Sonic the Hedgehog Email: sonic@gmail.com - phone: 2515132065 - blog: blog.sonic.com - linkedin: linkedin.com/in/sonic Experience Mortgage Company | June 2022 - Present Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Building a highly automated mortgage origination engine (Mortgage.co’s flagship product), eliminating reliance on 3rd party vendors costing $400k / month - Empowered internal teams with tools to orchestrate automated tasks for the full lifecycle of a mortgage, with minimal manual labor and human error - Designed data streaming and exchange microservices for partners and internal teams using Kafka, REST APIs and AWS SQS queues, slashing on-boarding time for new partners from months to 2 weeks Video Editor Company | Mar 2021 - Apr 2022 Senior Software Engineer - Developed an easy-to-use video editor running from the convenience of a web-browser, powered by parallelized cloud rendering - Spearheaded the design of server-side video rendering service with parallel rendering support - Architected a scalable cloud architecture on AWS utilizing queues (SQS) auto-scaling groups, and application load-balancers (ALB) Bank | Feb 2019 - Mar 2021 Associate Software Engineer - Completely redesigned Underwriting Engine, allowing real-time decisions in under 3 sec SLA and self-serve configuration - Architected a scalable and highly available microservice and DB infrastructure on AWS with disaster recovery, serving fluctuating traffic peaking at 100,000’s transactions per day - Designed a database data model enabling self-serve, fast iteration on underwriting logic, slashing time-to-market from months to 3 weeks. Education Degree: Bachelor of Science (BS) - Major: Chemical Engineering University of Good Students | Aug 2014 - May 2018 Technical Skills Language Ecosystems: NodeJS | Scala | Python | TypeScript | React AWS: SQS | Lambda | EC2 Auto-scaling | API Gateway | DynamoDB | Cloudformation | Route 53 | ALB | RDS Tools & DBs: PostgreSQL | MongoDB | Kubernetes | Docker | Terraform | Kafka | Linux | NoSQL | DynamoDB | Git | JWT | Nginx