Experienced software engineer with expertise in building distributed, cloud-native applications, microservices, and secure remote access solutions. Proficient in Azure and API development.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Microsoft
11.2021 - Current
As part of the Azure Networking team, designed, developed, and maintained secure RDP and SSH over TLS solutions for Azure VMs, improving authentication, reliability, and customer adoption. Supported live-site operations, contributed to platform and tooling improvements, and collaborated across teams to strengthen secure access across Azure.
Built and maintained Azure Bastion features enabling secure RDP/SSH access for thousands of global enterprises.
Led portal-side SSH authentication with Entra ID, enabling certificate-based and password-less Linux access.
Developed CLI tooling for advanced connection scenarios with flexible configurations.
Contributed to open-source projects like Apache Guacamole and libssh2.
Investigated and resolved platform and customer-reported bugs across RDP and SSH flows.
Supported live-site operations, ensuring rapid resolution of production incidents.
Collaborated on cross-service reliability improvements with partner teams.
Authored internal technical documentation and support materials.
Participated in customer preview programs to influence product direction.
Applied deep networking expertise in VNets, NSGs, VPNs, DNS, and Load Balancing.
Performed network-level debugging, including packet capture and protocol troubleshooting.
Software Engineer
NCR Corporation
06.2018 - 11.2021
Designed, developed, and maintained enterprise banking APIs and applications, modernizing legacy monoliths into microservices to improve performance and scalability. Collaborated with architects, engineers, and product teams to deliver customer-specific integrations and manage production deployments on AWS.
Built and deployed Java Spring Boot microservices and enterprise APIs.
Developed client-specific adapters for seamless third-party API integrations.
Wrote production SQL scripts to resolve real-time issues in 100M+ user systems.
Improved API response times by 10% through SQL and application optimizations.
Performed root cause analysis and rapid fixes for production incidents.
Software Developer
University of Nebraska Omaha
01.2017 - 05.2018
Built interactive web apps and backend services for Nebraska's transit system using PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Automated workflows for 170+ users, reducing manual effort by 60%, and designed RESTful APIs with JSON for AJAX interactions. Deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with S3-managed file uploads.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Nebraska Omaha
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Frameworks/Servers: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Hibernate, Apache Camel, Maven, Gradle, Angular, JMS, JPA, JUnit, Mockito, Django, Laravel, Tomcat, Log4j, SLF4J