Built and maintained Python/Flask backend services for indicative loan pricing (Fannie/Freddie) including property search, loan calculations, and Excel workflows
Improved API performance ~40% via Redis caching of frequently accessed loan/property data
Designed scalable file/export architecture using S3 pre-signed URLs and AWS Lambda async processing to avoid blocking API requests
Optimized PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance with lazy loading, connection pooling, composite indexes, and bulk operations
Implemented read/write separation with PostgreSQL read replicas and SQLAlchemy routing at the repository layer
Integrated ML inference into backend via SageMaker endpoints with Celery/RabbitMQ async calls and Redis caching
Designed multi-tenant data isolation with tenant-ID enforcement, RBAC via Keycloak, and audit logging
Resolved production export failures (>50k rows) by redesigning to streaming + background processing; ~90% export improvement and >30% memory reduction
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Experience
Software EngineerUber · Jun 2024 – Present
Web Developer/ Instructional AssistantUniversity of North Texas · Aug 2023 – May 2024part-time
Full Stack DeveloperBerkadia Services India Pvt Ltd · Feb 2022 – Aug 2023
Programmer AnalystDell · Jan 2020 – Feb 2022
Education
University of North Texasmaster, Information Systems & Tech
Staff Software Engineer specializing in scalable full-stack FinTech systems
Palo Alto, CA18y exp
YouTubeVirginia Tech
“Full-stack/backend engineer with recent hands-on experience building an AI-powered AML/KYC platform for financial institutions, spanning Go/Python backend services, real-time risk pipelines, and React/TypeScript analyst dashboards. Stands out for measurable compliance-tech impact: 94% fewer false positives, review times reduced from days to hours, and microservices processing 10,000+ transactions per second.”