I am a SoftwareEngineer with years of experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise systems, with deep specialization in Integrated Eligibility Systems (IES) supporting SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid programs.
Experience
2026 — Now
2026 — Now
United States
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
• Leading backend development for SNAP and TANF eligibility modules within Alabama’s Integrated Eligibility System (IES), directly supporting statewide benefit determination workflows.
• Architecting modular Java/Spring Boot services that improve deployment independence and system maintainability.
• Designing secure REST APIs that power eligibility intake, case processing, and downstream benefit systems.
• Implementing Spring Batch-driven automation for high-volume eligibility determinations and scheduled benefit approvals.
• Performing deep production troubleshooting using WebSphere logs, JVM memory analysis, SQL execution plans, and transaction trace debugging.
• Optimizing complex Oracle and DB2 queries supporting eligibility validation, audit reporting, and operational dashboards.
• Supporting deployments on IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS 8.0) in Linux/VMware environments, including JVM tuning and configuration management.
• Translating complex state and federal eligibility rules into reliable backend logic with high accuracy and reduced manual intervention.
• Contributing to a statewide eligibility modernization effort that improves turnaround time and benefit processing accuracy.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Developed Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, MongoDB, and AWS, improving fraud detection speed by 50%.
Designed and exposed scalable RESTful APIs integrated with React.js and Angular front-end applications.
Automated CI/CD using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, reducing deployment time by 40%.
Integrated JWT authentication with Spring Security, ensuring secure transactions.
Migrated on-prem applications to AWS and optimized cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Developed Java microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, and RabbitMQ for real-time event-driven systems.
Designed RESTful APIs and integrated Node.js services for seamless backend communication.
Implemented OAuth2 and JWT authentication for secure user access.
Optimized NoSQL data storage with MongoDB and Cassandra, reducing query response times by 30%.
Automated deployment and monitoring with Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Developed RESTful APIs using Java and Spring MVC/Spring Boot to support secure digital asset payments and trading operations, processing thousands of concurrent transactions with minimal latency
Designed scalable microservices using Spring Boot, Spring IOC, and Spring Cloud, enabling modular deployment and seamless communication via Eureka service discovery and API Gateway.
I configured association mappings, such as one-to-one and one-to-many relationships in Hibernate.
Built a real-time event-driven payments pipeline using Apache Kafka to handle financial transaction events, improving payment data streaming reliability by 40%.
Conducted integrated testing for Kafka messaging functionality using frameworks such as Kafka Unit.
Managed data streams and event processing using Kafka Connect for seamless integration with databases.