Senior Technical Lead

Senior Technical Lead — Veloce Software Solutions

Seattle, WA | January 2022 – Present

• Managed a cross-functional team of 14 engineers to design and launch an event-driven payment processing engine using Kafka and Spring Boot, boosting transaction throughput by 42% over 6 months.
• Architected the migration of 18 legacy monolithic services to Kubernetes on AWS, which reduced monthly cloud infrastructure hosting expenses by 28% while improving system availability to 99.99%.
• Introduced automated CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions and SonarQube, reducing deployment cycle times by 35% and cutting critical production hotfixes from 8 instances per quarter down to zero.
• Mentored 6 junior and mid-level software engineers through structured pair programming and code reviews, accelerating onboarding timelines by 40% and increasing team velocity by 18%.

Technical Lead — CloudStream Technologies

Seattle, WA | August 2016 – December 2021

• Led a team of 8 backend developers to rebuild an API gateway using Go and Redis, which reduced API response latency by 55% and supported peak traffic volumes of 25,000 requests per second.
• Designed a distributed caching mechanism using Redis cluster, saving $120,000 annually in database licensing costs and reducing database CPU utilization spikes by 30% during traffic surges.
• Spearheaded security compliance remediation efforts for SOC 2 Type II audits, configuring automated Docker security scanning to resolve 95% of critical vulnerabilities within 45 days.
• Collaborated with product managers to define system requirements and technical specs, reducing post-release defect reports by 24% and accelerating release schedules by 15 days.

Software Architecture, System Design, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Agile Leadership, Team Mentorship, API Gateway Design, SOC 2 Compliance, Java, Spring Boot, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions

Cloud-Native Migration Initiative

Role: Senior Technical Lead & Lead Architect

Tools: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spring Boot, Jenkins

Managed the 12-month migration of a legacy billing system to a Kubernetes-based microservices architecture on AWS, which improved uptime to 99.99% and cut hosting costs by $350,000 annually.

High-Throughput IoT Data Platform

Role: Technical Lead

Tools: Go, Apache Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker

Directed the development of a real-time IoT data ingestion engine, enabling the platform to process 150,000 events per second with sub-50ms latency, achieving a 45% improvement in processing speed.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2023)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) (2019)
• TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect (2021)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Active contributor to open-source Kubernetes operators and Spring Boot plugins
• Availability: 2 weeks notice