Technical Lead

Technical Lead — Pinnacle Software Labs

Boston, MA | January 2022 – Present

• Led a cross-functional engineering unit of 12 software developers to build a cloud-native customer invoicing system, utilizing Go and Kubernetes to decrease monthly deployment cycle times by 28%.
• Architected a high-throughput API gateway on AWS, processing 5.2M daily requests and reducing backend service response latency by 34% over a 6-month optimization period.
• Optimized PostgreSQL database query execution plans and connection pooling configurations, recovering 26% in cloud database capacity and saving $75,000 in annual licensing costs.
• Streamlined automated regression testing pipelines within the GitLab CI/CD system, boosting test coverage from 66% to 94% and preventing an average of 14 production bugs per release.

Senior Software Engineer — Sentinel Cloud Systems

Cambridge, MA | June 2016 – December 2021

• Managed the migration of 6 legacy server architectures to a serverless services framework on AWS, decreasing operational maintenance overhead by 36% over an 8-month period.
• Partnered with 4 product managers to design a real-time analytics streaming engine using Apache Kafka, reducing processing times for data streams by 44%.
• Restructured container orchestration strategies using Docker, reducing server boot-up times by 46% and eliminating $55,000 in unnecessary resource allocation.
• Mentored 4 junior developers in Python programming best practices and testing methodologies, accelerating team sprint delivery rates by 22% and shortening developer onboarding time by 3 weeks.

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, Python, Go, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Git

Cloud-Native Migration Initiative

Role: Technical Lead & Lead Architect

Tools: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, 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 $250,000 annually.

High-Throughput IoT Data Platform

Role: Senior Developer

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 Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (2021)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) (2019)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Open Source: Core contributor to open-source Kubernetes operators
• Availability: 2 weeks notice