Iverson Diles

Senior software engineer building civic and healthcare infrastructure.

Previously, I shipped federal systems delivering $40 million in monthly payments, recaptured millions in employer tax revenue for Massachusetts, and designed clinical tools that 600 care workers depend on.

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Work

Member of Technical Staff Focus Consulting · Aug 2022 – Present
  • Building AI engineering workflows and systems to scale small teams.
  • Delivery work on Online Passport Renewal directly contributed to the contract extension and helped capture the OCCAM contract with DOS for passport adjudication.
Senior Software Engineer U.S. Department of State · May 2024 – Present · Focus Consulting

OCCAM — passport adjudication (pre-launch)

  • Leading full-stack development of a passport adjudication platform in Django and Flask, built to scale across all passport processing.
  • Collaborating with passport agencies on-site to research adjudication workflows and integrate with existing government systems.

Online Passport Renewal — now live, generating $43M/month in revenue

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  • Built the majority of the front-end application from the ground up — responsive, accessible, WCAG-compliant UI on the USWDS design system.
  • Owned core user workflows end-to-end, including custom error-handling components shipped to production.
  • Stood up the full Playwright testing suite — test models, automated regression checks, and CI integration.
  • Contributed upstream fixes to the Trussworks USWDS library, unblocking our team and other USWDS-based apps.
Senior Software Engineer Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Dec 2023 – May 2024 · Focus Consulting
  • Scoped and led implementation of auto-enrollment jobs in the main ETL pipeline, recovering millions in employer tax dollars funding paid family and medical leave.
  • Partnered with research and design to ship UI changes that improved the enrollment experience for non-exempt employers re-entering the system.
Senior Software Engineer Cityblock Health · Aug 2022 – Nov 2023 · Focus Consulting
  • Scoped, built, and shipped a fully integrated calendar feature into the medical platform — used daily by 600+ clinicians to manage patient tasks and scheduling.
Software Developer Prolitigation LLC · Jan 2019 – Aug 2022
  • Built GraphQL endpoints that connected a React front-end to an existing ASP.NET monolith, modernizing the client experience without a full rewrite.
  • Introduced Node.js microservices for SQL Server updates, cutting database latency and reducing downtime.