Software Engineer Senior

ZACHARY MUSA

Laguna Niguel CA *****, USA +1-832-***-**** ***********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharymusa SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / LEAD

Dynamic and innovative Senior Software Engineer with experience in designing, developing, and optimizing scalable enterprise systems. Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams, implementing microservices architectures, and driving technological excellence across diverse industries including FinTech, Insurance, Defense, HealthCare and more. Adept at leveraging cloud technologies, continuous integration/delivery practices, and agile methodologies to deliver high-performance solutions. Seeking to apply my expertise in software architecture, team leadership, and cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and efficiency in a challenging senior technical role. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Software Development SDLC & Agile/Scrum Methodologies Continuous Integration and Delivery Problem Solving Software Design Improvements Performance Optimization & Scalability Technical Leadership & Team Management Managing Local and Offshore Development Teams Microservices Architecture Rest/Soap Development Relational & Non- relational Database Management Cloud Technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Java/Spring/Hibernate, SQL, MySql/Postgres/Oracle, AWS/Azure, Cassandra/KeySpaces/Scylla, Typescript/JavaScript, OpenAPI/Swagger, Redis, Git/Jenkins/SVN, Gitlab/CI/CD, Gradle/Maven, Jira/Confluence, Docker, IntelliJ/Eclipse/Visual Studio, Postman, Tomcat/WebSphere/WebLogic, Microservices, C#/WPF, Apache Solr, AMPS, Postman, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana/Kibana Cisco Hybrid Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PaaS), C#/WPF, AWS Services (DynamoDB, EC2, Kinesis Streams, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, etc.), Kafka, Okta Integration UML HL7 (Health Level 7) PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Geico Auto Insurance (Berkshire Hathaway company) - Chevy Chase, MD (remote) 9/2023 - Sr. Software Engineer

Led design sessions, engaged in cross-functional collaboration and spearheaded code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of multiple products across claims engineering organization using Java/SpringBoot, Sql, Azure DevOps, and cloud technologies.

• Engineered an automated EFT (Electronic Fund Transfer) payment system for rental invoices integrating with downstream accounting systems. Achieved a 30% faster payment processing than the legacy workflow.

• Authored a comprehensive ADR (Architectural Decision Record) and designed a general claims ledger service for centralizing transaction management of various auto claim payables. This reduced code redundancies to a 1/7th of the legacy claims system (i.e. Atlas/Guidewire).

• Designed and developed a standalone auto rental payment service, streamlining payments to various vendors and providing consistent integration with vendor rental management systems. Reduced code volume to a sizable margin.

• Collaborated closely with product owner to refine business requirements and optimize project planning ensuring alignment between technical solution and business objectives.

Accertify (American Express Company) - Itasca, IL (remote) 8/2021 – 7/2023 Sr. Software Engineer

Added feature enhancements to financial fraud, device intelligence, and risk assessment products in browser, apps, desktop, and mobile devices. Developed software components to provide more reliable identification of financial fraudulent activities, digital identity management system, and other Rest-based and API centric services for customers around the world.

• Contributed code to device intelligence and the risk management engine (microservices) thereby improving early warnings and fraud notification and by a good margin. API based development and integration was also done.

• Improved global device identification services across regional boundaries increasing 30% more device identification.

• Prepared runbooks for release management in collaboration with DevOps and test teams.

Pimco Investment Management - Newport Beach, CA 1/2020 – 7/2021 Sr. Software Engineer

Integrated two knowledge management systems that are critical to the Credit Research group. Contributed to design and development of orders generation module of Pimco's new SMA Trading platform. Contributed at code level in Java and C#.

• Integrated and centralized back-end document management services that enhanced research capability greatly by bringing all document repos under the same UI rather than using multiple document management systems.

• Data analysis and coding orders generation module of Pimco’s new SMA Trading platform with improved performance.

• Technical requirements were defined and recommended design that led to successful integration of two document management systems with search capability improving to 25% using Apache Sola. Ally

Financial - Aliso Viejo, CA 7/2017 – 12/2019

Lead Systems/Software Engineer

Redesigned parts of the self-served automotive loan financing applications using restful microservices. Developed a pass- through loan application processing engine and automatic submission to approval services of financing partners. Assessed code vulnerability and provided path to mitigation mostly using Java.

• Improved performance of new service, user experience, and application submission to about 40%.

• Improved loan calculation accuracy and payment schedules.

• Increased throughput of the pass-through loan processing engine to at least 30%. Integration to partner systems such as RouteOne and DealerTrack improved vehicle shopping options, finding dealers, lenders, and loan processing.

Experian Interactive - Costa Mesa, CA 5/2016 – 7/2017 Lead Software Engineer

Contributed to Experian’s credit monitoring solution, www.freecreditscore.com, and dark web integration, built on AWS cloud services.

• Contributed code and improved credit monitoring features, notification of score and report changes.

• Integration to CSID’s (identity protection platform) unlocked some paid features that added additional revenue streams to the credit monitoring solution above. Also, led integration efforts of this project to on-time completion.

• Worked closely with stake holders and product owners to validate requirements and meet timelines.

Ambry Genetics (Konica-Minolta) - Aliso Viejo, CA 3/2015 – 4/2016 Sr. Software Engineer

Developed and enhanced features of genealogy and cancer risk assessment software, Progeny. Test ordering integration was done to the order management system including discovery, design, development, and testing. HL7 (Health Level 7) based message integration ETL project.

• Achieved large genetic data access through Progeny integration for test ordering and R&D.

• Collaborated with genealogists and related cross-functional teams to identify integration points between DNA test results and sequence data.

Comergence Compliance LLC - Mission Viejo, CA 3/2012 – 1/2014 Sr. Software Engineer/Architect

Developed Realm4 application, a web-based application for monitoring mortgage brokers’ NMLS/state license and surveillance of business activities. Designed and developed an application for real estate appraiser management, due diligence, and background checks.

• Successfully took Realm4 to production in collaboration with RackSpace and on-boarded new customers.

• Achieved large number of data integration from government and public data sources.

• Addressed technical obstacles in application stability and scalability.

• Managed offshore dev teams and sprint ceremonies. Zachary Musa

Comcast Spectacor - Irvine, CA 2/2010 – 1/2012

Sr. Software Engineer

Partnered with Product in developing ticketing, CRM, and fund-raising software in collegiate sports domain. Implemented solutions based on tradeoffs in full collaboration with product and partners. Architectural aspects were reviewed and enhanced for scalability and availability.

• Added a CRM feature to the ticketing solutions enhancing venue contract renewals and ticket sales.

• Major enhancements were made to UI/UX for customer experience.

Thales-Raytheon Systems (NATO ACCS Program) – Fullerton, CA 7/2007 – 12/2009 Sr. Software Engineer

Contributed to development and modernization of Air Command and Control System (ACCS) software, a NATO joint program. Full life-cycle development of features of Tactical Solutions (TACS), Air Tasking Order (ATO) modules, and ADatP3 (military messaging standard) messaging.

• Improved accuracy in the Timing Reference Point (TRP) tool within the recommended range for the Combined Air Operations module.

• Let joint development efforts in collaboration with French and German teams in ACCS development. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS &

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electronics University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Raytheon Six-Sigma Specialist DoD Secret Clearance Java/Web Component Certified Developer AI/Supervised Machine Learning (Stanford-Online) Multi AI Agent Systems with CrewAI (Deeplearning.ai) Open Source Models with Hugging Face (Deeplearning.ai) Building Code Agents with Hugging Face Smolagents (Deeplearning.ai) AI Python for Beginners

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