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My career path shows steady growth, curiosity, and a commitment to continuous learning

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Collective Focus - FridgeFinder

📅 Dec 2020 - Present

🌱Architected and owned serverless microservices platform on AWS serving 15-20K MAUs with real-time map updates and push/email notifications
🌱Drove architecture governance through ADRs/RFCs and recurring design reviews—standardized service boundaries, event-driven patterns, and API conventions across backend
🌱Built observability infrastructure with CloudWatch dashboards, structured logging, and alerting; maintained twice-monthly release cadence with multi-service CI/CD
🌱Managed team of up to 6 engineers; led hiring, mentorship, and technical roadmap while establishing engineering standards

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iCapital (Financial Services)

📅 July 2022 - Aug 2024

🌱Owned company-wide API platform standardizing publishing and documentation across all environments; achieved ~90% service adoption with automated OpenAPI validation in CI/CD
🌱Refactored monolithic data pipelines into event-driven architecture; chunked workloads to eliminate Lambda timeouts, increasing success rate from 60% to 100%
🌱Built internal API portal improving discoverability and testing for 100+ developers; partnered with DevOps on automated contract validation
🌱Reduced critical API latency through optimization of service communication patterns; collaborated on authentication services for performance tuning and production debugging

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iRobot

📅 Aug 2020 - July 2021

🌱Optimized REST APIs for internal ML training platform, reducing page loads from 20-30s to under 1s
🌱Contributed to AWS CloudFormation migration improving infrastructure consistency and reproducibility across environments
🌱Built CI/CD pipeline saving ~2 hours per release; reduced manual deployment risk
🌱Designed time-critical data pipeline using Kubeflow and Amazon SQS; improved reliability and error handling for robotic training workflows
🌱Mentored intern delivering cross-team data querying improvements

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FCGL (Community Data Platform)

📅 July 2019 - Jan 2020

🌱Founded and served as technical lead for production pilot studying how community data could reduce cost of living; owned product, backend, and mobile execution
🌱Architected 7-service microservices platform (User, Auth, Search, Forum, Recommendation, Shopping, Leaderboard) on Spring Boot, Docker, AWS, and Elasticsearch; enforced service boundaries and API contracts
🌱Built recommendation and route-optimization features from crowdsourced data; delivered cross-platform mobile app with React Native + Redux
🌱Led cross-functional team of 14 engineers + 4 designers over 7 months; ran daily standups, delegated ownership, and secured $25K grant from Northeastern University

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Circle Inc. (Crypto/Fintech)

📅 July 2018 - July 2019

🌱Built internal reconciliation tooling resolving thousands of inconsistent crypto transactions; designed multi-chain APIs with binary search optimization to eliminate timeouts
🌱Reduced production errors by 97% through systematic debugging, validation improvements, and introducing PR templates and testing checklists
🌱Implemented Jaro-Winkler matching for KYC identity verification and delivered session management features; collaborated with Security and Compliance teams

Hi, I'm Jean Paul