# Bryan Cantos > Senior Software Engineer at Luminate Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bryancantos As a multi-language Senior Software Engineer, I bring a wealth of experience in designing, developing, and deploying Enterprise and Big Data Applications. On the Release Engineering team, I specialize in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Terragrunt, and I manage large-scale AWS environments alongside Kubernetes (EKS) clusters. I’ve built numerous CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, streamlining software delivery and ensuring robust automation. My technical expertise spans both backend and frontend technologies, including Hibernate, Spring, Apache Spark, SQL, MongoDB, HTML/CSS, AngularJS, and React. I have deployed microservices using Spring Boot, Eureka, and Zuul, and containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes. Additionally, I’ve implemented Web Services like SOAP and REST, worked with a variety of automated testing and deployment tools (JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber), and employed design patterns like Dependency Injection, DAO, MVC, and more. I’m well-versed in various development life cycles, including Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum, and have deployed systems in cloud environments with AWS. My work combines a deep knowledge of infrastructure, software development, and cloud architecture to drive efficient, scalable solutions ## Work Experience ### Tech Lead - Senior Software Engineer @ Luminate Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Luminate Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States As a Senior Software Engineer on the Release Engineering team, I focus on architecting and managing large-scale infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. With extensive experience in Terraform and Terragrunt, I ensure our AWS cloud environments are scalable, secure, and optimized. I play a pivotal role in overseeing and maintaining our Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, driving automation and performance across our systems. Additionally, I’ve built numerous CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring streamlined software delivery. My work is at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and release engineering to enable continuous growth and innovation. ### Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead @ Saks Fifth Avenue Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States As the Tech Lead for the Platform Team at Saks Fifth Ave, I’m responsible for overseeing architectural design, team management, team building, interviewing candidates, and making key code and infrastructure contributions. I played a pivotal role in leading the initiative to greenfield a new platform for Saks.com, leveraging technologies such as AWS ECS, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Terraform/Terragrunt, Datadog, and the Netflix DGS GraphQL framework alongside Apollo Federation/Server. My role involves driving technical direction while fostering team growth and delivering scalable solutions ### Software Engineer @ Saks Fifth Avenue Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area Join Saks from Hudson's Bay Company during the initial Saks separation. Currently working on the Web Platform team where we focus on consumer facing technologies ### Software Engineer @ Hudson's Bay Company Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States -Developed and deployed on a RESTful API application using Java/Spring boot -Developed fully end to end integrated components using Html/CSS, Javascript, Salesforce Lighting and Salesforce Apex -Utilized Salesforce API in Python to fully migrate data from one platform to another using dataframes in Pandas ### Software Developer @ S&P Global Market Intelligence Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area -Deployed and maintained a Scala/Java Big Data Apache Spark application to generate aggregated results for end clients -Utilized Apache Hadoop and Hive for distributed data aggregation and transfer -Developed a Natural Language Processing app with NLTK, Python, Java and Scala to consume stored transcripts and generate aggregate results -Created bash scripts for standardized deployments ### Associate Software Engineer @ Infosys Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Phoenix, Arizona Area Fourth Client - American Express - Created and maintained RESTful APIs and using Spring MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate and MySql. - Utilized Elastic Search for temporary and fast data transfer. - Worked on existing web components to modify the behavior of some functionality in JavaScript/TypeScript. - Developed additional features on an existing single page dynamic web application and consumed REST APIs using Angular 4, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML and CSS Third Client - Charles Schwab - Deployed, maintained and scaled applications using Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Created multiple customer related event that implements Spring Cloud Data Flow structure which downstream messages to rabbitMQ - Utilized Spring Batch to perform queries in a DB2 database Second Client - American Water Works - Installed ActiveMQ brokers on Red Hat Linux Servers to be fault tolerant, reliable, secure and to handle heavy payloads - Containerize MicroService applications using Docker - Employed Kubernetes to orchestrate and manage the Docker containers First Client - BHP Billiton - Applied Kafka to listen and consume messages from and to various topics - Consumed SOAP messages using the WSDL from a Web Service which was then converted into JSON and sent to the client side - Created a React Native mobile application and a Spring Data REST API service for a full end to end application ### Software Development Engineer @ Revature Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Trained at Revature to learn special skills such as Micro-services, Angular, Amazon Web Services, Spring Framework and many other modern technologies ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Hunter College Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ### High School Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Thomas A. Edison High School career and technical education high school Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bcantos17 - GitHub: https://github.com/BCantos17 --- Source: https://flows.cv/bryancantos JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bryancantos/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22