Public Transport - Biometrics Integration for the Digital Licence Project - DLP​

Delivering cloud-native and backend engineering solutions for government digital transformation projects, focusing on serverless architecture, scalability, performance, and security in public cloud environments.

• Key Achievements:

  • Implemented a serverless architecture on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront), reducing infrastructure complexity and operational overhead.
  • Integrated third-party liveness detection and facial recognition services to enable secure biometric verification.
  • Automated infrastructure using GitHub Actions and CloudFormation.

• Technical Environment:

  • AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Secrets Manager, VPC, ACM, WAF, CloudFormation), TypeScript, Mulesoft, Auth0, GitHub Actions.

Financial Services - Rates Management Systems​

Conducted software engineering and support in AWS public cloud for a new system component, including frontend and backend applications, within Rates Management System to enhance the management and maintenance for all EOD Official Rates. The system provides a seamless way of managing the ownership of the rate paths and provide metadata about the rate paths.

• Key Achievements:

  • Designed and implemented enhancements to a three-tier distributed system supporting the management of EOD official rates worldwide.
  • Architected and implemented REST and gRPC interfaces, improving interoperability and performance across downstream systems.
  • Designed and implemented multi-stage CI/CD pipelines in Bamboo and** EKS-based microservice deployments** with ArgoCD, enabling automated, GitOps-driven delivery across multiple environments.
  • Delivered an ETL backfilling historical rate tool in Python.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders in the US and Australia, and with application teams in India and Australia to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Technical Environment:

  • AWS (EKS, RDS), Scala, Docker, ArgoCD, CI/CD (Bamboo), REST, gRPC.

Financial Services - Cloud Migration and Modernization for Mission-Critical Payments Platform​

Modernized high-value CGM applications focusing on Extreme Inherit Risk (EIR) applications by migrating critical workloads from Data Centers to AWS public cloud, achieving improved reliability and compliance for extreme-risk workloads.

• Key Achievements:

  • Successfully delivered a lift-shift-uplift migration of Oracle databases, JBoss-based applications, ElasticSearch cluster, Memcached clusters and Windows services to AWS, improving scalability, availability (Multi-AZ) and operational reliability.
  • Collaborated across global teams (Sydney, Singapore, South Africa, India) and received formal recognition from Bank Application Team for engineering excellence.
  • Mentored engineers and reviewed PRs to enforce high standards of delivery and best practices

• Technical Environment:

  • AWS (ALB, EC2, RDS, EFS, S3, CloudFormation), CI/CD (Arturo/Max), Grafana, Splunk, JBoss, ElasticSearch.

Government Services - Event Streaming Platform​

Technical Lead for the Client’s Event Streaming Platform, decoupling incoming data from Gov.UK Immigration and citizenship services from backend storage and analytics systems.

• Key Achievements:

  • Led a team to deliver high-quality software components, DLQ management, and platform governance, while maintaining architecture documentation and promoting best practices across development and testing teams.
  • Architected and maintained an event-driven platform processing thousands of business events per second, ensuring reliability and fault tolerance.
  • Delivered projects using AWS technologies, Kubernetes, microservices, and event streaming/messaging services.
  • Implemented CI/CD automation and observability pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, Helm, and ELK Stack, reducing deployment friction and incident resolution times.
  • Championed code review culture and mentored junior engineers across teams.

• Technical Environment:

  • AWS (S3, ECS, Lambda), Java, Spring Boot, Vert.x, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Jenkins, ELK Stack, React, Python, Vagrant.

Financial Services - A migration tool that generated code from OpenAPI Specifications​

Designed and implemented automated migration tools based on stakeholder requirements, including a rules-based Swagger validator and a code-generation tool, fully integrated into the development pipeline to enhance efficiency and compliance.

Public Sector Project​

Supported multiple short-term engagements in finance, transport, and healthcare, improving backend reliability and test coverage.

Worked as part of a team to develop a single API solution that integrated mobile payment technologies across multiple countries and operators, simplifying digital content payments for consumers.

Engineered scalable, high-availability solutions for global operations, successfully integrating with telecom carriers in India, the Philippines, Australia, and the UK.

• Key Achievements:
  • Responsible for designing and implementing a single API integration to provide mobile payment technologies in different countries.
  • Deliver reliable and scalable solutions that operate in various places throughout the world.
  • Integrate and perform with telecom carriers in India, The Philippines, Australia and in The United Kingdom such as Three.

Worked collaboratively to maintain and implement new features in a Student Accommodation Property Management System, improving usability and functionality for end users.

• Key Achievements:
  • Valuable contribution to create services to the residential real estate sector, with market leading customers in the private rented sector (PRS), build-torent, student, key worker and social housing markets.
  • Strong collaboration in development and improvement of the PEX Booking System Software, both front-end and back-end.
  • Responsible for integrating payment gateways.