Aksel Allouch

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon.com•  September 2021 - October 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 Vantara•  April 2015 - October 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 Engineer

Eze Software Group•  October 2009 - April 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

Vistaprint•  January 2008 - January 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