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I’m a senior software engineer and backend-focused product engineer with around 19 years of experience building reliable backend systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures. My core strength is functional programming with Scala (including Scala 3 and typelevel libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, and doobie), along with strong practical experience across the full software lifecycle from design and implementation to operations. I enjoy leading and coaching teams of 3–7 engineers, setting standards by example, and balancing pragmatism with best practices. Across fintech, payments, and data-heavy platforms, I’ve delivered scalable systems (including migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices), built robust CI/CD on Kubernetes/EKS, and supported teams with AI-oriented guidance such as RAG-based approaches—while keeping quality, security, and operational excellence front and center.…I’m a senior software engineer and backend-focused product engineer with around 19 years of experience building reliable backend systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures. My core strength is functional programming with Scala (including Scala 3 and typelevel libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, and doobie), along with strong practical experience across the full software lifecycle from design and implementation to operations. I enjoy leading and coaching teams of 3–7 engineers, setting standards by example, and balancing pragmatism with best practices. Across fintech, payments, and data-heavy platforms, I’ve delivered scalable systems (including migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices), built robust CI/CD on Kubernetes/EKS, and supported teams with AI-oriented guidance such as RAG-based approaches—while keeping quality, security, and operational excellence front and center.

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I’m a senior software engineer and backend-focused product engineer with around 19 years of experience building reliable backend systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures. My core strength is functional programming with Scala (including Scala 3 and typelevel libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, and doobie), along with strong practical experience across the full software lifecycle from design and implementation to operations. I enjoy leading and coaching teams of 3–7 engineers, setting standards by example, and balancing pragmatism with best practices. Across fintech, payments, and data-heavy platforms, I’ve delivered scalable systems (including migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices), built robust CI/CD on Kubernetes/EKS, and supported teams with AI-oriented guidance such as RAG-based approaches—while keeping quality, security, and operational excellence front and center.…I’m a senior software engineer and backend-focused product engineer with around 19 years of experience building reliable backend systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures. My core strength is functional programming with Scala (including Scala 3 and typelevel libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, and doobie), along with strong practical experience across the full software lifecycle from design and implementation to operations. I enjoy leading and coaching teams of 3–7 engineers, setting standards by example, and balancing pragmatism with best practices. Across fintech, payments, and data-heavy platforms, I’ve delivered scalable systems (including migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices), built robust CI/CD on Kubernetes/EKS, and supported teams with AI-oriented guidance such as RAG-based approaches—while keeping quality, security, and operational excellence front and center.

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I’m a senior software engineer and backend-focused product engineer with around 19 years of experience building reliable backend systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures. My core strength is functional programming with Scala (including Scala 3 and typelevel libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, and doobie), along with strong practical experience across the full software lifecycle from design and implementation to operations.

I enjoy leading and coaching teams of 3–7 engineers, setting standards by example, and balancing pragmatism with best practices. Across fintech, payments, and data-heavy platforms, I’ve delivered scalable systems (including migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices), built robust CI/CD on Kubernetes/EKS, and supported teams with AI-oriented guidance such as RAG-based approaches—while keeping quality, security, and operational excellence front and center.

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Work Experience

Staff Engineer at GeoSci GmbH

September 1, 2025 - November 1, 2025

Led a technical team through a new tech stack and built backend features with Scala and SQL. Integrated an end-to-end production system for data/usage at scale, and advised teams on RAG-based information retrieval for AI use cases. Enhanced infrastructure using AWS/Kubernetes and improved observability and reliability for production services.

Senior Software Engineer II at MOIA (VW Group)

May 1, 2025 - August 22, 2025

Refactored a monolithic backend service in Scala 2 to a reactive microservice architecture in Scala 3 utilizing cats and ZIO for safe effects and error handling. Implemented automatic bill-of-materials publishing in payment services to comply with Cyber Resilience Act regulations.

Senior Engineer at MOIA (VW Group)

December 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025

Enabled scalability and multitenancy of the payment backend by migrating from a Scala 2 monolith to event-driven microservices with Scala 3, Cats, ZIO, and Kinesis. Automated SBOM publishing and configured messaging infrastructure (Kinesis/SQS) for microservices. Built and maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines deploying to EKS.

Senior Software Engineer - Contract at Singapore (Remote US)

July 1, 2024 - August 22, 2025

Developed RESTful API for third-party insurance verification using Scala 2, Tapir, Akka HTTP, Slick, and PostgreSQL.

