Vincent Willliams

About

Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Designed cloud-native Python backend with Django/DRF + FastAPI in event-driven architecture (Kafka, Postgres, Redis)
• Production reliability engineering: OAuth2/JWT auth, strict multi-tenant RBAC, timeouts, idempotent retries with exponential backoff
• Strong AWS delivery using EKS + Lambda with Terraform IaC, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Helm deployments, and Secrets Manager/IAM least privilege
• Built robust AWS Glue ETL with raw/clean/curated zones, schema evolution strategy, and embedded data quality checks
• Incident ownership for batch/ETL failures with CloudWatch-based detection, fast triage, customer mitigation, and recurrence prevention (schema validation, canary runs, runbooks)
• Proven SQL performance tuning (execution plans, sargable predicates, composite indexes, partitioning) with measured improvement from 40s to <2s