Results-driven Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead with extensive experience across healthcare, maritime, banking, and finance. Skilled in scalable architectures, distributed systems, micro-services, and cloud infrastructures for startups and enterprises. Strategic leader focused on security, performance, and efficiency, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, cutting-edge solutions.
Work experience
Leading a 20+ engineer team in delivering banking solutions, driving digitization of card operations, transactions, and account management. Built robust back-office services with Blazor and high-performance bulk processing systems. Optimized throughput 10x with Redis & Kafka. Championed microservices, cloud, Docker, and DevOps best practices for scalability and seamless integration.
Successfully modernized legacy systems, enhancing performance, security, and scalability. Designed high-performance solutions with microservices, Redis, and Kafka, boosting transaction throughput 10x. Improved responsiveness via caching, query optimization, and automation. Strengthened observability with ElasticSearch & Kibana. Advocated cloud, Docker, and DevOps best practices.
Designed and delivered a fraud detection system, strengthening transaction security and trust. Improved performance with Redis caching and cut CI/CD build times for faster, cost-effective deployments. Migrated microservices to Google App Engine and messaging from RabbitMQ to Kafka, boosting scalability, throughput, and reliability. Led third-party API integration to enhance interoperability.
Developed and maintained home healthcare software solutions widely used across the industry. Built an Uber-like healthcare service to optimize patient–caregiver interactions. Integrated Kibana-based logging to enhance observability and improve log analysis across existing services, strengthening reliability and support efficiency.
Refactored an enterprise messaging system, enhancing performance through asynchronous processing and multithreading. Also designed and implemented new features based on client requests.
Designed and implemented secure cryptographic solutions for blockchain applications, including an ECIES-based encryption system for secure messaging. Contributed to ASIC-resistant mining algorithms (RandomHash/RandomHash2) and proposed a PascalCoin URI scheme for wallet interactions. Enhanced the desktop wallet UI/UX to improve usability and user experience.
Built the backend that powered a cryptocurrency exchange, enabling seamless digital asset trading. Conducted security audits on blockchain-based applications to ensure integrity and trust. Optimized key system modules to enhance performance, scalability, and overall reliability of the platform.
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