Software Engineering Lead
Resume:
Kundai Andrew Midzi
Staff Software Engineer
Dover, NH 03820 • 714-***-****
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github.com/zeroslack • github.com/kamidzi
Tech-savvy Software Engineer with extensive experience in software development/architecture/infrastructure and project management. Proven success leading diverse teams, developing scalable solutions for complex problems, continuously improving engineering processes, and maintaining software systems both in fast-paced startups and mature organizations. Adept at collaborating with key stakeholders and clients to identify business requirements and executing solutions driving business growth. Strong leadership, troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills with distinctive ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive successful project outcomes. Technical Proficiencies
Linux Gitlab CI GitHub Cloudflare Workers Python Ruby Django DRF Postgres pytest bash CircleCI AWS Cloud-native applications Microservices Kafka GCP docker Web APIs FastAPI OAuth integrations OpenAPI Career Experience
NessWell, Inc. – New York, NY 2022 – 2023
Senior Engineer
As founding member of BE team, demonstrated expertise in rapidly delivering BE APIs, platform capabilities, partner integrations and features for initial rewards product and iOS credit card app (Ness Card). Oversaw webhook event ingestion from various integration partners, including Galileo, Canopy, and Plaid. Developed base vendor API client to standardize vendor API interactions.
● Played integral role in credit card application stack; supporting multiple microservices.
● Attained reduction in monthly statement creation time through event-triggered rendering moments after data availability from general ledger partner.
● Spearheaded implementation of core app features by acquiring and negotiating requirements from Product personnel, including Scheduled Payments; enhanced customer payment flexibility, streamlined funds flow, and increased payment capacity.
● Transformed credit card statement processing into zero-touch solution integrated with Admin UI; saving over 8-hours per account for Backoffice and customer support.
● Designed, architected, implemented, and maintained robust GCP/Google PubSub-based Asynchronous events platform with historical search capability and public events web API; enabling move from complex, stateful poll-based coordination with vendor data to stateless event-triggered execution. Zipari, Inc. – Brooklyn, NY 2019 – 2022
Technical Manager (Sales Studio)
Administered backend engineering efforts of Sales Studio; revenue-generating core of business. Delivered products facilitating sales of health insurance products for customers. Maintained BE core infrastructure across multiple studios. Specified and implemented public-facing and internal OpenAPI-based REST APIs using Django/DRF. Represented team to clients during API/product co-development efforts; mapped and identified gaps, conducted API contract negotiation, remediation, and implementation. Steered frontend and QA efforts to deliver Payer API integrations and client product customizations. Mentored and onboarded junior/new hire developers.
● Spearheaded three geographically dispersed teams: managing team leaders and direct reports, contractors, and full- time employees in regions spanning North America, Europe, and Asia.
● Achieved decrease in average onboarding time from over two weeks to three days by creating and implementing onboarding training material; incorporating interactive sessions with environment and tooling assistance.
● Managed portfolio of seven Django-based health insurance product offerings, including broker portals, employer portals, and member portals; resolved client defects and acted as ultimate escalation point for all back-end issues.
● While maintaining BE core platform and infrastructure, including release tooling, created standard docker-based development environment setup for all studio BE microservices to increase developer productivity.
● Architected core Kafka-based asynchronous event framework API for consuming external Payer events, providing new ability to build workflows involving multiple actors issuing concurrent updates; i.e., Large Group Enrollment. Page 2 2
Bloomberg LP – New York, NY 2014 – 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Full-time developer on team productizing CTO-incubated cloud initiative; leading development of several generations of cloud compute service deployed in 9+ regions across USA and UK. Architected service expansion to segment redundant infrastructure in UK region. Maintained Mac OS X-based development environment for BCPC. Reverse-engineered legacy, undocumented blackbox network services and APIs for integration, information discovery, and system profiling.
● Architected resilient, multi-region, highly available Openstack-based platform for distributed microservices, both RPC and RESTful to request and provision cloud compute resources.
● Designed and implemented multiplatform (Linux, Darwin) python-based build system for virtualized cloud infrastructure development environment.
● Exhibited expertise as release manager for BCPC (used to deploy/configure Bloomberg Cloud Service) serving over 5000 individual engineers; managing all mainline releases from initial v2.0.0 through 7.0.0.
● Enhanced developer productivity by maintaining QA environment for cloud deployments, ensuring uptime SLA compliance during production deployments.
● Led monthslong customer documentation effort for Bloomberg Cloud Service users, including compiling FAQs, authoring tutorials and troubleshooting guides, allowing wider adoption and easing migration to cloud-native applications from legacy monolith solutions.
Two Sigma Investments, LLC – New York, NY 2010 – 2014 Systems Software Developer
Demonstrated exceptional skills as developer and maintainer for Ruby-on-Rails CMDB solution. Contributed to feature integration, API validation, and UI improvements for CMDB system, serving as central distributed datastore utilized by all application teams. Assumed role of departmental relationship manager for IT security.
● Engineered and developed proprietary information kiosk platform integrating display device and Linux-based smart controller; enabling seamless access to internal data services.
● Oversaw end-to-end product lifecycle, from inception to deployment; facilitating real-time display of broadcasted trading data and metrics.
Additional Experience
Assistant UNIX System Administrator – University of California, Irvine – Irvine, CA Programmer – Riverside City College – Riverside, CA Head of Software Computer – Connection, Inc – Riverside, CA Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – University of California – Irvine, CA, (2009) Java Programming Certificate – Riverside City College – Riverside, CA C++ Programming Certificate – Riverside City College – Riverside, CA Accomplishments
Mentor/Sponsor for University of New Hampshire Computer Science Capstone project, EMR Skills Development (2022 – 2023) NCBI/NYGC Hackathon Participant, (2018)
Bloomberg Startup Python Boot Camp Mentor, (2017)
Competed in Southern California Regionals of ICPC: (2004/2005/2006) President, Association of Computing Machinery – Riverside City College, (ACM-RCC), (2005 – 2006) Languages
French – Intermediate/Conversational
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