American Express
Aug 2022 – Present
- 150k+ credit decisions/day: Designed and owned end-to-end event-driven data pipelines in Java / Spring Boot / Kafka, maintaining sub-1-second latency SLAs at sustained production load.
- Drove the design and delivery of gRPC and REST microservices for real-time credit limit assessments; defined service contracts and integration patterns adopted across downstream platform teams.
- Engineered asynchronous, multi-threaded compute workflows to derive risk variables from raw transactional data, enriching and publishing to analytics platforms powering credit risk models.
- Led alignment with product managers and data stewards to define critical risk variable schemas, ensuring accuracy and compliance across ingestion, transformation, and delivery layers.
- Owned end-to-end encryption and PII protection for sensitive risk variables, meeting enterprise security and regulatory requirements with zero compliance findings.
- Mentored junior engineers and new hires through code reviews, pair programming, and 1:1s; accelerated onboarding and raised team code quality standards.