
Technical leader with a strong background in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices, focused on architecting high-volume financial platforms that handle over 10,000 events per second. Currently managing an Agile team of 9+ engineers at Wells Fargo, enhancing credit card onboarding processes to achieve a 20% increase in application completion rates through optimized REST APIs and Kafka event streaming, resulting in a 35% reduction in latency. Led significant performance improvements by migrating monolithic systems to OpenShift with Docker/Kubernetes, achieving a 40% gain in throughput and 99.9% uptime, while implementing BDD automation to cut regression testing time by 50%. Committed to security best practices, enforcing OWASP standards and PCI-DSS compliance, which halved vulnerabilities and fostered team expertise in SOLID principles and Kafka architecture.