> Senior Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- Led platform operations and incident response as on-call engineer — root cause analysis and preventive measures reduced recurring incidents by ~30%
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing release time by ~20% through templatized deployment patterns and blue/green deployments
- Developed Python automation tooling (boto3/AWS CLI) for resource auditing and cost optimization, contributing to a ~15% reduction in monthly cloud costs
- Designed and operated cloud-native platform infrastructure on AWS EKS across distributed, multi-tenant environments with 99.9% uptime via multi-AZ deployments and disaster recovery strategies
- Hardened container images and enforced least-privilege IAM policies and Kubernetes RBAC; managed secrets via AWS Secrets Manager to maintain compliance in a regulated financial environment
- Established observability infrastructure using DataDog and CloudWatch — custom dashboards, SLI-based alerts, and log aggregation pipelines reduced MTTD for production incidents by ~15%
- Contributed to backend service development using TypeScript/NestJS and Java/Spring Boot, including API design, integration with internal systems, and unit/integration testing
- Applied test-driven development, security code reviews, and engineering best practices to improve reliability, security posture, and maintainability across backend services handling sensitive data
- Partnered with non-technical stakeholders and compliance teams to translate business rules into software specifications, ensuring alignment across engineering and business functions