Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer — Apex Software Systems

Austin, TX | January 2021 – Present

• Directed a cross-functional engineering unit of 14 developers to build a cloud-native billing system, leveraging Kubernetes and Go to decrease deployment cycle times by 28%.
• Architected a high-throughput API gateway on AWS, processing 4.2M daily requests and reducing overall response latency by 32% over a 6-month optimization period.
• Optimized database query structures and connection pooling in PostgreSQL, recovering 24% in cloud CPU capacity and saving $85,000 in annual licensing fees.
• Championed automated regression testing pipelines in CI/CD, boosting test coverage from 64% to 92% and reducing deployment-related bug reports by 35%.

Senior Software Engineer — Beacon Cloud Solutions

Dallas, TX | June 2015 – December 2020

• Led the migration of 4 legacy server architectures to a serverless microservices framework on AWS, decreasing operational maintenance overhead by 34%.
• Collaborated with 3 product managers to design a real-time analytics streaming engine using Apache Kafka, reducing processing times for data streams by 42%.
• Restructured container orchestration strategies using Docker, reducing server boot-up times by 45% and eliminating $60,000 in unnecessary resource allocation.
• Mentored 5 junior developers in Python development best practices and agile methodologies, accelerating sprint delivery rates by 18% and onboarding times by 25%.

Software architecture, Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure, API scaling, Container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, Database optimization, Python, Go, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Agile development

Serverless Billing Platform Modernization

Role: Lead Software Engineer

Tools: Go, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Terraform

Directed the redesign of an enterprise billing service, reducing transaction failure rates by 48% and saving $110,000 in monthly database costs.

Real-Time Data Streaming Engine

Role: Lead Systems Engineer

Tools: Python, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL

Architected a data pipeline ingestion framework processing 2.5B monthly events, cutting processing latency by 35% and cloud resource costs by 18%.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2022)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Linux Foundation (2021)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Open Source: Core contributor to open-source Kubernetes operators (2022-present)
• Availability: 4 weeks notice