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Work Experience

• Data Platform Engineer, StepStone Germany (via EPAM Systems)

  Mar, 2024 - Present

  Building a self-service event data platform that provisions the infrastructure, tooling and access producers and (mostly analytics) consumers need to exchange data in a decoupled, governed way - streamlining end-to-end data-product creation.

  • Led the migration of the platform's Kafka estate to AWS MSK, improving reliability and operability of the streaming backbone

  • Designed and built an encryption service and supporting Java libraries to transparently encrypt and decrypt Avro message fields, enabling field-level data protection backed by AWS KMS

  • Stood up the event data platform foundation as infrastructure-as-code in Terraform across MSK, Glue, S3, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Lake Formation and IAM

  • Automated performance and end-to-end testing for data pipelines, catching regressions before release

  • Instrumented platform observability with Datadog and CloudWatch

  • Built a Java-based CLI tool covering Terraform resource generation, Avro schema validation against a custom rule engine, and Java/dotnet package generation via templating - consolidating key developer workflows into a single internal tool

• Senior Software Engineer (Java), UKG, Inc. (via EPAM Systems)

  Jan, 2023 - Feb, 20241 year 1 month

  Microservice-based asynchronous document generation service built with Java.

  • Implemented sophisticated asynchronous, actor-based microservices with Akka, improving system stability and performance

  • Built CLI tooling to reproduce common user-request scenarios, speeding up support and debugging

  • Designed and added new features to LibreOffice-based document library API endpoints

  • Drove a seamless migration from Redis to a more robust persistent datastore (PostgreSQL)

  • Promoted Agile practices and estimation techniques within the team

• Senior Software Engineer (Java), Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (via EPAM Systems)

  Oct, 2021 - Dec, 20221 year 2 months

  Greenfield build of a new trading system, delivered as cloud-native microservices.

  • Built Spring Boot microservices deployed on Kubernetes

  • Integrated third-party and internal systems over REST, SOAP, Kafka and message queues

  • Authored Liquibase database migrations and generated OpenAPI (Swagger) contracts for REST endpoints

  • Covered the system with JUnit unit/integration tests and Postman end-to-end tests

  • Onboarded and mentored new team members; active in code reviews and groomings

• Full-Stack Engineer (Java, Angular), Morgan Stanley

  Dec, 2019 - Oct, 20211 year 10 months

  Built and supported a global web-based application managing the expiry process of listed derivative financial products, built on a microservice architecture with Java and Spring.

  • Planned and rebuilt the user interface from scratch, migrating off a decommissioned technology stack to Angular and TypeScript

  • Analysed system performance to locate bottlenecks and apply systematic fixes on both the client and server side

• Frontend Developer (React, TypeScript), EcoSim Business Simulations

  Sep, 2017 - Dec, 20192 years 3 months

  Developed the Edu EcoSim web application within a team - a browser-based business-simulation game with team-management tooling, where players interactively analyse the impact of their business plans before submitting their decisions.

  • Built the front-end of web applications communicating with an API, powering competitions' online qualifier platform and promotional quiz systems

  • Developed responsive static websites and landing pages for student competitions and internal systems, working from Photoshop-based designs or company guidelines

• Project Manager, EcoSim Business Simulations

  Feb, 2015 - Sep, 20172 years 7 months

  Managed the delivery of business-simulation projects before moving into software engineering.

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