oklahoma City, OK

  • Wrote recursive C# utilities that translated complex XML and JSON datasets from one business schema to another, reducing conversion time by thirty percent.
  • Automated nightly .NET ETL workflows that validated more than two hundred thousand records per run, driving data-load failures to near zero.
Natalie Hill