Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 · 10 mos

• Created a highly scalable, resilient and cloud-based system for providing various client balances (such as spending power, cash available etc.), to replace an existing mainframe-based solution with an Event-Driven Architecture. The highly critical system is designed for high throughput and receives 8M calls per day, processes data for 12M+ accounts and is used by 30+ different applications making it essential for many businesses processes
• Responsible for leading team of 6 developers, 3 QA testers and 2 SREs. Mentored junior team members to drive an engineering culture by encouraging calculated risk taking to propel innovation. Instilled good development practices such as TDD, code reviews and maintaining a high level of documentation
• Partnered with QA team to think out of the box and produce automated solutions for all testing needs
• including triggering of upstream systems thus reducing the overall time spent on testing and freeing up QA testers to focus on critical areas
• Designed full stack Blue-Green set up including all infrastructure to have two parallel production
• environments with seamless handoff of traffic. Fully automated the deployment process providing for
• automated test execution and allowing completely hands-free production deployment
• Guided the team to adopt the SRE mindset and produce highly observable components using frameworks such as Prometheus, Jaeger and Loki
• Implemented automated reconciliation with legacy system for progress monitoring and accountability to business
• This project won the 'Best Tech Overhaul' award at the FinTech Future Banking Tech Awards in December 2022

Nov 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Dec 2017 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Played the role of lead developer and architect on a project which replaced a monolithic vendor solution
• with a home grown, cloud based, Microservices Architecture with reactive event-based communication using Java and Kafka which supports movement of $2B+ a day. This provided $4M+ YoY savings in operational and maintenance cost
• Led the “foundation” squad which was responsible for core platform and engineering deliverables as well
• playing the role model for other squads. Libraries and components produced by this squad were crucial to
• the success and progress of the other six squads and had a large focus on reusability
• Responsible for developing modern architecture and engineering culture in the team as well as reviewing code for soundness
• Established and continually refined practices and tools used by over 100 developers and 20 different teams
• Led the DevOps and Code Quality guilds, which focused on automation of the code promotion pipeline and the quality of code being developed, respectively. Brought down the testing and deployment cycle from 16+ hours to 15 minutes by building automated pipelines for CI/CD. Also, implemented automated quality checks and deployments as well as SRE tooling

Nov 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Developed an integration with a vendor platform for instant account verification which allowed clients to link and verify new external accounts in minutes rather than 3-5 business days using Spring Boot micro services. This supported the launch of a new automated investment product.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2016 · 3 mos

• 15 weeks of intensive technology training to prepare analysts for the role of Technology Associate at Morgan Stanley. The program extensively covers several common programming languages (C++, Java, Scala, Javascript, C#, etc), web technologies, and proprietary frameworks.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Created a supporting application for the company’s wealth management trading platform. The application allowed the operations team to make corrections to trades after they were already processed by the exchange

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for maintaining T.R.U.S.T. application, which is used for risk management, as well assisting with generating reports using Oracle CRM.
• Was also involved with creating a mobile application to bring TRUST to mobile phones.

Sep 2014 – May 2015 · 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for maintaining T.R.U.S.T. application, which is used for risk management, as well assisting with generating reports using Oracle CRM.
• Was also involved with creating a mobile application to bring TRUST to mobile phones.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos

• Responsible for designing a mobile application which will allow clients to submit orders from their mobile devices.

Sep 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for assessing work submitted by students and giving feedback so that the students may improve upon their assignments.

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · One Gustave L. Levy Place New York, NY 10029-6574

• Summer job; Programing a CMS system for doctors and other medical personnel to use.