Designed stateless FastAPI services behind an API gateway with PostgreSQL/Redis and Celery async processing for bursty partner traffic
Implemented JWT-based auth with tenant scoping via claims, key rotation, and auditing for sensitive endpoints
Built AWS serverless/event-driven workflows (API Gateway + Lambda + SQS + Step Functions + EventBridge) with Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD
Strong secrets/config management across environments using SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, and least-privilege IAM
AWS Glue ETL design with partitioned S3 Parquet lake, Glue Catalog, Athena/Redshift Spectrum, schema enforcement, and data-quality quarantine patterns
Production SQL performance tuning (indexes, partitioning, keyset pagination) reducing timeouts to near-zero and improving endpoint latency to ~300–900ms
Owned data pipeline incident response: detected via CloudWatch/freshness checks, triaged schema change, paused publishing, hot-fixed mapping, backfilled, and added completeness/schema contract gates
Like what you see? We'll introduce you to Emma directly.
Experience
Senior Software EngineerMoodMe · Oct 2024 – Present
Full Stack EngineerRecurso Labs · Jan 2021 – Sep 2024
Software EngineerSystems Limited · Jul 2019 – Dec 2020
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.”