Software Development Engineer

Software Development Engineer — Apex Cloud Solutions

Austin, TX | July 2023 – Present

• Designed and deployed 8 Java-based microservices using Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, handling 25,000 concurrent requests per second while maintaining 99.99% system uptime.
• Optimized relational database queries by restructuring indexing strategies and adding Redis caching layers, which reduced query response times by 38% and saved $24,000 in annual infrastructure costs.
• Led the migration of 4 legacy data ingestion workflows to Apache Kafka message queues, resolving queue bottleneck issues and improving background data processing throughput by 42% for peak hours.
• Coordinated deployment automation workflows using GitLab CI, Docker, and Kubernetes, reducing average software release build times by 30% and preventing 15 post-release production defects.

Associate Software Development Engineer — Summit Technology Group

Dallas, TX | June 2020 – June 2023

• Authored over 150 unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito, expanding core application test coverage from 62% to 88% and reducing software regression defects by 25%.
• Engineered 12 RESTful API endpoints using Go and PostgreSQL, improving client integration response latency by 34% for more than 180,000 active monthly platform users.
• Collaborated with product designers to rebuild 6 responsive web application modules using React and TypeScript, boosting overall mobile user engagement metrics by 18% over a 9-month period.
• Refactored legacy background batch processing scripts in Python, which reduced daily database import run times by 45% and lowered server memory usage from 8GB to 3GB.

Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Git, Agile, Scrum

Distributed Billing Microservices Migration

Role: Lead Backend Engineer

Tools: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AWS

Led the engineering of a transaction engine, migrating 3 legacy servers to AWS and reducing invoice processing time by 45% with 0 record loss.

Real-Time Data Streaming Pipeline

Role: Software Engineer

Tools: Go, Apache Kafka, Docker, Redis

Designed a streaming pipeline processing 15,000 events per second, which cut system communication latency by 50% and saved $18,000 in server costs.

• AWS Certified Developer – Associate (2023)
• Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE Developer (2021)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Volunteer instructor for high school intro to programming classes (2022–present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice