Lead Software Engineer CloudWalk, Inc.
Introduced a Kafka-based event-driven architecture to replace HTTP communication between microservices, reducing inter-service latency by 35% and eliminating 95% of transient request failures during peak load. Optimized PostgreSQL queries and indexing strategy across services using ActiveRecord and SQLAlchemy ORMs, reducing database CPU usage by 40% and improving average API response times by 20%. Used New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana to benchmark Python (FastAPI) and Ruby on Rails APIs, driving performance optimizations that cut memory usage by 30% and CPU load by 45%. Mentored a team of 6+ engineers and implemented structured code review practices, improving lead time for changes by 35%, increasing deployment frequency by 50%, and reducing bugs by 40% quarter-over-quarter. Developed an agent using GPT-4o, OpenAI embeddings, LangChain, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to automate risk-related chat analysis, cutting average response time to under 5 minutes.