Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• 2025-Present: Pay - Zelle
• 2024-2025: Digital Rewards
• Engineered and deployed core microservices for newly launched Digital Rewards features on iOS and Android apps, supporting product lines such as THANKYOU® Rewards and Costco Cash Rewards.
• Analyzed and implemented complex BAU logic across multiple legacy systems, enabling seamless feature integration and backward compatibility for 10M+ active mobile users.
• Recognized as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for critical microservices and business logic components, providing technical leadership and production support across feature lifecycles.
• Built highly testable, maintainable, and reliable Spring Boot microservices, achieving 90%+ code coverage and enabling faster deployment cycles via CI/CD integration.
• Tested and validated key features across both microservices and mobile platforms, collaborating closely with iOS and Android teams to ensure consistent cross-platform behavior.
• Led UAT and pre-prod testing efforts, identifying and resolving defects prior to release and contributing to a 98% defect-free deployment rate.
• Performed performance profiling, breakpoint analysis, and component testing for high-traffic features scheduled for production rollout, resulting in a 25% improvement in response times.
• Acted as release POC and was on-call during production deployments; successfully triaged and resolved high-priority production defects within 6 hours of release night.
• Partnered with DevOps teams to ensure reliable deployments across DEV/UAT/PERF environments; configured Helm charts and YAML files for OpenShift and Harness-based pipelines to support over 12 microservices.
• Developed a BDD testing framework—reducing QE effort by 70%—by collaborating with Staff Engineers and Directors and integrating the solution into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Mentored junior engineers and led code review sessions to promote best practices and improve team-wide technical proficiency.

Jul 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

• 2023-2024: Pay - Linked Account, Inter-institutional, Real-time Payments
• Architected a high-performance credit card management backend using Spring Boot and MongoDB, boosting data retrieval speed by 50% and supporting 1M+ transactions/month.
• Optimized multiple payment journeys by resolving 100+ defects in the AutoPay functionality, ensuring 99.9% uptime during peak loads through algorithmic improvements and efficient troubleshooting.
• Developed real-time monitoring solutions by designing Splunk dashboards that reduced incident resolution time by 40% and improved operational insights for 5+ cross-functional teams.
• Integrated an automated Jira defect assignment utility into an in-house BDD framework, cutting manual triaging time by 30% and enhancing defect traceability by 60%.
• Collaborated with 6+ cross-functional teams across payments, infrastructure, and security to drive system resilience and foster inter-departmental communication.

Dec 2022 – Apr 2023 · 4 mos · On-site

• Developed and tested FPGA-based control systems for proton linear accelerator modules using LabVIEW and SystemVerilog, enhancing system responsiveness by 20%.
• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to design and implement SoC architectures, integrating custom ASICs for real-time data acquisition and processing.
• Conducted simulations and verifications of digital circuits, ensuring compliance with radiation-hardening requirements for accelerator environments.
• Optimized signal processing algorithms on FPGA platforms, reducing latency in beam diagnostics by 15%.
• Documented research findings and presented results to senior scientists, contributing to ongoing advancements in accelerator technology.

Nov 2022 – Feb 2023 · 3 mos

• Developed a fully functional RESTful API for a social media platform using FastAPI, incorporating features such as user authentication, post creation, and voting mechanisms.
• Integrated SQLAlchemy ORM with PostgreSQL to design and manage relational database schemas, ensuring data integrity and efficient query performance.
• Implemented JWT-based authentication and role-based access control, enhancing security and user session management.
• Conducted comprehensive unit and integration testing using Pytest, achieving over 90% code coverage and ensuring application reliability.
• Deployed the application using Docker and Docker Compose, facilitating consistent development and production environments.
• Established CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, automating testing and deployment processes to streamline development workflows.

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos · Remote

• Engineered scalable backend systems supporting over 80,000 daily active users across multiple live mobile games, ensuring high availability and performance. ​
• Participated in the development and deployment of three major features, enhancing user engagement and retention metrics by 15% within six months. ​
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement tools that streamlined content creation, reducing deployment time by 30%. ​
• Diagnosed and resolved complex performance issues in distributed systems, improving server response times by 25%.
• Contributed to the continuous improvement of development processes, leading to a 20% increase in team productivity.

May 2020 – Jun 2020 · 1 mo

• Coordinated logistics for community outreach programs, ensuring timely distribution of resources to over 450 beneficiaries across multiple regions. ​
• Managed volunteer schedules and task assignments, enhancing team efficiency and project execution timelines.​
• Developed and implemented tracking systems for inventory and resource allocation, reducing material shortages by 20%.​
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to plan and execute fundraising campaigns, contributing to a 15% increase in donor engagement.​
• Analyzed operational workflows and proposed process improvements, leading to a 10% reduction in operational costs.