Experience

work

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Renewable Energy Startup · Remote · Tampa, FL · Aug 2026 – Oct 2026

   • Owned the multi-year technical and product roadmap, partnering with executive leadership on priorities.
   • Ramped up on the production codebase and shipped changes in week one; delivered features and fixes while leading a small team.
   • Led application security improvements, including access-control design and a platform-wide review.
   • Built AI-driven automation that turns user feedback into tracked engineering work; administered source control and project tracking.
   • Authored engineering standards, custom AI coding-assistant skills, and an internal documentation platform; sourced and onboarded AI code-review and multi-model LLM tooling.

2. Lead Java Developer, AI Chatbot Platform

   Raymond James (Contract) · Hybrid · St. Petersburg, FL · Mar 2026 – Aug 2026

   • Delivered Raymond James’s first enterprise AI advisor assistant from zero to full firm-wide production in under 3 months, personally leading a team of 3 engineers from architecture through release.
   • Built the Java 17 / Spring Boot microservice backbone powering an AI chatbot grounded in proprietary RJ data, now serving 40,000+ advisors with real-time access to client insights, compliance guidance, and market intelligence.
   • Designed and owned high-throughput RESTful APIs (OpenAPI 3.0 / Swagger) and Oracle-backed distributed microservices using domain-driven design, load-tested to 3× general-availability volume (120,000+ advisors) while holding response-time SLAs.
   • Integrated Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker for generative-AI responses over internal knowledge; instrumented observability in Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
   • Enforced security, compliance, and software governance across a regulated financial environment; owned CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, Maven, Flyway) from build through deployment.

3. Lead Application Developer, Vice President

   Citi · Hybrid · Tampa, FL · Jul 2025 – Mar 2026

   • Built a parity-check and test-validation tool comparing two platforms, eliminating 400+ days of manual business-analyst effort.
   • Directed architecture unifying two mission-critical market systems into a real-time, event-driven Kafka microservices platform.
   • Modernized legacy systems and championed CI/CD automation and architecture reviews, raising test coverage from 20% to 90%.
   • Mentored engineers on API design, testing best practices, and modern Java patterns.

4. Senior Software Engineer

   DTCC (6-Month Contract) · Hybrid · Tampa, FL · Jan 2025 – Jul 2025

   • Modernized legacy core financial systems on Java, containerizing services with Docker and Kubernetes and migrating to PostgreSQL, improving performance, security, and scalability.
   • Implemented new trading features compliant with SEC regulations, increasing transaction throughput by ~15%.
   • Contributed to disaster recovery planning, strengthening resilience and uptime for mission-critical platforms.

5. Software Engineer III

   J.P. Morgan Chase · Hybrid · Tampa, FL · Jul 2022 – Jan 2025

   • Spearheaded cloud migration of customer-facing applications, implementing OAuth/JWT authentication and Spring Security hardening from requirements through production — delivered on a hard regulatory deadline, avoiding a $2M late-delivery fine.
   • Reduced production issues by 40% by building new features and hardening existing functionality across Java and React.js services.
   • Led a team of 6 engineers to architect and ship a Java 21 / Spring Boot API end-to-end, defining design patterns and OpenAPI specs.
   • First to build Splunk alerts and dashboards for production monitoring — an approach since replicated across the line of business.
   • Served as Java 21 SME: mentored 4 engineers on API design, MVC, dependency injection, and JUnit/Mockito; ran code reviews.

education

B.S., Computer Science, University of South Florida

GPA 4.0 · Summa Cum Laude · May 2022

skills

Languages

Java · Python · JavaScript · Node.js · SQL · HTML · CSS · Go · C

Platform

Spring Boot · React.js · Microservices · Distributed Systems · Event-Driven Architecture · Kafka · AWS · Azure · Microsoft Graph API · REST · OpenAPI/Swagger · Spring Security · OAuth · JWT · RBAC · JUnit · Mockito · Maven · Gradle · Kubernetes · Docker · Jenkins · CI/CD · Git · GitHub · MySQL · PostgreSQL · Oracle · NoSQL · Datadog · Dynatrace · Splunk

AI & LLM

Generative AI · LLM Integration · Amazon Bedrock · Amazon SageMaker · OpenRouter · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · CodeRabbit · AI-Assisted Development · AI Workflow Automation

Leadership

Technical Leadership · Architecture · Mentorship · Roadmapping · Security Audits · Problem Solving · Communication

Spoken languages

English · Spanish