· Strong engineering mindset with a focus on scalable, reliable systems
· Hands-on experience with Java, Gaia, S3, Kafka, CockroachDB, Google gRPC (RPC), GVP (gvproxy), and Terraform
· Implementation of Envoy reverse proxy integrated with Rust-based WebAssembly (WASM) components
· Experience deploying and securing on-prem Gaia environments using GVP (gvproxy)
· Proficient in Kubernetes for container orchestration
· Container image management using Google Container Registry (GCR) and Podman 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
· Experience with CockroachDB and other NoSQL databases
· Automated end-to-end testing including code coverage, mutation testing, and mocking Java services at the database layer
· Performance testing of development environments with analysis and generation of performance metrics and graphs
· Monorepo testing across microservice-to-microservice interactions
· Load and performance testing using Gatling and BlazeMeter
· Observability and performance monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Gatling, and BlazeMeter