Senior Software Engineer at EvidentID

May 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024

Built RESTful APIs for end-user identity and compliance services using Akka HTTP (Pekko), Slick, and Postgres, improving performance and correctness of backend workflows.

Senior Product Engineer at Yonder

January 1, 2024 - Present

Eliminated a multi-day manual billing process by implementing more automated billing flows. Developed backend microservice movement features using Scala and typelevel libraries (cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, doobie) with Kafka and Postgres, improving system reliability and operational efficiency.

AVP Senior Software Engineer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

December 31, 2023 - August 22, 2025

Managed project deliverables end-to-end ensuring 95% stakeholder alignment. Coached and mentored a team of 6 engineers, performed rigorous code reviews. Authored user documentation and conducted workshops resulting in elimination of user errors. Led software enhancements for compliance and post trade processing, reduced defect rate under 2%. Improved system efficiency and resilience using technologies like Kafka, RDF, and functional programming libraries.

Product Engineer at Standard Chartered Bank

December 31, 2019 - August 22, 2025

Developed backend wealth management tools using Scala 2 and Typelevel libraries, implementing functional programming for reliability improvements. Designed generational deployment using Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, achieving deployment time and cost reduction over 75%. Enabled asynchronous business verification with 99.999% uptime and coached colleagues on DevOps and test-driven development best practices.

VP Senior Software Engineer at Bank of America

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2023

Built and delivered improvements to the bank’s KYC system using Scala with typelevel libraries (cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2) plus Python and Kafka, including RDF-based data modelling. Added BlackRock compatibility to an existing data pipeline and mentored teams through technical reviews and process improvements.

Senior Software Engineer at Standard Chartered

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019

Built backend wealth management tools with Scala 2 and typelevel libraries (cats, cats-effect, http4s), improving reliability and performance. Designed and built a Kubernetes release system using Jenkins CI/CD and automated configuration reduction, cutting deployment effort and improving rollback safety.

Consultant Software Developer at ThoughtWorks

December 31, 2017 - August 22, 2025

Enhanced software within an agile scrum team using pair programming for knowledge sharing and team efficiency. Developed NLP search enhancements with Python 3, SpaCy, and Django, ensuring 100% customer satisfaction and on-time delivery.

Consultant Software Architect at ThoughtWorks

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018

Delivered a natural language processing (NLP) search solution, applying Agile practices and partnering with stakeholders to deliver robust software outcomes.

Consultant Software Architect at Coca-Cola

December 31, 2016 - August 22, 2025

Re-architected consumer-facing IoT platform from PoC to global production, reducing outages drastically. Improved platform scalability and resiliency, reducing support costs over 90%. Redesign included Akka actor hierarchy, caching with Redis, migrations to PostgreSQL, and agile methodology introduction, cutting time-to-market by 75%. Worked with Scala 2, Play Framework, Akka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

Software Developer Team Lead at Berkshire Hathaway Energy

December 31, 2015 - August 22, 2025

Led six-person team to develop IoT solutions for energy management on US Military bases. Defined development process, git branching strategy, and built SBT plugin to streamline deployments by 90%. Developed RESTful services, operational tools, and reports using Scala 2, Play Framework, Apache Cassandra, and Apache Spark.

Consultant Software Architect at Coca-Cola

January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016

Scaled an IoT consumption system with reliability improvements and reduced persistence costs by using SQL with Redis caching. Contributed to global-scale production support and infrastructure improvements.

Senior Software Engineer at Various Roles in Mannheim and Atlanta, USA

December 31, 2014 - August 22, 2025

Modernized legacy software stacks with agile methodologies, improving maintainability and developer productivity. Worked on health and wellness social network (sharecare.com) using Java 7, JSP, Spring MVC, and MongoDB. Scaled global payment infrastructure throughput with Java and JMeter, saving costs with open source solutions. Led software quality team and contributed as technical artist at Turbo Squid.

Team Lead at Berkshire Hathaway Energy

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015

Led a team of six engineers building IoT platform components and automated deployment using Git, SBT, Jenkins, and Chef, reducing deployment overhead. Managed team delivery for operational stability and predictable releases.

Lead Performance Test Engineer

January 1, 2010 - Present

Led a team of three engineers creating performance testing infrastructure and testing framework components for software quality.

Senior Software Engineer

January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2014

Built backend services for a health and wellness platform using MVC and MongoDB, supporting millions of users.