Aksel Allouch
Aksel is a top 1% software/data engineer with experience in web/mobile application development and cloud/data engineering.
15 yrs experience · Boston, MA · 30-40 hrs/week
About
✔Cloud Architecture via all the AWS product suite (Serverless Lambda & ECS/EKS, Cognito, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, etc), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc) ✔Web/Mobile Saas Development via Node.js, Django, Java Spring, .NET Core, GraphQL, React, ServiceStack, NestJS, Next, Angular, React Native, etc ✔Data Engineering via MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, T-SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Atlas, SOLR, Elasticsearch, etc ✔AI Integration via PyTorch, Keras, Matplotlib, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Lex, Open AI, Clarifai, etc
Skills
Experience
- Software Consultant Specialist · AKSEL ALLOUCH08-01-2023
● Consulted with a variety of startup founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners met at various in-person and online events, as well as 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
- Specialist Software Engineer · AMAZON09-01-2021 – 08-01-2023
● 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. 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, Artillery, Gitlab
- Specialist Software Engineer · HITACHI VANTARA04-01-2015 – 10-01-2019
● 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. Languages: Java, JSP, Python, Bash, SQL, AWK, Javascript Frameworks: Struts, JQuery, Solr, AngularJS, Kafka, JUnit, Git, Jenkins
- Lead Software Developer · EZE SOFTWARE GROUP10-01-2009 – 04-01-2015
● 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, NUnit, TFS
- Software Engineer · VISTAPRINT01-01-2008 – 01-01-2009
● 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. Languages: C#/.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, T-SQL Frameworks: SVN, TFS
- IT Intern · HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT06-01-2006 – 08-01-2008
● 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. Languages: Java/JSP, PL/SQL Frameworks: TFS, Oracle
Education
- University of PennsylvaniaMaster of Science, Telecommunications
- Stony Brook UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science
- Saint Louis University - Madrid CampusBachelor Program, Computer Science
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