* Designed and developed high-performance, low-latency payment APIs using Python (FastAPI), REST, PostgreSQL, and Redis, improving transaction authorization latency by 28% across global payment systems.
* Built a distributed microservices architecture deployed on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway) handling 5M+ daily transactions with high availability and fault tolerance.
* Implemented event-driven data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams, enabling real-time processing and monitoring of millions of financial events per day.
* Engineered scalable data ingestion and ETL pipelines using Python, AWS Lambda, and S3 data lakes, supporting downstream analytics and reporting systems.
* Developed real-time analytics dashboards using React.js, WebSockets, and Chart.js, reducing investigation time for risk and finance teams.
* Strengthened platform security by implementing OAuth2, JWT authentication, rate limiting, and PCI-DSS-compliant controls, preventing 98K+ unauthorized access attempts/month.
* Optimized system performance via caching (Redis), query tuning, and asynchronous processing, improving throughput and system reliability.
* Collaborated in an Agile/Scrum environment, contributing to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and ensuring high code quality through testing and code reviews.