AKSEL ALLOUCH

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SUMMARY

● 15 years all-rounded staff software engineering architecture expertise with proven track records in highly scalable compute intensive workflows. Focus industries: Fintech (OMS & EMS), e-commerce/retail, private & public cloud data processing and management.

● Broad range of computer science expertise, design & implementation, RESTful services, architectural patterns, distributed systems, data-warehousing, networking and database technologies, etc.

● Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, managerial, and leadership skills.

● Certified Scrum-master leading feature tracks roadmaps using Test Driven Development with Agile methodologies.

● 5 fluently spoken languages: English, French, Spanish, Tamazight, Arabic. EXPERIENCE

AMAZON Remote

Software Development Engineering Lead 09/2021 – 08/2023

● Designed and developed the new GraphQL-based metadata aggregator FireFly, with 1 major integration for catalog and playlist albums for release and deployment in all regions for 1P and 3P customers.

● Developed Fargate-based serverless microservice to execute a cross-border-price implementation strategy involving multiple source and target marketplaces combinations using business-driven cap metrics.

● Developed a cloud-scale load test framework using Artillery to validate latency expectations of several APIs.

● Drove project technical and architecture requirements, with assessed pros/cons of alternate solutions taking into account Performance (TPS), latency, UX, and technology selection.

● Participated in several oncall engagements to alleviate customer issues.

● Implemented CI/CD pipelines with full guardrail support for code acceptance for the various transition stages. HITACHI VANTARA Waltham, MA

Specialist Software Engineer 04/2015 - 10/2019

● Actively maintaining the Hitachi Content Platform codebase (enhancements and bug fixes).

● Led the security harness release by implementing major OWASP principles.

● Implemented Authentication plugin to manage data access against the Amazon Security Token Service.

● Designed and implemented features for a log triage tool to parse through various log types and detect known issue signatures for fast log analysis.

● Consistently interacting with developers, QA and product management with Agile methodology principles.

● Co-invented data replication technology mechanism and officially patented it under USPTO #10664190. LinkedIn

Languages: Java, Kotlin, Typescript, AWK, SQL

Frameworks: GraphQL, NodeJS, AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation/CDK, SNS, SQS, Route53, APIGateway), JUnit, Mockito/Powermock, TestNG, Artillery, Gitlab Languages: Java, JSP, Python, Bash, SQL, AWK, Javascript Frameworks: SpringBoot, Struts, JSP, JQuery, Solr, AngularJS, Mesos, Marathon, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, JUnit, Git, Jenkins AKSELSOFT

Software Engineering Advisor 08/2023 – Now

● Advised a broad variety of startup founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners met at various in-person consultations and online platforms, including the YCombinator accelerator platform.

● Built and delivered full roadmaps based on on early stage ideations, including guidelines for system design, implementation, testing, deployment, release, support and monitoring. Languages: Java, .NET, React Native, SQL, NoSQL

Frameworks: Lean Software Development, Enterprise Software Architecture Patterns VISTAPRINT Lexington, MA

Software Engineer 01/2008 - 01/2009

● Developed an asynchronously driven front-end ASP.NET tool for a live view of tasks assigned to developers.

● Developed encryption and compression schemes to secure the confidentiality of transactional data.

● Built numerous automated jobs that provide reporting, booking and statistical data for partners.

● Improved European marketing revenue performance via campaign messaging optimization. HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT New York, NY

IT Intern 06/2007 - 08/2007

● Set Oracle Fast Connection Failover on RAC instances using configured OracleDataSource objects.

● Developed a web-driven Portlet type Web Application for statistical management summary report display.

● Implemented an offline Database Handler to log all possible errors and exceptions user-defined schemas. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Penn Law School Philadelphia, PA Web Developer 11/2006 - 12/2007

● Coded Coldfusion/XML and PL/SQL scripts to drive an asynchronous query model with the back-end.

● Built interactive front-end tools and added numerous improvements for university and students.

● Implemented a login infrastructure supporting encryption and password reminder. EDUCATION

Master of Science - Telecommunications (2006 - 2007) University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science (2003 - 2005) Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY

Bachelor Program - Computer Science (2001 - 2003)

Saint Louis University - Madrid, Spain

Languages: C#/.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, T-SQL

Frameworks: SVN, TFS

Languages: Java/JSP, PL/SQL

Frameworks: TFS, Oracle

Languages: Coldfusion, XML, PL/SQL

Frameworks: DreamWeaver, Oracle

EZE SOFTWARE GROUP Boston, MA

Lead Software Developer 10/2009 - 04/2015

● Led initial product release and enhancements of the Pricing system (Realtime and Reference data).

● Implemented the infrastructure of the Authentication service for market and reference data entitlements.

● Developed numerous 3rd data interfaces feeding the OMS: Bloomberg OptionChain requests, Sungard, FactSet, Thomson Reuters market data subscriptions via BridgeFeed & Elektonfeed, MarkIt WebServices bank loans.

● Addressed performance, memory, and threading issues in production by investigating Windows memory dumps, interacting with the market data vendors, and simulating extreme environmental conditions.

● Led the architecture of the SecurityMaster service to support fully bi-temporal data used by the investment book of records for securities, security templates, asset classes & types, strategies, portfolios, and counterparties. Languages: C#/.NET, T-SQL

Frameworks: WCF, CAB, Protobuf, Entity Framework, WinForms, WPF, Azure, NUnit, TFS

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