# Kevin M. > Senior Full Stack Engineer | Cloud-Native | Microservices | DevOps | Architecture Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinm I am a Full Stack Engineer with experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across finance, healthcare, and SaaS industries. My background spans .NET, NodeJS, Vue, Angular, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation, and I’m passionate about solving complex problems with clean, maintainable code. Beyond technical expertise, I thrive as a mentor, emphasizing best practices, modern design patterns, and cloud-first strategies. I’ve led initiatives that improved scalability, security, and developer productivity by introducing new services, infrastructure as code, and containerization. I bring a blend of hands-on coding, architectural decision-making, and mentorship, helping organizations deliver high-quality, resilient software that grows with business needs. Specialties: Full Stack Development, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud Architecture (AWS & Azure), DevOps, Microservices, TDD/BDD ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Apex Systems Jan 2026 – Present | Remote ### Senior Software Engineer @ City National Bank Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Los Angeles, California, United States Maintain and enhance legacy .NET MVC applications Participate in all scrum ceremonies Provide end to end test coverage for multiple micro front-ends with Typescript, Playwright, and Cucumber/Gherkin Spearhead team development modernizing some of our micro front ends in vueJS and Typescript. Integrating with backend through an nginx reverse proxy ### Senior Software Engineer @ RethinkFirst Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Design new pattern for all future REST API microservices to move functionality away from a Monolith application Perform root cause analysis and debugging on large monolithic application using different .NET profiling and diagnostics tools Perform Root cause analysis and fix SQL performance issues using various diagnostic queries, examining indexes, and optimizing query plans Automate application testing and deployment using Azure Devops pipelines Build application pipelines and remote infrastructure state with Hashicorp Terraform infrastructure as code Develop reusable Platform Code that was consumed Via Nuget Package from a private Nuget Feed Maintain code quality by enforcing automatic unit testing and code coverage reports for new projects Develop new features for an internal angular application in Angular14 Participate in all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospective, review, and backlog grooming Deploy environment agnostic Docker Images to Azure Container Registry Working on automating blue/green deployment using Azure DevOps, Azure Traffic Manager, and Azure App Service to avoid application downtime and easier testing and maintenance Working on deploying environment agnostic docker images to different Azure Kubernetes Service clusters to set environment variables at deploy time ### Software Engineer @ WellRight Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Chicago Area Offload User CRUD operations to its own .NET Core REST API Use AWS Systems Manager to decouple configuration from code for application security and resilience Utilized the AWS CDK and AWS SDK to build and automate infrastructure and project deployment to multiple environments Configured authorization and authentication for client and interservice communication with AWS Cognito user pools and app clients Configure domain routing with AWS Route 53 Perform application monitoring and root cause analysis using AWS Cloudwatch Leveraged Test Driven Development to reduce defect rates and improve code quality Used AWS IAM to configure roles and permission for development groups and automations Implement features and fix bugs in AngularJS and versions 7 through 13 on a Bi-Weekly release schedule Practice CI/CD via AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline to automate testing and deployment to 3 different environments Created a reporting microservice using an AWS Step Function to process different report types asynchronously and in parallel Implement warehousing solution for reporting needs via AWS DynamoDB Fivetran connectors and DBT transformations using AWS DynamoDB as a source and an AWS RDS PostgreSQL instance as the destination Assist in onboarding and mentoring new hires ### Programming Analyst @ GROWMARK FS, LLC Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 GROWMARK, Inc. logo Software EngineerSoftware Engineer GROWMARK, Inc. · ContractGROWMARK, Inc. · Contract Mar 2020 · 1 moMar 2020 · 1 mo Bloomington, Illinois, United StatesBloomington, Illinois, United States Developed highly responsive single page VueJS applications using Vue2 and the composition API Collaborated on an ordering microservice using AWS SQS, AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambdas to process different product types and workflows in parallel Weekly showcases to demonstrate value to business partners Ported in-house eCommerce library from .NET Framework to .NET core for utilization in a serverless architecture Avoid cross cutting concerns by using AWS API Gateway for CORS configurations and authentication/authorization for our front-end VueJS application. Deploy Reusable Platform code to a versioned Lambda Layer to be consumed by multiple AWS Lambdas Bundle lambdas and their dependencies with WebPack for small Kb sized packages Deploy different versions of multiple AWS Lambdas using AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline to run bash scripts Maintain and manually deploy legacy MVC Application on an AWS EC2 instance ### OpenSpan Developer @ State Farm Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area Automate internal business processes to outline a clearly defined path for resolution and better adhere to SLAs Integrate automations with multiple Microsoft services such as SharePoint, outlook, word, etc ### Software Engineer @ Revature Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area ### Bartender @ Fireworks Keene Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Keene, New Hampshire ### Web Developer @ CharlesWorks LLC Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New Hampshire, United States ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science Keene State College Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### Spaulding High School Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinmedara --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinm JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinm/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22