Hi, I’m Brian Tseng, a senior software engineer based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, with over a decade of experience building fintech infrastructure and scalable backend systems for financial transactions and data security. I specialize in distributed systems, API design, and AI/ML integrations for fraud detection and real-time analytics, always applying SOLID principles and focusing on high availability and maintainability across complex fintech platforms.

Hi, I’m Brian Tseng, a senior software engineer based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, with over a decade of experience building fintech infrastructure and scalable backend systems for financial transactions and data security. I specialize in distributed systems, API design, and AI/ML integrations for fraud detection and real-time analytics, always applying SOLID principles and focusing on high availability and maintainability across complex fintech platforms.

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Hi, I’m Brian Tseng, a senior software engineer based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, with over a decade of experience building fintech infrastructure and scalable backend systems for financial transactions and data security.

I specialize in distributed systems, API design, and AI/ML integrations for fraud detection and real-time analytics, always applying SOLID principles and focusing on high availability and maintainability across complex fintech platforms.

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Language

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Plaid
June 1, 2024 - Present
Led collaborative efforts on distributed systems architecture for Plaid's core payment processing platform, integrating microservices and concurrency controls to handle millions of transactions daily, reducing latency by 15% through optimized API design and fault tolerance mechanisms.
Staff Software Engineer at Cash App
August 1, 2022 - March 1, 2024
Developed backend platforms for Cash App's transaction processing using Go and microservices to ensure scalability and secure financial data flows; advanced system design for payment verification, applying concurrency and fault tolerance to minimize failures; integrated CI/CD pipelines with Docker to deploy distributed systems and maintain high availability; contributed to ML-based analytics by optimizing data structures and PyTorch-based models for user insights.
Senior Software Engineer at NerdWallet
August 1, 2016 - August 1, 2022
Built scalable backend services for NerdWallet's financial recommendation engines using Java and SQL, engineered APIs for content delivery with concurrency controls and load balancing, and developed testing strategies to uphold integrity in high-availability operations; optimized ETL data pipelines with Python; integrated message queues for asynchronous processing in authentication systems; refactored legacy code using SOLID and deployment with Kubernetes; enhanced ML tooling integrations for better recommendation accuracy.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet