Jay Patel

About Jay Patel

I am a Full Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience and a strong…

Experience

1. Full-stack Developer

   Fitch Ratings

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Designed and deployed FastAPI-based microservices for financial transactions, integrating Kafka for real-time event streaming and Redis caching to ensure low-latency responses under high-volume trading loads.Partnered with architects to build AWS Glue and Airflow ETL pipelines, automating ingestion of compliance data and embedding AI-powered validation checks to maintain audit integrity for regulatory reporting.Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform modules for EC2, RDS, and VPCs, ensuring secure, consistent, and error-free environment setup across development and production systems.Led the migration of legacy APIs into Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm charts and GitOps workflows, achieving auto-scaling resilience and building a foundation for cloud-native, AI-ready workloads.Implemented OAuth2 and JWT authentication with AWS Cognito, strengthening access control for trading APIs and ensuring systems passed strict enterprise penetration and compliance audits.Built Grafana dashboards and Datadog monitoring pipelines enriched with anomaly-detection AI agents, enabling proactive detection of latency spikes and preventing downtime during trading sessions.Integrated React/TypeScript frontends with backend APIs to deliver interactive dashboards, enhanced with GenAI-powered insights to help advisors quickly interpret investment performance and client portfolios.Established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, incorporating automated unit tests, static analysis, and container security scans to ensure every release met reliability and compliance standards.Authored detailed system architecture documentation, SLA guidelines, and AI-assisted incident response playbooks, enabling cross-team collaboration and accelerating onboarding for new engineers.