Experience

Where I've been and what I've worked on.

Software Engineer II

Capital One · Plano, TX

Aug 2023 — Present

• Architected a fault-tolerant, event-driven backend service (Kafka, AWS) that orchestrates state-specific compliance workflows across a distributed title processing pipeline, eliminating manual intervention and saving $6M annually.
• Built and maintained a Spark SQL/EMR testing framework to validate data integrity across millions of daily transactions during a mainframe-to-cloud migration; diagnosed root causes of a 30% mismatch rate between legacy and cloud systems and drove accuracy to 100%.
• Designed a multithreaded Python backfill system to fetch, convert, and update 3M+ customer title images for online access, optimizing throughput via concurrent I/O and batch processing.
• Owned full-stack delivery of an online Payoff feature (Angular, TypeScript, REST, PostgreSQL) serving ~576K users annually; triaged and resolved a critical defect responsible for 46% of all T3 complaints, eliminating the issue entirely.
• Developed an internal moderation dashboard (Flask, React, TypeScript) with real-time backend API integrations, reducing review cycle time by 30% and enabling faster cross-team issue diagnosis.

Capital One · Plano, TX

Jun 2022 — Aug 2022

• Implemented multi-tenant Row Level Security to consolidate separate dealer and customer databases into a single schema, cutting infrastructure and maintenance costs by 40%.
• Refactored backend services to dynamically resolve tenant context at the query layer, improving transaction throughput by 25%.

Fidelity Investments · Remote

Jun 2020 — Aug 2021

• Improved application accessibility from 65% to 97% by redesigning core UI components in React and TypeScript to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards; tested across screen readers and keyboard navigation to ensure compliance.
• Built an internal accessibility metrics dashboard adopted by multiple teams to track WCAG compliance across deployments and catch regressions before release.
• Migrated legacy order routing logic from a mainframe system to AWS, increasing order processing reliability by 30%.
• Built a real-time monitoring and anomaly detection system (Java, Spring Boot, SQL, React) to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in high-volume order transactions.

University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX

Aug 2019 — Dec 2022