Zay Dennis

Modernized onboarding platform with ASP.NET Core/.NET 7 microservices, Angular, Istio, and AI-driven KYC, cutting account setup time from days to minutes while ensuring security and compliance. Migrated legacy ASP.NET WebForms onboarding and payments workflows to .NET 7 microservices with Angular 14 dashboards, enabling real-time compliance checks and reducing customer account setup time. Developed Kafka producers and consumers for high-volume financial transaction streams powering fraud detection pipelines and reducing false positives by 25%. Built secure APIs (REST/gRPC) with OAuth2/JWT and Entra ID. Built event-driven workflows with Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Key Vault to automate KYC, payments, and compliance. Optimized backend services with EF Core and Dapper, tuning 60+ high-impact stored procedures and queries cutting execution times by 70%+ and sustaining sub-100 ms lookups for millions of daily transactions. Delivered fraud detection and KYC automation featu

Modernized Prudential’s onboarding platform using ASP.NET Core/.NET 7 microservices and Angular, enabling real-time KYC checks and reducing account setup time from days to minutes; migrated WebForms workflows to cloud-native microservices; built Kafka-based transaction streams for fraud detection; implemented REST/gRPC APIs with OAuth2/JWT and Entra ID; created event-driven workflows with Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Key Vault; optimized EF Core and Dapper queries; integrated AI pipelines with OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, and ML.NET to cut manual review by 70% and false positives by 25%; automated ETL pipelines consolidating data into SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and Azure Data Lake; deployed on AKS with Istio; automated infrastructure with Terraform; established observability with Grafana and OpenTelemetry; built CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps; mentored 6 engineers.

Modernized Prudential's onboarding platform using ASP.NET Core/.NET 7 microservices, Angular, Istio, and AI-driven KYC, reducing account setup time from days to minutes while maintaining security and compliance. Migrated legacy WebForms onboarding and payments workflows to .NET 7 microservices with Angular dashboards, enabling real-time compliance checks. Built Kafka producers/consumers powering fraud detection pipelines and integrated OpenAI Azure Cognitive Services and ML.NET to improve automation. Implemented OAuth2/JWT and Entra ID for secure APIs; designed event-driven workflows with Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Key Vault. Optimized EF Core and Dapper performance (60+ stored procedures/queries) achieving 70%+ faster execution and sub-100ms lookups for millions of daily transactions. Brought Azure Synapse analytics to accelerate financial close from 5 days to 2 days. Automated infrastructure with Terraform; deployed via AKS with Istio; improved observability with G