Principal Technical Consultant
CurrentCurrent Position:Principal Technical Consultant within the Processing and Acceptance (P&A) program. Drive the adoption of emerging technology and integrate new technology (i.e. M&A) into P&A by applying intentional architecture from Foundational Standards Groups, overseeing integration architecture design and bringing the future into the now. Improve the technology and processes alignment powering consistency across P&A by stimulating emergent design feedback between P&A and Foundational Standards Groups and aligning with standards set forth by Foundational Standards GroupsProject Achievements1. Technical lead on implementing declarative-based pipelines driving our CI/CD workflows within P&A2. Technical lead on migrating our REST API suite to a Jamstack architecture in Azure’s DevOps environment3. Technical Integration lead for numerous Mastercard acquisitions (M&A)4. Technically led the effort for API migration to a new cloud-based API Gateway (i.e. NGINX) 5. Led training our P&A technical folks on instrumenting cloud-based workloads with the Dynatrace APM tool and its usage in various environments6. Implemented a new API service registry and discovery framework for our REST API suite of products7. Contributed in numerous special-interest groups (SIGs) and foundational standards teams to help frame technical/architectural direction across the enterprise8. Presented numerous technical proof of concepts (PoC’s) for our architecture and engineering teams (e.g. an events-based messaging system built on NATS, S3 bucket storage for cloud workloads)9. Represented P&A in the Security Champions program which advocates for security best practices in all phases of the SDLC (e.g. Checkmarx-based static code analysis in the develop phase).