Technical Consultant

Technical Consultant — Vertex Consulting Group

Denver, CO | January 2024 – Present

• Led the development of a custom REST API integration using Python and AWS for a financial services client, reducing third-party data synchronization delays by 32% and accelerating partner onboarding from 5 weeks to 8 days.
• Automated multi-region cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, which reduced manual environment configuration errors by 38% and saved the engineering team an average of 14 hours per week.
• Collaborated with product owners to translate complex business requirements into detailed technical specifications for 6 parallel integration projects, improving sprint target completion rates from 74% to 92%.
• Resolved 140+ high-severity system escalations related to database performance and API connectivity, maintaining a 97% client satisfaction rating and exceeding SLA response thresholds consistently over 12 months.

Associate Technical Consultant — Summit Systems Partners

Salt Lake City, UT | June 2020 – December 2023

• Designed and deployed custom middleware databases using PostgreSQL and Java for 8 enterprise retail clients, reducing runtime query latency by 41% and improving database throughput by 120% during peak hours.
• Integrated a centralized API gateway using Kong and Docker, securing authentication and communications across 14 external vendor APIs and reducing API latency by 28% across all services.
• Wrote and optimized 50+ bash and Python automated test scripts, reducing manual QA regression testing cycle times by 45% and detecting 80% of critical deployment bugs before production release.
• Supported technical discovery workshops for 10 client engagements, producing detailed architectural diagrams and mapping dependencies to reduce system integration scope-creep occurrences by 30%.

Technical Consulting, Cloud Integration, System Integration, API Development, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, SQL, Client Management, Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence

Enterprise API Gateway Modernization

Role: Lead Integration Engineer

Tools: Python, AWS, Kong, Docker

Designed and implemented a containerized API gateway for a retail client, reducing partner onboarding time from 4 weeks to 6 days and securing 12 external interfaces.

Automated Cloud Migration Initiative

Role: Cloud Integration Consultant

Tools: Terraform, AWS, Ansible, Bash

Automated cloud infrastructure deployment for 4 legacy systems, reducing environment provisioning errors by 35% and saving 16 hours of engineering time per week.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2022)
• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) (2021)
• ITIL 4 Foundation (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Technical advisor for high school robotics competitions (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice