Backend Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer — CloudScale Technologies

Austin, TX | June 2023 – Present

• Developed and optimized 15 high-throughput Go-based microservices handling 12,000 requests per second, reducing average API response latency by 32% over 6 months through SQL query indexing and Redis caching.
• Built a real-time event-driven transaction processing pipeline using Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL, scaling system capacity to handle 4.2 million daily active users while maintaining 99.99% system availability.
• Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning across AWS using Terraform and Docker, reducing deployment cycle times by 45% and saving the engineering team approximately 14 hours of manual labor per week.
• Collaborated with a team of 8 frontend and QA engineers to design RESTful API contracts and integrations, improving test coverage by 25% and reducing post-deployment production errors by 18%.

Software Engineer — ByteStream Systems

Dallas, TX | June 2021 – May 2023

• Designed and maintained 8 critical REST APIs using Python and Django, servicing over 850,000 monthly users and improving endpoint data retrieval speeds by 24% via database query optimization.
• Migrated legacy monolithic backend systems to a containerized microservices architecture using Docker and AWS ECS, reducing hosting costs by 18% and decreasing build time by 9 minutes per deployment.
• Implemented secure OAuth2 authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) protocols for 14 external integrations, eliminating security vulnerabilities and reducing login issues by 34%.
• Partnered with database administrators to redesign a PostgreSQL database schema containing 50 million rows, boosting application query performance by 28% and resolving critical deadlock issues.

Go, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, REST APIs, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Microservices architecture, Linux, Unit testing

Distributed Log Aggregator

Role: Lead Backend Developer

Tools: Go, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Designed a centralized log aggregation system handling 500 million daily log events, improving log search speed by 48% and decreasing data storage costs by 22%.

Fintech Ledger Service

Role: Backend Engineer

Tools: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis

Re-architected the database ledger schema for transaction processing, reducing application latency by 35% and eliminating race conditions for concurrent writes.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2023)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (2024)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Contributions: Active contributor to open-source Go-based database driver projects (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice