destiny
Senior Backend Engineer
Member of Technical Staff at Trase
Backend engineer with 10+ years building distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-availability APIs across fintech, security, and e-commerce.
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Career13
-Built GitHub synchronization service using AWS Lambda and SQS, eliminating API rate-limiting issues and ensuring real-time data consistency. -Developed Quarkus (Java) RESTful APIs and integrated with GitHub CI/CD to provide real-time visibility into security remediation processes. -Leveraged OpenAI APIs and LLMs to analyze complex code patterns, enhancing context and actionable insights in user-facing reports. -Architected configuration module enabling repository- and organization-level policy customization, adopted across 500+ repositories. -Integrated third-party code scanners and monitored system performance using Sentry and CloudWatch, maintaining >99.9% uptime.
Migrated search functionality to OpenSearch, improving query performance by 40% and enabling complex, near-real-time searches. • Led infrastructure modernization using AWS CDK, enabling secure multi-region deployments and improving disaster recovery readiness. • Built Node.js Lambda functions to process identity data across multiple African national databases, handling PII with compliance. • Maintained high-traffic Ruby on Rails APIs serving the core application, supporting millions of monthly verification requests.
• Designed event-driven AWS workflows using Lambda, Kinesis, and Step Functions to optimize data throughput to 3PL partners, reducing latency by 70%. • Extended Ruby on Rails eCommerce framework to automate shipping calculations and real-time inventory updates. • Developed background jobs for customer data synchronization and integrated with third- party platforms (Narvar, Kustomer, EasyPost).
- Built geospatial web application enabling intelligence analysts to discover and correlate multi-format data across disparate sources. - Created custom Java data ingestion processors and ETL pipelines using StreamSets to parse, validate, and route sensitve data.
- Built an in house database for personal tracking using Django + Angular - Deployed and managed Docker containers on AWS - Configured and managed AWS EC2 instances - Configured and managed servers/ services running in a secure network - Configured a secure network ( iptables, fortigate)
- Stayed loose, been ready - Built a Python Microservice that returns location coordinates found within a document (Sanic) - Built a Java/Scala Microservice that performs auditing on user activity for all users across the program. (Java, Scala, Maven, Thrift, Kafka, Mongo) - Dockerized micro services to give our developers a test environment - Created a Django app for internal analyst to do comparisons of the tools they use (Python, Sqlite, Angular) - Created a mock "Active Directory" SOAP service used by both internal and external teams (Flask, Angular) - Migrated all Microservices across the program to use the latest version of Kafka - Deploy services to AWS using Salt - Maintenance work on Microservices
- IT and IT Security Administration - IT and IT Security Internal Projects - Work towards performing IT Security-Focused client consulting - Interacting with the client's staff and Aplura's other on-contract staff to resolve problems and improve/expand visibility of the enterprise network architecture.
Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing students laptop issues Assist students with various account issues, both in person and over the phone Troubleshooting and repairing campus wide pay for print printers Installation of Cisco VoIP phones
- Contributed to Datasong, a projet based on making data sharing in different databases more efficient (Java, Maven, Apache Jena) - Converted SPARQL/SPARUL queries to work on underlying database API’s (Accumulo, PostgreSQL)
Tutored students K-5 with math and reading skills Assisted teachers with class instruction Gave private tutor sessions during recess and gym time period
Education1
Followed the Computer Security track which teaches how to protect, detect and defend when someone enters a system and also how to write code that is less vulnerable to being exploitable. Towson University was one of the first universities to be accredited with this track.
Activities / Societies: President of Students For the Advancement of IT (S.A.I.T) Fall '13- Spring '14.
Credentials3
Inside LVMH - Operations & Supply Chains, Retail & Customer Experience
LVMH
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Security+
CompTIA