Backend engineer building systems people depend on.
Senior Software Engineer with 8 years building and owning high-throughput, event-driven backend systems in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS. I own a business-critical collections pipeline in a regulated financial environment with a track record of large-scale data migrations, zero-downtime cutovers, and measurable gains in reliability and compute efficiency.
- Own and maintain a business-critical, event-driven batch pipeline (S3 → Lambda → EMR → Spring Batch) generating collections offers for customers in financial hardship; a single failed run triggers a Sev5, blocking offers and leaving agents with inaccurate customer data.
- Delivered feature development across the pipeline's EMR and Spring Batch stages, processing 16M+ records per run while preserving the data accuracy downstream agent tooling depends on.
- Architected a high-throughput Kafka ingestion platform integrating Discover and Capital One collections systems, enabling real-time eligibility decisions and contributing to a reduction in delinquent accounts.
- Built a distributed Snowflake-to-Snowflake migration framework on Databricks, processing 90M+ records; increased compute efficiency by 125% and eliminated memory bottlenecks while ensuring post-merger data integrity.
- Operated as technical lead during a high-stakes merger integration, owning onboarding of Discover's email platform into Capital One with uninterrupted customer communications.
- Led a zero-downtime migration of secrets management from HashiCorp Vault to AWS Secrets Manager, improving security posture and accelerating credential rotation.
- Owned incident response across 9 backend applications and built proactive New Relic / Splunk alerting that shifted detection from reactive to preemptive, reducing MTTR.
- Designed and built Point-of-Sale (POS) applications in Spring Boot, delivering 10+ production features across order management, manager overrides, and financial transactions.
- Engineered an automated license-verification feature to enforce regulatory compliance during sales transactions.
- Architected a cash-management protocol reconciling cash flow between the main safe and individual registers, improving security and accuracy.
- Built and maintained microservices and CI/CD pipelines, with unit testing via JUnit/Mockito and message processing through RabbitMQ.
- Developed and supported Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS (EC2, ECS, S3), owning build, deployment, and production support.
- Optimized API performance with custom Lua/Nginx modules and LRU caching, reducing response times and improving throughput.
- Built internal developer tooling in Go and designed a GitHub pull-request validation pipeline in Jenkins to catch regressions before merge.
- Established observability with Datadog, Grafana, and Splunk across QA, Performance, and Production environments.
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