
Joseph Bogushefsky
Principal Engineer | Staff Engineer | Technical Leader
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Principal Engineer with 20+ years delivering large-scale, high-performance systems in financial and healthcare domains. Experienced in event-driven, cloud-native architectures (AWS/Kubernetes) and AI-assisted development workflows, driving measurable business outcomes. Proven record of 5x+ performance gains, modernizing legacy platforms, and establishing enterprise-wide engineering standards.
Combines deep hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build scalable, resilient systems and mentor high-performing teams.
Experience
Software Architect at CodaMetrix (2021-08 – 2026-03)
Hands-on Development ~70%
- Drove enterprise AI adoption, establishing prompt engineering and workflow automation best practices (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot).
- Architected and led delivery of Bedside Pro, an event-driven, autonomous healthcare revenue cycle platform to detect patient care revenue leakage and provides ML-driven autonomous coding; guided a team of 8 engineers from concept to production, now driving 50%+ of CodaMetrix's $26M annual revenue.
- Directed the architectural transformation of a legacy radiology platform into a modern event-driven system; rapidly scaled and led 10 newly onboarded engineers to execute under aggressive timelines.
- Delivered 560%+ capacity improvement of the Patient Case-Automation platform through asynchronous processing and optimized system design.
- Established engineering standards for observability, API contracts, and architecture governance across 60+ engineers.
- Mentored teams on modern architecture and AI-assisted workflows, partnered with QA to expand automated testing and reduce defects.
Founding Engineer at JOA Software (2018-07 – 2021-08)
Hands-on Full Stack Development ~75%
- Architected Cypher, California K–12 Workers' Compensation/Education Code platform, automating leave tracking, risk modeling, and benefits.
- Built a configurable web framework enabling drag-and-drop workflows, custom screens, and dynamic data models.
- Designed scalable event-driven onboarding workflows, reducing time-to-value to ~3 weeks.
- Led full cloud migration to AWS with containerization and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Implemented observability strategies, improving operational visibility and system reliability.
Senior Systems Engineer at Wells Fargo (2004-11 – 2018-07)
Hands-on Full Stack Development ~70%
- Led globally distributed engineering teams (U.S., India, Costa Rica), delivering large-scale, complex systems.
- Served as primary architect and inventor of a patented, highly scalable integration framework that unified disparate mortgage banking platforms, enabling real-time data delivery across the Capital Markets division. The solution was adopted enterprise-wide and awarded U.S. Patent (10,521,223).
- Designed metadata-driven integration architecture, accelerating development and reducing duplication.
- Modernized legacy IBM z/OS and CICS Consumer Loan systems, exposing capabilities via REST/SOAP and replacing green-screen interfaces.

