• Led engineering scrum team of 9 to multiple successful feature releases.

• Spearheaded the design and implementation of innovative product features, enhancing user experience and engagement.

• As part of Mexico product team, onboarded and managed external payment providers, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration

. Involved in cross-functional team collaboration for new feature development.

• Developed robust back-end applications using Java/Kotlin Spring and Scala-Play, leveraging AWS cloud and Docker, Kubernetes for deployment.

. Designed and launched Direct Debit auto-repayment platform for Tala Mexico - Tala's first ,simplifying loan repayment for customers and improving payment success rates.

. Built bank-integrated digital wallet platform for Tala Philippines enabling zero-fee loan disbursement and everyday transactions while capturing behavioral spending signals used to inform loan underwriting decisions.

. Integrated Tala services with bank APIs in the Philippines, supporting digital wallet transactions and loan disbursements while collaborating with banking partners to resolve integration issues

. As part of Tala Core Payments team, involved in redesigning payments processing to reduce latency in loan disbursement for a better customer experience.

. Integrated external services for AML screening, verifying users against international anti-money-laundering watchlists so the company can stay compliant.

. Partnered with product teams to roll out Direct Debit in phased user cohorts to measure adoption and repayment success rates.

. Reduced transaction processing time by 60% (5s → 2s)

. Reduced processing failures by 30%

. Improved customer retention by 25% through observability dashboards

. Reduced server resource utilization by 30% with reactive programming

As part of the Distributed Data Services team, I designed and developed backend data systems powering Fitch’s financial rating workflows. Our goal was to aggregate and expose structured data from multiple internal and external sources—enabling analytics and risk teams to derive meaningful insights used in rating complex financial securities such as CLOs and CMBS.

Engineered high-performance, multi-threaded asynchronous pipelines in Java and Spring Boot to process time-sensitive financial data, reducing processing time and server load by over 50%.

Developed APIs and batch applications to ingest data from diverse sources (streaming, bulk uploads, Excel integrations) into distributed databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

Designed and optimized ETL workflows to translate and expose cleansed data to consuming services and rating applications.

Automated builds and deployments using Bitbucket and Bamboo pipelines, improving release consistency and developer efficiency.

Deployed microservices in AWS Kubernetes with full monitoring and observability via Datadog and quality enforcement via SonarQube.

Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Datadog, SonarQube

As a Lead Backend Engineer developed, enhanced, improved performance of Spring Boot REST Apis

with APIGEE as Api-Gateway. Also managed a team of engineering from Offshore Development Center.

As part of the Unified Consumer View (UCV) team, I modernized Allstate’s enterprise customer data systems, enabling faster insights, higher performance, and improved digital customer experiences across multiple products and channels.

Led the migration from monolithic systems to a microservices architecture using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, and MongoDB, achieving 3× performance gains and 25% faster feature delivery.

Designed and developed REST APIs and microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), secured via Apigee OAuth2, providing unified access to customer data.

Built big data pipelines using Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop to process 40M+ customer records, improving analytics and reporting speed by 4×.

Developed TIBCO BW/BE and JMS middleware for data integration across Oracle, MongoDB, and SOLR, ensuring system interoperability and real-time synchronization.

Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and enforced >85% unit test coverage using JUnit and Mockito, improving release reliability.

Integrated Spring Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, and SonarQube for secure configuration, observability, and code quality.

Mentored offshore teams and led vendor collaborations to ensure consistent engineering quality and on-time delivery.

Delivered multiple PoCs for cloud migration and data modernization, contributing to Allstate’s digital transformation roadmap.

Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, Oracle, Spark, Scala, Hadoop, PCF, Apigee, Jenkins, SonarQube, TIBCO BW/BE, Hive, Grafana, Prometheus