Senior Microservices Engineer · Msimbo ITJan 2017 – Jan 2024 · 7 yrs 1 mo
Led the design, development, and deployment of an enterprise-grade microservices architecture supporting financial services and digital payment platforms. Drove infrastructure modernization, cloud migration to AWS, and Kubernetes-based orchestration for 50+ services. Implemented Istio service mesh for observability, traffic management, and security; designed asynchronous processing pipelines using Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ; built RESTful and gRPC services per OpenAPI specifications; integrated ISO 20022 message standards and SWIFT for cross-border payments; implemented PCI-DSS and GDPR-compliant security and audit logging; deployed blue/green and canary deployment strategies; established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD; implemented comprehensive monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and OpenTelemetry.