As a Staff Software Engineer, I lead the architecture, development, and launch of major financial products, collaborating with product managers, legal, accounting, and third-party partners to build scalable and compliant solutions. My focus is on backend architecture, event-driven systems, and cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Key Contributions:

EarnIn Credit Card – Led backend development from concept to production:

• Worked with product, legal, and finance teams to define system requirements and financial flows.

• Built a real-time event-driven architecture using DynamoDB CDC Streams, Kinesis Streams, Kafka,

SQS, and SNS.

• Developed REST APIs for mobile integration and gRPC services for internal communication.

• Created infrastructure using Kotlin, Terraform, AWS Secrets Manager, and Kubernetes for scalability

and security.

• Established CI/CD pipelines with Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, streamlining

deployments.

• Adapted under tight deadlines when legal requirements changed without delaying the launch.

• Successfully delivered the EarnIn Credit Card, which remains in production today.

Mono Repository Framework – Developed and maintained a Kotlin-based mono repo framework, improving backend service development and engineering efficiency.

Technical Leadership – Led system design reviews, mentored engineers, and implemented best practices for scalable micro-services.

Hiring & Culture – Conducted interviews and mentoring, shaping EarnIn’s engineering team and culture.

I specialize in building scalable financial products from the ground up, ensuring alignment between engineering and product goals to drive impactful solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer at EarnIn, I was responsible for designing and implementing scalable backend systems that powered key financial products. I worked closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, event-driven architectures, ensuring system reliability and performance.

Key Contributions:

• Savings Product Overhaul – Led the technical redesign of EarnIn’s Savings product, migrating to an event-driven architecture using C#, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, SNS, and SQS to improve scalability and system resilience.

• Backend System Development – Built RESTful APIs to enhance mobile app communication, ensuring high availability and seamless user experiences.

• Scalability & Performance – Designed fault-tolerant, distributed systems, implementing Kafka event streaming and caching strategies to optimize response times and data integrity.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partnered with product and business teams to align technical solutions with company goals, contributing to faster and more efficient product development cycles.

• Technical Excellence – Conducted code reviews, system design discussions, and mentoring sessions, fostering a culture of technical growth within the team.

During my time as a Senior Software Engineer, I played a critical role in delivering high-impact financial products, ensuring system scalability, and driving improvements in backend performance and architecture.

Lead and mentor software engineers on their technical careers, work with peers to design and implement an ETL process from different ERPs to create a modern web store using AWS cloud stack:

• Use Java Spring boot to develop RESTful web services

• Use Java JPA to integrate with multiple databases and implement complex SQL queries

• Use AWS Beanstalk to host web services

• Use AWS Lambda to host serverless apps

• Use AWS Postgres Aurora database to store application data

• Use AWS S3 to store and retrieve files

• Use AWS SQS to produce and consume messages

Led a greenfield project, worked with a team to architect and develop software that connects to IoT devices to download, process and deliver data to customers using Microsoft Azure Cloud Stack:

• Used Java Spring boot to develop RESTful web services

• Used Java JPA to integrate with multiple databases and implement complex SQL queries

• Used .NET Entity framework to develop RESTful web services

• Used Jenkins to develop a CI/CD pipeline and full DevOps solution

• Used Kubernetes (AKS) and Docker to host micro services

• Used Azure Docker Registry to store Docker images

• Used Azure SQL and Cosmos DB to store application data

• Used Azure Blob Storage to store and retrieve files

• Used Azure App Services to host .NET Framework web services

• Used RabbitMQ to produce and consume messages

• Used Azure Kafka (MKS) to produce and consume messages

• Used Azure App Insights to monitor infrastructure and app performance and proactively monitor services

• Used Azure Functions to host serverless apps

As a Senior QA Engineer at GE Aviation I work with management to help define the software QA process for different products. Help with the strategy of transitioning to an Agile SDLC. Help define the CI/CD strategy for software products. Make recommendations on staffing for QA resources. I also work with different scrum teams creating and maintaining QA automation frameworks. Among the regular duties of a QA Engineer here are some highlights of my day to day.

• Define QA processes for teams and products.

• Define CI/CD builds for teams and products.

• Define Agile scrums teams.

• Define QA strategy for big data applications.

• Hire QA resources as needed for different teams.

• Participate in Requirements meetings with Technical Project Managers, Developers, Database Administrators and UX and UI Designers.

• Create and maintain an automation framework using BDD (Cucumber), Java and Selenium.

• Create Test Plans and execute Test Cases using Rally.

• Execute Integration Testing, UAT, End to End Testing, Functional Testing, UI Testing, Database Script Testing, Regression Testing.

• Deploy and maintain continuous integration builds using Jenkins.

• Back end database verification.

• Integrate REST web service and Java API test with UI (Selenium) test.

• Work with an offshore team coordinating testing efforts.

• Train and conduct QA submits to share knowledge about QA topics (ex. Automation) with different QA teams in the organization.

• Create standards for the QA organization on QA automation and BDD.

• Code reviews on changes to the automation framework by other members of the QA team.