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● Led the creation of a Payment Sandbox to test integrated payment services, significantly improving back-end system integrity by 65%.● Initiated the development of a Notification Service, delivering timely information across thousands of residents via SMS, Email and Push notifications, enhancing user engagement and communication efficiency.● Collaborated with mobile developers to integrate necessary endpoints for the Amenities Feature, enabling residents to reserve estate amenities● Coordinated the provisioning of seven estate sites in response to Operations team requisitions.● Enhanced estate setup automation by implementing systematic checks, resulting in a 45% decrease in related issues.● Addressed and resolved over 25% of financial discrepancies related to the settlement of electricity bills and service charges of residents.

● Implemented and streamlined Jenkins pipelines for automating build and deploymentprocesses across multiple internal and external back-end services. Configured build triggers,automated testing, and optimized deployment strategies, resulting in a 40% reduction intime-to-deployment and a 25% increase in development efficiency.● Developed and optimized Dockerfiles for back-end services, achieving a 50% reduction indeployment time and enhanced system performance. This included implementing Dockerlayer optimizations, which led to a 30% reduction in image size and heightened security,thereby improving build efficiency and ensuring greater compatibility with a variety ofdeployment platforms.● Established and administered a Nexus repository for the systematic management of Dockerimages built by CI/CD pipelines. This included setting up repository policies, access controlsand retention rules, contributing to better artifact management and ensuring high availabilityand reliability of services.

● Led a comprehensive workload assessment, resulting in the recommendation and implementation of a microservice architecture for the backend infrastructure. This strategic shift resulted in a 55% increase in team productivity, enhancing both efficiency and scalability of the development process.● Implemented CloudFormation to structure and manage development and staging environments, facilitating simultaneous front-end and back-end development and testing. This approach streamlined the development process, reduced downtime, and ensured consistency across different stages of the project lifecycle.● Designed and set up CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment process, enabling continuous integration of new images for each service to a private registry. This consisted of automating the startup of new container instances on available servers, substantially improving deployment speed and reliability.● Configured and managed a cron job to routinely perform housekeeping tasks on the server, specifically designed to identify and remove unused or outdated images. This measure ensured optimal server performance by preventing unnecessary data accumulation and maintaining efficient storage management.

● Played a pivotal role in developing the Yoris Store service, implementing over 55% of its server-side logic and creating robust endpoints. This involved ensuring high-performance data processing and API responsiveness, directly contributing to the service's operational efficiency.

● Developed and implemented robust APIs, enabling HR personnel and talents to seamlessly request developers or join the talent pool on Harbor's website, resulting in a 40% increase in developer requests and a 25% expansion of the talent pool.● Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop internal tools, boosting company-wide productivity.

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