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Provide leadership, consulting support and hands on implementation of the company's MLOPs infrastructure. Implement unit test case code coverage and code quality automation (flake8 and SonarQube) for the data science team's Python based GITHub source code repositories. Provide guidance on Python coding best practices. Optimize CI/CD pipelines for deploying models to AWS SageMaker as serial Inference pipelines. Perform proofs of concept that demonstrate how to leverage AWS Sagemaker for feature engineering, model training and model inferencing.Provide software engineering leadership for customer facing loan application funnel. Responsibilities include solution architecture and design of new asynchronous Kafka message based and REST API based Spring micro-services hosted in AWS for generating financial insights and product offers based on the loan applicant’s bank transaction history.

Lead engineer on a multi-user, Google Cloud based enterprise machine learning model training and inferencing platform for the bank’s hundreds of data scientists. Platform leverages Zero to Jupyterhub with Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Argo Workflows and Seldon Core.  Platform is multi-tier (rich web UI, web application server, Restful micro-services and event triggered workflow) and highly scalable, capable of supporting model training on terabyte sized data sets.  Responsible for all aspects of architecture, design, implementation, testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Developed architecture for enterprise level and event driven streaming data service. Streaming service is based the Hortonworks stack and leverages Kafka, NIFI and Spark. Designed and coded major portions of the service. Responsibilities also include creating design and code templates, developing proofs of concept and mentoring the development team.

Responsibilities include management and strategic direction for the bank's digital analytics platforms. Other responsibilities include development manager for next generation targeted offer and messaging platform for customers and prospects.

Lead application architect for "Customer Express,"a major CRM initiative at the bank . The application is used by the following consumer banking channels: 24 hour banking, branch banking and online banking. Responsible for all aspects of the application architecture.Lead application architect for "SABER", the enterprise customer complaint tracking application at the bank. The application's technology stack is comprised of a rich web client (HTML5, DOJO, Javascript), RESTFul and SOAP based web services, workflow and document management and host integration. Responsible for all aspects of the application architecture.Senior application architect for Consumer banking. Responsible for the application architecture for major consumer banking technology initiatives that span the 24 banking, branch banking, online and mobile banking channels.

Provided technical leadership and implementation based consulting to Perficient’s client base.