AKSEL ALLOUCH
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Boston, MA •- •-
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AKSELSOFT, Boston, MA
08/2023 –
Software Engineering Advisor
- Advised a broad variety of startup founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners met at
various in-person consultations, online networking platforms, and startup accelerator
events.
- Built and delivered full roadmaps based on early-stage ideations, including guidelines for
system design, implementation, testing, deployment, release, support and monitoring.
- As the lead architect and consultant on a high-profile dating app development project in
Asian territory, had the privilege of steering the technical direction, ensuring scalability,
security, and a seamless user experience.
Languages: Java, .NET, React Native, SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL
Frameworks: React, Next, Node.js, Spring, Amazon Lex, OpenAI API, Docker, Kubernetes, Jira
AMAZON, Remote
09/2021 – 08/2023
Software Development Engineering Lead
- Designed and developed the new GraphQL-based metadata aggregator FireFly, with 1
major integration for catalog and playlist albums for release and deployment in all regions
for 1P and 3P customers.
- Developed ECS Fargate serverless microservice to execute a cross-border-price
implementation strategy involving multiple source and target marketplace combinations
using business-driven cap metrics.
- Developed cloud-scale load test stages using Artillery to validate API latency
expectations.
- Drove project technical and architecture requirements, with assessed pros/cons of
alternate solutions taking into account Performance (TPS), latency, UX, and technology
selection.
Languages: Java, Kotlin, Typescript, AWK, SQL
Frameworks: GraphQL, NodeJS, AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, IAM, CloudFront,
CloudFormation/CDK, SNS, SQS, Route53, APIGateway), JUnit, Mockito/Powermock, TestNG,
Artillery, Gitlab
HITACHI VANTARA, Waltham, MA
04/2015 – 10/2019
Specialist Software Engineer
- Actively maintaining the Hitachi Content Platform codebase (enhancements and bug
fixes).
- Led the security harness release by implementing major OWASP principles.
- Implemented Authentication plugin to manage data access against the Amazon STS.
- Designed and implemented features for a log triage tool to parse through various log
types and detect known issue signatures for fast log analysis.
- Consistently interacted with developers, QA, and product owners in Agile/Scrum
framework.
- Co-invented data replication technology mechanism under USPTO patent #-.
Languages: Java, JSP, Python, Bash, SQL, AWK, Javascript
Frameworks: Struts, JQuery, Solr, AngularJS, Kafka, JUnit, Git, Jenkins
EZE SOFTWARE GROUP, Boston, MA
10/2009 – 04/2015
Lead Software Developer
- Led initial product release of the Pricing system (Realtime and Reference data).
- Developed numerous 3rd data interfaces feeding the OMS: Bloomberg OptionChain
requests, Sungard, FactSet,
- Addressed performance, memory, and threading issues by investigating Windows
memory dumps, interacting with the market data vendors, and simulating extreme
conditions.
- Led the architecture of the SecurityMaster service to support fully bi-temporal data used
by the investment book of records for securities, security templates, asset classes &
types, strategies, portfolios, and counterparties.
Languages: Java, JSP, Python, Bash, SQL, AWK, Javascript
Frameworks: Struts, JQuery, Solr, AngularJS, Kafka, JUnit, Git, Jenkins
VISTAPRINT, Lexington, MA
08/2008 – 01/2009
Software Engineer
- Developed an async front-end ASP.NET tool for a live view of tasks assigned to
developers.
- Developed encryption and compression schemes for secure transactional data
transmission.
- Built numerous automated partner reporting jobs for booking and statistical data.
- Improved European marketing revenue performance by 20% via campaign messaging
optimization.
Languages: C#/.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, T-SQL
Frameworks: SVN, TFS
HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, New York
06/2007 – 08/2007
NY IT Intern
- Set Fast Connection Failover on RAC instances using configured OracleDataSource
objects.
- Developed a web-driven Portlet type Web Application for statistical summary report
display.
- Implemented an offline Database Handler for logging all user-defined schema errors.
Languages: Java/JSP, PL/SQL
Frameworks: TFS, Oracle
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA
11/2006 – 12/2007
Web Developer
- Coded Coldfusion/XML and PL/SQL scripts to drive an async query model with the backend.
- Built interactive front-end tools to improve university students and staff User experience.
- Implemented a login infrastructure supporting encryption and password reminder.
Languages: Coldfusion, XML, PL/SQL
Frameworks: DreamWeaver, Oracle
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2006 - 2007
Masters of Science - Telecommunications
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2003 - 2005
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain
2001 - 2003
Bachelor Program - Computer Science
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Languages: Java, C#, Javascript, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin
Frameworks: .NET Core, J2EE, ServiceStack, Spring, Boot, Node.js, Django, Nest.js, Next.js
Libraries/APIs: React, Angular, Vue, RestAPI, FastAPI, jQuery
Cloud Platform: All the AWS product suite (Serverless Lambda & ECS Fargate, Cognito,
DynamoDB, CloudFormation, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Redshift, Sagemaker, Lex, etc)
Storage: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, T-SQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, Neo4j, SQLite, Redis
UI: React, Angular, Vue.js, WPF, JSP, ASP.NET Core, Winforms, Blazor
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
Observability: Datadog, Sumologic, Splunk, Grafana, Elasticsearch
CI/CD: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Azure, Jira, Agile/Scrum
Other Engineering: Full-stack Development, Front-end Development. Back-end
Development, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Web Development, Product Development,
GPT, Microservices, Open AI, Clarifai
