Serge Altman Email & Phone Number

IT professional with 15+ years of experience in full software life cycle development in enterprise-level environment

Listed skills include Software Development, Sql, Database Design, Telecommunications, and 40 others.

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  Sr Software Engineer

  Idt Corporation

  Oct 2006 - Present - Newark Nj

  Key contributor assisting Company to grow the Money Remittance Business from ground zero to 400K+ wires (totaling in $100M+) a month in 3 years.I play a key role in designing and delivering innovative financial, communications, and fraud detection platforms in an Agile product development environment. I promote scalability and flexibility in coding while optimizing quality and supporting business requirements.Selected Projects & Achievements:PSF: Companywide middle-tier platform providing common interface to eight different platforms with average of more than 650k transactions daily totaling $1.4m+. Developed highly scalable, hosted-in-Cloud application using plugin-based architecture and workflow methodology with custom database and file-driven configurations to develop flexible design.MMDS: Companywide notification platform processing more than 500K telephone, email, and SMS notifications daily. Increased performance 800% by redesigning the application, allowing horizontal scalability and introducing multithreading with leasing mechanism.Electronic Payment Processing: Companywide real-time electronic payments system processing average of 200K transactions daily, totaling more than $2.1m; saved more than $1.3m in fines and fees. Designed and developed PCI-compliant system using Vault and Tokens with multiple payment instruments such as Credit Cards, Electronic Checks, and ACH.Fraud Detection Platform: Early fraud detection system to prevent money laundering and use of fraudulent credit cards and bank accounts. Created extremely flexible, dynamic architecture to accommodate business needs of numerous clients in real time, using profile-based data-driven rules and data mappings.Billing System: Architected, implemented, troubleshooted, and deployed Billing System using horizontal scaling and parallel processing to achieve 900% performance improvement while supporting over 600,000 customers per month.