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I am a senior software engineer with extensive expertise in designing scalable event-sourced systems and RESTful APIs, leveraging domain-driven design to enhance financial and lending platforms. I enjoy mentoring engineers and driving technology adoption across teams. I am passionate about building robust, observable streaming data pipelines and improving security compliance for enterprises. I am skilled in Java, Clojure, Kafka, and cloud infrastructures like AWS and GCP, and thrive in collaborative, dynamic environments.…I am a senior software engineer with extensive expertise in designing scalable event-sourced systems and RESTful APIs, leveraging domain-driven design to enhance financial and lending platforms. I enjoy mentoring engineers and driving technology adoption across teams. I am passionate about building robust, observable streaming data pipelines and improving security compliance for enterprises. I am skilled in Java, Clojure, Kafka, and cloud infrastructures like AWS and GCP, and thrive in collaborative, dynamic environments.

JP POLINS

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I am a senior software engineer with extensive expertise in designing scalable event-sourced systems and RESTful APIs, leveraging domain-driven design to enhance financial and lending platforms. I enjoy mentoring engineers and driving technology adoption across teams. I am passionate about building robust, observable streaming data pipelines and improving security compliance for enterprises. I am skilled in Java, Clojure, Kafka, and cloud infrastructures like AWS and GCP, and thrive in collaborative, dynamic environments.…I am a senior software engineer with extensive expertise in designing scalable event-sourced systems and RESTful APIs, leveraging domain-driven design to enhance financial and lending platforms. I enjoy mentoring engineers and driving technology adoption across teams. I am passionate about building robust, observable streaming data pipelines and improving security compliance for enterprises. I am skilled in Java, Clojure, Kafka, and cloud infrastructures like AWS and GCP, and thrive in collaborative, dynamic environments.

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I am a senior software engineer with extensive expertise in designing scalable event-sourced systems and RESTful APIs, leveraging domain-driven design to enhance financial and lending platforms. I enjoy mentoring engineers and driving technology adoption across teams. I am passionate about building robust, observable streaming data pipelines and improving security compliance for enterprises. I am skilled in Java, Clojure, Kafka, and cloud infrastructures like AWS and GCP, and thrive in collaborative, dynamic environments.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Rightfoot

September 1, 2022 - Present

Designed and implemented features and architecture for a RESTful legacy loan payments platform. Led design of a new proprietary data pipeline product using domain-driven design. Mentored engineers and held weekly office hours focusing on Kafka and event sourcing. Investigated and documented controls for SOC2 certification. Utilized technologies including Java, JavaScript, Python, GraphQL, Postgres, Kafka, Confluent, Kubernetes, and GCP.

Senior Software Engineer at Funding Circle

August 31, 2022 - August 31, 2025

Designed and built event-sourced observability with Kafka in Clojure on AWS with Mesos, replacing an accounting ledger supporting the company's IPO new decision engine, using domain-driven design. Owned internal tools and DSLs for Clojure.spec management, property testing, and observability. Led adoption of tools and process improvements around technical debt, documentation, and data schemas across teams and geos. Mentored junior developers and contributed to Jackdaw, an open-source Clojure Kafka/KStreams wrapper.

Platform Software Engineer at Capital One Financial

October 31, 2017 - August 31, 2025

Extended and maintained backend REST API and lambda architecture in Clojure on AWS for Level Money, a consumer budgeting app. Built distributed heartbeat mechanism to intelligently spread third-party data pulls over users and schedule bank transfers. Built, instrumented, and A/B tested multiple data integrations.

Independent Contractor at Early-stage startups

July 31, 2015 - August 31, 2025

Increased API efficiency by 20% by implementing RESTful API and LinkedIn integration using Flask. Enhanced optimization algorithm efficiency by 30% by implementing linear algebra functions in Clojure. Re-architected codebase in NumPy.

Web Development Intern at Giving What We Can

October 31, 2013 - August 31, 2025

Added functionality and optimizations in PHP and JavaScript on a Drupal-based website.

Web Development Intern at LocalWiki

August 31, 2013 - August 31, 2025

Increased local knowledge sharing by 30% by developing a Django-based package to deploy community wikis. Enhanced spatial data analysis accuracy by 30% by implementing richer geographical views using PostGIS.

Software Development Intern at ABN Software

August 31, 2012 - August 31, 2025

Developed WinForms and WPF applications in C# and worked on video codec cross-compilation.