Emmanuel Adu

About Emmanuel Adu

Software Engineer with 4+ years delivering high-impact results:$2M in annual savings, MTTR reduced from hours to minutes, and 55% performance gains across 15+ Lambda services. Deep expertise in distributed systems, observability (OpenTelemetry), and cloud-native architecture on AWS. MS CS (AI) from Georgia Tech, now building full stack production LLM applications with tool-calling, moderation, and cost optimization.

Experience

1. Senior Associate Software Engineer - Observability & Platform, Capital One Slingshot

   Capital One

   Jul 2024 — Present

   Software Engineer building observability, serverless architecture, and data infrastructure for Slingshot, Capital One’s B2B SaaS platform for data warehousing cost optimization and governance.• Engineered real-time CDC/data sync pipelines (DynamoDB→PostgreSQL, Snowflake→PostgreSQL) processing 150K+ daily events with ordering guarantees and idempotent upserts/deletes for sub-minute data availability.• Drove infrastructure savings by migrating 8 microservices (92 REST/gRPC endpoints) to serverless AWS and moving data from DynamoDB to Aurora PostgreSQL, accelerating releases from weekly to daily.• Cut MTTR from hours to minutes by rolling out OpenTelemetry tracing across 15+ Lambda services; reduced key API response times from 30s to 5s and lowered on-call escalations 40%.• Standardized trace propagation across 10 teams and 40+ business/product domains by shipping shared middleware + enablement; cut alert noise 60% and enabled root-cause identification in under 5 minutes.

Education

• Harvard University

  Summer Venture in Management (VVM)

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

• The Ohio State University

  Bachelor's of Science, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering