Technical Architect & Engineer

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building cloud-native, highly available, and scalable enterprise systems across financial services and insurance domains. Focused on architecture, modernization, resilient API ecosystems, and AI-assisted software engineering.

Enterprise Architecture Cloud & AWS Java + Python AI-Assisted Development High-Availability Systems

Experience

Principal Application Engineer

08/2023 – Present

Designed AI-driven customer segmentation workflows for targeted delinquency and recovery strategies.
Reworked legacy Step Functions to decision orchestration processes and modernized large-scale batch systems.
Built automated Kafka certificate renewal and deployment controls to reduce production risk.
Delivered high-performance card-data extraction and export architecture for migration at any volume.

Lead Technical Consultant

10/2021 – 08/2023

Redesigned event-streaming ETL services, achieving over 100x throughput improvements.
Built archival and purge lifecycle solutions in AWS S3 for enterprise data governance.
Strengthened deployment reliability with improved Liquibase changelog controls and validations.

Technical Consultant / Lead Developer

04/2014 – 10/2021

Led migration and modernization across enterprise imaging, retrieval/storage APIs, and AWS adoption.
Engineered resilient asynchronous services with retries, backoff strategies, and high availability.
Modernized legacy platforms from mainframe and Struts to REST and Spring-based cloud systems.

Software Developer

10/2010 – 04/2014

Consolidated over 400 batch programs into 17 secure, maintainable programs.
Contributed to enterprise HA migrations and automated error-tracking systems using DB2 and MQ.

Leadership & Achievements

Technical Leadership

Served as Technical Architect, Lead Developer, and Principal Engineer across mission-critical initiatives.
Led cross-functional teams (onsite and offshore), including groups of up to 30 developers/testers.
Mentored engineers and facilitated architecture alignment, design reviews, and delivery governance.

Delivery Excellence

Owned end-to-end SDLC execution: architecture, planning, development, testing, implementation, and support.
Drove quality through code/test reviews, performance validation, and controlled production rollouts.
Partnered with business and leadership stakeholders to align technical design with business outcomes.

Core Skills

JavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScript Spring BootREST APIsMicroservicesAWS EKSDynamoDBKafkaIBM MQ DB2PostgreSQLLiquibaseCI/CD Cloud ArchitectureHigh AvailabilityData PlatformsAI-Assisted Engineering

Selected Project Highlights

Enterprise Platform Modernization

Replaced dozens of legacy batch processes with a streamlined Kubernetes-based architecture while improving resilience, deployment safety, and operational observability.

Card Domain Engineering

Designed systems for authorization, eligibility, risk processing, tokenization, and lifecycle operations, with a focus on secure, scalable transaction processing.

Data Lake & Event Streaming

Built high-throughput ETL and classification services with strong validation and governance controls, significantly improving performance and deployment reliability.

Personal Innovation: Automation & Robotics

Engineered autonomous systems projects including robotic mowing and smart-home orchestration, showcasing practical applied engineering across software and hardware integration.