Architect specializing in distributed systems, event streaming, Java Spring Boot microservices, authentication and authorization, cloud deployments, and REST APIs.

Experience #

Solace #

• Design products and features across many domains with cross-cutting concerns, including:
  • Solace Cloud (Artificial Intelligence) Agent Mesh deployments and authorization
  • Solace Schema Registry, a Java Quarkus application with a Postgres backend and a custom identity provider written in Node
  • Event Portal's configuration push leveraging Terraform/OpenTofu

• Established the usage of architecture decision records (ADR), now the standard format for documenting both technical and non-technical decisions
• Pioneered and led the REST API governance committee, creating a unified and continually evolving specification, libraries, and CI/CD processes for Solace Cloud

• Designed various features in Solace Cloud including:
  • Multi-cloud private deployments for AWS, GCP, and Azure using their managed Kubernetes services
  • Continuous delivery and zero-downtime deployments for public REST APIs, internal messaging APIs, and databases
  • Authentication and authorization across the platform using OpenID Connect

• Founding engineer of Solace Cloud developing the initial Spring Boot microservices for provisioning AWS resources, metrics/billing using Elasticsearch, and CI/CD piplines with Jenkins
  
  

Ciena #

• Responsible for underlying Java platform (web servers, eventing, schedulers, etc.)
• Designed installation for multiple products across multiple technologies (Ansible, shell scripts) and operating systems (Linux, Solaris)
  
  

Professional Activities #

• Provide technical reviews of manuscripts on cloud computing, software architecture, and design patterns
• Validate code examples, diagrams, and technical explanations for accuracy and clarity
• Reviewed publications:
  • Books
    • AI-Native Software Delivery
    • AWS Data Engineer Associate Study Guide
    • Hands-On AWS CDK
    • Learning JavaScript Design Patterns (2nd Edition)
    • Head First Design Patterns (2nd Edition)
  • Reports
    • Understanding Multi-Region Application Architecture
    • Architecting Data-Intensive SaaS Applications
    • Operating Continuously

Education #

Queen's University #