Edwin K

Senior Full Stack Engineer @Black Knight Financial Services - Remote

Houston, TX, US

Engineered fault-tolerant Kafka Streams pipelines processing 10M+ daily financial events; integrated PySpark ETL to reduce batch windows by 25%.Led migration of three legacy monoliths into Spring Boot microservices, cutting deployment time from two hours to fifteen minutes via automated blue-green deployments.Architected an event-driven payment system handling 50K+ transactions per day with 99.9% uptime and idempotent processing.Built secure REST APIs with Spring Security, OAuth2, and JWT, standardizing authentication across 12+ internal and external services.Integrated enterprise authentication via Ping Identity for secure API access management.Designed and optimized JPA/Hibernate queries on Cosmos DB and Cloud SQL, improving API response latency by 30%.Automated CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Maven, improving deployment reliability and release frequency by 40%.Containerized workloads with Docker and orchestrated deployments on Azure AKS with horizontal pod autoscaling.Mentored junior developers on Spring Boot patterns, API versioning, and test-driven development; introduced PR templates to standardize reviews.Integrated monitoring and alerting through Prometheus and Grafana dashboards to track Kafka consumer lag, API latency, and pod health, reducing incident resolution time by 35%.Collaborated with solution architects to design and document system flow diagrams, API contracts, and deployment playbooks, improving cross-team alignment and audit readiness.