Software Engineer

Results-driven software engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable web applications and distributed systems for fintech and e-commerce companies. Core strengths in backend architecture, API design, and CI/CD pipeline optimization. Reduced average API response time by 40% across a platform serving 1.2M monthly users and cut deployment frequency from biweekly to daily with zero-downtime releases. Proficient in Python, TypeScript, Go, AWS, and Kubernetes. Holds AWS Solutions Architect certification.

Senior Software Engineer Ridgepoint Financial Technologies — Austin, TX March 2023 – Present

• Architected a microservices migration from a monolithic Django application, reducing inter-service latency by 35% and enabling independent deployments for 4 engineering squads using Kubernetes and gRPC.
• Built a real-time fraud detection pipeline processing 850K+ transactions daily using Apache Kafka, Python, and Redis, catching 12% more fraudulent events than the prior batch system.
• Reduced CI/CD build times from 22 minutes to 7 minutes by restructuring GitHub Actions workflows, implementing Docker layer caching, and parallelizing test suites across 3 runners.
• Mentored 3 junior engineers through structured code review rotations, leading to a 25% decrease in post-merge defects over two quarters as measured by Jira defect tracking.
• Partnered with the product team to design and ship a customer-facing REST API serving 15 B2B partners, writing OpenAPI specs and generating SDK documentation that reduced partner onboarding time from 3 weeks to 4 days.
• Championed adoption of infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, migrating 40+ manually provisioned AWS resources and eliminating 6 hours of monthly DevOps toil.

Software Engineer Luminary Commerce — Denver, CO June 2020 – February 2023

• Designed and implemented a product recommendation engine using Python and scikit-learn that increased average cart value by 18% across 300K monthly active shoppers on the e-commerce platform.
• Automated database migration workflows with Alembic and PostgreSQL, reducing schema change deployment errors by 90% and saving the team approximately 5 hours per release cycle.
• Streamlined front-end build processes by migrating from Webpack to Vite for a React/TypeScript storefront, cutting local dev server startup from 45 seconds to under 3 seconds.
• Implemented structured logging and distributed tracing with Datadog and OpenTelemetry across 12 services, decreasing mean time to resolution for production incidents from 4 hours to 55 minutes.
• Led a security hardening initiative that resolved 28 OWASP-flagged vulnerabilities identified by Snyk scans, achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance 6 weeks ahead of the audit deadline.

Junior Software Engineer Helix Data Systems — Raleigh, NC August 2018 – May 2020

• Developed RESTful APIs in Node.js and Express serving 200K daily requests for an internal analytics dashboard, maintaining 99.9% uptime over 14 months of production operation.
• Reduced manual QA regression time by 60% by building an end-to-end test suite of 120+ Cypress tests integrated into the GitLab CI pipeline.
• Increased PostgreSQL query performance by 3x on the reporting module by analyzing slow query logs and adding composite indexes, reducing P95 page load from 4.2s to 1.1s.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 8 to deliver a customer portal MVP in 10 weeks using React, Redux, and Django REST Framework, onboarding the first 500 users within the initial month.

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Trenton State University — Raleigh, NC Graduated: May 2018

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, SQL, Bash, HTML/CSS

‍Frameworks & Libraries: Django, Flask, FastAPI, React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Spring Boot

‍Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch

‍Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Datadog, New Relic

‍Practices & Tools: REST API design, gRPC, microservices architecture, CI/CD, TDD, agile/Scrum, Git, Jira, OpenAPI/Swagger, OpenTelemetry

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PayStream API Gateway

• Role: Lead engineer on a centralized API gateway handling authentication, rate limiting, and request routing for 15 downstream services.
• Stack/Tools: Go, Kong, Redis, AWS ECS, Terraform, Prometheus
• Impact: Consolidated 5 redundant auth implementations into a single gateway, reducing authentication-related incidents by 70% and cutting average request overhead from 120ms to 18ms.

ShelfSync Inventory Platform

• Role: Backend developer for an open-source inventory management tool for small retailers.
• Stack/Tools: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, Docker, GitHub Actions
• Impact: Reached 1,400+ GitHub stars and 80+ forks within 8 months. Adopted by 35 small businesses, reducing their manual stock-count time by an estimated 50%.

DataPulse Monitoring Dashboard

• Role: Solo developer of an internal observability dashboard aggregating metrics from 12 microservices.
• Stack/Tools: TypeScript, Next.js, Grafana API, Datadog API, D3.js, Vercel
• Impact: Replaced 4 separate monitoring tabs with a single unified view, decreasing daily triage time for the on-call rotation by 30 minutes per engineer.

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• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2024)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) (2023)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (2023)
• GitHub Actions Certification (2024)

• Languages spoken: English (native), Spanish (conversational)
• Open source: Active contributor to FastAPI and OpenTelemetry Python SDK; 40+ merged pull requests across public repositories since 2021.
• Volunteering: Mentor at Code2College Austin chapter, coaching high school students in Python and web development fundamentals (2023–present).

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