Java Developer

Software Developer (Java / Spring) — Elevance FinTech

Denver, CO | July 2023 – Present

• Engineered a Java backend microservices payment processor handling 150,000 daily active requests, utilizing Spring Boot and PostgreSQL to reduce response latency by 28%.
• Migrated legacy monolith functions to AWS Lambda and Spring Cloud, lowering infrastructure hosting costs by 18% and automating horizontal scaling for peak workloads.
• Optimized relational database queries and cache implementation with Redis, which reduced average database read latency by 35% and prevented connection timeouts.
• Coordinated with a team of 5 engineers to configure CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, reducing development-to-production deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

Java Developer — Helix Cloud Solutions

Boulder, CO | June 2021 – June 2023

• Developed 12 RESTful API endpoints in Java and Spring Boot for user profile management, enhancing data retrieval speeds by 24% for 300,000 active users.
• Implemented comprehensive unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito, increasing test coverage from 50% to 88% and eliminating 15 release bugs monthly.
• Resolved memory leaks and concurrency issues by profiling application memory with JProfiler, increasing overall application uptime from 99.4% to 99.95%.
• Designed and scheduled automated background jobs using Quartz Scheduler to run data validation tasks, reducing nightly processing runtime by 45 minutes.

Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GitLab CI, Maven, JUnit, RESTful APIs, Microservices, Agile

Microservices Gateway Orchestrator

Role: Lead Backend Engineer

Tools: Java, Spring Cloud Gateway, Consul, Docker, AWS

Designed a custom API gateway handling 2M requests daily, reducing routing latency by 30% and load balancer costs by 15%.

Automated Ingestion Engine

Role: Java Backend Developer

Tools: Java, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Spring Boot

Built a streaming data processor that ingested 10M records daily with zero data loss, decreasing pipeline processing delays by 40%.

• Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17 Developer (2022)
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate (2023)
• Spring Certified Professional (2024)

• Languages: English (Native), German (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Mentored student teams for regional coding competitions (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice