10Pearls
November 2020 - present
Optimized, streamlined, and secured core banking platforms by introducing unit testing, hardening APIs (XSS prevention, API-key management), and ensuring regulatory compliance. Directed development of bank advisor and admin portals, reducing manual processing by ~40% and enabling faster multi-bank onboarding. Directed and scaled a distributed engineering team of 24 developers, standardizing agile processes and improving delivery predictability, setting up JIRA boards, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to standardize delivery. Defined technology roadmaps and executed enterprise modernization strategies, enabling successful collaboration with 22 banks in 2022 and expansion into other European markets. Received formal recognition from Finstreet leadership for delivering secure, scalable, client-focused fintech solutions that improved bank adoption and operational efficiency. Migrated and modernized the legacy monolithic platform into a microservices architecture, improving scalability, fault isolation, and deployment flexibility. Established remote engineering processes and collaboration standards, improving sprint throughput and cross-team delivery cadence. Instituted CI/CD and cloud automation using GitHub Actions, Docker, and AWS ECR/ECS, improving release reliability and reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR).