New York City Metropolitan Area
• Designed and deployed a production-grade underwriting engine using FastAPI, Azure Functions, and serverless event pipelines; supports real-time decisions for $100B+ in commercial real estate loans.
• Improved latency by 40% across the 10 highest-traffic API endpoints by eliminating N+1 queries using SQLAlchemy loading strategies (e.g., selectinload, joinedload), reducing redundant DB calls.
• Modernized the company’s data warehouse by migrating legacy ETL tools to Python-based pipelines. Developed serverless ingestion and transformation workflows through CI/CD automation, matrix strategies, and cloud-native deployment.
• Led a team of five engineers on a greenfield project, mentoring backend development, containerization, and version control best practices. Fostered team growth and refined code quality through hands-on guidance.
• Presented and evangelized microservice architecture vision to 100+ stakeholders; bridging engineering and business priorities through clear, outcome-driven communication.
• Embedded Datadog logging and distributed tracing across 5+ services to improve observability and reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) for system failures.