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Hands-on, customer-obsessed leader, architect and engineer with 21+ years of experience engineering secure, scalable solutions that transform visionary concepts into profitable business assets. Expert in AI, data, security, digital transformations, and cloud migrations. Proven mastery in building secure, event-driven, high-throughput, fault-tolerant, resilient, and self-healing distributed cloud solutions, backed by an 11-year consecutive track record of architecting AWS cloud solutions.
- Advisor, Technophile, Engineer, Mentor, Researcher
- Broad experience in product strategy, product vision, roadmap, agile
- Hands-on Cloud Architect, Data Architect, Security Architect, Java Architect, DevOps Architect
- Mentored and Coached 100+ Engineers and Architects. Authored 1+ million lines of code in Java and other languages
- Data expert in AI, Big Data, Data Lake, Lakehouse, Data Engineering, Data Governance
- Security expert in IAM, CSPM, DSPM, ASPM, Cloud Security, Data Security, App Security, SAST, SCA, DevSecOps, Security At Scale and compliance (NIST, ISO, HIPAA..)
- Domain knowledge in Finance, Payments, Banking, Healthcare, eCommerce, SaaS, Enterprise Solutions
- Intuit, Amazon, Citi Bank, Bloomberg, Publicis, E*Trade, Fannie Mae, United Healthcare, McDonalds, Verizon, Market America
| Languages | Java 21, Python3.12, Scala, Rust (Interest), Functional, OOP, SOLID, XP, JavaScript, JSP, SQL, C++, C, Bash, Cobol, ColdFusion, gRPC, REST, JSON, SOAP, WSDL, YAML, XML, XSLT, HTML5 and CSS |
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| Cloud Platform | AWS: 55+ Services - IAM, VPC, APIs, S3, KMS, Route53, ELB, CloudFront, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets, DynamoDB, Redshift, RDS, Aurora, MSK, Kinesis, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, SES, EMR, Glue, AppFlow, MWAA, LakeFormation, Athena, DMS, Comprehend, QuickSight, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Terraform, Service Catalog, Config, Systems Manager, CodeBuild, CodePipeline and moreGCP: AppEngine, GCS, BigQuery, DataProc |
| Data & AI | AI: Claude Code, Copilot, GenAI, LLM, RAG, AWS Bedrock, MCP, Strands, Kiro Data: AWS Data, Data Mesh, Lakehouse, Lambda, Medallion, Governance, Security, Catalog, Discovery, Classification, Lineage, OLTP/OLAP, ETL/ELT, Apache Spark, Iceberg, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, RDBMS, NoSQL, Presto, Druid, Ignite, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Ranger, Atlas, Oozie, Zookeeper, Zeppelin |
| Security | CISSP candidate, AWS Security, Zero Trust, Product Security, AI Security, SaaS, NIST, PCI, GDPR, IAM, RBAC, ABAC, NetSec, CSPM, DSPM, ASPM, SIEM, Data Security, DLP, SSO, OKTA, PingFederate, DevSecOps, SSDLC, SAST, SCA, OWASP, Kubernetes, Container Security, SonarQube, NexusIQ, Anchore, Prisma Cloud |
| Databases | Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, DynamoDb, Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, MSSQL, HSQLDB, DB2 |
| Frameworks | Microservices, EDA, SOA, SMACK, J2EE, Security standards, TDD, BDD, JUnit, ScalaTest, PyTest, Spring, Hibernate, Jackson, JSF2, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JMS, EJB3, Ehcache, Apache Commons, Apache Solr, Apache Lucene, Log4J, SL4J, MVC, PrimeFaces, RichFaces, iText, Struts, Tiles, Vue, jQuery, Angular, ExtJS, Backbone, FW1, Model-Glue, Fusebox |
| App Servers | Tomcat, Wildfly, JBoss, WebSphere, Weblogic, WebObjects, JRun, Jetty, ColdFusion 10, BlueDragon |
| Software Tools | VSCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse, CI/CD, Jenkins, JBoss, Maven, Gradle, GIT, ANT, Subversion, JIRA/Confluence, SonarQube, Nexus, Apache, IIS, JMeter, Harvest, Perforce, Toad, Grinder, Dreamweaver, Director, Client Access, Install Shield, Microsoft office |
| OS | Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, MacOS, Windows 11/WSL2, DOS, AS400 |
- Jan 2023 - AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
- Jun 2021 - AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- Mar 2018 - AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- Jan 2017 - AWS Certified Big Data Specialty
- Jan 2017 - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Spearheaded product roadmaps and strategic initiatives for diverse solutions, aligning engineering efforts with business goals. Led, mentored, and managed 100+ Engineers and Architects to drive significant improvements in delivery speed and quality.
- Architected secure, multi-tenant AI, Data Lake and Lakehouse solutions, leveraging CSPM and DSPM to mitigate cloud security risks and streamline regulatory compliance.
- Designed and built an AWS Product Acclerator for Data, Security and DevOps IaC, accelerating the customer deployment journey by 90% (from 2 years to 2 months), Engineered a core library of 150+ AWS Lambda functions to automate complex cloud workflows.
- Designed and engineered a high-performance AWS data solution for bank trading, automating the daily ingestion of 300+ billion records within an 8–10 hour window using Java 11, SQS, Lambda, Glue and Snowflake.
- Architected a secure, multi-tenant AWS data lake for an AdTech SaaS platform processing 2TB/day. Engineered a custom Apache Spark/Scala framework to migrate 100+ legacy Hadoop jobs to AWS EMR, boosting throughput by 50% and ensuring 99.9% data reliability through rigorous unit and integration testing.
- Sr. Java Architect and SME for various consulting engagements
- I led the end-to-end design and delivery of Intuit’s Commercial Banking SaaS suite. Serving as the Lead Software Development Engineer (SDE) and Subject Matter Expert (SME), I led the development of core financial modules—including ACH, Wire Transfer, and Risk Mitigation that process $100+ million in daily transaction volume. My focus was on architecting secure, scalable systems for major global institutions such as Bank of America, BMO, Regions, Zions, Compass leveraging a deep tech stack of Java, C++, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and enterprise middleware.
- Enterprise Integration Patterns, Domain Driven Design, The Software Architect Elevator, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Building Microservices, System Design, Head First Design Patterns, Design Patterns GoF, Effective Java, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Technology, Distributed Systems, AI, Coding, Economics, Traveling, Health and Nutrition, Gym, Volleyball, Raquetball and Pickleball