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Senior Backend Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Trase

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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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Career: 13

Member of Technical Staff

Trase

Sep 2025 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

SwarmInt LLC

Sep 2024 - Sep 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Pixee

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Aug 2023 - Sep 2024

-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.

Senior Software Engineer

Smile Identity

Oct 2022 - Aug 2023

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.

Software Engineer

GOAT Group

Apr 2022 - Oct 2022

Software Engineer

Glossier, Inc.

Remote

Mar 2021 - 2022

• 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).

Software Engineer

Black Cape

Jan 2019 - Mar 2021

- 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.

Full Stack Developer

Ridgeline International

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

- 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)

Technologist

HumanGeo

Sep 2015 - Sep 2018

- 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

Information Security Enginer

Aplura, LLC

Towson, MD

2015 - Sep 2015

- 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.

SCS Support Desk Associate

Student Computing Services

Aug 2012 - Jun 2014

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

Junior Java Developer

Datanova Scientific LLC

Jun 2014 - 2014

- 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)

Tutor

Towson TUTORS

Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

Tutored students K-5 with math and reading skills Assisted teachers with class instruction Gave private tutor sessions during recess and gym time period

Education: 1

Towson University

Bachelor of Science (BS)

2010 - 2014

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.

Credentials: 3

Inside LVMH - Operations & Supply Chains, Retail & Customer Experience

LVMH

Nov 2025

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

Jul 2018

Security+

CompTIA

Skills: 52

Other

Active DirectoryAmazon KinesisAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApacheApache 2Apache Kafka
Assembly LanguageAWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsBig DataBIND ServersCC (Programming Language)cdkComputer SecurityData ScienceDatadogDebuggingDjangoDNS ServerDockerFirewallsGoIISInformation SecurityJavaLinuxmalwareMicroservicesMySQLNetworkingNode.jsOS XPostgreSQLPythonPython (Programming Language)QuarkusReverse EngineeringRubySemantic WebSnortSPARQLSplunkSpring BootStreamSetsTroubleshootingVMwareWindowsWindows ServerWireshark

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