# Edward Cernera > Engineering Team Lead (Brokerage) @ Jiko | Python | Web | Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/edwardcernera Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead | More at cernera.me/edward I lead the Brokerage Engineering Team at Jiko and empower our customers to invest their cash securely in T-Bills ๐Ÿ’ธ ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ Jiko Jan 2022 โ€“ Present | San Francisco, California, United States I lead the Brokerage Engineering Team and empower our customers to invest their cash securely in T-Bills ๐Ÿ’ธ ### Senior Software Engineer @ Jiko Jan 2022 โ€“ Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Avlino Jan 2020 โ€“ Jan 2021 | New Jersey, United States Integrated AICON web application with backend streaming microservices, including Kafka Streams and Elasticsearch ๐Ÿ”Ž Developed and owned a verbose and flexible deployment process for the web app stack using Jenkins and Docker Compose, to be able to deploy both on Azure and customer on-prem. โš™๏ธ Worked with customer technical teams to deploy on-prem AICON services to stream their NAVIS service/infra logs and metrics to the cloud to be able to visualize, monitor, and create alerts in the web app. ๐Ÿ“„ Developed and maintained a dozen core, low-level Scala/Kafka libraries used across product services. ๐Ÿ“š ### Software Engineer @ Avlino Jan 2018 โ€“ Jan 2020 | New Jersey, United States Architected and developed a fully featured, user-facing web application for AICON, an AI-powered product suite for maritime operations. Included customer onboarding flow, organization and team hierarchies, user/role management, and authentication/authorization/2FA; admin view for internal operators to change global system settings from the UI; frontend/backend integration with Microsoft Power BI to render custom reports created by the BI Team inside the React web application ๐Ÿšข Used React/Redux for frontend, Scala's Finatra (Twitter) HTTP framework for the REST API backend, MySQL, NGINX, Docker (Compose) โš›๏ธ ### Data Engineer @ Avlino Jan 2016 โ€“ Jan 2018 | New Jersey, United States Founding engineer. Built distributed NLP ML pipelines (Python, Spark, Airflow) that leveraged an on-premise Hadoop cluster to provide businesses with metrics on their โ€œdigital footprintโ€ and effectiveness of marketing campaigns ๐Ÿ‘ฃ Built a number of solutions to collect data from social media websites using developer APIs, as well as custom web crawlers to collect data from review sites, forums, etc. This data was analyzed by several NLP solutions, then stored in HDFS and visualized via Hive and Power BI. The data was used to train/improve existing ML models. Orchestrated the daily execution of collection, analysis, and Power BI report generation via Apache Airflow. The reports were served to the user in an Angular/Django web app. Pivoted with business to AI solutions for maritime operations. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics and Computer Science Monmouth University Jan 2012 โ€“ Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/edwardcernera - Website: https://cernera.me - GitHub: https://github.com/cernerae --- Source: https://flows.cv/edwardcernera JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/edwardcernera/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22